After technical delays, Trump talks immigration and tech policy with Musk

About the same time and in what was expected to be a big reveal, ex-President Donald Trump was to discuss with billionaire Elon Musk but technical glitches canceled the event on Monday as some users of Musk’s X app complained that they could not get into it. 
 
It was about 40 minutes past the usual 8 p. m. ET the president and Musk began the discussion, which like most Trump events, was more of a lecture by Trump, and intermittent questions by Musk on topics both men are known to support. On immigration they stood together; as both of them – they said that if immigration goes on at the current rate the US becomes not really a country. 
 
Speaking spontaneously and even recklessly, Trump used rude words to describe his rivals – he recently called President Joe Biden ugly, saying that he looks like he has a ‘stupid face. ’ He reeled out ridiculous narratives such as the one trhythmug that ‘the Congo,’ which is not a nation, has cleared most of its prisons and deported the prisoners to America. 
 
Tesla’s head Musk attempted to persuade Trump into doing something regarding climate change and turning from fossil-based energy but the latter seemed pretty uninterested saying that energy innovation was not his thing. 
 
Speaking of new models and materials, Trump asked: “I’m sort of waiting for you to come up with solar panels on the roofs of your cars. ” 
 
The tech problems resembled earlier malaise in May 2023 when Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, declared his Republican presidential campaign on X only to be bested by his badly contaminated servers suggesting that the site could not take the amount of traffic. 
 
The audio-only discussion was then started and continued for over two hours. The carnival generated an audience that was above 1. 3 million listeners at the height of its popularity, as X has it in its tally. The event was held when Trump lowered his public activity, as during the campaign on July 13 a would-be assassin tried to shoot him at a rally in Pennsylvania. 
 
Trump and Musk spent the start of the event regaling people with the story of the attempted assassination, what the Secret Service could have done to avoid it and Trump’s reaction in the aftermath where he held up a fist. 
 
“I just want to add that I believe a lot of people are envious of your balls to some extent there,” Musk said. 
 
Trump later quipped that without illegal immigration, he would have been a dead man, referring to the topic and a chart he was discussing when shoots were fired. 
 
During the conversation another user posted what seemed to be a picture of Trump. 
 
Trump’s campaign marketed the event beforehand as “the interview of the century,” while Musk had spoken earlier that the event’s only restriction would be that there would be “no topics off-limits. ” 
 
This is the reason why Musk said at one point that the first problems were due to a ‘massive’ DDOS attack on X However, before launching the beta version of its social network, Musk again posted on Twitter about some internal problems; he stated that he had witnessed a ‘massive DDOS attack on X’. NBC News could not confirm Musk’s assertion. 
 
An one analyst specialized in volumetric type of tergeted attack, the most common one that simply bombards a computer net with a huge amount of fake traffic, telling that recent traffic on the Internet did not reveal an attack on X that, otherwise, operated perfectly. The expert insisted that we should not use his name fearing that he will be fired for speaking to us. 
 
All this internet traffic got me thinking about something that Alp Toker, the director of Netblocks, a company that tracks internet traffic, said on X: ‘Any sufficiently overloaded server is indistinguishable from a DDoS’. 
 
Some of the X users which were interviewed considered it to be technical problem with X while others thought it was an attack. At some point, the word “crashed” was also on X’s trending list, and users complained about not being able to join the event because of app’s software. 
 
There were complaints that joining the group was somehow very hard, however, it looked like the scammers were capitalising on this. A ‘Tesla’ fake YouTube channel was posting what seemed like a doctored video of Musk instructing viewers to scan a QR code to ‘double up’ on their crypto investment. All these scams employ more or less the same strategies, all with the intention of defrauding the victims out of their bitcoins. 
 
The event showed how much Trump and Musk have kissed and makeweight in their moments of affectionate and hostile periodicity. This was perhaps the first time that the two were seen together in public since Trump occupied the White House even though they met at least once this year in Palm Beach, Florida in a private capacity. 
 
Last month Musk supported Trump for another term at the White House, and as one of the richest people in the world has backed up his words with money donating to a political action committee seeking to mobilise people to vote in the Nov. 5 election. 
 
Still, a Trump success in the coming fall may well turn out to be an advantage for Musk’s business ventures. His companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, are in various legal battles against the Biden administration, and Trump promised deregulation. 
 
Still, Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and her VP pick Minnesota Governor Tim Walz have also seen an influx of posters tweeting pro-Harris content, memes, and even videos. 
 
But this is not the first time that Musk shows affection to Trump – far from it In fact, the two were not entirely fond of each other in the past. In 2022, Musk said he’d like to see Trump “hang up his hat & sail into the sunset,” and Trump hit back, writing on Truth Social that he had Musk over a barrel when Musk visited the White House: It only needed me to say ‘drop to your knees and beg’ and he would have complied. ” 
 
Musk later said he would vote for DeSantis in the 2024 GOP primaries; he personally hosted the event on x to kick off DeSantis’ campaign. 
 
Another important question that has been looming large over the Trump-Musk partnership has been the president’s stand on federal funding of electric cars, including Tesla. Trump himself condemned measures aimed at increasing electrification, although Tesla controls billions of dollars a year in regulatory credits. 
 
Trump highlighted the divergence on Monday when he told Musk that he has an ‘incredible’ product but that does not mean everyone should have an electric car.