Donald Trump’s interview with Elon Musk on the billionaire entrepreneur’s social media platform X has suffered technical issues with some users having difficulty accessing the live stream.

The site showed that the page was “not available” shortly after the scheduled start time of 8pm Eastern Time
(1am UK time) for some users, though more than 115,000 people appeared to have joined successfully.

Minutes before the event was due to start, Musk posted that he was holding a conversation with Trump, not an interview, adding: “Nobody is quite themselves in an interview, so it’s hard to understand what they’re really like.”

The former US president – whose account on X (when it was known as Twitter) was suspended in 2021 after his supporters stormed the US Capitol – returned to the platform ahead of the event, making several posts.

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