Listeners of Donald Trump‘s Monday interview with Elon Musk on X sent the internet into overdrive after some noticed that the ex-president seemed to be speaking with a slight lisp.
It was unclear if Trump was misspeaking or if there was an audio quality issue after the conversation on X started off with several tech snafus.
Many on the right and left created memes to poke fun at the former president’s voice, with one supporter photo-shopping Trump as Mike Tyson.
‘Iron Trump is giving a great interview. Lisp and all,’ said one supporter, referencing the boxing champion and ‘Hangover’ star’s nickname.
Others compared him to two of the more famous lispers in cartoon history: Daffy Duck and Sylvester the Cat.
‘Trump low-key sounds like a cartoon on this Twitter space. His mic catches a crazy lisp,’ wrote one listener.
Another wondered: ‘Trump sounded like he was slurring his words a bit. Did he get dental work done? Elon sounds like he always does.’
However, left wing streamer Hasan Piker defended Trump, claiming it was how X Spaces’ audio quality always made people sound.
‘It’s probably due to audio compression issues but trump sounds like he has a lisp’.
Michael Tracey, a journalist, also noted that he’d had similar problems with the service.’
Trump isn’t slurring his words, I’ve also had that weird thing happen on Spaces where it sounds like I have a comically outrageous lisp’.
However, former CNN journalist Chris Cillizza wondered how Trump would react to the glut of memes posted online from the supposed lisp.’
‘Trump lisp is SUPER pronounced. Probably the only thing he will care about when he reads coverage of this interview’, he wrote.
