Donald Trump: Five of the most bizarre moments from GOP presidential candidate's two-hour long chat with Elon Musk Trump said Biden had a low IQ and that Harris looked like his wife Melania By Sabrina Penty Published: 12:07 BST, 13 August 2024 | Updated: 12:15 BST, 13 August 2024 e-mail 13 View comments Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sat down yesterday for an extraordinary two-hour chat with billionaire and Tesla founder Elon Musk on X. The interview wasn't off to a great start, as a cyber-attack just before the pair were going to go live resulted in a 43-minute delay. But 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, while Musk urged Americans to vote for the Republican presidential nominee over Kamala Harris .
Trump also expressed admiration for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin 's negotiation skills and said US president Joe Biden had a low IQ. Here are some of the most bizarre moments from last night's interview. Trump said Kamala Harris looked like his wife Melania Trump discussed vice president Kamala Harris several times throughout the interview, but there was a particular awkward moment that might put the politician in the doghouse at home where he told Musk that his presidential rival bore a resemblance to his wife.
Discussing Kamala's Time cover he said: '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'. 'But, of course, she's a beautiful woman, so we'll leave it at that, right', he added.
Donald Trump remarked on Kamala Harris ' Time Magazine cover, saying he thought the vice president resembled his wife and former First Lady Melania during his interview with Elon Musk Former first lady and wife of Donald Trump, Melania. The ex US president told Musk last night that Kamala Harris bore a resemblance to Melania Social media users poked fun at Trump's unexpected comment about Harris, with one X account saying: 'Do I hear wedding bells?' 'He caught himself complimenting how Kamala looked and then realized he can save it by comparing her to how great his wife looks.' Others weren't as amused, with people condemning Trump's comment as inappropriate.
'This was the weirdest part of the entire conversation. He's so gross', one X user said, while another wrote: 'This is what he saw: a smart and strong woman. He is intimidated, and all he can see is his own sexual desire when he looks at women.
He's a pig.' Trump appeared to lisp Perplexed listeners noticed that at several points during Monday night's interview, Trump appeared to have a lisp or even slurred his words at points, struggling with words containing 's' sounds. While it was not clear if the former US president was actually lisping or whether were were ongoing audio issues, memes of Trump as Mike Tyson and Donald Duck immediately began trending online.
One X user said on the social platform: 'Are his dentures not fitted properly or what?'. 'Must be your s***ty hearing. Get your ears checked out,' Trump's spokesperson responded to reporters amid a debate over whether it was dentures or audio problems.
Listeners noticed that Trump had a lisp during his interview with Elon Musk last night, resulting in Donald Duck and Mike Tyson memes. Internet explodes with Mike Tyson memes following Trump's interview last night 40-minute delay amid 'massive' cyber-attack Read More Trump tells Elon Musk that Kamala Harris looks like his wife Melania in rambling X interview Trump and Musk's conversation was beset with problems including a major delay because of a 'massive' cyber attack. The interview started 43 minutes late after the social media site's servers were hammered with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
This meant that those who logged onto X to listen encountered a blank page, which Musk quickly confirmed as a cyber attack. Once the issue was fixed, the pair rambled on for about two hours as 1.3 million listeners tuned in.
This is far fewer than the '60 million or something' Trump at one point said had tuned in. Trump and Musk LIVE: X interview was off to a shaky start as audio stream failed to load Trump said Jo Biden's IQ is so low he might not have one at all In what might have been one of the interview's funniest moment, Trump took a jibe at President Joe Biden after he proclaimed that his IQ is so low, 'he might not even have an IQ at all'. 'There's nothing on the board that goes this low', he added.
This was in reference to the Russia-Ukraine war, saying that Biden had let the conflict spiral into a 'bloody war'. 'I'm not going to blame exclusively, but I can tell you I could have stopped that, and a smart president could have stopped that', he said. U.
S. President Joe Biden, granddaughter Naomi and first lady Jill Biden sit under umbrellas at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, U.S.
, August 10, 2024. Last night, Trump attacked Biden, saying he had a low IQ. Trump said Vladimir Putin Xi Jingping and Kim Jong Un were top of their game Trump also said that the leaders of Russia, China and North Korea were 'at the top of their game'.
'I know Putin. I know President Xi. I know Kim Jong Un,' the ex-president said.
'They're tough; they're smart; they're vicious — and they're going to protect their country.' He also said that 'when they see a Kamala, or when they see a Biden, sleepy Joe, they can't even believe it'. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who Trump praised during his interview, alongside China and North Korea's leaders Share or comment on this article: Donald Trump: Five of the most bizarre moments from GOP presidential candidate's two-hour long chat with Elon Musk e-mail Add comment.
