Elon Musk isn’t a journalist. Trump isn’t good at answering hard questions and is highly erratic at best. The interview tonight sounds like a very soft time for Trump , as usual.
Exactly who wants to listen to billionaires agreeing with each other is debatable. This audience must be a very elusive demographic. It’s hard to envisage anything less relevant to anyone right now.
As America drowns in cost-of-living problems and social disasters, what will be the issues for discussion? Taxes? Immigrants? Those endless lefties nobody with an actual education ever notices? This is very likely to be a talkfest banging away on the same abstract terrors only rednecks and sycophants seem to be worried about. Ha, ha, maybe. When is an interview not an interview? When nothing new or meaningful is said.
At that point, it becomes a commercial. Trump’s main forte is bluster . He’s noisy.
Musk’s forte is being Musk. Both have a healthy population of detractors they ignore. They’re polar opposites otherwise.
Musk is a competent business guy overall. Maybe not likeable but he has a track record of success. Trump doesn’t.
Musk is hyper-solvent. Trump isn’t. In billionaire ranking terms, there’s no comparison.
The big tree is interviewing the lawn clippings. Meaning Musk is doing Trump a very big favor. Musk knows perfectly well that he’s created the classic American drawcard, two celebrities talking to each other.
He doesn’t have to do Trump any favors. He’s already help.