Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sat Monday for a friendly two-hour interview with billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Musk's social media platform X, after technical problems delayed the start of the event for more than 40 minutes.
Musk, who has endorsed Trump, blamed the difficulties on a distributed denial-of-service attack, in which a server or network is flooded with traffic in an attempt to shut it down, though his claim could not be verified.
Trump sought to turn the problems into a positive, congratulating Musk on the number of people trying to tune in.
A counter on X showed as many as 1.3 million people were listening at times during the lengthy conversation.
The technical issues recalled a similar event on X in May 2023, when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suffered a chaotic start to his bid for the Republican presidential nomination due to glitches on the platform.
At the time, Trump mocked DeSantis on his own, social media platform, Truth Social. "My Red Button is bigger, better, stronger, and is working (TRUTH!)" Trump posted, "Yours does not."
Ahead of Monday's event, Musk had written: "Am going to do some system scaling tests tonight & tomorrow in advance of the conversation." X did not respond to requests for details or evidence of the alleged cyberattack.
The two men exchanged praise repeatedly, with the Tesla chief lauding Trump for his bravery during the attempt on his life last month, and Trump congratulating Musk for his willingness to fire workers demanding better conditions.
"You're the greatest cutter," Trump said. "I mean, I look at what you do. You walk in, you just say: 'You want to quit?' They go on strike - I won't mention the name of the company - but they go on strike. And you say: 'That's okay, you're all gone.'"
Musk, the world's richest person, announced his support for Trump shortly after his attempted assassination, despite the Republican's opposition to state support for electric carmakers like Tesla. Musk backed Democratic President Joe Biden in 2020 but has tacked rightward since.
"I think we're at a fork in the road of destiny, of civilization, and I think we need to take the right path, and I think you're the right path," he told Trump as the interview concluded.
The chat with Musk offered Trump an unfiltered chance to air his usual mix of grievances, personal attacks and overstated or false claims.
Musk let Trump lead the conversation and did not challenge Trump's inaccurate statements, like the assertion that other countries were sending criminals from their prisons across the southern U.S. border, or that bacon prices had risen four or five times.
Studies show immigrants, including those in the U.S. illegally, do not commit crimes at a higher rate than native-born Americans.
The talk was Trump's latest effort to seize the spotlight from his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, whose 11th-hour entry into the race has galvanized her party and boosted Democratic fundraising.
Harris has dominated headlines with a series of high-energy rallies since she replaced Biden as the party's candidate three weeks ago. Her momentum could get another boost from the Democratic National Convention next week in Chicago.
In a statement after the interview, a Harris campaign spokesperson, Joseph Costello, said: "Trump's entire campaign is in service of people like Elon Musk and himself — self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024."
The former president sounded at several points as if he had a lisp, something many listeners noted on X. The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment about Trump's speech.
HARRIS MOMENTUM
Trump insulted Harris several times, referring to her as "third rate", "incompetent" and "a radical left lunatic."
But then he praised her looks.
"She looks like the most beautiful actress ever to live," Trump said about a picture of Harris on the cover of Time magazine. "It was a drawing, and actually, she looked very much like a great first lady, Melania," he added, referring to his wife Melania Trump.
He also expressed anger that Harris had been swapped in for Biden on the Democratic ticket.
"She hasn't done an interview since this whole scam started," Trump said, claiming falsely that Biden dropping off the ticket was a "coup."
Trump had been leading Biden in many polls of battleground states likely to be critical to the outcome of the Nov 5 election, but is now trailing Harris in some of the same states.
A longstanding critic of electric vehicles, Trump has shifted gears since Musk's endorsement. On Monday, he described the electric cars made by Tesla as "incredible."
He also praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un - all authoritarian strongmen - as at the "top of their game."
Trump returned to X, formerly known as Twitter, with a series of posts on Monday for the first time in a year, reviving an account that had served as a main method of communication in previous campaigns and his four years in the White House, including his followers' Jan. 6 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Trump's access to his account, @realDonaldTrump, was restored a month into Musk's ownership of X after being suspended by the platform's previous owners following the Jan. 6 attack, citing concerns he would incite violence.
Trump frequently posts on his Truth Social platform, which was launched in February 2022, but his posts there reach a much smaller audience than on X.
