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For a few hours the banner of Donald Trump's website contained a familar face. The poop emoji.
Perhaps foreshadowing the state in which we're in, the little character appeared in the banner of donaldjtrump.com on Tuesday afternoon.
This was a bug rather than a hack, and it allowed users to write in whatever they wished by adding it into the URL.
Many people posted the poop emoji.
Btw the T/P press release archive has a poo emoji header RN: https://t.co/imdHVQP9GS #ElectionNight https://t.co/Awk006FdKo— Mark Hintz (@Mark Hintz) 1478642833
There's a poop emoji in the archive section of Trump's website rn. https://t.co/OK2lrln8xZ— Ema O'Connor (@Ema O'Connor) 1478642692
Others were more creative, if less fecal:
Trump website flaw allowed anyone to 'hack' it https://t.co/UX9EW4UYbd https://t.co/Z5VcXjFwjg— Engadget (@Engadget) 1478646697
The internet just had a ridiculously fun time with this url hack of Trump’s website https://t.co/mmvVXSOK80 https://t.co/6dv6F8HgnG— Kashmir Hill (@Kashmir Hill) 1478646579
You can change the text on Donald Trump's website by editing the URL https://t.co/AaagZKERa6— Backbench (@Backbench) 1478644786
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