Donald Trump has been endorsed by Elon Musk in an extraordinary online interview together that was beset with problems including a major delay because of a ‘massive’ cyber attack.
The former US president returned to X with an interview with the Tesla billionaire that started 43 minutes late after the social media site’s servers were hammered with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
Once up and running Trump spoke about becoming more religious after the attempt on his life in Pennsylvania on July 13, a shooting that Musk said showed Trump’s courage.
DONALD TRUMP MADE A PLEDGE
The 45th President of the United States also vowed to build an ‘Iron Dome’ defence system for America like the one used by Israel to intercept missiles and promised that he would oversee the largest deportation of illegal immigrants in history if he became president in November, insisting that cities like New York have been ‘overwhelmed’.
ELON MUSK IS CAMPAIGNING FOR DONALD TRUMP
Mr Musk then urged Americans to vote for the Republican presidential nominee over Kamala Harris, saying that the US is at a ‘crossroads’ and that choosing Trump would be a vote for hope and prosperity.
In return Trump said he had ‘no choice’ but to back electric vehicles ‘because Elon endorsed me very strongly’. Previously he said that EV supporters should ‘rot in hell’.
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But the meeting of arguably the two most influential men on the planet was also dominated by listeners noticing that Trump appeared to have a lisp or even slurred his words at points, struggling with words containing ‘s’ sounds.
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There was also an awkward moment that might put the politician in the doghouse at home where he told Mr Musk that his presidential rival Ms Harris bore a resemblance to his wife Melania.
Harris was featured on the cover of the long-running periodical despite continuing to refuse one-on-one interviews.
The magazine used an illustration of Harris with the headline ‘Her Time’ and Trump commented on how he felt she looked like a familiar face when talking to Musk during their conversation on X Spaces.
‘She looked very much like our great first lady, Melania,’ Trump told Musk, as they discussed the cover image of Monday’s issue.
Trump also appeared to mispronounce Kamala’s name, though this time, it sounded more like ‘Camilla’.
