Kamala Harris issues fiery response to Trump’s rambling two-hour Musk interview slamming ‘self-obsessed rich guys who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024’

Kamala Harris has slammed Donald Trump‘s ‘extremism and dangerous agenda’ after his rambling two-hour interview with Elon Musk.

The Republican nominee returned to X Monday for an interview with the Tesla billionaire that was riddled with technical delays and saw Trump ‘slur’, talk with a ‘lisp’ and claim that Harris looks like his wife Melania.

Trump, 78, during the conversation insulted Harris several times, referring to her as ‘third rate’, ‘incompetent’ and ‘a radical left lunatic’, and expressed anger that she had been swapped in for President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket.

He also praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – all authoritarian strongmen – as at the ‘top of their game’.

The Vice President’s campaign, after the interview concluded, issued a fiery response on X, mocking the pair’s technical challenges and slamming Trump for only aiming to serve ‘self-obsessed rich guys like himself’.

Kamala Harris has slammed Donald Trump’s ‘extremism and dangerous agenda’ after his rambling two-hour interview with Elon Musk. Trump is pictured on Monday night, participating in the interview

The Harris campaign, after the interview concluded, mocked the pair’s technical challenges and slammed Trump for only aiming to serve ‘self-obsessed rich guys like himself. Pictured: Kamala Harris at a campaign rally in Vegas on Sunday

‘Donald Trump’s extremism and dangerous Project 2025 agenda is a feature not a glitch of his campaign, which was on full display for those unlucky enough to listen in tonight during whatever that was on X.com,’ the Harris HQ account tweeted.

‘Trump’s entire campaign is in service of people like Elon Musk and himself – self-obsessed rich guys who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024.’

Trump sat Monday for a friendly two-hour interview with the SpaceX founder on Musk’s social media platform X after technical problems delayed the start of the event for more than 40 minutes.

The technical issues recalled a similar event on X in May 2023, when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suffered a chaotic start to his bid for the Republican presidential nomination due to glitches on the platform.

At the time, Trump mocked DeSantis on his own, social media platform, Truth Social.

‘Wow! The DeSanctus TWITTER launch is a DISASTER! His whole campaign will be a disaster,’ Trump wrote at the time.

He added: ‘My Red Button is bigger, better, stronger, and is working (TRUTH!). Yours does not.’

The Harris campaign seemingly mocked Monday night’s glitches by resharing the former president’s old Truth Social post.

Trump’s campaign spokesman Steven Cheung hit back at the Harris campaign’s response, tweeting Monday: ‘All these statements, yet nobody ever puts their name on them. F*****g cowards.’

The Harris campaign issued a fiery response to the interview which saw Trump insult Harris several times, referring to her as ‘third rate’, ‘incompetent’ and ‘a radical left lunatic’

The Harris campaign seemingly mocked Monday night’s glitches by resharing the former president’s old Truth Social post slamming X over the technical issues the platform suffered when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launched his bid for the Republican nomination

The interview chat offered Trump an unfiltered chance to air his usual mix of grievances, personal attacks and overstated or false claims.

Trump took aim at Biden and Harris, blaming the pair for a rise in illegal immigration.

‘She is a San Francisco liberal who destroyed San Francisco, and then as attorney-general, she destroyed California,’ he said.

‘She’s going to be worse than him,’ he added, referencing Biden, saying the country needed to prevent anything happening under ‘stupid people like Biden’.

Musk let Trump lead the conversation and did not challenge Trump’s inaccurate statements, like the assertion that other countries were sending criminals from their prisons across the southern US border, or that bacon prices had risen four or five times.

Studies show immigrants, including those in the US illegally, do not commit crimes at a higher rate than native-born Americans.

The interview seemingly was Trump’s latest effort to seize the spotlight from his Democratic rival, whose 11th-hour entry into the race has galvanized her party and boosted Democratic fundraising.

Trump started by talking about last month’s assassination attempt at a campaign rally, pledging to return to the Pennsylvania town of Butler where a bullet hit his ear.

‘Doctors later told me that the ear is a place, that is a very bloody place if you’re going to get hit,’ he said. ‘If I had not turned my head, I would not be talking to you right now – as much as I like you.’

