Last Updated on August 12, 2024

X came under what's being described as a "massive DDOS attack" coinciding with the start of Elon Musk's live conversation with 45th President Trump, which was scheduled to begin at 8:00 PM ET on Monday evening. Though the start time was delayed by roughly forty minutes, the DDOS attack failed to silence Trump and Musk.

"There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X," Elon Musk posted 18 minutes after the space's scheduled kick-off time, as millions of users reported their inability to join the space. "Working on shutting it down," he added.

Despite the DDOS attack, the Musk-Trump space officially got underway at around 8:41 PM ET, to a more than million-strong live audience.

"As this massive attack illustrates there's a lot of opposition to people just hearing what President Trump has to say, but I'm honored to have this conversation," said Musk as the space opened.

"Congratulations because I see you broke every record in the book with so many millions of people," Trump said.

"We have to consider it an honor," he said of the attendance and the attempts to take the space offline.

Listen to the Official Trump-Musk Space Recording HERE

As National File reported: