Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:49:00

This was a mistake https://bnonews.com/index.php/2021/01/u-s-state-department-m...

If the page gets fixed, it's archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/20210111200247/https://www.state...

Interesting to note that the time seems to be jumping around. Some staffer with backend templating access behind it?

This is not a great look for a .gov website right now.

Site's down for me due to "technical difficulties", but fails to give me a "Reference ID" so that I can contact support. Interesting...

Someone testing something in production looks like. If this was a real thing it would be in the news not as an odd footer.

I'm betting on some kind of glitch on the State Department website, but it's an interesting historical note that when Richard Nixon formally resigned in August 1974, he did so via a brief letter to then Secretary of State Kissinger.

Apparently state.gov runs on WordPress (if you View Source, there are a number of comments which reference WP plugins). My guess is something was badly configured and someone broke in and vandalized the page.

> UPDATE: Sources tell @BuzzFeedNews a "disgruntled staffer" is behind the State Department site's change of Trump and Pence's biographies. More TK.

https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1348725601335717889

Even if section 4 of the 25th amendment were validly invoked, it would not end the president's term. Such a procedure only temporarily removes the powers of the presidency to the VP. Ending the term would require impeachment.

Is this supposed to replace his Twitter feed?

It's a coded message 1 1 1 /s

Bizarre. There are no other words for it.

This now returns a 404

I am getting:

Donald J. Trump's term ended on 2021-01-11 19:48:41.

According to the state departments website, Trump's term ended ?

Yes, I know everyone hates Donald J. Trump.

And I know that most people have such a distorted view of his actions that someone could probably write an accurate biography with a fake name, and he would not be recognized by the left or the right.

But, please. He was the president, and he did a tremendous amount of things by all counts. He changed the world's attitude towards China and towards the Middle East.

Any other president would probably have used Covid to become dictator (see other countries), he instead boosted the States' power.

You may think that he made changes for the better, you may think for the worse. But he is commander in chief and he is leaving by all counts in another week.

A little respect looks a lot better and is much more manly than acting like a big baby and sore winner.