Trump Says Kamala Is ‘Beautiful’ In Musk-Led Interview On X

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WASHINGTON, DC (REUTERS/ANI) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sat August 12 for a friendly two-hour interview with billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on the latter’s social media platform X, after technical problems delayed the start of the event for more than 40 minutes.

Musk who has endorsed Trump, offered a conspiracy theory for the delay. He blamed the difficulties on a distributed denial-of-service attack, in which a server or network is flooded with traffic to shut it down. His claim could not be verified.

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. “My Red Button is bigger, better, stronger, and is working (TRUTH!)” Trump posted, “Yours does not.”

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

He 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.”

Then he insulted his opponent Democrat Kamala Harris several times, referring to her as “third rate”, “incompetent” and “a radical left lunatic.”

And then he praised her looks.

“She looks like the most beautiful actress ever to live,” Trump said about a picture of Harris on the cover of Time magazine. “It was a drawing, and actually, she looked very much like a great first lady, Melania,” he added, referring to his wife Melania Trump.

This from a man who had lost the case against advice columnist E. Jean Carroll who had sued him for defamation and sexual assault. This bizarre moment could not have gone down well with women voters.

He also expressed anger that Harris had been swapped in for Biden on the Democratic ticket claiming falsely that Biden dropping off the ticket was a “coup.”

The former president, who constantly taunted President Joe Biden who has fought to overcome a stutter, sounded at several points as if he had a lisp, something many listeners noted on X. The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment about Trump’s speech.