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Trump's Website Is Coded With a Broken Server Error Message That Blames Obama (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the thanks-Obama dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: 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." 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?

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  1. First rule of Rove style politics by rsilvergun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    is always be accusing your opponent of whatever it is you do.

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    1. Re:First rule of Rove style politics by arth1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Good thing Hilldog only got to sell Uranium to Russia and not the entire country.

      I'm astonished how many redneck Trump voters who believe this even after it's been debunked, even by republicans. It must be fun living in a fairy tale universe where saying something three times makes it true.

      https://www.snopes.com/hillary...
      https://www.factcheck.org/2015...

      Meanwhile, in the real world, I'd be far more worried about a president who lies so much. I''m not saying that Hillary Rodham Clinton is a honest person, but Donald John Trump has taken outright fabrication to a whole new level.

      http://www.politifact.com/pers...

    2. Re:First rule of Rove style politics by Freischutz · · Score: 4, Informative

      but then, you are not an infantile narcissist who is looking to sell the US to the highest bidder

      Good thing Hilldog only got to sell Uranium to Russia and not the entire country. Now we just have to wait for the Rove style politics to fade away so people can come to reality and see that Trump is not involved with Russia, that the leftists are just gaslighting the country.

      She never sold any Uranium to Russia, she was one of numerous people whose government agency approved a deal where Russian investors were allowed to buy a company that controls 20% of the US uranium manufacturing capacity. If Trump ever decides that this Russian owned company's US based Uranium manufacturing operation is up to any kind of shenanigans he can send in the FBI, HLS, CIA, National Guard, Army, Navy, Air Force, Police and anybody else the thinks best qualified to put a stop to it. Not that I expect that Trump will need to or want to do that in view of what good terms he is with his bestest friend Vladimir. (Fun fact: The Uranium One deal was unanimously approved by no less than nine US government agencies and Hillary only had control over one of them, the State Department).

    3. Re:First rule of Rove style politics by david_thornley · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's comment like "redneck Trump voters" that helped get Trump elected.

      No, actually, since Trump was much freer with the insults. If "deplorables" had had a significant effect, Trump's denouncing of ex-POWs and other groups would have gotten him canned where he belonged Trump voters didn't give a crap about insults, they just followed their Fuehrer. (Note: Trump is not a good comparison to Hitler, but Trump followers are a good comparison to Hitler followers.)

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  2. Hah! I get it... by Kenja · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's funny because Trump has spent one day in four on a golf course. Or is it not supposed to be irony?

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    1. Re: Hah! I get it... by Dragonslicer · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Did you just pull that stat out your ass?

      Hm, let's see...

      Nope, one in four is just about right.

    2. Re: Hah! I get it... by Freischutz · · Score: 4, Informative

      Does this count the number of times he golfed? Or just the number of times he went to a golf course? He owns a bunch of them, you know...

      If the former, then he gets an amazing amount of work done while golfing. If the latter, well - fake news is fake, ya know?

      Hmmm... Let's click the nifty complete data table link and find out shall we...

      40 confirmed golfing trips.
      28 probable golfing trips.
      17 probably non-golfing related trips to a Golf course.

      So even if we discard everything except Trump's confirmed golf trips he's been golfing every eight days at a cost of at least $42,510,956 to the tax payer. I'm sure you'll consider that a good investment of your taxes.

  3. All You Need to Know by PGaries · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm gonna be working for you; I'm not going to have time to go play golf. Believe me."

    —Donald Trump (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBqB_3j4Qts)

    Next someone'll tell me that Mexico is paying for a wall.

  4. Re:Vladimir Putin will fix this and the next elect by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 4, Funny

    Including an intimate evening with Kellyanne Conway.

    I think I threw up a little in my mouth. Does she cosplay as Skeletor for you at the same time?

  5. Pathetic by tsa · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My deity what a pathetic bunch of losers rule the US.

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  6. Disgusting by DaMattster · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Trump's behavior is disgusting, unprofessional, and unbecoming of a sitting president of the leader of the free world. The lack of respect that he shows for the office is deplorable. Typically once an election ends, so does the name calling and blaming. Once an election ends, the elected official assumes a much more civil and responsible position. I erroneously thought Trump would do so when I heard him say, "President Obama is a good guy." and this is a direct quote during their pre-inaugural meeting. It turned out that Trump simply continues his campaign as if he is still in an election.

    The power invested in the President of the United States is not one to be taken lightly: it is not reality television. A stroke of the pen that enacts a law can cause some people to suffer while others are helped. Shifting policies can cause people real and palpable hardships. The War Powers Act allows a sitting president to wage conventional warfare for a period of 90 days without congressional authority. This is serious business. Sending soldiers to a battlefield where they could be killed or maimed is a heavy responsibility and one that Trump is incapable of appreciating.

    1. Re:Disgusting by quantaman · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Trump's behavior is disgusting, unprofessional, and unbecoming of a sitting president of the leader of the free world. The lack of respect that he shows for the office is deplorable. Typically once an election ends, so does the name calling and blaming. Once an election ends, the elected official assumes a much more civil and responsible position. I erroneously thought Trump would do so when I heard him say, "President Obama is a good guy." and this is a direct quote during their pre-inaugural meeting. It turned out that Trump simply continues his campaign as if he is still in an election.

      I have a way of trying to model people I disagree with.

      When they say or do something I don't like I find there's usually two interpretations. First is the cartoon caricature where they're really evil/stupid/dishonest and performed the action for those reasons. Second, is they're a fundamentally rational well intentioned person, and while I disagree with their objectives I can't say their action was totally out of line.

      Historically I've done really well assuming the second, assuming the best of my opponents usually gives me the best understanding and I'm rarely surprised by the media... until Trump.

      Ever since he started his campaign I kept looking for evidence of the smart rational person underneath the mask and I've never found it. He can't understand complicated concepts, he's extremely susceptible to manipulation and flattery, he has temper tantrums, he'll say ridiculous lies if it makes his current social interaction easier, he has an extremely limited attention span, just look at any event where he's supposed to stand still, he fidgets!

      I don't know if it's cognitive decline, decades of being at the centre of his own universe, or if he's always been that way. But the most reliable way to model Trump is to imagine a very spoiled child between the ages of 8 and 12.

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  7. Mentally unstable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    In 298 days, President Trump has made 1,628 false and misleading claims