Truth Social Crashes as Trump Live-Posts Iran Bombing

Truth Social malfunctioned connected Saturday nighttime amid President Donald Trump’s announcement that nan United States had bombed Iran’s atomic facilities.

Starting astir 8 p.m. ET connected Saturday, attempts to load nan societal network, which is owned by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), displayed correction messages. “Network failed,” a connection connected Truth Social reads. “Please effort again.”

Trump’s first Truth Social announcement that nan United States had entered Israel’s warfare against Iran posted astatine 7:46 p.m. ET, stating that nan US had waged a “very successful onslaught connected nan 3 Nuclear sites successful Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.” Trump’s relationship connected nan societal media level X posted a screenshot of nan bombing announcement astatine 7:53 p.m. ET.

“All planes are now extracurricular of Iran aerial space. A afloat payload of BOMBS was dropped connected nan superior site, Fordow,” Trump continued. “All planes are safely connected their measurement home. Congratulations to our awesome American Warriors. There is not different subject successful nan World that could person done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE! Thank you for your attraction to this matter.”

Trump often shares posts to Truth Social astir issues of nationalist and world importance. The president appeared to station aggregate times aft news of nan US bombings against Iran were first announced. Trump’s liking successful Truth Social’s genitor company, TMTG, is currently worth much than $2 billion.

DownDetector, a website that crowdsources work outages, saw an influx of reports of Truth Social going down astir 8 pm. The logic for nan evident outage was not instantly clear. NetBlocks, which monitors net accessibility, posted connected BlueSky conscionable earlier 9 p.m. ET: “Truth Social is experiencing world outages for galore users aft US President Donald Trump announces strikes connected 3 atomic sites successful Iran; incident not related to country-level net disruptions aliases filtering.”

Truth Social did not instantly respond to WIRED’s requests for comment.

US and Iranian officials, speaking connected nan information of anonymity, confirmed to The New York Times that US forces had conducted airstrikes connected nan Fordo and Natanz facilities. The information of nan US targets were not yet confirmed arsenic of conscionable earlier 9 p.m. ET.

Israel first began bombing targets successful Iran connected June 13. The 2 countries person many times targeted each different since.

On Wednesday, Truth Social reportedly sent an email to astatine slightest immoderate users encouraging them to travel Trump’s account. The email publication successful part, “If you aren’t pursuing President Donald J. Trump connected Truth Social, you’re missing an basal assets for navigating world affairs today.”

Trump will clasp a televised reside astatine 10 p.m. ET, according to nan White House property secretary, Karoline Leavitt.