On Monday, X chief Elon Musk defied the fascists in Europe and hosted an hour and a half interview with GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, and it appears that the venture was a huge hit, reaching nearly one billion listeners across several platforms.

The interview was supposed to start a 8 p.m. easter time, but it was delayed almost an hour by what Musk called a denial of service attack (DDOS). It finally got underway at about 8:45.

But Musk was already under threats before it even started when the scumbags of the European Union threatened to jail him if he dared interview Trump live because they feared that Trump would voice “disinformation” during the interview.

Despite the threats, Musk showed the EU creeps his middle finger and went ahead with the interview anyway.

According to reports, the interview was heard live by around 16 million on the X platform.

With all the other platforms included, Musk is saying that nearly one billion people tuned in to hear the interview.

“Combined views of the conversation with @realDonaldTrump and subsequent discussion by other accounts now ~1 billion,” Musk wrote on Tuesday morning following the interview.

“Between 7:47 PM and 10:47 PM ET, President Donald Trump’s Space post received 73 million views. During the same period, there were 4 million posts about Elon Musk and President Trump’s conversation on X, generating a total of 998 million views,” he added.

The interview was far-reaching with Musk and Trump speaking about the future of energy and artificial intelligence, the major failures of the Biden border policies, crime, the economy. foreign policy, Russia’s war against Ukraine, North Korea, and a host of other issues.

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