Former President Donald Trump's rambling interview with Elon Musk touched on climate change, border security, foreign dictators and inflation. But it was his apparent appreciation of "beautiful" Kamala Harris — and his comparison to his wife, Melania Trump — that left the internet with raised eyebrows. During Trump's interview on X with tech billionaire Musk , the MAGA leader said his Democratic rival has received a "free ride" from the media so far.
"But I saw a picture of her on Time magazine today, she looks like the most beautiful actress ever to live," Trump said. "It was a drawing. And actually she looked very much like a great first lady: Melania.
She didn't look like Camilla. That's right. But of course she's a beautiful woman.
So we'll leave it at that." The comment left the internet collectively cringed at the comment, including journalist Aaron Rupar, who called the recording " weird stuff !" "I KNEW IT. His brain is short-circuiting because she is attractive AND formidable.
lol he is toast," chided former FBI special agent and legal contributer Asha Rangappa. ALSO READ: Trump’s smear job climaxed prematurely — and now he’s stuck She added that Trump "recognizes and is slightly scared of — and in a weird way, craves the approval of — strong, intelligent women," such as his former Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi . "Some Mommy issues going on there," she added, noting that Trump equates attractive women with "' dumb' or weak ," so he can "sexualize and exploit and dismiss.
" "This is the point of the call where I say, 'Well, it's been great catching up grandpa , but I've got to go,' quipped Kelsie Taggart, digital media director at the left-leaning American Bridge PAC. "Donald Trump mentions this Time magazine cover, says Kamala Harris looks like an actress in the illustration and then says she looks like ..
. his wife, Melania Trump . ???" questioned Christopher Cadelago, Politico's California bureau chief, wrote on X, attaching a photo of the image.
" What?? " questioned the Never-Trump account Republicans against Trump. "Trump basically just said the drawing of Kamala on time magazine was hot and compared it to his wife Melania lol," laughed Jessica Burbank, of the More Perfect Union podcast. A 72-year-old Colorado woman who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 , will avoid jail time after a judge sentenced her to a year of probation and a $103,000 fine Monday, the Colorado Sun reports.
Rebecca Lavrenz, who took on the moniker “ J6 Praying Grandma,” was convicted on four misdemeanor counts for entering the Capitol and disorderly conduct for participating in the insurrection, according to the Sun. Prosecutors initially pushed for Lavrenz to serve up to 10 months in prison for continuing to defend the insurrection, writing in a recent filing that “her unrepentant promotion of the riot is powerful evidence that she continues to pose a threat to future acts of political violence.” The Colorado Sun noted that Lavrenz has raised more than $230,000 via online fundraisers by promoting her participation in the riot.
ALSO READ: Trump’s smear job climaxed prematurely — and now he’s stuck Lavrenz responded to the sentencing in a post on Facebook. “I am confident that his sentence will be what God, the Highest Judge, thinks is best to wake up our country,” Lavrenz said in the post. “Trusting and obeying God is my assignment for today.
” Elon Musk blamed the launch failure of his scheduled X Spaces livestream interview with Donald Trump on a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDOS), but some members of his staff called the explanation baloney, according to The Verge. An unnamed staff member from the company told The Verge that there was a “'99 percent’ chance Elon was lying about an attack.” Another source told The Verge that the technical malfunction was not due to a DDOS attack.
Platform users noted that the rest of the social media service appeared to function while the livestream crashed. ALSO READ: Harris has figured out Trump’s greatest liability When the interview was scheduled to start at 8 p.m.
users on X found they couldn't enter the livestream. The talk started more than 40 minutes late and was streamed to a smaller group. In a post, Musk claimed to have tested the X Spaces stream with “8 million concurrent listeners” earlier Monday prior to the crash.
The malfunction drew comparisons to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ X announcement of his presidential bid, which also crashed due to server overload, the Verge reports. After being plagued by technical problems for nearly half an hour, the livestream interview between former President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk went live, covering topics including the assassination attempt on the former president, immigration, inflation and the Russian war against Ukraine .
Many commenters on social media, including Musk's own X website, panned the spectacle, with many noting Musk had next to nothing to contribute to the conversation, simply agreeing with everything the slurring and rambling Trump said. "This could've been an email," wrote the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project. "He's just repeating his rally speech punctuated by Musk saying 'yeah, yeah,'" wrote former Naval War College professor Tom Nichols.
ALSO READ: Harris has figured out Trump’s greatest liability "So far, the best part of this rambling Trump-Musk conversation has been the music they played before it started," wrote research and journalist Simon Hedlin. "Trump just told Musk - again - that people are coming into our country from 'mental institutions,'" wrote former MSNBC contributor Mehdi Hasan. "He definitely, and hilariously/ignorantly, has confused political asylum with mental asylum.
" "We are seeing elon musk lose respect for trump in real time lmao," wrote the account "Business Goose." "Elon Musk is so good at saying 'yeah' to the President," wrote the account @BltzkrgErlich. "Most liked tweet on Elon Musk and Donald Trump chat: Nick Fuentes.
A self proclaimed neo Nazi that had dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Donald Trump. Sums it up perfectly," wrote the account @_michelangelo__..
