Truth Social crashes during Trump's real-time checks of President Joe Biden's SOTU
Truth Social App (AFP)

Truth Social tanked in prime time.

The social media network founded by former President Donald Trump was riddled with outages moments before President Joe Biden started his State of the Union speech.

Trump's campaign had vowed that the former president would use the platform to strike back in real time at President Joe Biden during his State of the Union address.

However, a graph on the Downdetector outage tracker recorded about 3,000 outages during Biden's big address.

According to several Truth Social users, when they attempted to tune in to Trump's Live rebuttal session, they were met with a page that failed to render.

"Truth Social is down while Trump is supposed to be doing his 'fact checking' rebuttals," reads a post from Meidas Touch's Editor-in-Chief Ron Filipkowski.

"Trump said he’d be live fact-checking Biden’s SOTU but Truth Social appears to be down," tweeted Alyssa Farah Griffin. "Sad!"

Trump had just been warming up before the outage.

"This is the longest walk in Presidential History - It is ridiculous," read his commentary on Truth Social, according to a user who screen captured them. "Now he's actually taking the selfies at their request. He's not a photographer- He's got to get moving."

And another: "Who kiss him on the cheek with lipstick? Now he's got lipstick on his face. How stupid of her!"