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Joe Biden Trolls DeSantis’ Glitchy Twitter Spaces Campaign Launch

As users were repeatedly attempting to connect to Elon Musk’s Spaces chat with Ron DeSantis, Joe Biden stepped in.

Joe Biden hilariously trolled Ron DeSantis’ haphazard campaign launch on Twitter spaces alongside Elon Musk after the site repeatedly crashed. As Musk expressed his frustration over the continuing technical issues that caused his chat with DeSantis to be delayed, President Joe Biden struck at exactly the right time with a simple line: “This link works.” The attached link contained a donation page “to reelect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.” The Twitter spaces chat eventually returned, with David Sacks saying they were “breaking new ground.” DeSantis said he chose the Spaces chat because of his apparent learnings from COVID, where he realized the “truth was censored repeatedly.” Musk later chimed in on the Twitter post, replying to Dodgecoin founder Billy Markus, aka Shibetoshi Nakamoto, who wrote: “okay credit where credit is due, this was a solid shitpost.” Musk said in response: “True,” with a laughing emoji alongside.

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