The European Union issued a stark warning to X owner and executive chairman before his live-streamed X interview with former U.S. president – and received an expletive-filled response.
On Monday night, Trump and Musk had a conversation marred by technical issues that caused a 40-minute-plus delay and widely described as rambling. It featured some of the Republican presidential hopeful’s key talking points, including and his anti-immigration views. Among other things, he told Musk that there were many “rough people” attempting to enter the U.
S. at the border with Mexico. In between a series of attacks on Democratic candidate , Trump called her “beautiful” on the cover of magazine and likened her to his wife Melania.
“She looks like the most beautiful actress ever to live. It was a drawing, and actually, she looked very much like a great First Lady, Melania.” Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as being at the “top of their game.
” He also told Musk, who could be heard laughing through many sections of the interview, that if he loses the election, “you’re not going to have a country anymore.” The post sharing the interview on Trump’s account had more than 130 million views as of 5:30 a.m.
ET on Tuesday. The EU’s commissioner for internal market, Frenchman Thierry Breton, had posted an open letter to the X founder and tech mogul on Monday asking that he censor his interview.