The X live stream initially ran into technical difficulties, but users were able to join after a 40-minute delay. Trump reiterated some of his most divisive talking points, particularly around immigration.
United States Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump largely stuck to familiar campaign themes in a live X interview with the social platform's billionaire owner Elon Musk that was initially beset by technical problems. The site showed that the page was "not available" shortly after the scheduled start time of 10am AEST for some users, though more than 1.3 million people appeared to have joined successfully after a 40-minute delay.
attack, saying that he had tested the system earlier in the day with eight million concurrent listeners. stands for distributed denial of service, which occurs when a site is flooded with traffic in an effort to overwhelm the servers on which the site is hosted and thus make it inaccessible. When the conversation eventually started, Musk said the "massive attack illustrates there's a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say". It's a convention in the US to sometimes refer to former presidents using their previous titles.
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