Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:25 pm
In a perfect analogy for the failing Donald Trump campaign, his new nightly “news” program broadcast on Facebook for just its second night broke down on Tuesday.
According to Time’s Zeke Miller, instead of having to stare at Rudy Giuliani and Boris Epshteyn, viewers were blessed with a “black ‘setting configuration error’.”
Trump FB Live is now down with black “setting configuration†error
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— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) October 25, 2016
Not only did the live video feed crash in the middle of its broadcast, but once the stream came back online, they blamed it on a Facebook conspiracy.
Offscreen voice as Trump TV comes back online after error re commenters "They’re blaming Facebook, saying it’s a conspiracy"
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) October 25, 2016
In a way, the crash is a perfect microcosm of the Trump campaign.
Not only is the Republican nominee’s crashing and burning as recent polling shows Hillary Clinton leading just about everywhere you look, but the Trump campaign is also blaming the implosion on a conspiracy: that the election is rigged.
It appears that Trump is heading for defeat in November, and his fallback of a post-election media empire seems to be flopping, too.
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
