ET start were unable to access it.
Back then, his rival Trump teased DeSantis for the moment.
You walk in, you say, You want to quit?
Elon Musk and Donald TrumpMarc Piasecki/Getty Images; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
So, every one of you is gone, Trump told Musk at one point.
Trump made the point, too, but also emphasized that his presidency would see mass deportations.
Detractors predicted that, given Musks endorsement of Trump, the conversation would really be a campaign ad.
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ET, Donald Trump posted on his social media platform Truth Social, Getting ready for chat with Elon.
Listeners instead got the message unavailable.
Musk wrote, There looks like it’s a massive DDOS attack on X.
Working on shutting it down.
Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.
The rest of X, though, appeared to be working.
Musk said that they had tested the system to handle 8 million concurrent listeners earlier in the day.
According to X, about 1.2 million were listening.
Musk has endorsed Trump, and the event was not an interview but an extended conversation.
Trump responded by the need to contain nuclear proliferation but also harness nuclear energy.
Trump did praise Musk at points, including for the billionaires firing of striking workers.
Mostly, though, the conservation was pure Trump, a mix of superlative and grievance.
And then, two days later, they didnt talk about that.
They just said [Biden] was bad.
Thats the way I get treated, and I dont mind that at all.
This was a coup of a president of the United States.
Trump did offer some praise to Harris, for the illustration of her on the new cover of Time.
She looked like the great first lady, Melania.
