Elon Musk has some theories about what helped Donald Trump safe one other time period within the White Home, telling Tucker Carlson how Trump’s slew of podcast interviews let voters see he was only a “regular particular person.”
In an interview at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort late Tuesday, Musk mentioned the president-elect’s appearances on long-form podcast like “The Joe Rogan Expertise” made a “large distinction” in how he was in a position to join with People.
Based on Musk, Trump gained over voters by showing like “a reasonably-minded, good one who’s not, like, hardcore by some means” throughout these interviews.
“They simply hearken to somebody speak for just a few hours and that’s how they resolve whether or not, you recognize, you’re a very good particular person, whether or not they such as you,” he added.
The tech billionaire mentioned he suspected that Vice President Kamala Harris handed on her probability to take a seat down with Joe Rogan as a result of “nothing would do extra injury” to her marketing campaign that one among his hours-long freeform interviews.
“You may’t conceal in three hours!” Carlson agreed.
“However, however, Trump, he’s there, there’s no speaking factors,” Musk went on. “He’s simply being a traditional particular person, having a dialog and doing three hours of Rogan, no drawback.”
Harris’ marketing campaign technique did embrace various high-profile podcast appearances, nevertheless. In October, the Democrat focused younger feminine voters with an interview on the popular “Call Her Daddy” podcast, stopped by the long-running radio present “The Breakfast Membership,” and joined NFL alum Shannon Sharpe on his present, “Membership Shay Shay.”
One in every of Trump’s greatest marketing campaign donors, Musk joined the previous president, now president-elect, to have fun his election win in Palm Seaside, Florida, on Tuesday night time.
Final month, Trump floated the possibility of Musk becoming a member of his administration because the unofficial “Secretary of Value-Chopping” the place he’d be chargeable for shaving billions from the federal finances. Some observers are predicting that he’ll merge his social media platform, X, with Trump’s Fact Social to create a large “propaganda organ” for the Trump administration.