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Elon Musk’s conversational interview with former President Trump on Monday night pulled in a mixed 1 billion views, in line with the tech billionaire.
“Combined views of the conversation with @realDonaldTrump and subsequent discussion by other accounts now ~1 billion,” Musk posted on his social media platform X early Tuesday morning following the interview.
The message adopted a earlier put up outlining that, “Between 7:47 PM and 10:47 PM ET, President Donald Trump’s Space post received 73 million views. During the same period, there were 4 million posts about Elon Musk and President Trump’s conversation on 𝕏, generating a total of 998 million views.”
Trump spoke with Musk on Monday night on Twitter Space for 2 hours in an expansive audio-only interview that included the forty fifth president talking at size about immigration woes, spiraling inflation points, the assassination try in opposition to his life and insurance policies he would implement if he wins on the polls on Nov. 5.
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”I believe it’s over 20 million people came into our country. Many coming from jails, from prisons, from mental institutions, or a bigger version of that is insane asylums. And many are terrorists. And I’ll tell you what, they’re coming not just from South America. They’re coming from Africa. They’re coming from all over the world. They’re coming from Asia. They’re coming from the Middle East,” Trump informed Musk, who endorsed Trump earlier this 12 months.
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Trump mentioned that regardless of Vice President Kamala Harris’ latest rhetoric to handle the spiraling migrant disaster on the border if elected, she and President Biden have had years to handle migration however “won’t do anything.”
”She had three and a half years, and by the way, they have another five months that they can do something. But they won’t do anything. It’s all talk. She’s incompetent and he’s incompetent. And frankly, I think that she’s more incompetent than he is, and that’s saying something, because he’s not too good,” he mentioned.
Former President Trump, and Elon Musk. (Getty Images)
Trump’s interview with Musk kicked off after 8:30 p.m. Monday, following a “massive” distributed denial-of-service assault on the platform that induced delays, Musk defined on X. Despite the disruption, the interview acquired a billion viewers, in line with Musk’s tally.
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Trump additionally addressed Biden’s exit from the 2024 race through the dialog, saying it was a Democratic “coup” that pressured Biden to drop out. Biden dropped out of the working final month as considerations mounted surrounding his psychological acuity and 81 years of age and Democrats and conventional allies of the celebration known as on him to exit the race.
The interview, billed as “a conversation” between X proprietor Elon Musk and former President Trump, initially as a result of begin at 1 a.m. on Tuesday, lastly received underway simply after 1:40 a.m. (Getty Images)
“This was a coup. This was a coup of a president of the United States. He did not need to depart, they usually mentioned, ‘We can do it the nice way, or we can do it the hard way,'” Trump said.
“They just took him out back behind the shed and basically shot him,” Musk added before Trump slammed Biden as “the worst president in history.”
The 45th president also took a shot at Harris for snubbing the media and interviews since she emerged as the Democratic Party’s 2024 nominee. Harris has averted formal press conferences or sit-down interviews, together with for a Time journal cowl story, for 23 days, as of Tuesday.
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A brand new article from The New Yorker known as on the media to start out asking Vice President Kamala Harris questions on her coverage. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“It’s pretty sad when you think that somebody that does this for a living can’t answer a question or is afraid to do an interview, and in her case, with a very friendly interview. She’s got all friendly interviewers,” Trump mentioned.
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Then-President Trump arrives to talk on the National Republican Congressional Committee’s annual spring dinner in Washington, April 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Trump made a return to X earlier on Monday after almost a 12 months of not posting on his once-favored social media platform. Before Musk purchased Twitter, now X, in 2022, Trump was suspended from his Twitter account following the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He seldom posted on the platform after Musk reinstated his account, solely sharing his mugshot in August of final 12 months.
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Ahead of his interview with Trump, Musk hyped the interview as one which “should be highly entertaining!” because it “is unscripted with no limits on subject matter.”
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