Tech billionaire Elon Musk confirmed Friday that his X-App plans to host a town hall-style livestream event with former President Donald Trump.
“This will be interesting,” Musk, the owner of X, posted on the app while sharing a report on the plan from the New York Post.
Plans for the event were reported Thursday by Axios, which said X was planning a similar video event with independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
President Joe Biden will not participate in an X town hall, according to a person familiar with the campaign plans.
X has not announced a date for the event or additional details. Company representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday. The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino celebrated the announcement, writing that it was “The People’s Town Hall!” and adding a fire emoji.
The planned event is a continuation of Trump’s courtship with Musk, one of the richest people in the world. The two men met in March along with a group of wealthy Republican donors, and Trump later said he liked Musk and had helped him in unspecified ways while he was president.
The event would also represent Trump’s return to the platform formerly known as Twitter, where he was once ubiquitous. Twitter’s previous management banned Trump after the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a group of his supporters, and although Musk reinstated his account in 2022, Trump has rarely posted since.
Musk posted this earlier Friday he was alarmed by a jury that found Trump guilty of 34 crimes in his hush-money trial in New York on Thursday, calling Trump’s behavior “trivial.”
Musk has not yet endorsed any candidate, but his preferences are closely watched because of his wealth, media influence and role in highly regulated companies such as CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. He posted in March that he was not donating money to Biden or Trump this year. He also posted that he was “deviating” from supporting Biden but had no plans to support Trump.
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Musk and Trump have become increasingly friendly and are in contact by phone several times a month.
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