Liveblogging is harder than it looks. And these days, even Twitter can’t broadcast live political events without embarrassing glitches. But maybe before heavily hyping his “play-by-play” response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address, Donald Trump should have made sure that Truth Social could handle the traffic — and that he actually had something interesting to say.

Earlier on Thursday, Trump said he’d provide live speech commentary on his troubled social-media site, which he called “THE REAL VOICE OF AMERICA!”

Tonight I’m going to be doing the role on The State of the Union that the Media should be doing, but won’t because they are corrupt and compromised. TUNE INTO TRUTH SOCIAL, THE REAL VOICE OF AMERICA!

Donald Trump Truth Social 04:04 PM EST 3/07/24

But just as Biden’s speech started, Truth Social came crashing down, as the Daily Beast noted:

Beginning shortly before 9 p.m. EST Thursday, outages numbered in the thousands, according to Downdetector. The outages peaked an hour later and then began to slowly resume back to normal, according to the monitor.

Those who were able to see Trump’s posts didn’t find........

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