Elon Musk’s Interview With Trump

On Monday, Donald Trump sat down with Elon Musk on Areas, X’s platform for stay audio discussions, in order that the ex-president might lie, insult his opponents, and ramble on barely coherently in entrance of somebody who’s greater than prepared to babysit him by way of an interview whereas not pushing again on any misinformation Trump is certain to spew.

The interview between Orange Foolius and Darth Apartheid obtained off to a rocky begin with a 45-delay attributable to technical points, which Musk blamed on a “huge DDOS assault.”

 

Musk, after all, offered zero proof that his elaborate canine and pony present along with his accomplice in thinly veiled white nationalism was the goal of an intentional cyber assault, however, because the New York Instances famous, he did agree with a follower’s baseless comment  that the outage was brought on by “Dems combating to ‘save’ Democracy from two huge disrupters.”

As soon as the interview lastly obtained going, listeners had been in a position to bore themselves to demise by subjecting themselves to 2 full hours of Trump repeating the identical previous lies and leveling the identical previous assaults on the Biden administration and his new opponent within the basic election, VP Kamala Harris. Often, Musk would kind of information Trump into talking about precise points like immigration and the financial system whereas being very cautious to not ask any robust questions which may fluster the Republican nominee, however, for essentially the most half, Musk simply sat there and agreed with all the pieces Trump stated like he was the world’s most disposable bobblehead. (To be honest, that is likely to be one of the vital correct descriptions of Musk I’ve ever written.)

 

There was this one bizarre a part of the interview when Trump complimented Harris’ look, calling her “stunning,” which might have been wildly uncharacteristic of Trump—if it hadn’t come after a slew of non-public insults concerning Hrris’ intelligence and competence, and if it hadn’t turned out to be a backhanded praise meant to level the finger on the media for depicting Harris as extra engaging than he believes she actually is. (You possibly can inform Trump has by no means taken an trustworthy look within the mirror in the previous couple of many years even after making use of a recent coat of spray tan.)

From The Unbiased:

Within the interview, Trump launched right into a scathing critique of Harris calling her a “horrible” chief, earlier than he swiftly drifted to fawning over her “stunning” look.

“We’d like sensible individuals, and people who have the power to steer. She doesn’t have that capability. Are you able to think about her with chairman Xi [Jinpin, President of the People’s Republic of China],” he stated, talking with a definite lisp.

Musk, who remained agreeable all through the two-hour interview, admitted that it “could be foolish.”

“She is horrible, she is horrible,” Trump doubled down. “She’s getting a free trip.”

The previous president then abruptly segwayed into speaking about Harris’s appears, drawing comparability between her and the previous first woman.

“I noticed an image of her on Time Journal right now. She appears like essentially the most stunning actress ever to stay,” Trump stated of Harris, referring to the newest version of Time Journal, which manufacturers Harris’s marketing campaign as “the swiftest vibe shift in fashionable political historical past.”

“She regarded very very similar to our nice first woman, Melania,” Trump gushed as Musk met his remark with a clumsy chuckle and a reserved, “yeah…”

“She didn’t appear like Camilla,” Trump stated, purposely butchering Harris’ identify. “In fact, she’s a lovely girl and we’ll depart it at that.”

“Proper… effectively yeah, effectively, you recognize,” Musk stated, earlier than scrambling to alter the topic and getting into right into a monologue in regards to the American dream.

However, it’s fully doable Trump was really attempting to go with Harris with a purpose to get out from underneath criticism of his private assaults on Harris, together with the variety of occasions he publicly questioned her racial identification. There’s additionally a narrative the Instances printed over the weekend, which included accounts from a minimum of two individuals who declare they witnessed Trump name Harris a “b****” repeatedly throughout totally different conversations.

Both means, Harris’ marketing campaign didn’t trouble acknowledging Trump’s remarks in regards to the 59-year-old’s look, however the marketing campaign did describe Trump and Musk as  “self-obsessed wealthy guys” who principally engaged in a circle-jerk of mediocre white males who’re simply extraordinarily fortunate they had been born into wealth. (OK, the marketing campaign didn’t say all that in regards to the dialogue between Mango Mussolini and Phy Stark, however solely as a result of they might by no means rent me as a spokesman.)

“Trump’s complete marketing campaign is in service of individuals like Elon Musk and himself — self-obsessed wealthy guys who will promote out the center class and who can’t run a livestream within the 12 months 2024,” the marketing campaign wrote in an official assertion after the interview.

I imply, they’re not improper.