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Elon Musk to interview Trump live on social media
Former President Donald Trump will be featured in an interview conducted by Elon Musk to be live-streamed on social media platform X.
Scripps News Morning Rush
WASHINGTON – Billionaire and social media owner Elon Musk conducted a very friendly interview with Donald Trump on Monday – once X was able to broadcast it after a glitch that lasted more than 40 minutes.
Thousands of X users could not hear a thing when the broadcast began at 8 p.m., blocked by Internet troubles that have plagued the website in previous events.
“There appears to be a massive DDOS (denial of service) attack on 𝕏,” Musk said in a post during the interview. “Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.”
X did just that, broadcasting a tape of the interview shortly after 8:40 p.m., about 40 minutes late.
Musk began the session by asking about Trump’s assassination attempt and discussing their mutual opposition to illegal border crossings. Trump again announced he will soon be traveling back to Butler, Pa., site of last month’s shooting.
“It was a miracle,” Trump said of the assassination attempt. “if I hadn’t turned my head, yeah, I would not be talking to you right now, as much as I like you.”
The X owner in his questioning allowed Trump to attack Democratic opponent Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden without any pushback.
Numerous users expressed frustration with the broadcasting problems that delayed the airing of the interview.
“The @realDonaldTrump X space lets me in briefly and then says it’s unavailable,” tweeted U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.
The problems were reminiscent of the meltdown that marred Musk’s 2023 interview with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to announce his presidential candidacy.
Some pro-Trumpers took the problems in stride. On X, activist Laura Loomer wrote: “President Trump broke the internet. Literally.”
The Trump team had hoped to use the event to raise money.
In another post on X, the campaign said: “This is the biggest interview in history, and now, we’re asking YOU to make this President Trump’s BIGGEST FUNDRAISING DAY EVER!”
Trump critics, meanwhile, reminded Internet viewers what the campaign said about DeSantis’ problems during his X interview last year: “Glitchy. Tech issues. Uncomfortable silences. A complete failure to launch. And that’s just the candidate.”
