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Trump's website is coded with a broken server error message that blames Obama
2017-12-29
Images of humor code at link.
[Yahoo] If you're a fan of easter eggs hidden in source code, this is a pretty good one. Apparently, as Washington Post data reporter Christopher Ingraham observed on Twitter, some Trump administration and GOP websites have a portion of code with a joke that throws shade at Obama's golf habits, the irony nowhere to be found.

We checked the source code and sure enough the line "Oops! Something went wrong. Unlike Obama, we are working to fix the problem... and not on the golf course" appears on action.donaldjtrump.com sites, like the one hosting this surely statistically sound, Obama-obsessed "Inaugural Year Approval Poll," but not on donaldjtrump.com pages.

As Ingraham pointed out, it's also present on some official GOP sites, including the GOP.com homepage. In both instances, the Obama dig is paired with a 404 error message that states "What do Hillary Clinton and this link have in common? They're both dead broke." Both the Obama and Clinton insults have a distinctly Trumpian vibe, but surely neither is an exercise in Freudian psychological projection.

To top it off, the code itself is apparently itself broken, swapping a single equal sign where there should be two. An honest mistake? Or perhaps the world was never meant to be gifted with these very good jokes at all?
Nah. They're there so liberal code Nazis can create a safe bubble for sniveling micro-aggressed liberals to bathe in by correcting Trump's code-grammar.
Thanks, Obama!
Posted by:gorb

#3  Yeah, that is funny stuff.

As for the actual coding error, doing "=" instead of "==" is pretty common, so much so that some compilers even emit a warning when they see it.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-12-29 19:50  

#2  https://action.donaldjtrump.com/my_error_message/
and I see something different...
for a 404
"Don't worry - we are making America Great Again"
Posted by: 3dc   2017-12-29 19:01  

#1  Well, I think its a good sign when Trump's IT department is showing support AND a sense of humor.

Those Gawdawful liberals HAVE NO SENSE OF HUMOR. Gadzooks you can't even tell a good joke or watch a Bugs Bunny cartoon these days without some liberal wienie complaining about some kind of indignity.

I bet Trump's IT guys have been thoroughly vetted and are the polar opposite of the infamous Awan clan.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-12-29 11:27  

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