Of their opening monologues on Tuesday evening, late evening speak present hosts Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers each took Donald Trump’s interview with tech mogul Elon Musk’s revamped Twitter, now often known as X, to job with jabs in regards to the technical difficulties suffered forward of the speak and a few slurred speech from the previous president.
Trump sat with Musk for a wide-ranging two-hour chat on X’s Areas. However at its outset, the chat was beset with technical difficulties, which Musk blamed on a Distributed Denial-of-Service assault.
“There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on X,” Musk posted. “Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.”
After a few 40-minute delay, the 2 males started the interview on the exact same platform the place each reached new ranges of fame and amassed a whole bunch of tens of millions of followers — or in Trump’s case, grew his following however then misplaced all privileges when he was banned in 2021, two days after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, solely to have his account reinstated below Musk’s possession. Trump, who launched a rival platform with Fact Social after his “permanent” banning, has tweeted eight instances since his debut on X (previously Twitter).
On The Late Present with Stephen Colbert, the host joked the interview was, “a big night for weird old rich guys with no friends.”
“Here’s the thing about Trump doing anything on Twitter now — he just reminds people of the awful reason he was banned to begin with,” Colbert mentioned. “It’s like getting a party invitation that says, Come celebrate. When: Tuesday, Where, Mason Park. Why? Because I’m finally allowed within 200 yards of the school again.”
Colbert then went after Musk for the tech points that he claimed brought on the delay: “I’m not waiting 40 minutes for anything unless it’s for the bacon cheese fries from the Shake Shack at LaGuardia,” the host joked.
“Musk took full responsibility and blamed the delay on a massive distributed Denial-of-Service attack on the site that saturated all our data lines,” Colbert defined. “Now, if that sounds made up to you — good ear because sources at Twitter later reported [according to The Verge] that there wasn’t actually a denial of service attack, and there was a 99 percent chance that Musk was lying.”
On Late Night With Seth Meyers, the host opened his present’s monologue with a mocking of the interview after which performed a clip of Trump discussing what he mentioned was a dialog with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“First of all, that didn’t happen,” Meyers claimed. “Second was Putin threatening to invade Ukraine or put an ice cream down your shirt. … Additionally, what’s going on together with his voice? He feels like a sugared-up child on Halloween who received’t take out his plastic vampire enamel.
Meyers additionally referred to as out a garbled reply from Trump. At some extent throughout their dialog, Trump mentioned, “We can talk about tunnels and rockets and electric cars, so many things. And now you’re into the A.I., and that’s going to be another beauty.”
Meyers joked of the complicated reply, “In fact, I think AI might have written that sentence.”
Because the November election approaches, Musk has leaned into the political clout that proudly owning Twitter affords. As famous in a New Yorker article this week, the mogul has used his huge affect as the corporate’s prime brass as he sounds off on the candidates, racial violence within the U.Okay. and even picked a struggle with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
