Donald Trump is back on X and his dentures keep falling out.
That's what most people (including me) who didn't listen to Trump's embarrassing interview with Elon Musk on X's Spaces last night began finding out today.
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Even under its new hard-right owners, Politico was forced to admit that Musk's sad excuse of an interview devolved into "yet another X catastrophe."
Even right-wing tabloid The Daily Mail had to admit there was only one real star of the show: Trump's lisp.
Before it became an embarrassment to the candidate, Musk's online MAGA rally appeared to be a total humiliation for the tech "genius," exploding faster than a speeding Tesla.
The man who thinks he can relocate humanity to Mars is still woefully incompetent at setting up a live audio chat on the social media platform he owns right here on Planet Earth. (Maybe he should have used Zoom.)
The same thing happened to Ron DeSantis in 2023 when he tried to launch his own failed Presidential campaign on X.
Back then, Trump mocked "DeSanctus"—and Twitter—mercilessly, a fact the Kamala Harris campaign was quick to pounce on.
Musk blamed the event's failure to launch on a "massive DDOS attack," a claim that was quickly ridiculed by people who know about these things.
As ABC News reports:
At one point, the Spaces was abruptly ended and then restarted – all as Musk and others could apparently be heard discussing the malfunctions behind the scenes.
When it resumed, 45 minutes late, with a limited audience, it soon became clear that Donald Trump had been shouting so much about Kamala's crowd sizes and new TIME cover that he had dislodged his dental work and was speaking with a noticeable lisp.
On X, it seems, DDoS doesn't mean "Distributed Denial of Service."
DDoS stands for "Donald Duck on Spaces"
Trump's lisp quickly had X users comparing him to Donald Duck. And things went downhill from there.
The fact that this has happened so many times before, made the attempts to blame it on a "bad mic" as laughable as the content of the discussion.
In one 5-minute segment, Elon Musk tried to engage Trump in a conversation about climate change as if he were a normal person with a basic understanding of the issue.
Trump's solution? This is literally what he told Elon Musk:
I’m sort of waiting for you to come up with solar panels on the roofs of your cars and on the trunks of the cars, and it just seems like something that at some point you will come up with – I’m sure you’ll be the first – but it would seem that a solar panel on the roofs, you know on flat surfaces, on certain surfaces might be good at least in certain areas of the country or the world where you have the sun.
As David Smith noted in the The Guardian, this was "another stellar idea by the very stable genius who brought you injecting bleach as a cure for coronavirus."
Discussing the new TIME Magazine cover featuring Kamala Harris, Trump said:
I saw a picthure of her on Time Magazine today. She looks like the most beautiful actress ever to live... She looked very much like our great first lady, Melania. She didn’t look like Camilla. But of course, she’s a beautiful woman so we’ll leave it at that.
Elon just chuckled.
Trump also attacked unions and applauded Musk for his aggressive tactics against them.
The Harris campaign posted an NBC clip on Threads noting that "Donald Trump praised Elon Musk for having mass firings and layoffs at his multiple companies, saying 'they go on strike, that's okay, then you're all gone.'"
Trump's bro-hug of the union-busting Musk, didn't sit well with the UAW, who created a new video based on the audio, and posted it with the caption: "He's for the billionaires. Not for you. Donald Trump is a scab."
Musk is, of course, trying to spin X's latest embarrassment as a success, tweeting that it received "1 billion" combined views. Musk's claim prompted hordes of blue check users to immediately started posting tweets that "one billion people" had watched the debacle. In reality, the event itself had maxed out at a little more then one million listeners.
The "rambling" Trump, as expected, slurred his way through numerous lies on inflation, violent crime, sea levels, immigration, and more.
But more than anything, last night's event revealed that:
a) Musk is just as incompetent and "self-obsessed" as Trump;
and:
b) Under Musk, X has become such a Mickey Mouse operation that it can transform a would-be dictator into Donald Duck.
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