A apparent cyber attack (DDOS) delayed the start time, but when the tech side was worked out, there was a very long and interesting conversation.
There is real potential here that could have the same cultural impact in the 2024 context that Fallon messing up Trump’s hair did eight years ago. It was an unhurried and broad-ranging conversation — in the style of Joe Rogan or Jordan Peterson — rather than an adversarial interview like, say, 60 Minutes when they’re hosting a Republican. (Dems obviously play by different rules with legacy media.)
They got the tech issues worked out some time after 9pm Eastern and talked until what must have been almost 11. They covered all sorts of topics, including Elon’s own nuanced understanding of energy and climate issues, concerns about the debt, and an interesting suggestion of a government department whose role would be to detect and challenge government waste.
(Not conviced mission drift would keep it from becoming just like every other department, but it’s outside the box thinking.)
The interview link can be found here.
This was posted not long after the interview ended:
Elon followed up with this update:
That’s something called ‘earned media’, and it’s exactly what Trump needed to counteract the coronation the lapdog media are trying to arrange for his opponent.
Yes, Elon gave a Trump endorsement in the interview. He thinks the left has gone too far in a lot of issues and it’s time to pull back the other way.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024
But he’s perfectly willing to have a conversation with Kamala, too.
It would give her massive reach. There’s just one problem.
In a conversation like that one, for an hour or two, there’s no way to hide behind boilerplate political talking points. If you have all the personality of a ficus, it will be obvious to everyone.
Trump came away sounding like someone familiar with a wide variety of topics — a little grandiose in his mannerisms, but that’s already built into audience expectations.
Kamala can’t even face the media that’s been desperately blowing sunshine up her butt for the last month in a furious attempt to rehabilitate her from the Veep with the worst polling numbers in recent history to the second coming of George Washington.
Do you REALLY think she can stand the scrutiny of a long-form conversation with the likes of Elon Musk?
Not a chance.
If she can’t even do that, how can she possibly expect to stare down America’s international adversaries?
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