Musk, who has echoed Trump's false claims about voter fraud and Biden's immigration policies, started an external super PAC spending group to support Trump's campaign. The political action committee is now under investigation in Michigan for possible violations of state laws on gathering voter information.
© Thomson Reuters 2024.
146 Comments
zibala
Trump back on social media site X ahead of interview with Elon Musk
A true American hero--Trump.
Interesting to see Biden out and about giving talks too. Now he can play president for a few months.
Ah_so
Two weird guys talking weird stuff to each other.
Think I'll give it a miss.
sakurasuki
Welcome back, let's make America great again!
ok1517
Of course he is back again!
Losing in all polls.
People fleeing his social media site.
His shoe sales going down.
Can't even afford another plane, has to use Epstein's.
His wife seems to be gone with the wind.
Republicans endorsing soon to be POTUS Kamala Harris.
The man is desperately seeking for attention.
TokyoLiving
Trump must be desperate to return to Twitter.
Kamala has him scared..
TokyoLiving
https://giphy.com/gifs/chicken-bro-WO69ltlJZp0ZwI98kN
Chuck
Has anyone even received the spray-painted, made-in-China sneakers?
Word on the street is that they still haven’t even shipped.
dagon
Red baiting and calling Harris/Walz communists too. Ironic since his inspiration Iain Banks was a communist SF writer.
Sunlight is a great disinfectant so waiting for another Trump meltdown on Xitter like this:
GuruMick
I'm still waiting for my Trump Bible.
They must have sold out to the "beautiful , beautiful Christians " who "wont have to vote again "
Sad.
Kirinlager
Trying to beat the 162 lies and distortions from his recent 'press' conference. Some say it can't be done. Trump: Hold my Bud Light.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/11/nx-s1-5070566/trump-news-conference
Cards fan
I'll give you a preview: it will be one massive glaze-off against two egotistical weirdos. No actual "hard" questions will be asked.
Peter Neil
the ego meter in that room will blow up. the biggest ego blow up in history, as trump would say.
only exceeded by the bs meter.
”no one knows bs more than me, and i filed the air with more bs in less time than any human being in history.”
GuruMick
Can we crowd fund to get Musk some decent clothes ?
World richest man looks like a hobo after "charity wash and shave day "
John
Ask bass. They were foolish enough to brag about being foolish enough to throw money away on that garish crap.
Peter Neil
in trumps voice, “there are some very good people, very good, in a group who worship sacrificing kitten and puppies. i agree with them, if they’ll vote for me. how can i not, if they endorse me? nobody knows kittens and puppies more than me.”
John
Elon and the combover.
Tbe world’s most effective set of hair plugs meets the world’s worst scalp reduction surgery.
Wonder what they will talk about?
Bob Fosse
“United Auto Workers President Shawn Fein, campaigning in support of Harris, called Trump a "sellout."
To the highest bidder. Biden was right when he said 45 has the morals of an alley cat.
MAGA all in on electric cars now? Apparently you “have to be”.
Strangerland
Is this to supposed to somehow increase his base? A speech on a far right social media platform?
Ok, good luck with that.
John
I guess we all know what trump thinks of his 5th tier lying platform.
By going on Twitter, he’s admitting that his “media venture” (lol) is a failure and a meme stock scam.
Who knew that something like this could happen to the great Devin Nunez???
rcch
Trump back on social media site X
Yep, confirmed. He’s back. And he X’d this:
“ Are you better off now than you were when I was president?
Our economy is shattered. Our border has been erased. We're a nation in decline.
Make the American Dream AFFORDABLE again. Make America SAFE again. Make America GREAT Again! “
Brilliant.
—
Some accounts on X post exactly what he’s posting on Truth Social but yes, it’s not the same thing. Welcome back to X!
Chuck
Or his cow?
fxgai
It seems difficult to prove that there was no such ploy so as to be able to state this as “false”.
When will reporting agencies get back to reporting and leave the readers to decide what to believe?
stormcrow
Trump & Musk . . . Eww!
2 wannabe dictators sit down for a one on one.
jackandjill
Two weirds don't make a right.
