Kara Swisher Says Elon Musk Will Merge X With Truth Social

Journalist Kara Swisher predicted Elon Musk will try to merge X with President-elect Donald Trump’s Truth Social media platform.

Following Trump’s victory in the 2024 election, Swisher joined a CNN panel on Thursday morning where she discussed the possibility of Musk working with Trump during his second-term in office.

Musk backed Trump in 2024 election and was with Trump in Florida at his election watch-party as results from key battleground states came in. Swisher suggested to anchor Kasie Hunt that Musk will use his influence with Trump “to make billions” with Truth Social and merge the companies into one entity.

HUNT: I want to ask you about X, the platform formerly known as Twitter and how a musk role in a Trump administration would interact with his ownership of that platform.

SWISHER: I would suspect he’s going to try to merge Trump social. I’ve heard from a number of people today with X and take it public because it’s a meme stock now — Trump social, already — which is a terrible business. So is X by the way. X has always been a terrible business in that was preceding Musk and now it’s worse than ever.

But if they could merge them and make it a meme stock and make a lot of money for themselves, that could be interesting and incredibly corrupt. They could also — he’ll use it as a propaganda organ, which is precisely why he bought it.

People misunderstood. They kept saying he was losing money and I think it was very clear it wasn’t about money. This is like this was a great investment by Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and that’s how he sees it to make. He spent hundreds of millions to make billions. And he could be our world’s first trillionaire. If you’re comfortable with a single person who has interests all over the federal government, including $15 Billion in contracts deciding things and I know it’s gone on in history, but nothing like this. No one’s own such an organ and such an ability, a public city organ. And that’s what it is, a propaganda organ that he’s created.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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