Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview. It was an unmitigated disaster. | For a fascism-curious billionaire who loves cuddling up to right-wing loons, Elon Musk sure is good at making right-wing politicians look stupid.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/08/12/trump-musk-interview-x-twitter-spaces-disaster/74774628007/

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  1. Donald Duck needs some new denture paste or something. Yeesh.

  2. He sounds absolutely ridiculous tonight. Even by Trump standards.

  3. Trump really likes to praise dictators, that was evident.

  4. He’s so consistent I’m waiting for either

    A) the crazies to turn on him on suspicion of intentional sabotage

    or

    B) the tide turning against this shit hard enough the Elon tries to save face by saying it was intentional, and he was working against them from the inside or some insane bullshit.

    A is just matter of time I think.

  5. Full Text:
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    > Trump rambles, slurs his way through Elon Musk interview. It was an unmitigated disaster.
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    > For a fascism-curious billionaire who loves cuddling up to right-wing loons, Elon Musk sure is good at making right-wing politicians look stupid.
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    > Former president Donald Trump had loudly trumpeted a planned Monday night interview with Musk that would stream on X. But much like the disastrous X-platformed launch of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign, the Musk/Trump interview failed to launch, leaving social media users laughing at the collective incompetence.
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    > Since Vice President Kamala Harris rose to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket, Trump’s campaign has been flailing. His childish attacks against her aren’t working. His racist comments about her mixed-race heritage have repelled all but his most loyal supporters. His vice presidential pick, JD Vance, becomes less likable every time he speaks.
    > This illustration photo shows former US President Donald Trump mugshot on X (formerly Twitter), on August 24, 2023.
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    > So his answer, weirdly, was to sit down with Musk and talk to what would undoubtedly be a very online audience that doesn’t represent the broader electorate. Had the conversation gone off without a hitch, it still would have been odd and largely useless for Trump’s effort to halt Harris’ momentum.
    > Trump’s interview with Elon Musk was an unmitigated disaster
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    > But the online interview went off (the rails) with a multitude of hitches. X users erupted with either frustration or laughter as the planned start time passed, and nothing could be accessed. It took more than 40 minutes before the interview could start and be heard by anyone. It was amateur hour, the last thing a campaign struggling to project competence needed.
    > Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally held along his running mate Senator JD Vance, in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., August 3, 2024.
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    > Last May, when the DeSantis campaign premiered with a glitch-tastic interview with Musk on what was then called Twitter, Trump mocked the debacle, writing on social media: “Wow! The DeSanctus TWITTER launch is a DISASTER! His whole campaign will be a disaster. WATCH!”
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    > On behalf of DeSantis, allow me to say this: HAH!
    > Forget the glitches, Trump’s X interview got worse when he started talking
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    > Of course, things didn’t get better for Trump once the interview was able to proceed.
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    > Trump says AI did it:Trump blames Harris’ crowds on AI, so let’s all assume everything we don’t like is fake!
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    > He was rambling, babbling on about crowd sizes and immigration and President Joe Biden and whatever else seemed to pass through his mind. He was also badly slurring his words, raising questions about his health, and doing nothing to knock down rising concerns about his age and well-being.
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    > He sounded like a disoriented, racist Daffy Duck.
    > Elon Musk is no Barbara Walters – his interview skills stink
    > Tesla and X (formerly Twitter) CEO Elon Musk speaks with other delegates on Day 1 of the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in Bletchley, Britain on Nov. 1, 2023.
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    > Musk, meanwhile, has the interviewing skills of a stoned introvert. He did little but cheerlead Trump and agree with every bizarro thing that fell out of his mouth, while occasionally going on the kind of odd right-wing tangents you’d expect from a man too rich to ever be told to pipe down.
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    > I’m not going to quote anything Trump said in the interview because it was either too stupid to merit transcription or a mere repetition of the nonsense he spouts at every rally he holds.
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    > Harris can beat Trump:I was wrong about Kamala Harris. And that’s a huge problem for Donald Trump
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    > A big part of Trump’s problem right now is he has become almost unbearably boring. Build a wall. Drill, baby, drill. Marxist, socialist something-something. Harris only recently became Black. Blah, blah, blah.
    > Musk gave Trump the same gift he gave Ron DeSantis. Whomp-whomp.
    > U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are seen at the Firing Room Four after the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S. May 30, 2020.
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    > So for Trump, sitting down with a rich weirdo few people like and slurring his way through an interview that failed to launch was, in the words of one Donald J. Trump, “a DISASTER!”
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    > Musk, with his social-media ineptness and unmerited sense of self-importance, made DeSantis look like a fool. And now he’s done the same to Trump.
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    > Heck, if Musk keeps this up, I might start to like him.

