Elon Musk may be a Trump supporter now, but that wasn’t always the case. The tech billionaire began coming around on the former president long before his public endorsement of the GOP nominee’s bid for a second White House term.

According to The Washington Post, Musk made a pitch for Trump at least five months earlier during a gathering of billionaires and top political strategists at the oceanfront estate of Wendy’s co-founder Nelson Peltz in Palm Beach, Florida.

The Feb. 16 event was reportedly attended by a number of Trump skeptics, including former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, who argued that those assembled should give money to down-ballot candidates and state parties.

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