On a recent night at Ned’s Club Washington, DC—a private members’ club that opened in January after the icy weekend of Trump’s inauguration—a group of DOGE staffers were drinking in the Library Bar. “I think that’s Big Balls,” hazarded a member sitting across the room, trying to determine whether it was Elon Musk’s infamous teenage protégé.
In another room, on a different night, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was reportedly chatting away with his daughter-in-law, Amaryllis Fox Kennedy, also a Trump staffer. He was in the Founders Dining Room, an Art Deco grill with custom dinner settings inspired by the Kennedy White House. It serves beef from the Four Sixes Ranch, as featured in the television series Yellowstone.
