Social media trolls Trump over broken link to ‘Fake News Awards’

President Trump unveiled his “Fake News Awards” in a tweet Wednesday, but the awards website crashed almost immediately.

Trump tweeted a link to the “winners” of the awards, which directs viewers to the Republican National Committee’s website. The site displayed an error message and appeared to crash from high traffic.

“The site is temporarily offline, we are working to bring it back up. Please try back later,” the error message read. 

And the FAKE NEWS winners are…https://t.co/59G6x2f7fD

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 17, 2018

{mosads}Social media users were quick to react to the crashed website. 

Man alive, they made rnc do this bit. And it’s a bad link…https://t.co/mpfiQcd644

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) January 17, 2018

it’s amazing that the president unintentionally sometimes provides rousing defenses of the press by creating a fake news awards website that doesn’t work

— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) January 17, 2018

404s & Heartbreak pic.twitter.com/YyAZjZdbYF

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) January 17, 2018

make servers great again

— Micah Grimes (@MicahGrimes) January 17, 2018

When you send out the Fake News Awards but it’s a broken link pic.twitter.com/B28rgGv4I4

— Jason Schwartz (@JasonSchwartz) January 17, 2018

This 404 error has really cheapened the spirit of the Fake News Awards.

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 17, 2018

this Break The Internet issue of Paper is weird

— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) January 17, 2018

President Trump has announced the winners of the Fake News Awards, and they are: pic.twitter.com/nE9KdqPB9G

— Allison Wisk (@allisonwisk) January 17, 2018

Is this on a fake server? https://t.co/cvrbmUvj09

— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) January 17, 2018