How to tune into the Trump, Elon Musk interview

Tech billionaire Elon Musk will interview former President Trump on Monday night on Musk’s social platform X, marking the former president’s latest effort to take the spotlight in a tight race against Vice President Harris.

It also seems to represent a return to X for the former president, who has subsequently posted on the platform.

The platform, then known as Twitter, was a big part of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and his entire presidency.

His return comes at a time when Harris has seized momentum in the presidential race since President Biden dropped out and endorsed her.

The live interview will kick off at 8 p.m. EDT and will be hosted on Trump’s official X account @realDonaldTrump. It will use X Spaces, a feature that allows users of the platform to host live audio conversations.

The “live conversation” will be “unscripted with no limits on subject matter,” Musk wrote Sunday, adding it “should be highly entertaining.” He encouraged users to post specific questions and comments under the stream’s chat.

The Trump campaign said it will be “the interview of the century.”

Musk posted some “system scaling tests” ahead of Monday night’s conversation, which is expected to have a high volume of viewers.

Trump made his return to the platform for the first time in nearly a year, sharing a campaign advertisement hours ahead of the interview. It marked just the second time Trump has posted on X since his account was suspended in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol and reinstated the following year. 

Just more than an hour later, Trump posted again on the platform, lamenting about the state of the nation’s economy.

“Are you better off now than you were when I was president?” he wrote. Our economy is shattered. Our border has been erased. We’re a nation in decline. Make the American Dream AFFORDABLE again. Make America SAFE again. Make America GREAT Again!”

Musk’s reinstatement of Trump’s account in 2022 was part of the tech billionaire’s new approach to the platform’s content moderation policies after purchasing the company.

The tech mogul endorsed Trump’s reelection bid shortly after the attempted assassination last month and has since levied a series of attacks against Harris.