Donald Trump talks for two hours with Elon Musk on X to boost his electoral campaign

The meeting, which had generated great expectations, started about 45 minutes lateMusk claimed that his platform seemed have suffered a denial of service attack, known as DDOSand that they were working to contain it.

X claimed that he had tested his system with eight million simultaneous listeners and The conversation was ultimately followed by some 1.3 million people.. “Congratulations. Do I get paid for this?”Trump told him in response to the high level of interest.

Musk had promised that Their exchange was not going to have any script or limits.but he touched on issues that are comfortable for the former president, such as the “illegal immigration” that, according to the latter, “saved” his life on July 13when he was the subject of an assassination attempt.

The attack took place during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A 20-year-old young man was later shot dead by the polices, shot Trump from a rooftop outside the venue, killing one member of the audience and wounding two others.

Just before being hit in the ear, the former conservative president turned his head to show people a graph that, according to his figures, indicated a significant drop in the number of illegal immigrants arriving during his mandate. “I’m going to sleep with him forever,” she joked on Monday.

https://t.co/PLHekD9jzW

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 12, 2024

The conversation came at a time when Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, ahead of Trump in voting intentions. According to the average compiled by the website FiveThirtyEight, he is ahead by 2.8 points with a percentage of 46.1%.

“If you vote for her you should have your head checked“Trump said, while Musk considered that the Democrats are “rewriting history” making the Democratic candidate look like a “moderate” person“.

Musk publicly stated last July that he supported Trump in the elections And he did so despite the fact that, as he himself pointed out on Monday, he considers himself historically a “moderate Democrat.” “But we are really at a critical turning point for the country. (…) You are the path to prosperity for the United States and Kamala is the opposite,” he said.

And in that line He encouraged voters to also vote for Trump on November 5tha favor that the conservative thanked him for, pointing out that it was an “honor” to have the support of someone he had always placed on the left.

My use of the word conversation is deliberate.

This is so that people understand how @realDonaldTrump talks when it’s a conversation, rather than an interview.

Nobody is quite themselves in an interview, so it’s hard to understand what they’re really like. https://t.co/H6G0RuwIM4

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 12, 2024

In total their exchange lasted two hours.. An exchange without an image but with Musk’s support, Trump He turned it into a digital rally to launch his usual reproaches to the Democratic side and defend his own legacy.

🧵🇺🇸 MAINSTREAM MEDIA SKEWS TRUMP-ELON X SPACE COVERAGE, IGNORES RECORD-BREAKING SUCCESS

Major news outlets show clear bias in reporting the Trump-Elon X Space.

The numbers speak for themselves:

– 1.32+ million live listeners during the Space

– 77+ million impressions in… pic.twitter.com/I5yy96srRa

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) August 13, 2024

“This is about so much more than me or my life. We are going to save this country. “The country is going down the drain and these people are evil and liars. (…) They say they are going to strengthen the border and they have been the worst in history,” Trump said before Musk reinforced his position by stressing that the facts, in his opinion, “speak for themselves.”

Their conversation occurred on the same day that Trump posted on X again and that the EU reminded Musk that he is not exempt from complying with the law and warned him that Brussels is monitoring potential risks in the European Union from the publication of content inciting hatred.

Just after it ended, Trump stressed in an email that his message to all Americans is that with his arrival to power he will make the United States rich, safe and great againafter the country’s economy is now “in tatters,” the border “open” and crime “out of control.”

Harris’ team and her number two, Governor Tim Walz, were quick to react: “Trump’s entire campaign is at the service of people like Elon Musk and himself: Self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out to the middle class and can’t even do a live stream in 2024“They concluded with sarcasm.