Elon Musk: Podcasts Made Trump Seem Like A ‘Normal Person’ | EUROtoday

Elon Musk has some theories about what helped Donald Trump safe one other time period within the White House, telling Tucker Carlson how Trump’s slew of podcast interviews let voters see he was only a “normal 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 Experience” made a “big difference” in how he was capable of join with Americans.

According to Musk, Trump received over voters by showing like “a reasonably-minded, smart person who’s not, like, hardcore one way or the other” throughout these interviews.

“They just listen to someone talk for a few hours and that’s how they decide whether, you know, you’re a good person, whether they like you,” he added.

The tech billionaire mentioned he suspected that Vice President Kamala Harris handed on her likelihood to take a seat down with Joe Rogan as a result of “nothing would do more damage” to her marketing campaign that certainly one of his hours-long freeform interviews.

“You can’t hide in three hours!” Carlson agreed.

“But, on the other hand, Trump, he’s there, there’s no talking points,” Musk went on. “He’s just being a normal person, having a conversation and doing three hours of Rogan, no problem.”

Harris’ marketing campaign technique did embrace various high-profile podcast appearances, nonetheless. In October, the Democrat focused younger feminine voters with an interview on the favored “Call Her Daddy” podcast, stopped by the long-running radio present “The Breakfast Club,” and joined NFL alum Shannon Sharpe on his present, “Club Shay Shay.”

One of Trump’s greatest marketing campaign donors, Musk joined the previous president, now president-elect, to have a good time his election win in Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday night time.

Last month, Trump floated the potential of Musk becoming a member of his administration because the unofficial “Secretary of Cost-Cutting” the place he’d be accountable for shaving billions from the federal price range. Some observers are predicting that he’ll merge his social media platform, X, with Trump’s Truth Social to create a large “propaganda organ” for the Trump administration.