This combination of photos shows former President Donald Trump during rally in Minden, Nev., Oct. 8, 2022, left, and Elon Musk in Wilmington, Del., July 12, 2021. (AP Photo)
Donald Trump is returning to do a live interview Monday on X, formerly known as Twitter — the platform from which he was banned for nearly two years following the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol.The Associated PressRepublican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, is slated to do a live interview Monday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, with its owner, Elon Musk, right.
X has already been the scene of some of the most memorable moments of the 2024 election cycle. As he skipped the first GOP presidential debate in August 2023, Trump appeared in a taped interview with former Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson, which aired on X. Last month, U.S. President Joe Biden broke the news of his departure from the campaign in a letter posted to the platform.
Ahead of his conversation with Trump, Musk posted on the platform that X was conducting "some system scaling tests" to handle what's anticipated to be a high volume of participants. Musk, who described himself as a Democrat until a few years ago, endorsed Trump's candidacy two days after the former president was wounded during an attempted assassination at a Pennsylvania rally last month.
Hours ahead of his interview with Musk, Trump posted a two-and-a-half minute video to his X account, featuring video from his time in office, as well as audio of him saying one of his standard campaign lines referencing the legal cases that have mounted against him: "They're not coming after me, they're coming after you, and I just happen to be standing in their way, and I will never be moving.
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