Cards fan
Well yeah, that would be proving a negative. Is there any proof that Democrats purposely opened the borders to increase the number of Democrat voters?
Peter Neil
interesting that trump is flying around now on his good friend's old jet -- the late jeffery epstein. it's always fun to watch trump's eyes dart down and to the right whenever the topic of releasing the epstein's client list is asked.
John
Well let’s see….
Stock market is way up.
Wages are growing.
Unemployment is at historic lows. (You lost more jobs than any administration in history)
Crime is much lower even without you out of power and your goober insurrectionists in prison.
Border crossings are down.
Infrastructure investment is up.
Inflation is so low the Fed is going to cut rates next month.
Oh, THOUSANDS are NOT dying per day from a pandemic you completely botched.
So I’m going with “Yes, MUCH better”.
zibala
Mortgage rates shot up 4x under Biden's administration.
Gas, food, clothing, everything is more expensive under Biden than when Trump was in office. Average American has to pay more than $900 extra per month for the same items they paid for under Trump.
More people died under Biden than Trump arising from Covid infections.
Oh, and Russia wasn't invading Ukraine in the 4 years Trump was in office.
The world is worse off with Biden sitting at the desk in the Oval Office.
Cards fan
Absurd. Mortgage rates are a function of the prime rate set by the Federal Reserve, which is independent from the Federal government. Anyone blaming rising interest rates on Biden or either don't know how interest rates are set or being disengenuous.
Oh yes they were. Russia has been funding seperatists in eastern Ukraine since 2014.
Bob Fosse
False. The opening sentence to the following article is very short, one word in fact, in bold large font.
https://wisconsinwatch.org/2024/07/biden-trump-mortgage-rate-republican-wisconsin-president/
dagon
This incontinent use of logical fallacy is a feature of rightist discourse, along with the red-baiting.
So the burden of disproving an assertion is upon the accused, not the accuser?
The old “When did you stop beating your wife?” fallacy.
Luckily some reporters of news correctly label such claims.
And do not allow conspiratorial demagoguery to go unchallenged.
wallace
Musk is not a journalist.
Bad Haircut
Please don't bring up inconvenient facts here on JT. It's a safe space, and you'll hurt their feelings.
Peter Neil
yeah, not a journalist. more like a vacuum cleaner of government subsidies and tax credits.
John
in a pandemic set forth by Trump. Once they get going the die is cast. Trump had a chance to stop it and he utterly failed.
These are the facts of public health as recognized by experts and they all agree that Trump screwed the pooch.
John
You make it sound like Putin was scared of his meat-puppet.
He wasn’t. Because he was already in Ukraine and Trump did F-all about it.
Some dude
It figures. You would be hard pressed to find two men with such a staggering need to be liked, and yet possessed of so few actual likeable traits.
John
That look on Elon’s face….
A mixture of cringe-middle age man and child desperate for validation asking the new boyfriend “Will you be my daddy?”
Peter Neil
maybe trump will dig himself deeper in the helicopter crash caper?
inquiring minds want to know.
dagon
100%.
For someone that is now accusing woke mind virus progressive education of turning his daughter into a communist transgender, he sure loves big government corporate welfare socialism for the rich.
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/elon-musk-bought-twitter-because-his-daughter-turned-communist-something-like-that-and-because-woke-virus-2432285-2023-09-07
lincolnman
Guess Trump has to go back on X since Truth Social is crashing and burning so badly....just call it the "Trump effect"...i.e, Trump University, Trump Airlines, Trump Atlantic City Taj Mahal, etc....in a word "bankruptcy"...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-truth-social-lost-16-192807422.html
WHAT? TRUMP HAS FLIPPED? No, no way....Trump doesn't flip - just look at his pledge that life begins at conception! Wait, lets not look at that....
Did you read that MAGA-fans - Trump now LIKES EVs - you know, after saying they were all hoaxes and were made in China stealing US jobs... Simone Biles is jealous of that flip...
So MAGA-warriors, how many will be trading your F-150s for a Chinese-made Tesla - just as Trump is telling you to?
I'm guessing about the same number that went out and got the COVID vaccine when he told all his supporters "its safe and frankly you should get it"....
ROFL...
ulysses
A glorious day it is when the great donald is back on a platform that teaches us love, compassion and kindness!!!