The Tesla chief lauded Trump for his bravery during the attempt on his life last month and Trump congratulated Musk (pictured in May this year) for his willingness to fire workers demanding better conditions

Mr Musk claims that 1billion people have listened, interacted or tweeted about the 99 minute interview

Trump also trumpeted his good relationships with Putin and Kim-Jong Un, while Musk questioned whether Harris was tough enough to stand up to overseas leaders.

‘There’s some real tough characters out there,’ he said.

‘And if they don’t think the American president is tough, they will do what they want to do.’

And although Trump insulted his rival several times, he also praised her looks. He likened the recent Time magazine cover illustration of Harris to another highly visible woman adjacent to American politics: his own wife.

‘She looks like the most beautiful actress ever to live,’ he said. ‘It was a drawing, and actually, she looked very much like a great first lady, Melania.’

Additionally, he claimed that Biden dropping off the Democratic ticket was a ‘coup’ and expressed anger over Harris’ response to the situation.

‘She hasn’t done an interview since this whole scam started,’ Trump said.

Trump had been leading Biden in many polls of battleground states likely to be critical to the outcome of the Nov. 5 election, but is now trailing Harris in some of the same states.

Trump sounds like he has lisp during interview with Musk

Donald Trump remarked on Kamala Harris ‘ Time Magazine cover, saying he thought the vice president resembled his wife and former First Lady Melania during his interview with Elon Musk

‘She looked very much like our great first lady, Melania,’ Trump told Musk, as they discussed the cover image of Monday’s issue

Trump appeared to enjoy the chat (pictured) where he laid into Kamala and Mr Musk joined in

The conversation saw Musk – who has endorsed Trump in the upcoming election – and the former President exchange praise repeatedly.

The Tesla chief lauded Trump for his bravery during the attempt on his life last month and Trump congratulated Musk for his willingness to fire workers demanding better conditions.

‘You’re the greatest cutter,’ Trump said. ‘I mean, I look at what you do. You walk in, you just say: “You want to quit?” They go on strike – I won’t mention the name of the company – but they go on strike. And you say: “That’s okay, you’re all gone”.’

Musk, the world’s richest person, announced his support for Trump shortly after the assassination attempt against him – despite the Republican’s opposition to state support for electric carmakers like Tesla.

The Tesla CEO did back Biden in 2020 but has tacked rightward since.

‘I think we’re at a fork in the road of destiny, of civilization, and I think we need to take the right path, and I think you’re the right path,’ he told Trump as the interview concluded.

Despite being a longstanding critic of electric vehicles, Trump has also shifted gears since Musk’s endorsement and on Monday described the electric cars made by Tesla as ‘incredible.’

The interview was delayed at the start due to technical issues.

Musk blamed the difficulties on a distributed denial-of-service cyber attack, in which a server or network is flooded with traffic in an attempt to shut it down – though his claim could not be verified.

Trump sought to turn the problems into a positive, congratulating Musk on the number of people trying to tune in. A counter on X showed as many as 1.3 million people were listening at times during the lengthy conversation.

Ahead of Monday’s event, Musk had written: ‘Am going to do some system scaling tests tonight & tomorrow in advance of the conversation.’ X did not respond to requests for details or evidence of the alleged cyberattack.

Mr Musk admitted that a ‘massive’ cyber attack had hit the interview as it was about to begin

This is what listeners were left with when they tried to log on to listen as the interview was delayed by 43 minutes

Trump also returned to X with a series of posts on Monday for the first time in a year, reviving an account that had served as a main method of communication in previous campaigns and his four years in the White House, including his followers’ Jan. 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

Trump’s access to his account, @realDonaldTrump, was restored a month into Musk’s ownership of X after being suspended by the platform’s previous owners following the Jan. 6 attack, citing concerns he would incite violence.

Trump frequently posts on his Truth Social platform, which was launched in February 2022, but his posts there reach a much smaller audience than on X.

Musk, who has echoed Trump’s false claims about voter fraud and Biden’s immigration policies, started an external super PAC spending group to support Trump’s campaign. The political action committee is now under investigation in Michigan for possible violations of state laws on gathering voter information.