Technical Issues Mark Musk’s Interview with Trump

The anticipated interview of billionaire Elon Musk with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Musk’s media platform X was delayed by more than 40 minutes due to technical issues, which Musk attributed to a ‘cyberattack’.

The interview was scheduled for 2 AM Croatian time, or 8 PM Eastern Time in the USA, but after just over 100,000 users logged in, technical problems arose that caused the delay.

– It seems to be a massive DDOS attack on X. We are working to shut it down. In the worst case, we will start with a smaller number of live listeners and then broadcast an unedited recording immediately after – Musk announced during the troubleshooting, adding that during preparations, his platform could support about eight million simultaneous logins.

When the interview finally began, the counter on X showed 1.3 million logins, and the former president occasionally sounded muffled, prompting some listeners to comment that he sounded like a cartoon character, while others suggested it might be due to sound compression.

Musk, the richest person in the world, who supported the current president, Democrat Joe Biden, before the 2020 election, has since switched to Trump’s camp and dedicated the introductory part of the ‘conversation’ to praising Trump’s ‘courage’ during the assassination attempt on him on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a bullet hit him in the ear. Trump responded that he intends to return to Butler for a campaign rally in the final stretch of the campaign in October.

Subsequently, Trump repeated his numerous exaggerated claims, such as that Russia would not have attacked Ukraine if he had remained in office, praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, all authoritarian rulers, stating that they are ‘the best’.

Additionally, Trump expressed anger that current Vice President Kamala Harris became the Democratic candidate in the upcoming elections instead of President Joe Biden, who withdrew his candidacy, saying it was a ‘coup’.

– Since this whole fraud began, she has not given a single interview – Trump said, who lost all the advantages he had in the polls after that change.

Trump also praised Musk for the way he laid off workers in his companies.

– You are the best cutter. I mean, look what you did. You walk in, ask: ‘Do you want to resign?’ They go on strike – I won’t name the company – and then you say: ‘Okay, you are all former employees’. –

Before the interview itself, Trump returned to X, sending several messages on Monday, marking the first time in a year that he used that social network, which had been his main source of communication in previous campaigns as well as during his term in the White House.

Musk has supported Trump in false claims about election fraud in the last presidential elections and has also launched a special group that financially supports Trump’s campaign.