Former President Trump posted Monday on the social platform X for the first time in nearly a year, sharing a campaign ad just hours before an interview with the platform’s owner, Elon Musk.
The post on X presented a 2 and a half minute ad, titled “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” no caption.
The ad, which covers Trump’s rise to the White House and the subsequent legal battles he faced, has was presented on Trump’s other social media platforms in recent weeks.
Post X received more than 4.8 million views in less than an hour, with more than 50 thousand reposts and 21 thousand comments.
Monday marked just the second time Trump has posted on X since his account was suspended following the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and reinstated the following year. His only other post since then was on August 24, 2023, when he shared an image of his photo after his surrender in Fulton County, Georgia, earlier that day.
Musk, who was responsible for reinstating Trump’s account after he purchased X in 2022, is expected to interview the former president on Monday. The interview will be presented live on Trump’s official account starting at 8 p.m. EDT.
The “live conversation” will be “improvised, with no subject limits”, Musk wrote on Sunday, adding that “it should be a lot of fun”. He encouraged users to post specific questions and comments in the stream’s chat.
Musk’s reinstatement of Trump’s account in 2022 was part of the tech billionaire’s new approach to the platform’s content moderation policies. He has since reinstated the accounts of a handful of other controversial figures, including far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones late last year.
During his 2016 presidential campaign and his first term in the White House, Trump was known for using that platform to share everything from attacking his political opponents to announcing important White House decisions.
Musk endorsed Trump’s re-election bid shortly after his assassination attempt last month and has since launched a series of attacks against Vice President Harris, who became the Democratic presidential nominee following President Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race. 2024.
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