Damian Dovarganes/AP
- President Donald Trump’s campaign website had an Easter egg message hidden in its source code.
- It was a joke about Obama golfing. The code containing the message was deleted shortly after it was discovered.
- Trump has spent 71 of his 346 days in office playing golf.
There has never been a president with the same passion for golf as Donald Trump.
Since he became president, he’s golfed on 71 separate days, according to a count by The Washington Post.
That’s why a lot of people found it funny when a snarky error message was found hidden in the Trump website’s Javascript code on Thursday.
It said:
“Oops! Something went wrong. Unlike Obama, we are working to fix the problem… and not on the golf course.”
https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/946462990504681472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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
As The Washington Post’s Christopher Ingraham wrote on Twitter, it’s unclear whether the error message was ever shown. The quip was intended to replace a basic “page not found” message, but there seemed to be errors in the code.
Regardless, the snippet of code has been removed from the website action.donaldjtrump.com, only a few hours after it was first discovered. But you can still see the joke in the source code if you access an archive.org cache of the site.
https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/946596807739445248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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.
Trump has spent 71 of his 346 days in office playing golf, according to The Washington Post, or a round every 4.9 days. Over President Obama’s eight years in office, he played 333 games of golf, or once every 8.8 days.
https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/103158206498476032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
@BarackObama played golf yesterday. Now he heads to a 10 day vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. Nice work ethic.
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