I hope elon does not ask him why donald is flying Epstein’s plane , why his ratings are plummeting and the crowds at his rallies progressively smaller!!!
ulysses
We need to be charitable to elon, he grew up under apartheid and thinks racism is normal.
But I am happy he has found a soulmate in donald, whose father was in KKK!
finally rich
Best news ever!!!
Trump is our King.
Restore the peace, economy, sanity already!
finally rich
Holy Jesus!!
It's true!! The Man is back!!!
Only God knows for how many years we've been waiting for this!!!
I had the pleasure to see Mr. Trump in person once (Trump x Kim summit in Singapore), you can feel the champion's aura from several feet away, out of this world.
No wonder a great chunk of the world can't stand him (the evil part) so they resort to lies and brainwashing the gullible into hating who was once one of the most liked characters in America.
America #1.
Trump 2024.
John
Delayed by technical difficulties, on a technology platform, lol.
The most Musk/Trump thing ever….
John
We don’t have kings, Cletus.
Peter Neil
after firing almost everyone at x, the live feed didn’t work. nothing but a blank “won’t load” sign.
i fully expect musk to say it was hacked by liberals, and trump to say that so many people from across the galaxy tuned in to hear him that the the system was overloaded.
remember when he said nothing at trump casino worked the first day because so many people were playing the slot machines? lol
burgers and beers
The world's richest person backed Democratic President Joe Biden in 2020 but has tacked rightward since and endorsed the Republican following the attempted assassination of Trump in July.
I heard many Americans ' tacked rightward ' like Musk did because of the radical left wokeness being shoved down their throats. Is that true?
John
Peter NeilToday 09:38 am JST
Golly, it’s almost like he doesn’t know what he’s doing, lol.
Norm
No.
John
No, it’s not.
Peter Neil
or maybe x was overloaded with people sharing the photos of vance in drag - blond wig, skirt, clutching at his necklace?
finally rich
You mean the turbulent left?
Normal people are very busy taking care of their family, house, etc. normal people vote for Trump.
It's always the incendiary left who's always screaming, dividing, burning things.
"Turbulent US election", good one.
Strangerland
In this case, it's because Trump has promised Musk he will use the government to make things better for Tesla and Musk's other countries.
Trump is a tit-for-tat guy.
John
Oh, it’s not a level of incompetence we last saw with Rockstar Ronnie, it’s an attack by the woke libs!
Because nobody’s ever had to react to a DDOS attack before…. Oh wait.
Or perhaps, it’s just tech stupidity.
burgers and beers
in a pandemic set forth by Trump'
Pandemic is Trump's doing? Is that true? Some people said Putin weaponized covid, was it really Trump all along?
John
I blame Devin Nunez’s Cow/mom.
Devin better sue!
Hervé L'Eisa
BigBrother trying to block free speech. Those are the people who hate democracy.
Strangerland
"Set forth" was not the correct term. "Let to go without any control whatsoever because he didn't want it to affect business in America" would be the better way to phrase it.
It properly shows Trump for how little the American people can trust Trump to put their health and safety first.
lincolnman
More likely Asperger's or early-onset Alzheimer's
No, that's some far-right fairy tale that only the most gullible or mentally-challenged fall for...
Cards fan
Or maybe Musk just screwed it up again. Anyone remember when DeSantis "launched" his campaign on Twitter? lol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/24/ron-desantis-2024-twitter-launch-tech-outage
Strangerland
Notice how Twitter didn't have these problems?
burgers and beers
No. No, it’s not."
Then what kind of radical wokeness did those American imagine was being pushed on them ? Don't they agree that men with beards wearing make up, fishnet stockings and high heels hanging out with kids in school libraries is normal?...do they think its ' weird'?
Strangerland
Then what kind of radical wokeness did those American imagine was being pushed on them ?
We were speaking specifically of Musk - he's the relevant one to this thread. And he's doing it because Trump has promised to leverage the government in his favor if Trump wins.
finally rich
Why the left gets all worked up when called "sheeple", "gullible", etc.?
Want an example?
2024: "hey left! take this! now you use this word!"
Left: "roger dat! weird weird weird - Trump must be fuming now! we're so useful!"
