Ron DeSantis Disastrous Presidential Announcement with Elon Musk, Servers Crash

Ron DeSantis Twitter Campaign Announcement A Mess ... Disaster Unfolds arsenic Servers Overload

5/24/2023 3:36 PM PT

Governor Ron DeSantis conscionable announced his tally for President connected Twitter ... but not without monolithic method nonaccomplishment arsenic Elon Musk says nan company's servers are to blame.

DeSantis made nan large announcement Wednesday connected nan vertebrate app ... dropping a run video that takes jabs astatine President Biden, blaming him for crime-filled streets and conflict astatine nan border. He goes connected to opportunity he's nan feline to lead nan "great American comeback."

Of course, DeSantis was slated to driblet nan large news successful a Twitter Spaces chat pinch Elon ... but evident method issues forced hundreds of thousands of listeners to perceive arsenic moderator David Sacks' audio kept cutting successful and out.

Elon tin beryllium heard saying Twitter's servers are struggling to support up -- and folks connected nan very aforesaid app are dragging him and nan full point for nan large messiness ... pinch 1 calling it a "car crash," while different calling DeSantis' grounded effort "a cleanable metaphor."

Even Biden took a jab astatine nan full point -- pinch a tweet to his aid page that reads, "This nexus works."

You'll recall, TMZ confirmed Elon was set to join DeSantis for nan declaration -- thing that appears to beryllium a push to make nan app consciousness much for illustration regular TV. Elon besides called connected ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon to start a show connected his level aft Tucker Carlson said he'd beryllium doing nan same. Obviously, this messiness mightiness make Elon reconsider.

As for DeSantis, he's been seen arsenic 1 of nan only candidates that stands a chance astatine knocking down erstwhile President Donald Trump -- who announced his bid for nan 2024 spot backmost successful November.

DeSantis picking Twitter for his announcement spot doesn't conscionable group him isolated from nan remainder of his competition, but it appears to beryllium a large "F-U" to Trump ... who infamously was taken disconnected nan platform aft nan Jan. 6 insurrection.

Trump's since gotten his relationship reinstated, but has devoted each his online talk to Truth Social alternatively -- it'll beryllium absorbing to spot if Desantis' usage of Twitter will reawaken his dormant account.