"The Trump / Tucker Carlson interview has just hit 100 million views in under 4 hrs."

And counting.(118 million as I type).

The interesting point about that is the increasing irrelevance of the traditional media. The whole Trump revolution was possible because he was able to go over the head of the left-wing media gatekeepers and talk directly to the people (his people). That is partially why the power elite in the US is trying so hard to stop Trump running - they know that in the end they can't actually control him or his message. Sure, they can use social media and the various organs of the state (FBI/CIA) to kill (for a time) stories like the Hunter Biden laptop and the treachery of the Biden Crime Family. But ultimately the new media allows the truth to filter through.

That is why the slow movement of Fox toward being just another left-wing mouth-piece isn't really all that important. Disappointing but, in the scheme of things, not of a great consequence.

Twenty years ago, the power elites could have eliminated the Carlson threat by simply taking away his microphone. But they can't do it any longer and that terrifies them. Which of course leads to raids on their opponents houses and businesses, phoney indictments and fixed investigations.

Just gone to the Trump video and the first comment is stickied by Musk and it says: "Interesting to hear things directly vs through the media filter."

What?

By media filter he really means anyone who doesn't take Trump at his word and is prepared to interrogate his responses.

Carlson is one of the most sycophantic presenters around and who is so far up Trump's backside only his toenails are showing.

It was prerecorded and released when the Republican party presidential debates were on, debates that Trump dodged. So we didn't get to see him answer any hard questions from moderators or other opponents. Rather we got a softball pre-recorded interview by someone I have already illustrated is prepared to edit the recording to support a particular message.

Musk is a big fan of stage managed presentations and that is what Tucker and Trump delivered. It certainly has stirred the loins of a few of the forum members here as it was designed to do as they dutifully went off to be shorn yet again.

Now at 153Million- getting close to half the population of the US- Kudos to Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump.

Hi SteeleRedux,
"So what did you think of him deliberately deleting out an answer he didn't like in the interview with Sund?"

Honestly, I haven't checked out the missing section you've posted the link to, so I'm not sure what was cut out.
- But I wasn't all that impressed with the interview tbh.

I almost nodded off like Biden did in Maui with Trump egotistically blabbering many of his same old tired talking points.
I think the interview was poorly prepared and Trump could've done better.

Possibly one of Tuckers least interesting recent twitter interviews, if you want my opinion.

You saw the one with the Capital Building Chief of Police right?
That was pretty boring too, I switched it over before I finished watching it.

But some of Tuckers other recent Twitter (X) interviews and discussions have been really good viewing.

Sorry for not getting back to you and responding to your comments to me on a different thread a few days back, btw.

190+ million views now Canem Malum,
And probably quite a few million more on various YouTube channels.
That's got to be some kind of record for most views in the least time.
I doubt the mainstream media will report much on it though.
(I guess well see what they say tomorrow, or today I should say since its now after midnight)

- They seem to have a serious dislike for twitter ever since Musk bought it.
And they have an even bigger dislike for Donald Trump.

I'd caution against getting too carried away with the numbers of X views of the Trump interview. Even if a user only browses the post for a few seconds, X treats it as a view. Equally, multiple views or returning to it to check things, also counts as multiple views. So, for example, X would count me as having watched it 3 times.

Still, the numbers are extraordinary and completely overwhelmed the Fox debate of the other primary Republican candidates.