On Monday night, billionaire tech mogul and X owner Elon Musk held a historic virtual Interview His team was involved in a dispute over the social media platform with former President Donald Trump. dubbing “The interview of the century!” Despite being plagued by technical issues, including a delayed start due to a denial-of-service attack and poor audio quality from Trump’s side, the two-hour interview attracted 1 billion views and was a victory for free speech and alternative media.
“Musk’s commercial statesmanship of buying up media equipment enables him at a time when free political speech is being stifled. His conversation with Trump tonight proves this point. This is a commercial cultural movement in the midst of a cold war. And this is a path to victory,” said Matthew Peterson, editor-in-chief of Blaze Media. Posts About X.
Musk explained why the Biden-Harris administration has been so bad for Americans’ wallets, and called on the incoming administration to make spending cuts to curb inflation.
Here are the seven most important topics Elon Musk discussed with President Donald Trump:
1. Assassination Attempt
Musk and Trump quickly discussed the assassination attempt, with Trump recalling the moment a bullet grazed his ear and telling Musk that the escape was an “act of God.”
“For those of you who don’t believe in God, I think we all need to start thinking about that. I’m a believer, as you all probably are. I’m more of a believer now,” Trump said.
While Trump said he was grateful to have survived the assassination attempt, Musk criticised Secret Service blunders, saying: “How in the world did a shooter get on to a roof 130 yards away? That’s crazy. I think most people are wondering how that even happened.”
Trump then re-explained the whole situation, said the shot was “not a big miss” and that it was a miracle he turned towards the image of illegal immigrants at the right time, before joking that “illegal immigrants saved my life.”
2. Open borders
On illegal immigration, Trump’s top policy issue, he and Musk slammed Border Commissioner Kamala Harris.
Harris’ camp Recent Ads Trump portrayed Biden as tough on immigrants, falsely asserted that she was never a border agent in the first place, and claimed the Biden-Harris administration would be a disaster for the border.
“[Kamala] You can also close it now. [The Biden administration] “We could do it right now. It would be horrible,” Trump said.
Trump also criticized the administration for allowing “people who are incarcerated for murder and a variety of other crimes” into the country.
“She was totally in charge. She could have closed the border. [Biden]”… She was in charge of the border, and the border is the worst it’s ever been,” Trump added.
Musk responded: “If we keep the borders open for another four years, it’s going to get even worse. If we go on for another four years, it’s going to be even worse than the last three and a half years. I don’t know if we’ll have a country.”
3. Interventionism gone wild
Not only is America more dangerous under the Biden administration, but the world as well. The Biden-Harris foreign policy has sparked violence around the world that Trump claims would never have happened if he was still commander in chief.
Trump blames Biden’s deranged foreign policy for rising tensions around the world, from the Middle East to East Asia to Russia.
“Everything you see right now, all the horror … look at Israel, they’re all waiting for an attack from Iran,” Trump said, also claiming that if he were still president “Israel would never have been attacked.” [by Hamas]”In the first place, Iran knows not to mess around, so it won’t attack, and President Putin [invaded Ukraine] If only he was in charge.
Trump then told Musk about a conversation he had with Vladimir Putin when he was president, in which Trump reportedly told Putin, “Stop it. You can’t do this, Vladimir.” [If] “If I do that, I’ll have a bad day. I can’t do that.”
Most importantly, Trump has urged a return to a foreign policy that seeks to de-escalate foreign conflicts, criticizing Biden for his incompetence in negotiating with Russia and warning that it “could lead to World War III.”
“I think you’re right. I think people are underestimating the risk of World War III. And if you think about the risk of global thermonuclear war, humanity is finished,” Musk replied.
4. Cost of Living
Perhaps the most important policy issue in this election cycle, along with the border issue, is inflation and the economy. For the past four years, Americans have lived in a highly inflationary environment due to the left’s radical economic planning.
“Inflation is a disaster. With inflation, it doesn’t matter how much money you make. Inflation eats you up,” Trump said.
Musk explained why a Biden-Harris administration would be so bad for Americans’ wallets, calling on the incoming administration to cut spending to keep inflation in check.
“Inflation comes from excessive government spending, because checks written by the government never bounce,” Musk explained. “So when government spending far exceeds revenue, the money supply increases. And when the money supply increases faster than the rate of goods and services, that’s inflation.”
Musk then offered to personally help solve the inflation and spending problems, saying he would be “happy to work with” a “Government Efficiency Commission that would look at these issues and make sure taxpayers’ hard-earned money is being spent appropriately.”
5. Education Reform
One of the biggest causes of the government deficit is the billions of dollars the federal government spends on federal agencies, and the Department of Education, which has come under heavy criticism from conservatives for the past half century for being inefficient and taking power away from states and parents, would be Trump’s first target for cuts.
“I need someone with strength, courage and intelligence. I want to close the Department of Education and give education back to the states,” Trump told Musk.
If Trump carries out his plan, it would give state lawmakers more power over education policy and could lead to more school choice laws at the state level — a major win for families who want to choose where their children go to school.
6. Energy, AI, and Technology
Americans can’t afford their electricity either, which is why President Trump has vowed to “lower energy prices” during his next term.
“It’s not just gasoline. It’s the cost of heating and cooling your home. That’s got to come down. They’re up 100 percent, 150 percent, 200 percent. That’s got to come down. And when it comes down, we’ll drill, baby, we’ll drill,” Trump promised.
Additionally, Trump understands that efficient energy access is necessary to support AI innovation, whose development is causing a sharp increase in energy consumption, calling for immediate action from lawmakers and industry leaders. Warned AI’s energy demands are “leading the world towards an energy crisis.”
“I know you’re a big fan of AI, which, mind-blowing to me, is going to require twice as much energy as the country already produces for everything,” Trump told Musk.
“So, in order for us to compete with China, because China is our main competitor in AI, we have to build a ton of energy. We’re going to need a ton of electricity — believe it or not, we’re going to need a ton of electricity, almost double what we currently produce in the entire country,” he added.
7. Left edge
At the end of the interview, Trump asked Musk why he was voting for him — essentially, the former “moderate Democrat” believes the Democratic Party has moved too far to the left.
“They’re rewriting history to make it seem like Kamala is a moderate, when in fact she’s far left, really far left,” Musk complained.
“Worse than Bernie Sanders. … She’s a far-left lunatic,” Trump responded.
Finally, Musk urged his fellow moderates to vote for Trump: “What I would say is that my record so far has been moderate, well, maybe not moderate, but a little to the left. So what I would say to all the moderates out there is, you should support Donald Trump for president. I actually think this is a very important juncture in the journey. If we go the other way, we’re going to be in serious trouble,” Musk said.