  7. 60 seconds tops, that’s how long I can tolerate Trump’s blathering voice.

  8. imagine being told 6 weeks ago that the dems would have a ticket that the entire party and even some independents are going all-in with while trump is the boomer candidate whose constantly slipping up in a media appearance

  9. It’s just apparent how fucking boring Trump is now. It’s the same tired routine repeated ad nauseam where he whinges about the Southern Border, calls Kamala stupid, praises dictators for their strength, says Democrats will destroy the country, and says “it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before” roughly twice per minute that he’s speaking. I don’t know how this will appeal at all to undecided voters, but slurring aside, it’s more of the same shit. He has literally nothing other than what’s gotten him the most cheers at his rallies where he crowdsourced most of his policy positions.

  10. Doesn’t anyone run his campaign? Why isn’t anyone shutting it down once “dentures” and “daffy duck” start trending? Or, I dont know, stop him from doing a long radio interview if he sounds like he’s having a stroke?

  11. 2 billionaires and neither could spring for a decent mic or preamp. Hilarious.

  13. I feel sorry for the people of Venezuela if Trump decides to flee there….Yikes

  14. So much for his high IQ but man has really let his image go to absolute shit. He makes himself and others in his wing look like the idiots they are

  15. Is Elon a sleeper, a deep plant?

    Narrator: Na, he’s just a useful idiot

  16. Trump said “70% of immigrants are lazy africans”

    Nice undertones of blatant racism.

  17. That debate against Kamala is going to be freaking glorious! The Wizard Oz is fully exposed and only his kkkrazy Kkkult can’t see it. He’s toast.

  18. It’s not hard to make Trump look stupid because he is staggeringly thick.

  20. As soon as he does an interview off the major media networks, they all of a sudden don’t feel the need to translate his gibberish to English, like they shouldn’t have done all along.

  21. Well, I guess Elon had a come to orange Jesus moment.

  22. “Trump slurs throughout interview” is the kind of written statement that really could mean multiple things.

  23. Trump sounded weak and tired. I think syphilis, Sudafed and McDonalds have taken their toll and he only has a few braincells left

  24. He confused nuclear weapons and nuclear energy when he said the focus to combat climate change should be on the heat produced by the tremendous arsenals of US, Russia, and China instead of fossil fuels.

    What the actual fuck.

  25. Trump will have no trouble playing the health card when the walls close in on him.

  26. Musk is really good at making himself look stupid. Now he is making Trump look even stupider than we thought.

  28. He sounded like he had a stroke recently and hasn’t recovered use of his face.

  29. He thinks illegal immigrants have credit cards because some people get visas.

  30. Conservatives are lauding him for sounding calm and presidential. You know the thing he’s called low energy for 8 years lol

  31. I don’t think Elon needed to help the Leaning Tower of Treason to look stupid.

  32. lol r/conservative is saying how the interview was great and made trump sound smart

  33. 2 ego maniacs on a podcast turned into a mockery? who could have foreseen such a catastrophe lmao

  34. I checked it out because of morbid curiosity… Immediately hear Trump talking about outdated spaceships while sounding like he has no teeth in his mouth. I lasted about a minute into the spaceship rant and left.

  35. If ever there were a sign to the broader American public that the idea of meritocracy is fake and billionaires are insecure parasites, it’d be Elon Musk

  36. You have to be *really* stupid to look stupid next to Elon Musk.

  37. This article actually refers to Trump as “boring”. Which I think is exactly right and I think has to be said to his face.

      It’s It’s the same show over and over and over again.

  38. Whoever is running the Trump campaign needs a raise. This is the single greatest piece of satire I’ve ever witnessed

  39. Wow that lead coming for a publication such as USA Today is quite shocking. Major publications have been so soft on Trump, essentially handling him with kid gloves and giving him a free pass.

  40. I thought, how bad could it be…..omg it’s SOOO bad like hard to even listen to!! The 2nd hand embarrassment is just too much.

    Is there NOBODY on the Trump team supporting this man??? It’s as if they have completely tossed him aside.

    BIZARRE

  42. Old man Trump just wanted a nap and his weirdo fan Musk wouldn’t let him. Trump later decided the interview had the largest crowds ever.

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