Trump returns to X with two-hour Elon Musk chat hit by technical glitch
Al Jazeera
Trump had not posted on the platform since 2023, when he shared a mugshot taken after his surrender to a Georgia jail.
United States Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump has returned to the social media platform X as he attempts to recover from a rocky couple of weeks on the campaign trail.
On Monday, he marked the occasion by sitting down for a chat on Spaces with platform owner Elon Musk, who has publicly endorsed Trump’s campaign for re-election.
The discussion eventually got under way about 40 minutes late after what Musk claimed was a “massive” cyberattack on the platform, previously known as Twitter. He said the audience would be limited and a recording would be shared afterwards.
Over nearly two hours, the two men largely talked about Trump’s Democratic rival Kamala Harris, the European Union, China, climate change and censorship. The Republican took the chance to talk at length on some of his pet topics and repeat claims he is the victim of a political vendetta, while Musk repeated his support on multiple occasions.
After Trump claimed Harris was a “radical left lunatic” and “worse than Bernie Sanders”, Musk responded: “It’s essential that you win the election for the sake of the country.” About 1.2 million people were listening in.
