Vice President Harris’ campaign responded to former President Trump’s interview with Elon Musk on Monday, calling them “selfish rich men” and criticizing them for issues with the livestream.
“The Trump campaign is run by self-centered rich people, like Elon Musk and Trump himself, who have betrayed the middle class and won’t be able to run a livestream in 2024,” the campaign said. said in an official statement The interview was streamed on social media platform X’s Spaces after it was aired on Monday night.
Throughout the interview, which was delayed by about 45 minutes due to technical issues, the Harris campaign recorded short audio clips and posted them on its breaking news page.
campaign strike Trump said global warming and rising sea levels “create more beachfront real estate,” and argued the issue is not as big a problem as “nuclear warming.” His campaign posted a video of Trump praising Musk, who owns X. To fire workers When they went on strike.
In this campaign, Submitted a soundbite The former president has said one of the first things he would do if elected in November would be to shut down the Department of Education, a policy outlined in the conservative Project 2025 platform.
“Donald Trump’s extremism and dangerous Project 2025 plan are a feature, not a flaw, of his campaign, and that was made perfectly clear to those unfortunate enough to tune in tonight on X.com,” the Harris campaign said in a statement.
Trump’s interview on Monday marked the Republican candidate’s most significant return to the social media platform since returning to the presidency in 2023.
Musk, who supported Trump in the 2024 presidential election, spoke with the former president for about two hours and covered a variety of topics.
While Trump largely avoided any major gaffes, the interview often echoed the comments he has made at his rallies, with the former president frequently rambling, attacking Harris and Biden as “incompetent” and repeating many of the same anecdotes he told on the campaign trail.
But he also managed to focus more on issues such as immigration, the economy, the recent assassination attempt and the future of energy production, and avoided the kind of inflammatory and controversial statements that have dogged his recent public appearances.
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment.