Jimizo
Could be. I’ve heard a few things.
I heard that many traditional Republican voters abandoned the party after the MAGA takeover as they were disgusted at how crass, ugly and just plain stupid MAGA was. A disgrace to the party of Lincoln.
There has obviously been some shifts.
With Musk, you get the feeling it could be something else. He’s a businessman.
lincolnman
You just described Drag Queen JD Vance and high school "groomer" Ron DeSantis...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-vance-drag-queen-photo-reaction_n_66ba42f6e4b0eabd2393c500
https://www.wptv.com/news/political/donald-trump-suggests-ron-desantis-was-grooming-high-school-girls-with-alcohol-causing-governor-to-respond
And yes, it's VERY weird...
John
Given a literal how-to book on responding to a pandemic and throws it in the trash.
Botched the testing phase and lies about it.
Downplayed everything when isolation of the pandemic was still a possibility.
The pandemic happened and Trump opened the door and invited it to crap on the sofa.
Don’t be so thick.
burgers and beers
And he's doing it because Trump has promised to leverage the government in his favor if Trump wins.
So, in US politics the Democrat side does not ' leverage the government in their supporters and sponsors favor' ? Is that true? If so, thats cool.
Some dude
Technical problems?
My guess is that a disgruntled employee, just before leaving, snuck a line of code into something which can recognise a lie, and as Trump never says anything but lies, it consequently broke the site
Blacklabel
Wow look at all the triggered left just because someone gets to practice free speech.
the event is being cyberattacked for a reason, you know.
Strangerland
Um, someone doesn't understand how illegal campaign promises work.
John
Buggers and fears:
It is pretty cool having a party that in the aggregate does what’s best for the country as a whole and isn’t for sale to tech bros and Russian fascists.
Your side should try it!
finally rich
remember, these are the people who are doing whatever they can to prevent people from having who they want for president, Venezuela 2.0 but what would you expect from the left?
Biden's 4 years in the presidency were used trying to stop Trump from running for the presidency this year, the left is a bunch of scared, coward, screaming mentals.
Jimizo
I don’t think that’s necessarily a left/right thing.
The ‘sheeple’ and ‘gullible’ descriptions are generally used by conspiracy theorists desperately trying to come across as intelligent by regurgitating trash podcasts and alternative media. They tell people to ‘wake up’.
The people they attack are on the left and the right.
Bob Fosse
lol is that similar to “shadowbanned”
factchecker
Brilliant. Two losers who can't do anything properly.
Strangerland
After Musk's wonton censorship of left-wing voices on Twitter, maybe someone decided it was time to censor him.
Egg on Elon's face.
owzer
Weird. I don't remember when Twitter invited Trump for a live broadcast interview. My memory must be fading. sad noises
Cards fan
No I don't, and save for Elon claiming that's the case, neither do you.
Strangerland
Yeah, they don't screw around.
Bob Fosse
45 will be dumping his stocks in Truth Social in September. Prices have plummeted since he started posting on X.
Stable genius destroys his own company, again.
Wasabi
how could this guy still runing for president? the USA does not have any shame left?
Jimizo
Really? Who’s behind it?
They sound very competent. Maybe Musk should employ people of that calibre.
finally rich
Good lord, can't wait for the "debate" next month, they'll be dropping like flies! Who's next in the line?
WoodyLee
Blame it of the Blue or better yet on the left's.
Norm
Still lots of space below. Knock yourself out.
Cards fan
ah yes, it is inconceivable that a business owner would lie about a DDOS attack to cover their own incompetence. lol :) Especially Elon, we all know how he loves the truth. :)
lincolnman
Uh-huh....
"They're hoaxes! They need recharged very 30 minutes! They're made in China stealing US jobs!"
"Wait, Elon was nice to me so now I like EVs"...
Someone take back Simone Biles gold medal and give it to Trump...
So once more what do you think of Trump going all flippety-floppety on EVs?
Bob Fosse
Truly pathetic.
Jimizo
Lots of disagreement on here but I think we can all agree that Musk needs to get his house in order on Twitter.
Not the first time things like this went down the toilet.
Embarrasses the participants and gets the conspiracy theorists excited. The parents of the latter group will have to change the sheets again.
