DeSantis' big launch on Twitter takes off like a Musk rocket

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

UPDATE: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 · 11:04:05 PM +00:00 · kos

Donald Trump responds, and … well, I think he’s drunk.

Trump now dunking on Twitter and Ron DeSantis, calling him "Rob" and bringing up Kim Jong Un for some reason. pic.twitter.com/AfaWuKW0H3

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 24, 2023

That took a weird turn...

UPDATE: Wednesday, May 24, 2023 · 10:59:47 PM +00:00 · kos

It’d be like if the escalator had just stopped halfway down…

— Jon Stewart (@jonstewart) May 24, 2023

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis scheduled his big presidential announcement for Wednesday night, on a Twitter Spaces with Elon Musk. Twitter Spaces allows users to broadcast live audio conversations on the platform. 

Except that Musk fired all his engineers, and the people left at Twitter are clearly scrambling to keep the whole app from crashing. Well, mission not accomplished. 

ok i give up on the ron desantis presidential campaign space, this is a disaster of a campaign launch, looks like desantis lost connection, no one in there is talking now, sitting in the space has crashed my app 3 times. i cannot wait for trumps statement on this mess

— pudding person (@JUNlPER) May 24, 2023

The fact that Twitter Spaces was making everyone crash was hilarious enough. But things got even better: 

You can hear them whispering about how it's crashing and I'm not sure they realize they're live?

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) May 24, 2023

Just take a moment to savor how humiliated Musk must’ve felt—and just one month after his big rocket failure. This humiliated: 

Ron DeSantis learning what happens when you launch things with Elon Musk pic.twitter.com/7RChrLEXtY

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) May 24, 2023

And if it was humiliating for Musk, imagine being DeSantis: 

I decided to leave when I realised Ron hadn't said anything for like 20 minutes and it was just Elon being praised by people for buying Twitter

— S Peter Davis 🐀 (@speterdavis) May 24, 2023

The DeSantis campaign tried to make the best of a terrible situation, tweeting, “It seems we broke the internet with so much excitement,” but it was the Biden campaign that won the night: 

This link works: https://t.co/9PzIJkseYI

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 24, 2023

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I can’t wait for Donald Trump’s mocking reaction. There is real joy in seeing that one-sided maul-fest.