Musk laughed and agreed as Trump described a nation on the verge of the apocalypse—even where it put him at odds with the tycoon's own business interests.
In a rambling, over two-hour conversation in an X Space, Elon Musk caved to former president Donald Trump on policy issues that directly affect the billionaire’s businesses, like energy policy and climate change. Trump dominated the conversation, appearing to speak with a pronounced lisp and at times leaving little room for Musk to speak.
“A Distributed Denial of Service attack against our servers saturated about all of our data lines like, we had hundreds of gigabits of data saturated,” Musk said at the top of the call. “We think we've overcome most of that.” This isn’t the first time a political X Space glitched out. Florida governor Ron DeSantis planned to announce his presidential campaign in an X Space with Musk last year, but the platform couldn’t withstand the more than 660,000 listeners.
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