Harris Campaign Mocks Musk’s Twitter Space Tech Glitches — On Trump’s Truth Social

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Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign wasted no time in ridiculing the glitch-filled beginning to a Twitter Space with her opponent, former President Donald Trump , and Elon Musk — bringing the mockery to Trump’s own platform, Truth Social.

The chat between Musk and the ex-president got off to a late start, as many users were initially unable to tune in for over half an hour after the Space was supposed to open. Musk claimed the problem was a “massive DDOS attack,” and the interview finally got started around 8:45 pm ET.

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had launched his presidential campaign on a Twitter Space, there were similar technical problems, and Trump unsurprisingly pounced.

“Wow!” he wrote on his Truth Social account the evening of May 24, 2023. “The DeSanctus TWITTER launch is a DISASTER! His whole campaign will be a disaster. WATCH!”

Trump’s campaign issued a statement mocking DeSantis along similar lines, as well as posting memes and videos like the one below, making DeSantis’ logo resemble the one used by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush .

The Harris campaign used its own Truth Social account to throw these words back at Trump, “retruthing” — the Truth Social term for retweeting or sharing — his May 24, 2023 post.

Screenshot via Truth Social.

White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates offered a succinct comment on the debacle, retweeting a Team Trump post attacking DeSantis with a simple “Well done.”

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