President Trump's Conversation With Elon Musk Breaks 'An All-Time Record' On The Platform With Nearly A Billion Combined Views

Tens of millions of Americans listened to the conversation between X owner Elon Musk and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and according to X, it has received around a billion views after the two-hour conversation was shared millions of times across the platform.

"Between 7:47 PM and 10:47 PM ET, President Donald Trump's Space post received 73 million views. During the same period, there were 4 million posts about Elon Musk and President Trump's conversation on 𝕏, generating a total of 998 million views," the social media network explained. 

Trump's recording of the conversation has been actively listened to by 24.1 million users and seen by 187 million. The post has received 325,000 comments, 152,000 reposts, and 597,000 likes.

"An all-time record, but the media refuses to write about it because they are FAKE NEWS!" Trump wrote in response to the success of the stream. Musk also commented on the much-watched discussion, writing, "Combined views of the conversation with [Donald Trump] and subsequent discussion by other accounts now ~1 billion."

The conversation between the two men was delayed nearly an hour past its scheduled start time of 8 PM EST, thanks to a cyberattack on the social media network's servers. "My apologies for the late start. We, unfortunately, had a massive denial-of-service attack against our servers, and it saturated all of our data lines. Basically, hundreds of gigabytes of data were saturated," Musk explained, adding, "As this massive attack illustrates, there is a lot of opposition to people hearing what President Trump has to say."

The X Spaces discussion was wide-ranging and covered a wide range of issues, from the state of the race against Kamala Harris to the southern border, inflation, solar and nuclear power, electric vehicles, and much more. The billionaire tech entrepreneur repeatedly praised Trump for his first-term leadership and called on independent voters to back the 45th president.

"I think we're at a fork in the road of the destiny of civilization, and I think we need to take the right path, and I think you're the right path," Musk said. "I think you [Trump] are the path to prosperity, and I think that Kamala is the opposite."

The X conversation between Trump and Musk is the most listened-to discussion on the platform, and its ability to reach independent voters who have tuned out politics will likely help the Trump campaign in the battleground states as they take on Kamala Harris in November.

Listen to the full conversation below:

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