Elon Musk, Donald Trump event on X crashes site, Tesla CEO blames cyberattack

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  1. Cyberattack or not…this is what happens when you fire all your engineers. Nice job Elon!

  4. Elon Musk’s much-hyped interview of Donald Trump on the social media platform X was quickly derailed by technical glitches.

    Musk blamed a cyberattack, saying “There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down.”

    For many, it was a reminder of the technical disaster on X in May 2023 that botched Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign announcement.

  7. Wouldn’t it make more sense to say “X CEO” rather than “Tesla CEO”? Like I get that it is technically accurate, but him being CEO of Tesla isn’t really relevant here.

    Edit: I have been corrected, Musk is *not* CEO of X

  9. So the website at large is still up yet this is a DDOS attack?

  12. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving pair of assholes. 

  13. Feel bad for the H1B developer he’s going to fire/deport tomorrow in a fit of child-like tantrum.

  14. Cyber attack? If you believe this, I have a social media site tonsell you for 40 billion dollars.

  15. Have you tried turning it off, and just walking away?

  16. The Dumpster Fire of a social media CEO is upset that the interview with the Dumpster Fire president has ended up in a dumpster fire.

  17. “This is the most public yet of our many humiliations.”

    – Trump and Musk, probably

  18. Thanks Obama!

    Seriously, if it was you Barack, thanks.

  19. Weird how a DDoS attack is only affecting Spaces and the rest of the site works fine. Almost like the site is built out of tissue paper and q-tips…

  21. If it was actually a DDoS attack, the whole site would have gone down, not just one video stream

  22. He’s blaming a DDOS – which let’s face it, if he simply didn’t have enough server load ready would look the same.

    He cheaped out and botched it.

  23. Or did Elon actually talk to Trump and realise he is totally debilitated.

  25. Twitter has been under sustained attack for awhile now, some malicious shit for brains bought it and started playing with things that he didn’t understand.

  26. It’s just Trump rambling and rambling and rambling and Musk going “yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah.”

  27. This is the guy who does the human brain implants. Think about that.

  28. man Trump sounds like fucking daffy duck in this interview lmao

  29. The comments all saying “it’s the Dems trying to stop free speech!”. Do they not realize we WANT this conversation to take place – just more fuel to the dumpster fire! 🔥🔥

  30. Pretty sure Trump is stroking out live on Twitter. His slurring is getting worse.

  31. Trump sounds like shit in this interview. Did Musk use the demented old man sound filter on Trumps mic?

  32. Nice preview of what another Trump presidency would look like: all the groundwork is delegated to technocrats who have gutted their own systems because of their greed. Musk-Trump is basically *enshittification* personified.

  33. It’s going now. Trump is ignoring Musk’s prompts and just rambling on for minutes and minutes about nothing. Trump is obviously still an insane old asshole, but he’s also fucking boring as hell these days

  35. Holy shit, he sounds like Sylvester the cat.

    Edit: or maybe Daffy duck, hard to pick one.

  36. What is wrong with Trump? He sounds like a cartoon character voice made to mock him.

  37. Did trumps tongue get stung by a bee or are his dentures loose?

    He sounds super weird

    It’sth like he’sth sthlurring all histh esthes

  38. Between Elon’s stuttering and Trump’s slurring, it’s like Elmer Fudd interviewing Daffy Duck.

  40. Trump is slurring like he is having a stroke! Wtf is with him right now.

  41. Ok someone please tell me I’m not crazy, Donald is slurring / lisping SO HARD right now. Every S syllable.

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