It started with 40 minutes of technical difficulty and only got worse. For over two hours of aimless grumbling and self-praising with Elon Muskformer President Donald Trump misspoke of his biggest critics, praising strong men like Vladimir Putinand draw your opponent Kamala Harris as an existential threat to America: “If she becomes our president, very quickly, you won’t have a country anymore,” he told Musk—who has Xlaunch campaign because Ron DeSantis was beset by similar technical issues last year. Absent from the proceedings? Anything coherent or compelling. “The Trump campaign’s entire campaign is about serving people like Elon Musk and himself,” the Harris campaign said in a declare then. “The arrogant rich will sell out the middle class and won’t be able to stream by 2024.”
The Trump Show has really evolved. old and shabbyAnd recently, the Republican presidential nominee found himself desperate to regain any momentum he had lost after Harris became the Democratic Party’s new star. But that reset didn’t happen on Monday, despite Musk’s best efforts: “It’s essential that you win, for the good of the country,” Musk told Trump. But the former president couldn’t knock down any of the softballs the right-wing billionaire threw his way. He recounted the shooting at a Pennsylvania rally last month and promised to carry out the “largest deportation” in history if re-elected, but otherwise said nothing newsworthy—a feat given the considerable length of the interview. He also seemed dismissive when it came to reiterating what he said at the rally, with his sometimes muddled speech emphasizing the strength of his younger opponent. In a bizarre twist, he described Harris as looking like “the most beautiful actress who ever lived” in a Time magazine cover. “It’s a drawing, and actually, she looks very much like a wonderful first lady, Melania,” Trump told Musk.
The sense one gets from listening to all this is of a man out of ideas, reaching for an old bag of tricks that just isn’t as interesting as it used to be. That’s not to say Democrats should get carried away: There’s still a big market for what Trump is selling—and powerful interests, embodied in Musk, are looking to put him back in power. But the candidate seems capable of doing just what he’s done a million times before, only much worse. He was hoping to regain his footing on Monday night with Musk, who has become one of his most prominent supportersInstead, he emphasized the individual. “strangeness” Harris’ campaign has sought to highlight—and the extremism of—his agenda, as seen in Musk’s praise fired the striking workers, he oath Closing the Department of Education and His Comments support climate change because, he said, global warming would mean “more coastal real estate.”
Musk said Monday that his goal with the livestream was to help people “understand how [Trump] “Talking is a conversation, not an interview.” “No one is themselves in an interview,” Musk posted“so it’s hard to understand what they’re really like.” However, it turns out that Trump is always like this—and after eight years of living in the same old bullshit, perhaps Americans are finally ready to move on.
