X users lament tech problems preventing them from hearing Trump and Musk interview

Social media users were dismayed after the highly anticipated sit-down between X boss Elon Musk and ex-president Donald Trump was derailed at the outset by technical issues by around 40 minutes.

The two were supposed to begin chatting at 8 pm Monday on Spaces, as part of the site formally known as Twitter. Numerous users reported errors or said they could not get into the start conversation, which eventually got underway at 8.40 pm.

“Lmfao all of Spaces entirely broken,” one user posted. “Disastrous showing for Musk and frankly over the top second hand embarrassment for Trump.”

“Elon is screwing trump with his crap spaces,” posted another. “Spaces never works when it matters.”“I am having issues connecting to the X Spaces with Trump and Elon Musk,” wrote a third. “I guess I am not the only one. The<a rel=«nofollow» target="_blank" href=«https://x.com/hashtag/WarRoom?src=» https:>#WarRoom

on<a rel=«nofollow» target="_blank" href=«https://x.com/hashtag/Rumble?src=» https:>#Rumble is also having issues.”

The difficulties suffered by Musk and Trump echoed a similarly glitchy attempt by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to announce his now-scrapped presidential candidacy.

Shortly before the interview was set to get underway, Trump posted on X, “This is the biggest interview in history, and now, we’re asking YOU to make this President Trump’s BIGGEST FUNDRAISING DAY EVER! Before the interview is over, we’re calling on TEN MILLION Patriots to donate ANY AMOUNT and proudly say, I STAND WITH TRUMP!”

In May 2023, DeSantis agreed to publicly launch his campaign with a webcast on X, the first 30 minutes of which treated listeners to an audio pastiche of feedback, garbled speech and dropped connections. The audience dropped from an