‘#DeSaster’ Memes Flood Web After DeSantis Campaign Launch

The internet hasn’t been kind to Ron DeSantis after his 2024 presidential campaign launch struggled with technical outages Wednesday night.

The governor of Florida made his presidential bid on the app in a virtual boardroom co-hosted by Twitter CEO Elon Musk. After more than 20 minutes of technical difficulties, Musk restarted the event. Although the redesign resolved the technical issues, the internet jumped at the chance to create memes, many using the hashtag #DeSaster, mocking DeSantis and Musk over the delayed start. #DeSaster started trending on Twitter shortly after the event ended.

Many memes played on the name of the event – Launch Prep, which was a pun combining DeSantis’ campaign launch and Musk’s business ventures of launching rockets into space with his company. manufacture of SpaceX spacecraft.

Newsweek contacted the DeSantis campaign via email for comment.

Internet users did not hesitate to make fun of the new presidential candidate.

“Live photo of Ron DeSatanist trying to relaunch his presidential bid. #DeSaster#FailureToLaunch”, one person tweeteddeliberately misspelled DeSantis and included a GIF of the America Online loading screen.

“Launch failed crashed #DeSaster,” another person tweetedincluding a DeSantis and Musk meme with frowns and a crashed rocket in the background.

Another person tweeted a still from the movie poster for “Failure to Launch,” but superimposing the faces of Musk and DeSantis on the stars of the 2006 romantic comedy Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey respectively.

Others implemented DeSantis’ drama with entertainment company Disney into their memes and some people mocked Twitter servers that failed within the first 20 minutes of DeSantis’ campaign announcement.

Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden were also quick to tease DeSantis’ launch. Trump roasted DeSantis by posting snippets of his Mar-a-Lago campaign ad peppered with applause and chants of support interspersed with glitch snippets and deafening comments and echoes that were the first 20 minutes of the launch by DeSantis. Biden was much more succinct, tweeting a simple “This link works” with his presidential campaign donations page.

Some high-profile Republicans supported DeSantis. Conservative political commentator Tomi Lahren called DeSantis’ kickoff “refreshing,” and former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis tweeted a series of positive messages regarding DeSantis’ kickoff.

Musk blamed his massive Twitter following of more than 140 million followers and the hype surrounding DeSantis’ expected announcement as the reason for the problems. He ended the Twitter Spaces event by offering the platform to other presidential candidates if they wanted to use it.