Tech mogul and owner X (formerly Twitter) Elon Musk interviewed Republican Presidential candidate Donald J Trump on his social media platform on Tuesday. The interview, which was scheduled to begin at 5:30 AM IST, was delayed for more than 40 minutes due to a cyberattack.
The candid conversation between Musk and Trump was streamed live on X and the freewheeling interview between the two covered a host of topics ranging from the assassination attempt on Trump to Kamala Harris’ record on immigration.
The interview went on for two hours
Top Quotes From The Interview:
- “If I had not turned my head, I would not be talking to you right now — as
much as I like you,” Presidential candidate Trump told Musk. “There was a
lack of coordination. … Everybody understands that building should have been
covered,” said Donald Trump during the interview recalling the assassination attempt on him in Butler, Pennsylvania. - “It was a hard hit. It was very, I guess you would say, surreal, but it wasn’t
surreal. You know, I was telling somebody, you have instances like this …
where you feel it’s a surreal situation. And I never felt that way. I knew
immediately that it was a bullet,” Trump added. - “People want the American Dream back more than anything else. You don’t have that today because the people running our country just suck – they’re incompetent people,” Donald Trump has said in the interview with Elon Musk.
- “Kamala Harris is making a speech saying there will be no tax on tips. I said that months
ago. By the way, they had the opposite—they hired 88,000 IRS agents, many
assigned to go after waitresses and caddies for tips.” - “Elon we’re gonna have the largest deportation in history of this country and
we have no choice. Otherwise, we’re going to have a country what did what
they’ve done to our country. Think of it, in Venezuela and in some of these
other countries, crime is down 50, 60, 70, 80%.”
