Monday, August 12, 2024

Trump Returns To X For Elon Musk's Softballs!

Sexual predator Elon Musk will do a town hall with sexual predator Donald J. Trump.

The former president was allowed back on X (formerly Twitter) after its controversial owner Elon Musk deactivated the permanent block on him and numerous agitators who violated the platform.

Musk is taking X to Texas or Florida by 2025. He will move the iconic social media company out of San Francisco after the state demanded he release his books and are investigating the allegations of unfair labor laws and sexual abuse.

Now as he is regrouping, Trump is heading back to X to instigate, misinform and gripe.

Smells of desperation. Calling his opponent a radical is nothing new. You wanna know what is radical? A political party backing a man convicted of 34 felonies. A man who instigated a seditious rebellion against the peaceful transfer of power. A man who lies about 10 seconds whenever he speaks. A man who doesn't have his former vice president backing his bid. A man who is a sexual predator.

But let's call our opponent a radical. Good job Republicans.

Trump could also be in violation of Truth Social, the platform he partly owns but also uses more. He is supposed to devote more time in promoting that platform. He is going to piss off the investors and co founders.

Musk is a sexual predator as well better be cautious. The feds are looking into those claims of abuse by former workers and women who were paid off to not speak about his conduct and his affection for underage minors.

The conversation serves not only as a way for the former president to reach potentially millions of voters directly. It’s also an opportunity for X, a platform that relies heavily on politics, to redeem itself after some struggles.

X has already been the scene of some of the 2024 cycle’s most memorable moments. As he skipped the first GOP presidential debate in August, Trump launched counterprogramming of his own, appearing in a taped interview with former Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, which aired on X. Last month, President Joe Biden broke the news of his departure from the campaign in a letter posted to the platform.

Also notably, in May 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used the platform as a way to officially announce his presidential bid, a disastrous rollout marred by technical glitches, overloaded by the more than 400,000 people who tried to dial in.

Ahead of his conversation with Trump, Musk posted on the platform that X was conducting “some system scaling tests” to handle what’s anticipated to be a high volume of participants.

Musk, who has described himself as a Democrat until a few years ago, endorsed Trump’s candidacy two days after the former president was wounded during an attempted assassination at a Pennsylvania rally last month.

Long before he endorsed Trump, Musk turned increasingly toward the right in his posts and actions on the platform, also using X to try to sway political discourse around the world. He’s gotten in a dustup with a Brazilian judge over censorship, railed against what he calls the “woke mind virus” and amplified false claims that Democrats are secretly flying in migrants to vote in U.S. elections.

Musk has also reinstated previously banned accounts such as the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Trump, who was kicked off the platform — then known as Twitter — two days after the Jan. 6 violence, with the company citing “the risk of further incitement of violence.” By November 2022, Musk had bought the company, and Trump’s account was reinstated, although the former president refrained from tweeting until Monday, insisting that he was happier on his own Truth Social site, which he launched during the ban.

Hours ahead of his interview with Musk, Trump posted a two-and-a-half minute video to his X account, featuring video from his time in office, as well as audio of him saying one of his standard campaign lines referencing the legal cases that have mounted against him: “They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you, and I just happen to be standing in their way, and I will never be moving.”

But Trump’s audience on X is legions larger than on Truth Social, which became a publicly traded company earlier this year. Trump has just over 7.5 million followers on Truth Social, while his mostly dormant X account is followed by 88 million. Musk’s account, which will host the interview, has more than 193 million followers.

Trump’s campaign didn’t immediately respond to a message as to whether he would cross-post his interview with Musk via his own accounts, including on X.

The former president has most recently posted on X only once, with a photo of his mug shot after he surrendered at an Atlanta jail a year ago on charges he conspired to overturn his election loss in the state.

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