Note: I posted several more editorial cartoons that went online earlier today. Scroll down a bit for manual updates #1 — #5.
Not a Candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature
Good luck, Donald!
Trump Unleashed
Here’s Donny!
My Kingdom for a Lifeboat!
Attribution: Mike Peters, The Dayton Daily News, @mikebpeters
Manual Updates Posted Here
We Already Knew That
We’ll Miss You After November
A Perfect Symbol of Good Government
Improvising After Last Night’s Disaster
Update #3 — 1:20 pm ET
Shall We Dance?
But, It Means Something! LOL
It Happens to the Best of Us, Donald
Good to Know That
HUGE Sale Going On
What We Have Here… is Failure to Launch
More Disaster Than Entertainment
This Was Bound to Fail
Elon Musk guaranteed entertainment. He delivered technical difficulties instead.
Musk planned to host GOP nominee Donald Trump for an interview “Live on X,” formerly Twitter Spaces,” at 8 p.m. But for the second time in the 2024 presidential election, the social media site was glitchy and many users apparently couldn’t listen to the interview.
Musk posted that “there appears to be a massive DDOS attack on 𝕏. Working on shutting it down,” adding that he may proceed with the interview with a smaller set of listeners. DDOS stands for “distributed denial of service.”
The interview started about 45 minutes late…
The swirl of posts about technical difficulties echoed Musk’s previous X Live event with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who launched his Republican presidential primary campaign on an X live interview with Musk. As appeared to happen with Trump’s event, the site’s livestream portal, which is audio only, crashed.
“I’m assuming all the Trump supporters who ridiculed DeSantis for the crashing of his Twitter Space with Musk will do the same here. LOLOLOLOL,” wrote conservative commentator Erick Erickson, with a clown face emoji…
During the unstructured interview, Musk often agreed with Trump on issues like immigration, inflation and crime. Both men during the hour-plus interview rambled at times over the criminal cases Trump is facing as well as the ongoing foreign wars where the U.S. is providing aid.
Never a Good Sign
The Great Defenders of Free Speech
Not a Great Beginning
Bothsiderism
Trump Was Doing So Great Before Tonight’s Disaster
Destiny
The Man Loves Big Boats
It Was Just Meant to Be
The Rats Are Deserting the Big Ship
Scaredy Bull
Losing His Party — and the Election