Trump Says He Will Have ‘Major Interview’ With Elon Musk Next Week

Former President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on Tuesday that he will have a “major interview” with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Monday.

“ON MONDAY NIGHT I’LL BE DOING A MAJOR INTERVIEW WITH ELON MUSK — Details to follow!” Trump wrote.

Musk, who supported Democrats Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in 2016 and 2020, endorsed Trump’s 2024 bid for the White House shortly after Trump was shot in an assassination attempt on July 13. The billionaire entrepreneur has grown increasingly disillusioned by the Democratic Party and what he refers to as the “woke mind virus.”

Late last month, Trump discussed Musk’s endorsement of him and said he has “a very good relationship” with Musk. The SpaceX founder has also started a political action committee (PAC) that supports “meritocracy & individual freedom.” A Wall Street Journal report claimed that Musk was planning on donating $45 million a month to help elect Trump, but Musk denied that report during a live DailyWire+ interview with psychologist Dr. Jordan B. Peterson.

“What’s been reported in the media is simply not true. I’m not donating $45 million a month to Trump,” Musk said. “What I have done is created a PAC [political action committee] or Super PAC … the America PAC.”

Musk added in a post on X, “I am making some donations to America PAC, but at a much lower level and the key values of the PAC are supporting a meritocracy & individual freedom. Republicans are mostly, but not entirely, on the side of merit & freedom.”

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During his interview with Peterson, Musk also distanced himself from Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” saying “the intent” of his America PAC “is to promote the principles that made America great in the first place.”

“So I wouldn’t say that I’m … MAGA, ‘Make America Great Again,’ I think America is great,” Musk added. “I’m more MAG – ‘Make America Greater.’”

Trump and Musk have a complicated history. After Trump was sworn in as president in 2017, Musk served on a White House business advisory group, but resigned from the group after Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord.

“Am departing presidential councils. Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,” Musk tweeted at the time.

Over the past few years, however, Musk has appeared to warm to Trump’s policies and has slammed the Biden administration’s push for social media censorship during the COVID pandemic and vaccine rollout.