Here’s the Elon Musk interview that got Don Lemon’s show canceled

Things started getting tense astir halfway into the interview. | Image: Don Lemon Show

Don Lemon has published the “tense” interrogation with Elon Musk that got his amusement canceled connected X. During the interview, Lemon touches connected assorted topics related to hatred code connected X and Musk’s ain views connected right-wing conspiracy theories, with the billionaire becoming noticeably irritated by the interview’s end.

Things commencement to instrumentality a crook astir halfway into the interview. Lemon asks Musk astir his comments connected illegal immigration and the far-right large replacement theory, past turns to the taxable of contented moderation. Lemon asks whether amended contented moderation connected X would fto Musk debar immoderate of the disapproval of his posts astir the large replacement theory.

“I don’t person to reply questions from reporters,” Musk responds. “Don, the lone crushed I’m doing this interrogation is due to the fact that you’re connected the X platform, and you asked for it. Otherwise, we’re not going to beryllium doing this interview.” Musk adds that helium doesn’t “think radical should attraction what the media thinks astir them.”

Lemon and Musk go connected to argue astir the beingness of hatred code connected X. Lemon points retired a study that recovered anti-Semitic posts connected X grew from June 2022 to February 2023. Musk responds by saying that survey lone “count the fig of posts but not number the fig of views.”

Lemon past suggests X should instrumentality these posts down due to the fact that “they’re hateful” and “can pb to violence.” Musk responds that Lemon “loves censorship” and that X volition lone region contented that’s illegal. “You tin motion up close present and bash 100 things that are hateful, but if cipher reads it, it doesn’t matter,” Musk concludes.

The interrogation besides goes implicit Musk’s disagreement with companies’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies, arsenic good arsenic his views connected racism. Musk says the state should “move on” from a past of racism and that “we are each descended from slaves.” (“Well not everyone was a slave,” Lemon responds.)

Lemon aboriginal says helium has personally experienced favoritism and that it’s “insulting” for “someone to accidental that that hasn’t happened and I should conscionable determination guardant and disregard the past.” Musk replies by saying Lemon keeps “putting words” successful his rima and that “we should dainty radical similar individuals and basal our opinions connected them connected their character.”

Things get much heated astatine the precise extremity of the interrogation when Lemon mentions Musk’s connection that advertisers could “kill” X with an advertisement boycott. Lemon asks whether Musk should instrumentality work if X fails. “Doesn’t the subordinate halt with you?” Lemon asks. Musk replies by telling Lemon to “choose your question carefully, there’s 5 minutes left.” As Lemon attempts to dive deeper into Musk’s upbringing, Musk says determination are lone a “couple minutes” near and that helium has a “whole roomful of radical waiting to conscionable with me.”

There are different parts of the interrogation worthy watching arsenic well, including Musk talking astir gathering with Donald Trump and Musk’s medicine ketamine usage. Musk says helium uses ketamine, which is simply a dissociative anesthetic, erstwhile successful a portion erstwhile helium gets into a “negative benignant of chemic mindset.” He also says helium met with Trump but denied rumors that the former president asked for a donation for his governmental campaign.

Lemon, a erstwhile big connected CNN, was expected to debut caller episodes of his amusement connected X as portion of a woody helium struck with the level earlier this year. However, Lemon said Musk decided to cancel the woody aft their interview, which Musk later confirmed, saying Lemon’s amusement is excessively akin to CNN. Lemon’s amusement volition inactive beryllium posted connected X, but it conscionable won’t look determination first.