Donald Trump believes he saved his campaign while Elon Musk released false numbers, but the former president is troubled by the media’s reluctance to promote lies.
Trump posted on “Truth Social”, “This is a historical record, but the media refuses to report it because it is fake news!”
Elon Musk claims Trump interviews racked up 1 billion listens, but since he took over the platform, Musk has been defining listens with his own interesting math. When Musk started revolutionizing Twitter, one of the first things he did was abandon the standard, above-board method of counting views and listens.
One of the reasons advertisers are fleeing X is that there has long been speculation that Musk has been counting impressions as views, so if someone scrolls past a piece of media, it’s counted as a listen or a view. Musk has also adopted a method of automatically playing media for all users to increase the number of views and listens, and some people have suggested that he counts one second of listening as one listen.
Musk’s viewing and listening statistics are complete bullshit, which is why the media ignores them.
The interview itself was a complete failure for Trump. X crashes again, unable to access interviews, And then when the interview started, what Trump did for two hours was a gift to Democrats.one Trump is incoherent, chattering endlessly and unable to get to the point.And at one point he suggested he would flee the country if he lost the election.
No one will believe Trump And Musk made up the numbers.
It’s clear that Donald Trump doesn’t want people to focus on what he says, but on the imaginary number of people Musk claims to be listening to.
The interview was about Trump trying to change the perception that his campaign was weak and failing, but by that standard, it failed.
Trump now looks like a weaker candidate, completely unfit to be president.
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