“Do I get paid for this?”

“You have to get along with people like Putin.” This is one of Trump’s phrases in the interview with Elon Musk, more of a conversation between friends, “fighters in a common political project,” as they have defined themselves. The interview with Donald Trump on Monday, early Tuesday morning for Spain, showed several technical errors, arrived more than 40 minutes late and generated a real frenzy of memes. The conversation between the Republican presidential candidate and the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX gathered 1.3 million followers on X alone. The goal, according to experts, is to reconnect with the youngest voters.

In case anyone had any doubts, Musk reiterated his support for Trump in the upcoming election, despite historically identifying himself as a “moderate Democrat.” Trump criticized accused the European Union of interfering in the presidential elections of USA. Let us remember that Brussels has warned Elon Musk on the spread of hate messages on its platform. “The European Union should mind its own business instead of trying to interfere in the US presidential election,” he said on that network. Steven CheungTrump campaign spokesman. Cheung calls the EU “enemy of freedom of expression” and claims that it “has no authority of any kind to dictate how we campaign.” These accusations come amid tensions between technology platforms and European regulators following the entry into force of the new EU Digital Services Act.

It’s not just the Trump and Elon space that’s down

They crashed the whole Spaces network on X ? pic.twitter.com/WbcNhGuM3m

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Cheung also blamed the president Joe Biden already the vice president (and Trump’s rival) Kamala Harris of allowing “foreign intervention” in the US elections. He says that if Trump wins he will not allow the United States to be “cheated”, and says he will renegotiate trade agreements and establish tariffs to protect the United States.

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Thierry BretonEuropean Commissioner for the Internal Market, sent a letter to Elon Musk a few days ago warning him that the EU is monitoring the X platform to detect possible violations of the Digital Services Act and expressing concern about the spread of content that incites hatred or violenceespecially at highly political events such as the interview between Musk and Trump. Breton reminds Musk in the letter that European law is clear regarding the responsibilities of digital platforms to moderate content and prevent the dissemination of harmful messages. The warning warns that they can impose million-dollar fines.

“Attempts at censorship”

Donald Trump criticised the European Union during the interview broadcast live on X: “They take a lot of commercial advantage of the United States. We protect them, and yet, if you make a car in the United States, you can’t sell it there,” he said. The Republican candidate compared the EU to China: “It’s not as tough but it’s bad in its trade practices,” he said. Musk said that “There are many attempts at censorshipincluding on Americans, by other countries.”

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The conversation between Musk and Trump mostly addressed topics that favor Trump, such as the illegal immigration“one of the biggest threats to the country,” according to the former president. Trump again recalled the assassination attempt on him, which failed thanks to a turn of the head, which he made just at the right moment, to show the crowd a graph on the decline in illegal immigration during his term. The interview began 45 minutes late due to what Musk described as a denial of service attack (DDOS) against the X platform. It was followed by 1.3 million peopleprompting Trump to declare: “Congratulations. I’m getting paid for this?” he joked. Musk had claimed that Twitter can support up to eight million simultaneous listeners.

Kamala Harris’ response: “Typical rich people obsessed with themselves”

Musk said that the current situation in the US demands a change and that Trump is the “path to prosperity for the United States“. He asked for the vote for Trump in November and the former president thanked the support of someone he had always considered to be on the left. The interview strengthens Trump’s campaign, which needs to recover the ground lost to Kamala Harris, ahead in voting intentions according to the polls. The average prepared by FiveThirtyEight says that Vice President Harris leads Trump by 2.8 percentage points, with 46.1% support. “If you vote for her you should have your head checked,” said Trump, who again accused the Democrats of being the “worst in history” on issues such as the border management.

Kamala Harris responded almost in real time to the accusations and disqualifications of both Trump and the Tesla dream: “Trump’s entire campaign is in the service of people like Elon Musk and himself: self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out to the middle class and can’t even do a live broadcast in 2024,” said both the vice president and her running mate, the governor. Tim Walz.