On Monday, Donald Trump sat down with Elon Musk on Areas, X’s platform for dwell audio discussions, in order that the ex-president might lie, insult his opponents, and ramble on barely coherently in entrance of somebody who’s greater than keen to babysit him by means of an interview whereas not pushing again on any misinformation Trump is certain to spew.
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The interview between Orange Foolius and Darth Apartheid acquired off to a rocky begin with a 45-minute delay as a consequence of technical points, which Musk blamed on a “large DDOS assault.”
Musk, in fact, offered zero proof that his elaborate canine and pony present together with his accomplice in thinly veiled white nationalism was the goal of an intentional cyber assault, however, because the New York Instances famous, he did agree with a follower’s baseless comment that the outage was brought on by “Dems combating to ‘save’ Democracy from two large disrupters.”
As soon as the interview lastly acquired going, listeners had been capable of bore themselves to dying by subjecting themselves to 2 full hours of Trump repeating the identical outdated lies and leveling the identical outdated assaults on the Biden administration and his new opponent within the basic election, VP Kamala Harris. Sometimes, Musk would kind of information Trump into talking about precise points like immigration and the financial system whereas being very cautious to not ask any powerful questions which may fluster the Republican nominee, however, for probably the most half, Musk simply sat there and agreed with every thing Trump mentioned like he was the world’s most disposable bobblehead. (To be truthful, that is perhaps one of the vital correct descriptions of Musk I’ve ever written.)
There was this one bizarre a part of the interview when Trump complimented Harris’ look, calling her “lovely,” which might have been wildly uncharacteristic of Trump—if it hadn’t come after a slew of non-public insults concerning Harris’ intelligence and competence, and if it hadn’t turned out to be a backhanded praise meant to level the finger on the media for depicting Harris as extra enticing than he believes she actually is. (You possibly can inform Trump has by no means taken an sincere look within the mirror in the previous couple of many years even after making use of a contemporary coat of spray tan.)
From the Unbiased:
Within the interview, Trump launched right into a scathing critique of Harris calling her a “horrible” chief, earlier than he swiftly drifted to fawning over her “lovely” look.
“We’d like sensible individuals, and those that have the flexibility to guide. She doesn’t have that potential. Are you able to think about her with chairman Xi [Jinpin, President of the People’s Republic of China],” he mentioned, talking with a definite lisp.
Musk, who remained agreeable all through the two-hour interview, admitted that it “can be foolish.”
“She is horrible, she is horrible,” Trump doubled down. “She’s getting a free experience.”
The previous president then abruptly segued into speaking about Harris’ appears to be like, drawing comparability between her and the previous first girl.
“I noticed an image of her on Time journal right this moment. She appears to be like like probably the most lovely actress ever to dwell,” Trump mentioned of Harris, referring to the newest version of Time journal, which manufacturers Harris’ marketing campaign as “the swiftest vibe shift in trendy political historical past.”
“She seemed very very like our nice first girl, Melania,” Trump gushed as Musk met his remark with a clumsy chuckle and a reserved, “yeah…”
“She didn’t appear to be Camilla,” Trump mentioned, purposely butchering Harris’ title. “In fact, she’s an exquisite girl and we’ll depart it at that.”
“Proper… properly yeah, properly, ,” Musk mentioned, earlier than scrambling to alter the topic and coming into right into a monologue in regards to the American dream.
Alternatively, it’s completely potential Trump was really attempting to go with Harris with a purpose to get out from below criticism of his private assaults on Harris, together with the variety of occasions he publicly questioned her racial identification. There’s additionally a narrative the Instances revealed over the weekend, which included accounts from at the very least two individuals who declare they witnessed Trump name Harris a “b****” repeatedly throughout totally different conversations.
Both manner, Harris’ marketing campaign didn’t trouble acknowledging Trump’s remarks in regards to the 59-year-old’s look, however the marketing campaign did describe Trump and Musk as “self-obsessed wealthy guys” who mainly engaged in a circle-jerk of mediocre white males who’re simply extraordinarily fortunate they had been born into wealth. (OK, the marketing campaign didn’t say all that in regards to the dialogue between Mango Mussolini and Phony Stark, however solely as a result of they’d by no means rent me as a spokesman.)
“Trump’s complete marketing campaign is in service of individuals like Elon Musk and himself — self-obsessed wealthy guys who will promote out the center class and who can not run a livestream within the 12 months 2024,” the marketing campaign wrote in an official assertion after the interview.
I imply, they’re not fallacious.
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