Trump tells Elon Musk that Kamala Harris looks like his wife Melania while 'slurring' and talking with a 'lisp' in rambling X interview beset by technical problems By Martin Robinson, Chief Reporter Published: 07:31 BST, 13 August 2024 | Updated: 07:44 BST, 13 August 2024 e-mail View comments Donald Trump has been endorsed by Elon Musk in an extraordinary online interview together that was beset with problems from the start including a major delay because of a 'massive' cyber attack. The former US president returned to Twitter/X with an interview with the Tesla billionaire that started 43 minutes late after the social media site's servers were hammered with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Once up and running Trump spoke about becoming more religious after the attempt on his life in Pennsylvania on July 13, a shooting that Musk said showed Trump's courage.

The 45th President of the United States also vowed to build an 'Iron Dome' defence system for America like the one used by Israel to intercept missiles and promised that he would oversee the largest deportation of illegal immigrants in history if he became president in November. Mr Musk then urged Americans to vote for the Republican presidential nominee over Kamala Harris, saying that the US is at a 'crossroads' and that choosing Trump would be a vote for hope and prosperity. But the meeting of arguably the two most influential men on the planet was also dominated by listeners noticing that Trump appeared to .