Elon Musk interviews Trump on X

Elon Musk interviews Trump on X
By Terry A. Hurlbut
Last night, Elon Musk had an interview – more like a discussion – with Donald Trump on X (formerly known as Twitter). This event electrified the Internet, and brought leftists and globalists out of their anonymity as nothing ever had before. With a billion combined views, people all over the world finally got to see Donald Trump hold an affable conversation with someone with whom he was basically on the same page. That, evidently, was the last thing certain people wanted to see. They came out to criticize – and even to stop the interview preemptively. Now, with perhaps one exception, the world knows who they are – and Americans know why to vote Trump in November.
Lead-up to the Trump and Musk interview
Before the interview began, Trump posted to his X account for the first time since he shared his mug shot.
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1694886846050771321
He dropped his first post at 11:19 a.m. EDT. Here are three posts he dropped referring to the interview:
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1823016427680358790
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1823034723867713700
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1823035759655264697
Other posts to the account consisted of ads, and reposts of announcements of the interview on other accounts. The most recent X post on the Donald Trump account embeds the full recording on a special X Space:
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1823144316014911820
The recording ran for three hours and twenty-six seconds. But it excited controversy long before it began. The Gateway Pundit covered these events more extensively than any other outlet.
Thierry Breton, Commissioner of Internal Market for the European Union, sent a letter to Musk demanding that he not permit Donald Trump to utter anything that could construe as “hate speech.” M. Breton even threatened Musk with an adverse outcome on “Digital Services Act” proceedings already under way.
https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1823033048109367549
In reply, Musk posted this on his account:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823076043017630114
At a White House press conference, Washington Post reporter Cleve Woolson asked Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre what President Joe Biden planned to do to stop the interview. The press secretary disavowed any such plan, admitted X was a private company, and hinted that Biden would ignore it.
https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1823068701240758626
At about 6:30 p.m. EDT, Imran Ahmed, CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, uttered his own nonspecific threats.
https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1823126966708621743
A cyberattack – then the interview begins
Trump and Musk scheduled their interview for 8:00 p.m. EDT. But a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack delayed the interview until 8:45 p.m.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823152153445404990
No one yet knows where the attack came from, though speculation – possibly vain and unfounded – centered on Iran.
Musk first steered the conversation to the attempted assassination of Trump, exactly one calendar month ago today. Trump admitted to Musk, frankly: “If I hadn’t turned my head, we’d be talking from a different place.” Musk tried to press his suspicion that the Secret Service betrayed Trump deliberately. Perhaps the former President didn’t want to dwell on that just then. He did make a point of giving glory to God for his own survival.
It was an act of God. I was very lucky.
Blessed would be a more apt word, but other than that, the former President is correct. He also reiterated his plans to hold another rally in Butler – a memorial for a retired fire chief who died that day.
Musk observed that he could have a regular conversation with Trump – but not with Biden. (The reasons for that became apparent at The Debate.) As their discussion went on, Musk drew Trump out on a variety of subjects, including:
• Iran’s threatened (but still not yet launched) attack on Israel,
• The record of Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), Kamala Harris’ running mate, on transgender accommodations (“Tampon Tim,” etc.),
• Thierry Breton’s threatening letter, and the problem of censorship in general,
• Kamala Harris’ lack of the intelligence sufficient to carry on an intelligent conversation, and
• Trump’s ability to have at least cordial relations with even the worst kinds of dictators.
The interview continues…
In a moment of striking candor, Musk said Trump, not Harris, supported Musk’s values. Those values include “safe cities,… secure borders,… sensible spending,… deregulation,… [and] a prosperous future.” Musk looked to a future of Seven Wonders-level projects (like Project Apollo in the last century) to excite popular imagination.
The two seemed to have one area of disagreement. Musk still hopes for a future in which the sun and wind provide the motive power for human civilization. But he scoffed at the notion that the world would end in five years. He also disavowed the [vilification] of “the oil and gas industry,” which, he said, “are keeping civilization going right now.” As the two continued to talk, Trump made clear his intention to reopen many paths of fossil-fuel exploitation the Biden administration shut down.
Then Musk said this:
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. I think that’s what it comes down to.
The official X account offered some interesting statistics on total impressions on the Donald Trump space. That space operated from 7:47 p.m. to 10:47 p.m. – three hours, as mentioned before.