Not good enough.
Cards fan
lol He didn't win a second time. If he did, he'd be ineligble to run again. Also, he will not win a second time. He's losing in just about every swing state, and the gap is only widening. People don't like Trump, and they hate fascism.
Cephus
"Musk interview of Trump starts after technical issues."
Two great American Heros, once owns the space race. The other one demonized, persecuted, shot at, and still standing and going strong.
finally rich
Do you actually think billionaries Trump, Musk are in the SNS business for money???
The left in a nutshell.
lincolnman
Trump likes EVs now - made a MASSIVE FLIP-FLOP - encourages all his supporters to buy one....
When will all our MAGA-friends be heading down to the Tesla dealer?
owzer
Notice how there has been a massive DDOS attack on X?
Wake up.
dagon
Hearing Musk, Trump and MAGA complain no one is talking about the issues or policies is hilarious.
'Why aren't they talking about the radical leftist Dems using people released from insane asylums to enter the country illegally and vote in elections?'
'What aren't they talking about the woke mind virus making people want transgender bathrooms and hate capitalism?'
'Why aren't they talking about how Kamala can be both Black and Indian?'
'Why aren't they talking about how far left Walz and Harris are and how they will make the country into communist Cuba?'
'Why don't they talk about Kamala's intelligence?'
At least Trump is comparing Harris/Walz to Bernie Sanders, who endlessly talks policy, and their only response is more red-baiting.
dmhondz
Trump: "Elon Musk endorsed me FULL THROATED, great endorsement. Not easy for him" LOL
Alan Bogglesworth
This is just a stunt by Elon to try get people back on X
rcch
What an excellent interview/conversation—Elon used the word ‘conversation’—“…so that people understand how Tump 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.” True. Trump is a different person in his private life—people deserve to know what Trump is like during a private conversation. Well done, Elon.
Meanwhile
Kamala Harris declines Time magazine interview as she continues to avoid the press.
Harris has gone 22 days as of Monday without holding a formal press conference or sit-down interview since emerging as the Democratic Party's nominee after President Biden announced he had dropped out of the race. Both Biden and former President Trump sat down for lengthy interviews with TIME as candidates for president.
"Harris has yet to do a single substantive interview or to explain her policy shifts. (Her campaign denied a request for an interview.)"
Cards fan
No.
No.
Cephus
"Musk interview of Trump starts after technical issues."
Elon should upgrade X into a full media power house rather than just twits. And that would drive the global far left into a full mode meltdown. Power to the people Elon!!
Bob Fosse
They’re primarily in it for pulling the wool over your eyes. It’s working.
lincolnman
I used to think that Trump's most brazen flip-flop was when he went from "life begins at conception - never surrender" to "I could support a 15 week abortion ban"...
Well, that huge flip has been eclipsed - after ranting for years that EVs were all "hoaxes" built "in China", that would just "steal US jobs" - he's now fully onboard the EV evolution - just read his comments from above; "I'm for electric cars. I have to be, because Elon endorsed me very strongly."
So all those previous EV rants? Trump wants you to now forget them - and run right down to your Tesla dealer and buy a "Chinese-made" Tesla EV....
Which is somewhat consistent, given trump's $600 gold high tops are made in China too...
Between Trump and Musk, they must be responsible for half of China's trade surplus with the US...which Xi then uses to build his military...to fight us...
Maybe they'll invite their joint business partner Xi for their next interview...
burgers and beers
It is pretty cool having a party that in the aggregate does what’s best for the country as a whole and isn’t for sale"
Does such a party exist in the US? People say that both Democrats and Republicans are not honest with American voters and are for sale to the highest special interest bidder. Is that not true?
wallace
I haven't used "X" since 2010 when it was called "Twitter".
bass4funk
Democrats?
Relationships? Job experiences?
But you do????
burgers and beers
Really? Who’s behind it? '
Some say that Democrat operatives secretly linked up with Iran backed hackers to sabotage Trump campaign as Iran prefers a Democrat win in November. Apparently Trump is more pro Israel then Harris. Personally i think that might be a little far fetched.
