Elon Musk is doing a live interview with Trump on X and is trying hard to avoid a repeat of Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch collapse

• Elon Musk says he is doing several “system scaling tests” ahead of his live broadcast with Donald Trump.

• Musk’s X platform crashed repeatedly when it hosted Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch last year.

• DeSantis’ event was ridiculed by many. The Trump campaign, for example, called it a “total failure.”

It seems Elon Musk is making every effort to ensure that your next interview with the former president donald trump on Monday it doesn’t go wrong.

“I will do some system sizing tests tonight and tomorrow, before the conversation with Donald Trump,” Musk wrote in a statement. X post on Sunday night.

The mercurial billionaire went on to test the resilience of platform X by broadcasting games live, twice.

of musk first broadcastwhich lasted around 19 minutes, had 2.1 million views, while its second transmissionwhich lasted around 46 minutes, had 1.3 million views as of press time.

Ensuring the stability of X is likely a priority for Musk, considering the uneven performance last year.

In May 2023, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida launched his presidential campaign on X instead of cable television. DeSantis’ launch, however, did not go as planned. The much-vaunted live broadcast got off to a rocky start and found multiple technical difficulties.

The problematic live stream was ridiculed by manyincluding the Trump campaign.

“Glitchy. Technical problems. Uncomfortable silences. A complete failure to launch. And that’s just the candidate!” a Trump spokesperson told Business Insider then.

That said, the DeSantis debacle doesn’t appear to have dissuaded Trump from the idea of ​​doing a live-streamed X interview.

But while Trump may be happy to appear on X for an interview, he’s sticking to his own social media platform, Truth Social.

The once-prolific tweeter switched to Truth Social after being banned from the platform following the January 6 riots.

Although Musk reinstated Trump’s X account in November 2022, Trump only I posted on it once – in August 2023, when he shared a photo of himself and a link to his campaign website.

For what it’s worth, Musk’s declared support as Trump may have been instrumental in slowly bringing him back to the platform. The GOP nominee has been effusive in his praise of Musk and his businesses since Musk endorsed he.

On August 3, Trump told rally attendees in Georgia that he changed your mind in electric vehicles after obtaining the Tesla CEO endorsement.

“I’m for electric cars. I have to be because, you know, Elon supported me very strongly. So I have no choice,” Trump said. told the crowdadding that people should also have access to gas vehicles.

Representatives for Musk and the Trump campaign did not immediately respond to BI’s requests for comment sent outside normal business hours.

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