Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is set to interview former President Donald Trump on the X social media network on Monday night, just months before November’s presidential election.
The interview is scheduled for 8 p.m. Eastern Time and could allow Trump to seize the limelight at a time when the mainstream media has been all-in for Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign.
“Am going to do some system scaling tests tonight & tomorrow in advance of the conversation,” Musk wrote on the platform, formerly known as Twitter.
The interview will be hosted live using Trump’s official X account, his campaign said on Sunday.
Following the attack on Congress by Trump’s supporters on January 6, 2021, the platform’s previous owners suspended Trump’s access to his account, @realDonaldTrump, which Musk took over a month later.
Trump frequently posts on his Truth Social social media platform, which was launched in February 2022. He has returned to X only once since his access was restored, with a post in August 2023 appealing for donations and showing his Fulton County jail mug shot.
Trump’s interview with Musk comes just days after sitting down with popular internet personality Adin Ross at his Mar-a-Lago home in an attempt to maintain online momentum for his bid for a second term in office.
Musk, who owns the social media platform X (previously known as Twitter), has a track record of supporting conservative content producers.
Musk, who has been working hard to elect Trump in a variety of ways, recently launched a SuperPAC that will spend millions of dollars to collect voter data in crucial swing states, Mediaite reported.
“America PAC, which Musk co-founded, had kept a relatively low profile until recent media reports highlighted the unique efforts of the group and its big-name backers. In a July interview with Jordan Peterson, Musk discussed the PAC, which has spent more than $20 million since June, according to FEC filings. Investors beyond Musk include Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, Joe Lonsdale, and Doug Leone,” the report said.
“One ad the PAC had been using to encourage people to register to vote is the video of the attempted assassination of Trump on July 13. The ad includes someone sending the video to a friend and telling them they need to register to vote, and the friend who received the video is then told how to register, according to a breakdown from CNBC.
“The ad promotes the America PAC website, but registration results have been different depending on the state,” it said.
CNBC reported: “But for users who enter a ZIP code that indicates they live in a battleground state, like Pennsylvania or Georgia, the process is very different. Rather than be directed to their state’s voter registration page, they instead are directed to a highly detailed personal information form, prompted to enter their address, cellphone number and age. If they agree to submit all that, the system still does not steer them to a voter registration page. Instead, it shows them a ‘thank you’ page. So that person who wanted help registering to vote? In the end, they got no help at all registering. But they did hand over priceless personal data to a political operation.”
The website said that not all people who have entered their information have completed the forms.
“It was brought to our attention on August 2 that some people may have been unable to complete the registration process on this website on August 1 and 2. If you had any difficulty, please try to complete the registration process again or email info@theamericapac.org for assistance,” it said.
Musk wasted no time roasting Vice President Kamala Harris after President Joe Biden endorsed her following his decision to end his re-election campaign.
“It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” Biden wrote in a letter posted to social media and elsewhere online last week. “And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term.”
Not long afterward, he endorsed Harris. “My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President,” the president said. “And it’s been the best decision I’ve made.
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“Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this,” he added.
That led Musk to post an older video clip of Harris chairing a meeting where she introduces herself this way: “Good afternoon. I want to welcome these leaders for coming in to have this very important discussion about some of the most pressing issues of our time. I am Kamala Harris. My pronouns are ‘she’ and ‘her.’ I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.”
He wrote in the post: “Imagine 4 years of this…”
