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

Sarah RumpfAug 12th, 2024, 9:10 pm
 
Kamala Harris laughing

AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson

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.

Kamala HQ 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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Sarah Rumpf joined Mediaite in 2020 and is a Contributing Editor focusing on politics, law, and the media. A native Floridian, Sarah attended the University of Florida, graduating with a double major in Political Science and German, and earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the UF College of Law. Sarah's writing has been featured at National Review, The Daily Beast, Reason, Law & Crime, Independent Journal Review, Texas Monthly, The Capitolist, Breitbart Texas, Townhall, RedState, The Orlando Sentinel, and the Austin-American Statesman, and her political commentary has led to appearances on the BBC, MSNBC, NewsNation, Fox 35 Orlando, Fox 7 Austin, The Young Turks, The Dean Obeidallah Show, and other television, radio, and podcast programs across the globe.