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The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster

Elon Musk, with a background of Twitter badges
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Photo: Getty Images

Elon Musk’s “conversation” with former President Donald Trump got off to a rocky start. The interview, which was hosted on X Spaces and scheduled to begin at 8PM ET Monday night, crashed almost immediately and didn’t begin until 42 minutes later

Those who did manage to get into the Space, including several Verge staffers, said it kicked off with lo-fi techno playing from Trump’s account for roughly 30 minutes.

Eighteen minutes after the conversation was supposed to begin, Musk claimed X was the target of a “massive DDOS attack” that had made it impossible for the Space to proceed as planned.

But the rest of X appears to be working normally for Verge staffers, and a source at the company confirmed to The Verge there wasn’t actually a…

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