Donald Trump returns to X for a live interview with the platform's owner, Elon Musk

Donald Trump is returning for at least one night to give a live interview Monday on X, the platform from which he was banned for nearly two years after the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Trump and X owner Elon Musk are set to have what the tech giant has called a live chat at 8 p.m. ET, which will be unscripted and open-ended, so should be highly entertaining! Musk is inviting X users to ask their own questions.

This debate is not only a way for the former president to reach millions of potential voters directly. It is also an opportunity for X, a platform that relies heavily on politics, to redeem itself after some struggles.

X has already been the site of some of the most memorable moments of the 2024 cycle. While he sat out the first GOP presidential debate in August, Trump launched his own counterprogramming, appearing in a taped interview with former Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson that aired on X. Last month, President Joe Biden announced his departure from the campaign in a letter posted on the platform.

It's also worth noting that in May 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis used the platform to formally announce his presidential candidacy, a disastrous rollout marred by technical issues and overloaded by more than 400,000 people trying to log in.

Ahead of his conversation with Trump, Musk posted on the platform that X was conducting system scaling tests to handle what is expected to be a high volume of participants.

Elon Musk, who described himself as a Democrat until a few years ago, endorsed Trump's candidacy two days after the former president was injured in an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania last month.

Long before he endorsed Trump, Musk had been increasingly right-wing in his posts and actions on the platform, also using X to try to influence political discourse around the world. He’s feuded with a Brazilian judge over censorship, decried what he calls the woke mind virus, and amplified false claims that Democrats are secretly bringing in migrants to vote in U.S. elections.

Musk also reinstated previously banned accounts, including that of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Trump, who was kicked off the platform then known as Twitter two days after the January 6 violence, with the company citing the risk of further incitement of violence. In November 2022, Musk bought the company and Trump’s account was reinstated, though the former president refrained from tweeting until Monday, insisting he was happier on his own site Truth Social, which he launched during the ban.

Hours before his interview with Musk, Trump posted a two-and-a-half-minute video to his X account, including footage from his time in office, as well as an audio recording of him delivering one of his signature campaign lines referencing the legal cases that have piled up against him: “They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you, and I just happen to be in their way, and I’m never going to budge.”

But Trump’s audience on X is considerably larger than that of Truth Social, which became a publicly traded company earlier this year. Trump has just over 7.5 million followers on Truth Social, while his largely inactive X account has 88 million followers. Elon Musk’s account, which will host the interview, has more than 193 million followers.

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The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a message asking whether it would post its interview with Musk through its own accounts, including on X.

The former president has recently posted only once about X, with a photo of his mugshot after he surrendered to an Atlanta jail a year ago, accused of conspiring to overturn his election defeat in the state.

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Kinnard reported from Columbia, South Carolina, and can be reached at http://x.com/MegKinnardAP.

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