Elon Musk on Racism, Bailing Out Trump, Hate Speech, and More
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Why did Don Lemon bring Elon Musk onto The Don Lemon Show and where was the interview filmed?
Welcome to The Don Lemon Show, everyone. We're still here. In a minute, I'm going to bring you my conversation with Elon Musk, the one that everyone is talking about. But first, let me tell you a bit about the show. Contrary to what you might have heard, we weren't canceled by X. Yes, after months of begging me, wooing me to offer some exclusive content on his platform, Elon Musk decided to scrap the deal. But our plan is and always has been to release this show everywhere on YouTube, on Spotify, on iHeartRadio, just about any place you stream content. Now for my conversation with Elon. As with all my interviews, no restrictions, no ground rules, nothing off limits or out of bounds. That is until the interview ended.
So what went wrong? I don't know. But my hope is that you learned something about both Elon and me, two people who come from completely different vantage points on almost every single issue. And I challenge you, Elon, to watch the whole interview and tell the world why this isn't what you claim you want on X. Thank you for inviting us here. You're welcome. Your Tesla headquarters, I'm surprised at how big it is. I've never seen it.
Yeah, it's about three times the size of the Pentagon. We built it in 16 months. It's the fastest construction project in the United States since World War II.
So I'm here, as you know, I'm on the platform because you say you're a free speech absolutist, right? And there are no conditions. Free speech is as much as possible within the bounds of the law. Yeah, so the reason I'm saying that is because there are no conditions on this interview. You said that, you know, we'll speak to you for an hour. I don't like sound bites, so I welcome that. So let's get into it. So we're here in Austin, South by Southwest is going on. We're at the Tesla headquarters. You are in the process of moving SpaceX here, I understand? No.
So SpaceX has a massive facility in South Texas where we will then launch Starship. And then we have in Bastrop near Austin, we are about to start production at a Starlink, a large Starlink factory for Starlink terminals. But we're not shutting down any facilities in California.
Listen, we are here as part of a launch of a news interview show that is going to be on X.com. It's coming as a media industry, as you know, is going through a whole lot of changes. X has also been affected by that. Where do you see X.com's role in the future of news and journalism, Elon?
Well, I think I see the X as, it's really the number one source of news in the world. So it is number one, the number one way that people actually are informed about any kind of news, meaning real-time events, is on the X platform, formerly Twitter. There's nothing even close for real-time news. So we also want to expand upon that, and we have done so with long-form content. So instead of just doing what you see called tweets, you can now do long-form posts. You can post an entire essay. In fact, you can now put an entire book, post an entire book to the platform. You can do long-form video content. So you can do up to four-hour video segments. We really want news, in whatever form it is, or information, I should say, in whatever form it is, to be available on our platform, whether it's short, long, text, pictures, video, whatever the case may be.
Yeah, and some of the stuff that we do, long-form video, interview shows, what have you. You reached out over the summer and you said, it would be great to have Matto, Don Lemon, others on the left put on this platform. You receive full support. The Digital Town Square is for all. What do you mean by that?
I just mean that we want to make sure that there are a wide variety of viewpoints. We always have, for example, Tucker Carlson, who most people will view as being on the right. That's quite a prominent name on the right. We want to have prominent names on the left as well to provide different views and points of view, as well as centrists. Just basically a wide range of viewpoints on the platform so users can hear different opinions.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
Why did Don Lemon bring Elon Musk onto The Don Lemon Show and where was the interview filmed?
0:06–11:06
2
How does Elon describe X.com's role in the future of news and long-form content?
11:06–40:25
3
What does Elon say about his relationship with Donald Trump and will he donate or endorse a candidate?
40:25–53:55
4
What updates does Elon reveal about Tesla products, the Roadster and Cybertruck plans?
53:55–1:06:45
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