Former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump and Elon Musk had a cordial ‘chat’ on X, the platform the latter owns. The event went LIVE after technical glitches but Trump was never challenged on any of his claims.

Elon Musk’s scheduled interview with the Republican candidate Trump, whom he supports, was severely delayed on his platform X, after the social media platform ran into technical difficulties.

Musk said X, formerly Twitter, was the recipient of a “massive DDOS attack.” Many X users were unable to access the LIVE stream for the interview and it was delayed for over 40 minutes.

“Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later” tweeted Musk.

He later added: “We will proceed with the smaller number of concurrent listeners at 8:30 ET and then post the unedited audio immediately thereafter.”

When it did eventually go LIVE, just over a million were able to tune in, though Donald Trump at one-point congratulated Musk on attracting more than 60 million people to the Space, which was met with a lengthy silence from the X owner.

What did they eventually talk about?

The former US President’s interview was largely one-sided, appearing to be merely a platform for Trump to share his rhetoric.

Trump lashed out at Biden, dismissed climate change in the interview. He vented about a “zombie apocalypse” of immigration, repeatedly attacked President Joe Biden as “stupid” and talked about developing a new missile defense system based on the one that defends Israel. He also dismissed climate change, arguing that sea-level rises would create more real estate opportunities.

“The biggest threat is not global warming, where the ocean is going to rise one-eighth of an inch over the next 400 years,” he told Musk.

“You’ll have more ocean front property, right? The biggest threat is not that. The biggest threat is nuclear warming, because we have five countries now that have significant nuclear power, and we have to not allow anything to happen with stupid people like Biden.”

Though he says he had previously voted Democrat, Musk has thrown his weight, and his money, behind Trump since the latter’s assassination attempt last month.

Trump had been banned from Twitter after his supporters stormed the US Capitol in January 2021. But following his takeover of the platform and renaming it X, Musk reinstated the former president in November 2022.

Over a rambling chat that lasted nearly two hours, the two men talked about Trump’s Democratic rival Kamala Harris, the European Union, China, climate change, censorship and migration. The Republican took the chance to talk at length on some of his pet topics and repeat claims he is the victim of a political vendetta, while Musk repeated his backing for Trump on multiple occasions.

After Trump claimed Harris was a “radical left lunatic” and “worse than Bernie Sanders”, Musk responded: “It’s essential that you win the election for the sake of the country.” About 1.2 million people were listening in.

Harris campaign dismissive of chat

“Trump’s entire campaign is in service of people like Elon Musk and himself – self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a livestream in 2024,” it said in a statement posted on X after Trump and Musk finished talking.