Trump says he'll interview with Elon Musk next week  — and onlookers react

Social media users reacted to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who agreed to sit down for an interview next week.

Trump posted on his app Tuesday afternoon: "ON MONDAY NIGHT I’LL BE DOING A MAJOR INTERVIEW WITH ELON MUSK — Details to follow!"

Trump started his own platform, Truth Social, and abandoned Twitter, now X. He didn't reveal on whose site the Monday interview would appear.

CNBC reported on Tuesday that Musk's cozying up to Trump has made it difficult for Tesla to bring in corporate buyers who are concerned about Trump's brand being too toxic.

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Gissur Simonarson, the CTO of a tech company called Cloud Sherpa, posted to his nearly 25,000 followers, "Trump — Mr. grievance and vengeance. Musk talks a good game, but doesn’t walk the [way] he talks."

Investigative journalist and tech pioneer Dave Troy pointed to the Trump-Musk link to crypto-economics. "It's happening. Trump cult is pivoting to crypto to undermine the dollar, in service of Putin / Xi / Musk / Thiel. This just in the last few minutes," he posted on X after seeing the Trump posts. "Hold on .... this is gonna get weird."

"The current threat is they will use the debt ceiling deadline to spark a US debt default and a currency crisis. The dollar and your savings are at risk," he continued. "And here's the full backstory of how we got here. Over the next 4 months everyone is going to see just how prescient this is, I'm afraid. And the issue isn't that they'll succeed, but rather the harm they'll inflict in the process of trying."

"And no, we can't simply vote our way out of this," Troy cautioned. "A Harris victory is a necessary but insufficient condition for dealing with this. @POTUS and Congress must take action now to get ahead of the debt ceiling crisis. And @DOJ @FBI should be looking hard at Musk and Thiel."