Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s interview with X owner Elon Musk was knocked offline crashed on Monday evening after it came under a “massive DDOS attack”.

The highly anticipated interview had hundreds of thousands of people listening live when it crashed right after it launched around 8 p.m. EST.

“There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on ????,” Musk posted on the site. “Working on shutting it down. Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.”

There appears to be a massive DDOS attack on ????. Working on shutting it down.

Worst case, we will proceed with a smaller number of live listeners and post the conversation later.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024

Musk said that earlier in the day his team “tested the system with 8 million concurrent listeners”.

He added that X would proceed with a smaller number of concurrent listeners at 8:30 p.m. EST “and then post the unedited audio immediately thereafter.”

We will proceed with the smaller number of concurrent listeners at 8:30 ET and then post the unedited audio immediately thereafter https://t.co/oxF8PsNHnZ

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 13, 2024

Musk said that the distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack was proof of how much opposition there was to letting people hear what Trump has to say.