All existing experimental evidence of the bound state nature of the X(3872) relies on considering its decay products with a finite experimental spectral mass resolution which is typically ∆m ≥ 2MeV and much larger than its alleged binding energy, B X = 0.00(18)MeV. On the other hand, we have found recently that there is a neat cancelation in the 1 ++ channel for the invariant DD * mass around the threshold between the continuum and bound state contribution. This is very much alike a similar cancelation in the proton-neutron continuum with the deuteron in the 1 ++ channel. Based on comparative fits of experimental cross section deuteron and X(3872) prompt production in pp collisions data with a finite p T to a common Tsallis distribution we find a strong argument questioning the bound state nature of the state but also explaining the large observed production rate likely consistent with a half-bound state.