Blacklabel
liberals: hahaha stupid “twitter” could “only” host 1.2 million people at once during a targeted cyberattack.
you know Kamala of course declined this same offer, right? Hers would not have been cyberattacked, of course.
funkymofo
A presidential candidate openly and proudly saying his presidency is for sale to big business.
Cards fan
Let me fix that for you:
"Liberals": hahaha stupid “twitter” could went down because Elon Musk doesn't know what he's doing.
This one wasn't either. There's 0 proof of this other than, "Elon Musk said it so it must be true."
Blacklabel
Harris campaign: It’s sooooo unfair! Elon is using all of his power to unfairly help Trump! (Without mentioning Kamala declined)
please send us $25 right now, they said. lol
Blacklabel
which is more proof than it’s NOT true.
they tested it yesterday with 8 million test users.
Bob Fosse
No. I was talking about the right being fooled by SNS.
Nice comeback though.
Some dude
I suppose it's easier for Trump when the person trying to interfere to get him elected speaks English rather than Russian. At least they can have conversations, albeit on Trump's level which has been described as that of (depending on which source you read) a third, fourth, or fifth grader.
I wonder what Musk will do if Trump subsequently loses in November, other than coat Twitter HQ in ketchup-proof material.
Cards fan
Lol no. It proovs absolutely nothing. Don't be absurd. Musk, like any business owner, has every incentive to place blame on externalities that are out of his control rather than admit his product didn't work again.
This is not the first time Musk's products have failed under the spotlight, and it's unlikely to be the last.
Blacklabel
How odd though that it worked just fine after the attacks were stopped.
bass4funk
Since they’re the job creators, makes perfect sense to me.
It’s on his site
Because they don’t want to banter on like liberals
That will come out in the debates
Vance cleared that up while he was on CNN with Dana Bash
That will be discussed during the debate
Lol, people will see it for themselves once she starts talking
But close them off and put them in the same category as in nothingness.
Cards fan
Lol
lincolnman
So Trump COMPLETELY REVERSED his position on EVs, just because Musk endorsed him - he had NO CHOICE...
Makes one wonder what he has reversed since his campaign got so much help from Russia in 2016 and 2020....
And his long-term business relationship with Xi and the CCP....
I think we already have evidence of what it REVERSED WRT Egypt...the illegal $10 million payoff to his 2016 campaign as a quid-pro-quo for a defense package on hold being reversed...
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-egypt-payments-2016-presidential-election-sisi-1935917
Once again, we're reminded that Trump had ZERO values and principles - and that he'd sell-out his supporters in a minute if someone said something nice about him...he's already caved on one of the most sacred values of the far-right - the sanctity of life...
"No Choice" means no beliefs nor core values...just MAGA emptiness..
funkymofo
Yes, let big business control the government, that always works out well for the common man, the people trump pretends to care about. Contemptible.
bass4funk
Oh, yeah?
Yen
Ben Bumphart
I should get a medal for listening to the whole thing. I think it's highly unlikely that Kim Jong Un told Trump that he thinks Biden is an idiot.
lincolnman
Trump had little brain to lose, but it’s clear he’s now near zero…
“Former President Donald Trump continued his obsession with crowd size on Sunday, claiming photos that showed a large crowd outside Vice President Kamala Harris’ Detroit rally last week were AI-generated. But one photographer who was in attendance confirmed to the Daily Beast that the images his camera captured were very real.
“Has anyone noticed that Kamala CHEATED at the airport?” Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday. “There was nobody at the plane, and she ‘A.I.’d’ it, and showed a massive ‘crowd’ of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST! She was turned in by a maintenance worker at the airport when he noticed the fake crowd picture, but there was nobody there, later confirmed by the reflection of the mirror like finish on the Vice Presidential Plane. She’s a CHEATER. She had NOBODY waiting, and the ‘crowd’ looked like 10,000 people! Same thing is happening with her fake ‘crowds’ at her speeches.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/getty-photographer-shoots-down-trump-205008974.html
There are literally hundreds of videos and pics of this event showing a crowd of thousands…and Dementia Don can’t wrap his head around it.
Two things happened here; 1) Trump got conned by his own far-right supporters and just cut and pasted their fake post, or 2) Trump and his campaign colluded with the far-right fraudsters and knew it was fake.
