Truth Social experienced a widespread outage, with thousands reported unable to access the site in the critical hours before and during the SOTU. Former President Donald Trump heavily promoted that he would be live reacting to President Biden's State of the Union address on his social media platform Truth Social. The outages peaked around an hour before Biden's speech and lingered into his remarks. Users took to X, formerly Twitter, to comment on the outages. For those who could see Trump's posts, he criticized people like Mitt Romney and accused Biden of not starting on time and not speaking smoothly.