He ruled out the possibility that Iran could attack Israel in the next few hours, reiterated his esteem for Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and was open to the possibility of including Elon Musk in his government. Donald Trump was the protagonist of the long-awaited conversation on the social platform X, formerly Twitter, with the owner, MuskThe tycoon spoke for about two hours, without sending shocking messages, but exchanging compliments with the host.
The event, which was eagerly awaited on the web and had also raised concerns in the European Union about the risk of spreading false news and inciting violence, initially encountered technical problems, which caused the connection to go haywire and left hundreds of thousands of connected users disoriented. The connection was launched with a forty minute delay and after Musk evoked conspiracies, blaming a “massive attack on X” presumably by hackers, whose goal, he explained, was “to prevent Trump from speaking.”
The Republican presidential candidate then took his time, albeit with an unusually thick voice and an unusual “lisp” that generated curiosity and irony among users, and immediately announced that he will return to Butler, Pennsylvania, in October, where on July 13 a twenty-year-old shot in an attempt to hit him while he was engaged in a rally.
Trump launched the usual messages: he spoke of an invasion of migrants (“Twenty million have entered the United States, arriving from prisons, mental institutions and from all over the world, from Africa, Asia, the Middle East”), explained that “getting along with Xi and Putin is a good thing”, reiterated his intention to abolish the Department of Education and praised Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for having “reduced crime by 72 percent”.
Trump called his opponent, Kamala Harris, “incompetent” and a “third-rate” candidate. He accused her of having copied his proposal not to tax tips and recalled how under him America “had grown in an extraordinary way”. The tycoon attacked the judicial system, calling it “sick”, accused the New York prosecutor’s office of prosecuting him, and then praised the “electric vehicles” produced by Musk with Tesla, despite the tycoon having openly sided against the ecological transition and in favor of fuel-powered cars in his rallies.
Musk offered to help in the next hypothetical Trump administration to control spending and make sure that “American taxpayers’ money is well spent.” The former president said “like,” then complimented him on the mass layoffs that have begun at Twitter, now X, since he took over in 2022, when Musk laid off 6,000 employees, equivalent to 80 percent of the entire workforce. “You are the biggest cutback,” he said. “I don’t want to name the company, but they went on strike and you said, okay, all right, all go, all go, you were the greatest.” Musk thanked him.