Irrespective, do we want someone with the nuclear codes whose brain is so addled he thinks he’s seeing fake AI images when it’s just plain reality?
bass4funk
Its plausible, you wouldn’t know one way or another unless you can prove it.
Simon Foston
bass4funkToday 12:16 pm JST
In other words, his first duty is not to the electorate, especially those fine salt-of-the-earth types who go to his rallies, but to billionaires with fewer morals than a locust. Ok.
He has "no choice"?! His own words. You feel proud endorsing them?
bass4funk
Well, look at California and NYC, there’s your answer.
Hardly, he had a great life before he got into politics, so that gets debunked out of the water. This is why he’s so popular
Blacklabel
Failed? yet the other poster just said he listened to the whole thing.
interesting.
bass4funk
Actually, it is.
No, but the rich and powerful are the job creators and they know with Trump in the office it helps them and their business growth and that is a good thing for all of us in the end.
Yes, everyone else was an establishment swamp tool. They wanted a non-politician that they can relate to.
Cards fan
Yes, after a long delay caused by Musk again screwing up the interview. Just like he did with DeSantis' campaign announcement.
Not really.
rcch
Elon Musk: “I’ve not been very political before… they try to paint me as a far right guy which is absurd because I like to make electric vehicles… I supported Obama. I stood in line for 6 hours to shake Obama’s hand… historically I was a moderate Democrat. But now I feel like we’re at a critical juncture for the country… For the people out there in the moderate camp, I think you should support Donald Trump for president.”
The DP/left is unrecognizable. 80 million people will vote for Trump in November—do you think they’re all MAGA(?)—the answer is no.
bass4funk
How? Based on what Iran did?
He did?
I think differently
Blacklabel
So “failed” has now become “long delay” that was actually 40 minutes at most for only some of over 1 million people.
walking it back, walking it back.
seems pretty minor considering they talked 3 hours and the goal of the attack was to completely prevent that.
Peter Neil
that was such a great interview!
his slurring, saliva filled nonsense and fiction is going to sink him.
everyone could hear that he's out of his mind and suffering from dementia.
not fit to work at a conbini.
funkymofo
bass4funkToday 12:31 pm JST
"Yes, let big business control the government, that always works out well for the common man,"
What?
"the people trump pretends to care about. Contemptible."
Literally makes no sense.
Cards fan
If it's no big deal, then why are you whining about a big cyber attack? Which is already, no big deal, or the deep state trying to stop free speech?
Keep walking, friend. :)
Bob Fosse
Nonsense. He had huge a maga base. Then 45’s thin skinned pettiness flipped them on him.
bass4funk
Yes?
And this is why and how the left destroyed California and NYC
Blacklabel
because the intent of the attack was to prevent the event from occurring.
that’s wrong and a cyberattack is criminal activity.
they failed and the event was a success. Doesn’t mean what the left tried to do wasn’t wrong and even criminal.
so Musk and his product didn’t fail now? Interesting.
Bob Fosse
So you got all worked up before knowing what was going on. That’s good is it?
bass4funk
I thought as well.
How? Wait until the Debates.
Where, he seemed zeroed in a focused as usual, Dems trying to find a nugget in the desert again?
Kamala definitely isn’t.
lincolnman
I'd say what's "delayed" is an answer to an easy question on a comment Trump made directly in the article above..."I like EVs"....
Do you like EVs now? Can't get any easier than that...just a yes or no...
Cards fan
There was no attack, and this all looks silly now.
lol Right. I look forward to charges being filed. reeee
Again, it was delayed 40 minutes. That isn't a good look, and I don't know anyone that would call that a success.
bass4funk
Not Really
Hardly
NotThe One
I doubt there was a real DDOs attack. Most likely, the crowd size was very small, so they waited until they could stir interest. Lying about some fake attack was used to create attention and blame the boogeymen on the left! Trump likes to play the "victim card".
For Trump, sitting down with a rich weirdo few people like and slurring his way through an interview that failed to launch was, in the words of one Donald J. Trump, “a DISASTER!”
Musk, with his social-media ineptness and unmerited sense of self-importance, made DeSantis look like a fool. And now he’s done the same to Trump.
Heck, if Musk keeps this up, I might start to like him.