Elon Musk conducted an extended interview with former President Donald Trump on Monday night, covering a series of subjects such as his assassination attempt and U.S. foreign relations.
Post technical difficulties which initially impeded the live stream on X, their conversation lasted close to two hours. But, there were five major takeaways from this interview.
First, Trump announced that he will return to Butler where he was targeted for the assassination in July.
“By the way, we’re going back to Butler, and we’re going to go back in October. We’re all set up — the people are fantastic in Butler, it’s a great area,” Trump told Musk. “These are incredible people.”
In the interview, Trump detailed a “miracle” that occurred during an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. According to a report by the Cincinnati Enquirer, Hartmann told police he was face-to-face with shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks when the shot rang out.
“And so it hit me at an angle that was far less destructive than any other angle. So that was the miracle,” Trump said, recounting the path of the bullet that struck his ear. “That was — for those people that don’t believe in God, I think we got to all start thinking about that. You have to, you know, I’m a believer, now I’m more of a believer I think.”
“It was amazing that I happened to be turned just at that perfect angle,” Trump added.
Next, Trump reiterated his commitment to deporting illegal immigrants, saying: “We’re going to have the largest deportation in the history of this country” and “we have no choice. And I saw an ad just before I got on the air… I saw an ad by Kamala saying how she is going to provide border security. Where has she been for three and a half years?”
Trump also decided he did not want to mince words in his critique of how Joe Biden had done as president and referred to him as “the worst” U.S. leader ever. He went after Vice President Harris as well, calling her “incompetent” and comparing Kamala to Biden.
“Look she hasn’t done an interview since this whole scam started,” Trump said. “And say what you want, this was a coup. This was a coup of a President of the United States. He didn’t want to leave. And they said, ‘we can do it the nice way, or we can do it the hard way.’”
If Trump were to be reelected, he also said his biggest priority would involve getting rid of the Department of Education and returning control over education policy directly to states.
Trump said he would “move education back to the states where, states like Iowa, where states like Idaho, you know, not every state will do great because the states that basically aren’t doing good now, you look at Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, he, he’s terrible. He does a terrible job. So he’s not going to do great with education.”
“But of the 50, I would bet that 35 would do great. And 15 of them, or, you know, 20 of them will be as good as Norway. You know, Norway is considered great,” Trump told Musk.
All in all, the interview revealed Trump’s ambitious plans should he be elected for president.
