Harris Campaign Bashes Trump-Musk Interview as ‘Self-Obsessed Rich Guys’ Who ‘Cannot Run a Livestream’

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Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign bashed Elon Musk’s interview with former President Donald Trump that was hosted on X, The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter, issuing a statement that dunked on the two participants as “self-obsessed rich guys” who couldn’t run a livestream.

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. The interview finally got started around 8:45 pm ET.

Musk claimed the problem was due to a “ massive DDOS attack ,” but the rest of Twitter/X — including Spaces — was showing normal functionality for users, and The Verge reported that several sources at X said that “there wasn’t actually a denial-of-service attack,” and there was a “99 percent” chance Musk was not telling the truth.

The Harris campaign took a swing at her opponent for the glitch-riddled start to the interview, sharing one of Trump’s past tweets mocking Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for similar technical difficulties in his own campaign launch on Spaces back in May 2023 — on Trump’s own Truth Social platform. The campaign also posted several clips from the interview on its official X account, @KamalaHQ, throughout the evening.

After the interview concluded, the campaign tweeted “[o]ur statement on… whatever that was,” echoing the tone of past Harris campaign press releases that have aggressively mocked the former president.

“Donald Trump’s extremism and dangerous Project 2025 agenda is a feature not a glitch of his campaign, which was on full display for those unlucky enough to listen in tonight during whatever that was on X.com,” the statement read. “Trump’s entire campaign is in service of people like Elon Musk and himself – self-obsessed rich guys who will sell out the middle class and who cannot run a livestream in the year 2024.”