Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview. It was an unmitigated disaster.

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Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview. It was an unmitigated disaster.

For a fascism-curious billionaire who loves cuddling up to right-wing loons,

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look *******.

Former President Donald Trump had loudly trumpeted a planned

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that would stream on X. But much like the disastrous X-platformed launch of Florida Gov.

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, leaving social media users laughing at the collective incompetence.

Since Vice President Kamala Harris rose to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket last month,

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. His childish attacks against her aren’t working. His ******* comments about her mixed-race heritage have repelled all but his most loyal supporters. His vice presidential pick,

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This illustration photo shows former US President Donald Trump mugshot on X (formerly

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), on August 24, 2023.

So his answer, weirdly, was to sit down with Musk and talk to what would undoubtedly be a very online audience that doesn’t represent the broader electorate. Had the conversation gone off without a hitch, it still would have been odd and largely useless for Trump’s effort to halt Harris’ momentum.

Trump’s interview with Elon Musk was an unmitigated disaster

But the

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with a multitude of hitches. X users erupted with either frustration or laughter as the planned start time passed, and nothing could be accessed.

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before the interview could start and be heard by anyone. It was ******** hour, the last thing a campaign struggling to project competence needed.

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*********** presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally held along his running mate Senator JD Vance, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., August 3, 2024.

In May 2023,

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with Musk on what was then called

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, writing on social media: “Wow! The DeSanctus

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launch is a DISASTER! His whole campaign will be a disaster. WATCH!”

On behalf of DeSantis, allow me to say this: HAH!

Forget the glitches, Trump’s X interview got worse when he started talking

Of course, things didn’t get better for Trump once the interview was able to proceed.

Trump says AI did it: Trump blames Harris’ crowds on AI, so let’s all assume everything we don’t like is fake!

He was rambling, babbling on about crowd sizes and immigration and President Joe Biden and whatever else seemed to pass through his mind.

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, raising questions about his health, and doing nothing to knock down rising concerns about his age and well-being.

He sounded like a disoriented, ******* Daffy Duck.

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Tesla and X (formerly

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) CEO Elon Musk speaks with other delegates on Day 1 of the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in Bletchley, Britain on Nov. 1, 2023.

Musk, meanwhile, has the interviewing skills of a stoned introvert. He did little but cheerlead Trump and agree with every bizarro thing that fell out of his mouth, while occasionally going on the kind of odd right-wing tangents you’d expect from a man too rich to ever be told to pipe down.

I’m not going to quote anything Trump said in the interview because it was either too ******* to merit transcription or a mere repetition of the nonsense he spouts at every rally he holds.

Harris can beat Trump:

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A big part of Trump’s problem right now is he has become almost unbearably boring. Build a wall. Drill, baby, drill. Marxist, socialist something-something. Harris only recently became ******. Blah, blah, blah.

Musk gave Trump the same gift he gave Ron DeSantis. Whomp whomp.data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAAQABAAACAUwAOw==

U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are seen at the ******* Room Four after the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. May 30, 2020.

So for Trump, sitting down with a rich weirdo few people like and slurring his way through an interview that ******* to launch was, in the words of one Donald J. Trump, “a DISASTER!”

Musk, with his social-media ineptness and unmerited sense of self-importance, made DeSantis look like a fool. And now he’s done the same to Trump.

Heck, if Musk keeps this up, I might start to like him.

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