Reported Grindr outages coincided with the memorial service for slain right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk, prompting some social media users to draw their own conclusions. The service was held in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday (21 September), after he was fatally wounded by a lone gunman during an open-air debate earlier this month. It has been reported that tens of thousands of people attended the service, which coincided with more than 168 reports of outages on Grindr - the baseline number is two.
Shapiro shared the details during the Monday episode of his eponymous show. The Daily Wire co-founder was recapping his time at the memorial service, which he said was emotionally overwhelming, when he briefly touched on the rekindled Musk-Trump relationship. I got a chance to say hello to Elon afterward, and he was quite happy, obviously, that he and the president have made up, Shapiro said. A moment earlier, the conservative commentator said the Trump-Musk moment was one of the big takeaways from the event.
So it's about 2,000 years ago in Jerusalem, and Jesus shows up and he starts talking about the people in power, and he starts doing the worst thing that you can do, which is telling the truth about people, and they hate it and they just go bonkers. They hate it, and they become obsessed with making him stop. This guy's got to stop talking. We've got to shut this guy up. And I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamplit room with a bunch of guys sitting around and eating hummus, thinking about what do we do about this guy telling the truth about us. We must make him stop talking.
Well, Elon came over and said hello. And, no, it's nothing to do with that. It was I thought it was nice. And he came over. Had a little conversation. We had a very good relationship. But it was nicer that he came.
The CNN broadcast a moment before Secretary of War Pete Hegseth took the stage and started speaking at 4:03 p.m. ET caught Trump leaning in to talk to his former DOGE boss inside his box at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ. Both men were leaning forward as they spoke to each other side-by-side, and Musk appeared to have a smirk on his face when he lifted his head after a moment.
The individual was approached by Secret Service and stated during the encounter that he was a member of law enforcement and that he was armed. The individual is not a member of authorized law enforcement working the event and is currently in custody, the Secret Service said. The agency added: The US Secret Service and local law enforcement are investigating the circumstances as to why he was at the location.