Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign slammed former President Trump’s interview with billionaire Elon Musk, saying Trump’s campaign serves “narcissistic rich people who will sell out the middle class” class”.
On Monday night, Trump joined Musk for an interview on X Spaces, the instant audio chat feature on the X (formerly Twitter) social media platform, although the project got off to a rocky start due to technical difficulties. The interview ended up being listened to by millions of people, according to live tracking throughout the discussion.
Musk tweeted after the interview that he would also be happy to host Harris on X Spaces.
In Monday’s interview, Musk gave Trump ample time to explain his stance on a variety of issues such as immigration, the assassination attempt he survived at a campaign rally last month, inflation and eliminating the Department of Education to allow The idea that states have power over school systems.
Harris continues to snub media, Trump talks to Musk in lengthy overall interview
Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign has slammed former President Trump’s interview with billionaire Elon Musk. (Getty Images)
“I want to close the Department of Education and move education back to the states… in all 50 states [states]I bet 35 would be great. 15 of them, or, you know, 20, will be as good as Norway. You know, Norway is considered great,” Trump said, adding that deep blue states like California could be in trouble if the department was eliminated.
The Harris campaign attacked Trump’s policy proposals after the interview and slammed X Space for the technical difficulties it has experienced.
Harris campaign spokesman Joseph Costello said in a statement that “Donald Trump’s extremist and dangerous 2025 agenda is a feature of his campaign, not his campaign.” A glitch from the event, for those unfortunate enough to be listening to anything on X.com tonight, this was on full display: “Trump’s entire campaign is about people like Elon Musk and him. Serve people like yourself – these narcissistic rich people will sell out the middle class and won’t be able to live stream in 2024. “
Project 2025 is a controversial initiative organized by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, and initiated by many conservatives, including some former Trump administration officials.
X crashes after Trump-Musk interview ‘Space’ immediately crashes
On Monday night, Trump joined Musk for an interview on X Spaces, the live audio chat feature on the X (formerly Twitter) social media platform. (Getty Images)
The initiative would provide Trump with right-wing policy proposals if he wins the presidency, including replacing civil servants with Trump loyalists, abolishing the Department of Education, criminalizing pornography, eliminating DEI programs, and cutting Medicaid. and Medicare funding, rejecting abortion as health care and injecting Christian values into government.
Trump has been trying Keep a distance from the initiative, The plan was criticized as authoritarian and Christian nationalist and would harm civil liberties, saying he knew nothing about it, that parts of it were “absolutely ridiculous and terrible” and that its supporters belonged to the “radical right”.
Monday marked Trump’s return to X after not posting on the social media platform for nearly a year, releasing a series of campaign ads ahead of his interview with Musk.
Before Musk acquired X in 2022, Trump was suspended from the platform after the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021, when it was still called Twitter. But even after Musk restored his account, Trump’s only post was to share a photo of himself from August last year.
Harris’ campaign said Trump’s campaign was “serving people like Elon Musk and himself — narcissistic wealthy people who sell out the middle class.” (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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“This country is going downhill and these are the bad guys we’re going to fight. They’re liars. They make statements. They’re doing really bad things. They say they’re going to build a strong border. They say they’re doing a great job on the border. Good, but they are the worst in history. They say they will stop crime.
Trump also addressed President Joe Biden’s decision last month to suspend his re-election campaign, calling it a Democratic “coup” to force the president out of office. Biden’s decision comes amid pressure from Democrats to withdraw from the race over concerns about his mental acuity.
“This is a coup. This is a coup by the president of the United States. He doesn’t want to leave and they say, ‘We can do it the good way or we can do it the hard way,'” Trump said.
Before Trump criticized Biden as the “worst president in history,” Musk responded: “They just took him behind the shed and basically shot him.”
Fox News’ Emma Colton contributed to this report.
