before you get the burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. desantis has officially entered the 2024 white house race. as we said, the livestream event on twitter got off to a rocky start, crashing several times with the announcement delayed by the more than 20 minutes due to a series of technical glitches. sorry about that, we ve got so many people here, i think we are kind of melting the servers. let s see, so yeah. just to simplify. let s see. crashing, huh? i think we re back online here. great. all right. well, it s certainly an incredible honor to have governor desantis make this stark announcement. oh, the technical troubles drew mockery on social media. president joe biden posted a link to his donation page, writing simply, this link works. and former president donald trump had a series of posts on truth social, calling the announcement fatal and a disaster. he also had one strange post where he wrote, quote, rob, my
sorry about that. we ve got so many people here, that i think we are kind of melting the servers. answering messages begin coming in over the station s teletype. ron desanctimonious needs a personally transplant, and those are not yet available. killed at $14 million, the station emboies the last word in radio transmission. let s see. crashing, huh? wow. ah. okay, you have to give a hat tip to dan and the gang for putting that together. good job. well. that was awkward. welcome to morning joe. that was our producers putting together their view of his failure to launch, ron desantis. on twitter. we can obviously talk about this an awful lot. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 25th. willie, the thing is, we re in the age of twitter. we re in the age of social media. everybody is going to freak out at that exact moment, and they certainly did. there was a meltdown over the meltdown. it was bad. i mean, it was bad on so
tried to spin it, oh, yeah, we broke the internet. that s not what happened, unfortunately, last night. it is possible that in a few months, as you look back, it might be we learn the internet broke ron desantis. it created a moment for donald trump, but equally important to that, it also when you look at the poll numbers and the degree to which desantis is his numbers are declining, it s probably undermined the confidence of a lot of the primary voters that he really desperately needs right now. there was a hashtag going last night, d-e aster. ron desater. ahead on morning joe, the marine veteran charged with manslaughter after a fatal choke hold on a new york city subway argues it has nothing to do with race. we ll take a look at that and why he is suggesting he d do it again. you re watching morning joe. we will be right back.
his numbers are declining, it s probably undermined the confidence of a lot of the primary voters that he really desperately needs right now. there was a hashtag going last night, d-e aster. those things can stick. he needs to get to iowa and new hampshire and impress people face-to-face, you know, a little more than he has now if he wants to have any chance at this. he may have hit, you know, to joe s point earlier, he may have hit his peak already. again, as you look at those numbers, last night did not help him in any manner. no. jennifer, if we move past the technical side of this, which most probably will by tomorrow, you get to the meat of what he and elon musk were talking about, you try to find what the message is, the rational is for the campaign, why he would beat