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Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cconversation\u201d<\/a> with former President Donald Trump got off to a rocky start. The interview, which was hosted on X Spaces and scheduled to begin at 8PM ET Monday night, crashed immediately<\/a> and didn\u2019t begin until 42 minutes later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Those who did manage to get into the Space, including several Verge<\/em> staffers, said it kicked off with lo-fi techno playing from Trump\u2019s account for roughly 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n 18 minutes after the conversation was supposed to begin, Musk claimed that X was the target of a \u201cmassive DDOS attack\u201d that had made it impossible for the Space to proceed as planned. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n The rest of X appears to be working normally, however, and a source at the company confirmed to The Verge<\/em> that there wasn\u2019t actually a denial-of-service attack. Another X staffer said there was a \u201c99 percent\u201d chance Elon was lying about an attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In a series of follow-up posts on X, Musk claimed the company tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners on Monday. Around the time that the interview began, X said there were 915,000 people listening to the Space.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Musk repeated the DDOS claim when the Space finally began around 8:40PM ET. \u201cAs this massive attack illustrates, there\u2019s a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The interview\u2019s failure to get off the ground was reminiscent of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019s 2023 announcement on X that he was running for president, which also began with technical difficulties<\/a>. At the time, Musk attributed the problems to overloaded servers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n