The failure to launch of Elon Musk's planned audio live stream on X with former President Donald Trump quickly became the subject of online mockery on the very same social platform, including by the official campaign of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
"BREAKING: Twitter," the pro-Harris account @harris_wins posted about 20 minutes after the stream was supposed to start.
While Musk claimed the malfunction was due to a massive denial-of-service attack, other prominent X users weren’t so sure.
“so the guy who makes cars that randomly crash and burst into flames is interviewing Donald Trump, and the interview crashed and burst into flames?” wrote self-described "internet loudmouth" Jeff Tiedrich. “holy s---, how did we Nazi this coming.”
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“LOL the Elon-Trump space is broken no one can get in apparently,” wrote professor and attorney Seth Abramson. “This app is a flaming poop salad.”
“I'm in the historic Musk Trump twitter space and all you can hear is heavy breathing and the occasional fart,” quipped Cyanide and Happiness co-creator Rob DenBleyker.
Novelist Paul Rudnick pondered if the interview crashed because “Trump kept talking into the remote,” or “Elon got distracted by a squirrel.”
BREAKING: Twitter.
— Kamala’s Wins (@harris_wins) August 13, 2024
so the guy who makes cars that randomly crash and burst into flames is interviewing Donald Trump, and the interview crashed and burst into flames? holy shit, how did we Nazi this coming
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) August 13, 2024
LOL the Elon-Trump space is broken no one can get in apparently
This app is a flaming poop salad
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) August 13, 2024
I'm in the historic Musk Trump twitter space and all you can hear is heavy breathing and the occasional fart
— Rob DenBleyker (@RobDenBleyker) August 13, 2024
The Musk/Trump interview crashed because:
- Trump kept talking into the remote
- Elon got distracted by a squirrel
- Lara was in charge of getting Trump from the toilet to the recliner
- So many listeners signed on because they thought Scott Baio was the moderator
— Paul Rudnick (@PaulRudnickNY) August 13, 2024