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Elon Musk says he will do several “system scaling tests” before his live stream with Donald Trump.
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Musk’s X platform crashed repeatedly while hosting Ron DeSantis’ campaign launch last year.
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Many mocked DeSantis’ event. Trump’s campaign called it a “total failure.”
It looks like Elon Musk is doing everything he can to make sure his upcoming interview with former President Donald Trump on Monday doesn’t go awry.
“I’m going to do some system scaling tests tonight and tomorrow before talking to Donald Trump,” Musk wrote in an X message on Sunday evening.
The mercurial billionaire continued the X platform stress test by streaming himself playing twice.
Musk’s first stream, which lasted about 19 minutes, had 2.1 million views, while his second stream, which lasted about 46 minutes, had 1.3 million views at press time.
Ensuring the stability of the X is probably Musk’s top priority given the platform’s lackluster performance last year.
In May 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launched his presidential campaign on X instead of cable television. However, DeSantis’ launch didn’t go exactly as planned. The much-hyped live broadcast got off to a rough start and faced several technical issues.
Many, including the Trump campaign, derided the disturbing live broadcast.
“Glitchy. Technical problems. Awkward silences. Completely failed to launch. And that’s just a candidate!” A Trump spokesperson told Business Insider at the time.
However, the DeSantis debacle doesn’t seem to have swayed Trump from doing a live-streamed X interview.
But while Trump may be happy to pop into X for an interview, he sticks to his own social media platform, Truth Social.
The once prolific tweeter moved 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 has only published it once — in August 2023, when he shared a photo of his mugshot saw and a link to his campaign website.
For what it’s worth, Musk’s public endorsement of Trump may have been crucial in slowly easing him back onto the platform. The GOP candidate has been praising Musk and his companies since Musk endorsed him.
On August 3, Trump told protesters in Georgia that he had changed his mind about electric vehicles after getting approval from the CEO of Tesla.
“I’m for electric cars. I have to be because Elon backed me very strongly. So I have no choice,” Trump told the crowd, adding that people should still have access to gas vehicles as well.
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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