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stated on January 31, 2025 in an Instagram post:

An image of a website error code shows the Trump administration “trolling” former Vice President Kamala Harris.

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By Ciara O'Rourke
February 7, 2025

No, this webpage isn’t evidence of the Trump team ‘trolling’ Kamala Harris

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  • This error code appears on former Vice President Kamala Harris’ personal website, not the White House’s site.

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A screenshot of a website for “The Office of Kamala D. Harris” is getting a slow clap on social media as an example of President Donald Trump’s White House pillorying the previous administration. 

“The White House team deserves an award for their trolling abilities,” a Jan. 31 Instagram post said, sharing an image of an error page for “The Office of Kamala D. Harris” that says “404” and “This page is unburdened by what has been.” 

This post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and Threads.)

The image is authentic, but it’s from former Vice President Kamala Harris’ personal website, not the White House website, or another federal site. 

And before Trump supporters started pointing to it as evidence of Trump dunking on his onetime presidential rival, other social media users were appreciating Harris for winking at something she said on the campaign trail. Or as the Columbia Journalism Review put it, an “infamous Harrisism.” 

“The 404 page on Kamala Harris’s website is pretty incredible,” an X post from Eric Michael Garcia, the Independent’s Washington bureau chief, said. 

There is a White House page dedicated to Harris; it’s an archive of her vice presidential page during the Biden administration. 

“This is historical material ‘frozen in time,’” a message at the top of the page says. “The website is no longer updated and links to external websites and some internal pages may not work.” 

We rate claims the 404 error message is the Trump White House’s handiwork False.

 
Our Sources

Instagram post, Jan. 31, 2025

X post, Jan. 25, 2025

Kamala Harris website, visited Feb. 6, 2025

The White House, Kamala Harris, visited Feb. 6, 2025

Columbia Journalism Review, Fact-checking, unburdened by what has been, Aug. 23, 2024

 

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