Donald Trump highly-anticipated interview with billionaire Elon Musk has been overshadowed by concerns from listeners that the former president was slurring his speech.
The interview ran into significant technical difficulties as it was due to broadcast live on X on Monday night, with users complaining that they could not access the link.
When the conversation finally kicked off around 40 minutes after it was due to begin, users noticed that the former president was “slurring” his words. write in simple words.
“In his interview with Elon Musk, Donald Trump appears to be audibly slurring,” one user wrote.
“Does anyone notice a strange sort of slur with Donald Trump in his interview with Elon Musk?” another user wrote.
“Does anyone notice a strange sort of slur with Donald Trump in his interview with Elon Musk?” another user wrote.
“Trump’s slurring…that lisp…what is going on,” another user asked.
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The Huffington Post’s White House correspondent wrote on X that he asked Trump’s campaign why he appeared to be slurring his words.
“Must be your s—-ty hearing. Get your ears checked out,” a spokesperson responded.
Earlier, Musk claimed that a “DDOS attack” caused the interview to be delayed.
“There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X. Working on shutting it down,” Musk wrote on X.
Elon Musk’s X platform faced significant technical issues during a highly anticipated live interview with former President Donald Trump, which was delayed by 40 minutes due to a massive cyber attack.
Despite the challenges, more than one million users tuned in to the platform to listen to the conversation.
The interview, which was initially scheduled to begin at a set time, encountered a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, a type of cyber attack that aims to overwhelm a server or network with traffic to disrupt service.
Musk, the owner of X, expressed his frustration with the attack, stating that it demonstrated significant opposition to Trump’s views.
Musk, who had previously endorsed Trump following an attempted assassination at a Pennsylvania rally last month, praised Trump’s resilience during the interview.
He noted Trump’s response to the incident, stating, “Instead of ducking down, you were pumping your fist saying ‘fight, fight, fight’.”
The conversation between the two covered a range of topics, including immigration, inflation, North Korea, and the potential for World War III.
Despite the technical difficulties, the interview provided a platform for Trump to share his views on various global issues.
Former President Donald Trump returned to the social media platform X on Monday morning for the first time in a year.
He had been banned by the platform’s previous owners following the January 6 Capitol riots in 2021, due to concerns that his posts could incite further violence.