https://x.com/X/status/1823246862264242557
Reactions to the Trump and Musk interview
The Harris campaign tried to get off some sarcasm at Trump’s expense, exploiting the late start. They mentioned the late start of Ron DeSantis’ interview with Musk, and Trump’s ridicule of that. Of course the Harris campaign didn’t want to talk about DDoS attacks, which did not mar the DeSantis interview. In fact, in the “seek whom the crime would profit” department, Jim Hoft of TGP offered this list of suspects:
• The Biden regime
• Deep State
• EU globalists
• Kamala Harris
• Socialists and Communists
• Satanists
• Democrats and others
For his part, Musk invited Kamala Harris to join him for an interview, if she so desired.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823217769229566251
The Trump campaign laughed Harris off, and some supporters suggested that Harris was starting to panic.
https://x.com/BrittRooted/status/1823175751354798281
Then came this exchange:
https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1823194536983556377
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1823200749091770658
In the willful misconstruction department, the United Auto Workers Union filed federal labor charges against Trump and Musk, over something else they said. The two discussed Musk’s purchase of X, and the firing – or mass resignation – of 80 percent of the company workforce. Trump made this observation:
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 OK, you’re all gone. You’re all gone. So, every one of you is gone.
Perhaps he shouldn’t have referred to a strike, since what actually happened at X was that many disgruntled ideologues quit the company rather than stay on under Elon Musk’s leadership. No matter – the UAW construed those remarks as mass worker intimidation.
https://x.com/UAW/status/1823361230167257114
https://x.com/UAW/status/1823361232641962147
https://x.com/UAW/status/1823361235460465003
https://x.com/UAW/status/1823361238086172761
Several X users were not impressed:
https://x.com/ISniffElonsMusk/status/1823364427166720150
https://x.com/Downtownfairy/status/1823378327601664474
https://x.com/HassieGreenT/status/1823384209651859480
https://x.com/MarioBr99911268/status/1823373047606198297
https://x.com/March111992/status/1823427979638169722
https://x.com/1Stardreme/status/1823410371404668941
https://x.com/1Stardreme/status/1823405980706656585
Review
For slightly longer than two hours, Donald Trump showed the world “the real Donald Trump.” Apart from all his money, hotels, casinos, golf courses, and everything else he owns, he’s just a regular guy, like the millions of people he’s asking to vote for him. More to the point, he understands “regular guy” things – and the things that made America great. And he shared those things with an equally rich and very bright American-by-choice, who understands these things implicitly. Together they dare to do great deeds, to take on great projects – one to save the greatest country on earth (and therefore in the universe), the other to save the human race.
The enemies of humanity, and of the United States, reacted predictably. They threatened – and Elon Musk put them in their place. One of them cried out to the current administration, “Do something!” That administration’s representative threw up her hands and sighed. Then they laid on a cyberattack – and the man developing a space colony wagon, showed how to defeat such attacks. After those two men talked, the enemies wept and gnashed their teeth – and the people are laughing at them.
This, even more than their failure to end Trump’s life, represents the final defeat of the globalist extinctionist axis. What began as an interview, became a treaty of alliance between two larger-than-life figures. They propose to save civilization – and from the reaction to the efforts of their adversaries, they will win.
Link to:
The article:
https://cnav.news/2024/08/13/news/trump-elon-musk-interview-x/

Trump mug shot post:
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1694886846050771321

Trump’s post in advance of the interview, then including it:
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1823016427680358790
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1823034723867713700
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1823035759655264697
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1823144316014911820
https://x.com/X/status/1823246862264242557

Other posts in advance of the interview:
https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1823033048109367549
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823076043017630114
https://x.com/CurtisHouck/status/1823068701240758626
https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/1823126966708621743
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823152153445404990

Elon Musk invites Harris to join him, if she dares:
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1823217769229566251

Other reaction:
https://x.com/BrittRooted/status/1823175751354798281
https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1823194536983556377
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1823200749091770658
https://x.com/UAW/status/1823361230167257114
https://x.com/UAW/status/1823361232641962147
https://x.com/UAW/status/1823361235460465003
https://x.com/UAW/status/1823361238086172761
https://x.com/ISniffElonsMusk/status/1823364427166720150
https://x.com/Downtownfairy/status/1823378327601664474
https://x.com/HassieGreenT/status/1823384209651859480
https://x.com/MarioBr99911268/status/1823373047606198297
https://x.com/March111992/status/1823427979638169722
https://x.com/1Stardreme/status/1823410371404668941
https://x.com/1Stardreme/status/1823405980706656585

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