Donald Trump's Republican convention in Dallas had barely got underway when a reported Grindr outage gave critics a very different talking point, with one political commentator claiming the gay dating app was being overwhelmed just as Republicans gathered for the event.
The two-day Republican midterm convention, described in the podcast as 'Trumpapalooza', opened at the American Airlines Center with large sections of empty seating. Against that backdrop, reports of problems with Grindr in Dallas became fodder for jokes about the presence of closeted gay Republicans.
