Towards the end of his conversation with Elon Musk about X on Monday night, Donald Trump raised the possibility that he might lose the election.

"If something happens with this election, which would be a horror show, we'll meet next time in Venezuela," Trump said. "Because it's a much safer place to meet than our country. You and I will go to Venezuela and we'll have a meeting and dinner."

It was a rare moment of vulnerability in a marathon reading that lasted more than two hours, after a 40-minute delay due to technical problems.

Musk blamed a denial-of-service attack for the outage, with many X users reporting they were unable to join the conversation on Spaces.