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(NewsNation) — Billionaire Elon Musk volition interrogation erstwhile President Donald Trump connected his societal media platform, X, connected Monday astatine 8 p.m. ET.
It besides seems to correspond a instrumentality to X for the erstwhile president, who has subsequently posted connected the platform.
The platform, past known arsenic Twitter, was a large portion of Trump’s 2016 statesmanlike run and his full presidency.
Trump backmost connected societal media tract up of interview
The unrecorded interrogation volition footwear disconnected astatine 8 p.m. EDT and volition beryllium hosted connected Trump’s authoritative X relationship @realDonaldTrump. It volition use X Spaces, a diagnostic that allows users of the level to big unrecorded audio conversations.
The “live conversation” volition beryllium “unscripted with nary limits connected taxable matter,” Musk wrote Sunday, adding it “should beryllium highly entertaining.” He encouraged users to station circumstantial questions and comments nether the stream’s chat.
The Trump run said it volition beryllium “the interrogation of the century.”
Musk posted immoderate “system scaling tests” ahead of Monday night’s conversation, which is expected to person a precocious measurement of viewers.
Trump made his instrumentality to the platform for the archetypal clip successful astir a year, sharing a run advertisement hours up of the interview. It marked conscionable the 2nd clip Trump has posted connected X since his account was suspended in the aftermath of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot astatine the Capitol and reinstated the pursuing year.
Musk’s reinstatement of Trump’s account in 2022 was portion of the tech billionaire’s caller attack to the platform’s contented moderation policies aft purchasing the company.
Just much than an hr later, Trump posted again connected the platform, lamenting astir the authorities of the nation’s economy.
“Are you amended disconnected present than you were erstwhile I was president?” he wrote. Our system is shattered. Our borderline has been erased. We’re a federation successful decline. Make the American Dream AFFORDABLE again. Make America SAFE again. Make America GREAT Again!”
Musk endorses Trump
Those who person followed Musk successful caller years volition callback a clip erstwhile helium said helium didn't truly person an involvement successful backing either party.
All of that changed the time an effort on Trump's life was made astatine a rally. At that point, Musk outwardly said that helium was going to endorse the Republican nominee.
You comparison that to 2022, which was a precise antithetic tune successful which Musk called connected Trump to bent up his chapeau and sail disconnected into the sunset, stepping speech for caller enactment successful the Republican Party.
The Trump-Musk narration has improved dramatically successful conscionable a mates of years, to the constituent that Musk is present backing the erstwhile rhetorically and financially.
While the duo are ideologically aligned connected the borderline and anti-transgender legislation, determination person been immoderate differences successful thought.
Trump has been talking extensively astir the contented of electrical cars, saying the state isn't acceptable to wholly power to them.
Of course, Musk heads up Tesla and is simply a beardown proponent of electrical vehicles. The 2 person politely disagreed successful caller months, and you've adjacent seen the erstwhile president code this connected the run way successful Michigan.
"He's ne'er mentioned to me, 'Why are you hitting the electrical cars?' Because helium understands I'm not hitting it. I deliberation it's incredible. I've had them, I've driven them," Trump said past month.
"They're incredible, but they're not for everybody. Some radical person to thrust agelong distances, and they thin to beryllium much expensive, and, you know, they'll astir apt beryllium made successful China."
NewsNation spouse The Hill contributed to this report.
