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Elon Musk’s X to stage town hall with Donald Trump
NY Post ^
| May 31, 2024
| Ariel Zilber
Posted on 06/01/2024 11:31:45 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
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- Elon Musk's social media platform X (formerly Twitter) will host town hall events with former President Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who are both running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
- Trump, who was convicted on charges related to the Stormy Daniels NDA case, will answer questions submitted by X users during a livestreamed town hall that will also be broadcast on NewsNation cable channel.
- President Joe Biden was invited by X to participate in a town hall or debate but declined the offer.
- The town halls are the idea of X CEO Linda Yaccarino, who pitched it to NewsNation's parent company Nexstar Media Group. Moderators have not been announced yet.
- The events come amid reports that Musk and Trump have grown closer recently, meeting to discuss issues like cryptocurrency policy and a potential speaking role for Musk at the Republican convention.
- Musk has been vocal in criticizing Biden's policies and attended a dinner with tech leaders aiming to prevent Biden's re-election.
- Trump's active use of Twitter helped fuel his 2016 presidential campaign success before he was banned after the Jan 6 Capitol riots. He has barely used X/Twitter since Musk reinstated his account.
To: UnwashedPeasant
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posted on
06/01/2024 11:34:16 AM PDT
by
nikos1121
To: UnwashedPeasant
Elon is standing up to the tyranny. I hope he has a great security detail. The democRATs are ruthless, just ask JFK.
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posted on
06/01/2024 11:34:39 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: nikos1121
Are you sure you will have time after solving the daily cryptogram?
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posted on
06/01/2024 11:39:21 AM PDT
by
Fungi
To: UnwashedPeasant
When? Will it be any more successful than Musk's X kick-off for DeSantis?
Maybe Musk will skip the hosts and be the moderator, taking the audience questions, picking from them, to carryon a town hall with Trump? That'd be better than some media hosts.
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posted on
06/01/2024 11:40:40 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
To: UnwashedPeasant
And, yes, hopefully this will signal Trump’s return to X.
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posted on
06/01/2024 11:41:52 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
To: UnwashedPeasant
Hopefully it won’t crash like it did last time Musk hosted a Twitter space with Ron DeSantis.
Trump should be careful of this though because Musk is mostly out for himself. His purchase of Twitter harmed DJT because he’s been trying to compete with Truth Social for conservative viewers.
Elon also is in bed with the Chicoms so this is another reason for Trump to be wary. But maybe Twitter won’t be able to influence the content.
To: GulliverSwift
Musk buying X had no impact and did not cause the spectacular and continued failure of Truth Social. That is on the inexperienced management (Nunes) and bad tech team. They built a failure and hurt Trump. It collapsed on debut, took MONTHS to add people, and most recently when they tried to host a play-by-play commentary by Trump of Biden's State of the Union, it again proved a complete failure.
I understand Trump has to stand by it, it is his company, but for the sake of his campaign, he needs to get back on X.
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posted on
06/01/2024 11:48:52 AM PDT
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Reno89519
(Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
To: GulliverSwift
“Trump should be careful of this though because Musk is mostly out for himself. His purchase of Twitter harmed DJT because he’s been trying to compete with Truth Social for conservative viewers.”
If Musk was only out for himself he would never have bought Twitter.
You are totally wrong about him.
To: Reno89519
” he needs to get back on X.”
I agree but he has contract to post on his site first.
To: Reno89519
“When? Will it be any more successful than Musk's X kick-off for DeSantis?”
The article does not say “when”.
I'm guessing the event will be more successful for President Trump than it was for Governor DeSantis. For one thing almost all rank and file DeSantis voters can be expected to enthusiastically support President Trump but the reverse did not happen earlier.
To: TexasGator
His site, his rules. Sure, what's the big deal if he posts his comment on Truth Social for its few members to read and then posts the same on X for millions to read?
As of April 2024, 106.23 million US users on X.
As of February 2024, about 1 million US users on Truth Social.
THAT IS A BIG DIFFERENCE.
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posted on
06/01/2024 11:56:21 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
To: jeffersondem
By your logic, the smaller DeSantis crowd crashed X so why would Trump risk his bigger crowd on X when even his own Truth Social couldn’t successfully host a live event? Yes, it is a risk either way, hopefully Musk has learned and X is up for the challenge.
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posted on
06/01/2024 12:01:39 PM PDT
by
Reno89519
(Build the Wall, Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone.)
To: GulliverSwift
Hopefully it won’t crash like it did last time Musk hosted a Twitter space with Ron DeSantis.I remember that. Then Musk shouldn't try to interview Trump while it's live.
To: nikos1121
Hasn’t been announced yet but everyone is waiting.
We basically have two of the most important players in present Western society meeting. It’s really that big of a deal.
BTW Elon is probably next on the government’s list.
To: TexasGator
Around the time that Musk bought Twitter, he stated in an on-the-record interview that he wanted Trump to retire and that DeSantis was better. I think he was trying to hurt Trump when he bought Twitter.
That doesn’t mean that he might have changed his objectives since then.
To: Reno89519
I agree that Nunes is a failure and a loser. Trump should definitely cut him off. He’s made countless mistakes as CEO. The site only exists at all because Rumble took over the tech, from what I understand. But that said, a lot of people feel like Truth Social is a ghost town. You can’t have a conversation there. I’ve tried it. When Elon bought Twitter and made it more welcoming to conservatives, this made people stay there rather than follow PDJT to Truth Social.
To: Reno89519
“By your logic, the smaller DeSantis crowd crashed X so why would Trump risk his bigger crowd on X when even his own Truth Social couldn't successfully host a live event?”
I misunderstood. Your point was that the Musk technical system failed during the DeSantis event.
I was thinking of something else.
Your point now well taken.
To: GulliverSwift
Elon also is in bed with the Chicoms
Good God! where do you freaks come from?
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posted on
06/01/2024 1:05:55 PM PDT
by
JoSixChip
(P.S. There’s a fed in that thread you’re in right now.)
To: UnwashedPeasant
Elon has done a 180 which is great. I admire him more and more.
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posted on
06/01/2024 1:09:20 PM PDT
by
Lucky2
(I'M MAD AS HELL AND CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE! # FJB )
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