People watched the live conversation between Republican White House candidate Donald Trump and Elon Musk on the X platform, after it faced technical problems that led to a delay in the broadcast of the interview.
Trump and Musk were scheduled to talk live at 8 p.m. ET, but technical issues delayed the broadcast.
The campaign team of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris mocked the technical problems faced by Trump and Musk.
Harris’ campaign account on Truth Social reposted comments from Trump last year criticizing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s campaign launch on X, which was also delayed due to technical issues.
Among the most prominent things that came out of the interview, Trump said: “If I were in the presidency, the attack on Israel would not have happened, the Ukraine war would not have happened if I were president, the Middle East could take us to World War III, and why don’t we have an Iron Dome like the one in Israel? The Biden administration is stupid.”
“I will go back to Butler, Pennsylvania, the site of the assassination attempt in October. We don’t want to bring criminals into the United States. I will say to Harris: Where was the border protection over the past years? I dealt with the North Korea crisis with a speedy and legendary response. Leaders like Kim Jong Un listen to the voice of force. I know Putin well and have a good relationship with him.”
He also added, “Biden and Kamala caused an economic crisis for the United States, and Biden’s IQ was low… perhaps now he has no intelligence at all, and artificial intelligence requires large energy resources… and in the Congo they release them from prisons and then send them to our country, and my administration contributed to eliminating ISIS, and the economy during my administration of the country was good.”
“Biden has spent trillions of dollars stupidly, inflation is at levels we haven’t seen in years, I want someone with Musk’s courage to improve some of the education systems, there should be competition between states in education, Tesla is a great product but not everyone needs an electric car, China is developing nuclear weapons at a rapid pace, nuclear war would be dangerous and devastating.. We don’t want that,” he added.
Musk, who previously voted Democratic, has been throwing his weight and wealth behind Republican candidate Trump in this election since a gunman tried to assassinate the latter during a massive campaign rally last month.
Trump’s Twitter accounts were banned after his supporters stormed Congress in January 2021, but Musk reactivated them when he took over the platform and renamed it.
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