In Full Interview, Elon Musk Tells Don Lemon He’s Learned Nothing
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The uproar over an antisemitic conspiracy Musk amplified last year has done little to change his mind.
Don Lemon has published his full interview with Elon Musk, and it’s exactly the wide-ranging doozy you’d expect ― with an extra dash of racist conspiracy theories.
The at-times chippy conversation released Monday was both the first and last in an exclusive content deal Lemon claims Musk had pitched him. That deal ended hours after the interview earlier this month.
But Lemon insists he hasn’t been “canceled,” despite saying literally exactly that last week.
“Contrary to what you might have heard, we weren’t canceled by X,” he said in the show’s introduction. “Yes, after months of begging me, wooing me to offer some exclusive content on his platform, Elon Musk decided to scrap the deal.”
The former CNN anchor kicked off the hourlong discussion with a question about X (formerly Twitter) and its role in the future of journalism, which Musk used to trumpet his platform’s numbers.