January 5 news. Hours after the "Maduro arrest," Musk posted a dinner photo with Trump on the X platform, showing that the previously tense relationship between US President Trump and himself now seems to have been repaired. In the photo, Musk is dining closely with Trump and First Lady Melania at Mar-a-Lago, and he captioned it: "2026 will be spectacular!"

It is worth noting that just hours before this dinner, the US took military action against Venezuela. Musk's American aerospace company SpaceX's satellite internet project "Starlink" announced on January 3 that it would provide free broadband service to Venezuela for one month, ending on February 3. This statement highly coincides with the time of the meeting between Trump and Musk at Mar-a-Lago on the same day, but "Starlink" did not disclose specific reasons.

According to the internet monitoring agency Netblocks, some areas of Caracas experienced network outages during the US military operation, suspected to be related to abnormal power supply, while the country's overall network connection remained basically normal.