Donald Trump is returning B次元官网网址� at least for one night B次元官网网址� to do a live interview Monday on X, the platform from which he was banned for nearly two years following the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the U.S. Capitol.

Trump and Elon Musk, XB次元官网网址檚 owner, are slated to have what the tech titan has termed a B次元官网网址渓ive conversationB次元官网网址� at 8 p.m. Eastern Time that will be B次元官网网址渦nscripted with no limits on subject matter, so should be highly entertaining!B次元官网网址� Musk is soliciting X users to pose their own questions.

The conversation serves not only as a way for the former president to reach potentially millions of voters directly. ItB次元官网网址檚 also an opportunity for X, a platform that relies heavily on politics, to redeem itself after some struggles.

X has already been the scene of some of the 2024 cycleB次元官网网址檚 most memorable moments. As he skipped the first GOP presidential debate in August, Trump launched counterprogramming of his own, appearing in a taped interview with former Fox B次元官网网址 Channel host Tucker Carlson, which aired on X. Last month, President Joe Biden from the campaign in a letter posted to the platform.

Also notably, in May 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis used the platform as a way to officially announce his presidential bid, marred by technical glitches, overloaded by the more than 400,000 people who tried to dial in.

Ahead of his conversation with Trump, Musk posted on the platform that X was conducting B次元官网网址渟ome system scaling testsB次元官网网址� to handle whatB次元官网网址檚 anticipated to be a high volume of participants.

Musk, who has described himself as a Democrat until a few years ago, endorsed TrumpB次元官网网址檚 candidacy two days after the former president was wounded during an attempted assassination at a Pennsylvania rally last month.

Long before he endorsed Trump, Musk turned increasingly toward the right in his posts and actions on the platform, also using X to try to sway political discourse around the world. HeB次元官网网址檚 gotten in a over censorship, railed against what he calls the B次元官网网址渨oke mind virusB次元官网网址� and that Democrats are secretly flying in migrants to vote in U.S. elections.

Musk has also reinstated previously banned accounts such as the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Trump, who was B次元官网网址� then known as Twitter B次元官网网址� two days after the Jan. 6 violence, with the company citing B次元官网网址渢he risk of further incitement of violence.B次元官网网址� By November 2022, Musk had bought the company, and , although the former president refrained from tweeting, on his own Truth Social site, which he launched during the ban.

But TrumpB次元官网网址檚 audience on X is legions larger than on Truth Social, which earlier this year. Trump has just over 7.5 million followers on Truth Social, while his mostly dormant X account is followed by 88 million. MuskB次元官网网址檚 account, which will host the interview, has more than 193 million followers.

TrumpB次元官网网址檚 campaign didnB次元官网网址檛 immediately respond to a message as to whether he would cross-post his interview with Musk via his own accounts, including on X.

The former president has most recently posted on X only once, with a photo of his mug shot after he a year ago on charges he conspired to overturn his election loss in the state.