I listened to about 75% of the two-hour(!) conversation between Elon Musk and Donald Trump on X last night. (The whole thing started 45 minutes late due to technical issues.)
It was not actually super newsy! Trump did announce he is planning to go back to Butler, Pennsylvania — the site of the assassination attempt — in October. But, other than that it was sort of, well, boring.
Here are my 5 takeaways from the interview.
Same old stuff: For anyone who has listened to or watched a Trump speech, what he said last night will be very familiar. He’s like an aging rock band playing their greatest hits.
Assassination talk: Remember at the Republican National Convention when Trump said he would tell the story of the attempted assassination only once because it was too “painful” for him to recount? Well, he spent 30 minutes going through it with Musk, repeatedly returning to what happened even as the tech mogul was trying to steer the conversation in other directions.
Biden, Biden, Biden: Trump isn’t running against the president anymore — and he seems to miss it. He repeatedly attacked Joe Biden and bragged about how he had beaten him in a debate. I mean, ok?
The lisp: Something was clearly going on with Trump’s voice. I heard everything from his dentures were out (does he have dentures?) to he had had a dental procedure to a bad mic. But something was off for sure.
Two ships passing in the night: The conversation between Musk and Trump wasn’t really a conversation at all. Musk would make some point — like how important it is for a president to be tough and intimidating — and then Trump would go on a 5-minute riff from his campaign stump speech. They mostly just talked past each other.
MUCH more in today’s Morning video!
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