Until recently, if you got a technical error while browsing President Trump’s website instead of a traditional “page not found,” the error message, if it worked correctly, was meant to toss a little fun shade at his predecessor.
“Oops! Something went wrong. Unlike Obama, we are working to fix the problem… and not on the golf course,” the message used to read, at least according to the original coding, which was found and reported by Washington Post data reporter Christopher Ingraham.
The website of Donald Trump, who has spent several days in a row at the golf course, is coded to serve up the following message in the event of an internal server error: https://t.co/zrWpyMXRcz pic.twitter.com/wiQSQNNzw0
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) December 28, 2017
Except, the code itself is apparently broken so it never actually displayed the message, according to reports.
Another message deep within the coding is just as funny, if not funnier.
the 404 is just as good – 'What do Hillary Clinton and this link have in common? They're both "dead broke."' https://t.co/486wqIzWfB
— Hey, it's M@! (@SQLKohai) December 29, 2017
Soon after the coding was discovered, it was removed from the websites, according to Ingraham.
UPDATE: The golf error message has been removed from the Trump and GOP websites. They also fixed the javascript "=" vs "==" problem. Still not clear when these messages would actually display, since the actual 404 (and presumably 500) page displays a different message pic.twitter.com/Z7dmyQ5smy
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) December 29, 2017
“That suggests that someone at either RNC or the Trump admin is sensitive enough to Trump’s golf problem to make this issue go away quickly once people noticed. You have no idea how much I’d love to see the email exchange that led us here,” the Washington Post reporter wrote. “What a time to be alive.”
That suggests someone at either RNC or the Trump admin is sensitive enough to Trump's golf problem to make this issue go away quickly once people noticed. You have no idea how much I'd love to see the email exchange that led us here.
— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) December 29, 2017
The replacement? A perfectly worded, “Don’t worry, we’re making it great again.”
Yep, snarky remarks are great, but it’s hard to say it any better than that!
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