Karma is a botched interview plagued with technical problems. Donald Trump‘s livestream with Elon Musk on X Spaces failed before it even began. On Monday evening, a major glitch on the Musk-owned platform delayed the event by 40 minutes.
The service troubles echoed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ bumpy campaign rollout on X (formerly Twitter) last year, which Trump mocked at the time, writing on Truth Social: “Wow! The DeSanctus TWITTER launch is a DISASTER!”
As the tables turned on Monday, Musk assured listeners that “worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.” The interview with Trump eventually began around 8:40 p.m. E.T. and the former president proceeded to rollout his usual laundry list of bigotry and rambled about immigration, crowd sizes, and his chummy relationships with dictators.
During the…