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Trump's boring, static and misinformation websites [1]

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Date: 2025-06-02

On WhiteHouse.gov, the home page showed a scrolling chyron to watch Trump's remarks at U.S. Steel like it was just happening. That was 3 days ago. May 30th. As I was writing this they turned the banner off. The 81 documents, including executive orders, Trump said he signed on Thursday, when it was really Wednesday, still aren't available, if they even exist. No proclamations, no fact sheets. One presidential memorandum which is one paragraph without Trump taking credit at the end. One article from yesterday. It's like things have come to a grinding halt. On Trump's calendar for today, he's having lunch with Vance. The only thing he did yesterday was play golf.

The DOGE.gov site is even worse than it was before. The only thing that gets updated is the home page because it mirrors their X account. The Savings page was last updated on May 26th, it says. $176 billion in savings, $1,086.96 per taxpayer. Agency Efficiency Leadership Board shows a list, but there is no data to back the list up. 10,871 contracts listed if you want to go through all of them to see what the original contract was and the savings. 15,149 grants, and 494 leases. Payments Statics for agencies is worthless as it just shows the number, not how much. Top Recipients the same story. Then there are 107,497 payments listed. So DOGE knows how many there are and what agencies they apply to, but haven't bothered to total them up. Stupid.

Spending shows how much for each agency for FY2019. Revenue Sources is from FY2019. The Regulations page is one that makes no sense. Total savings of $29.5 billion and 1.4 million words deleted. The words deleted are scary, and how they calculate savings, I'd like to see the formula. Probably looks like Peter Navarro's tariff formula.

The Agency Deregulation Leaderboard is completely without references. The top of the list is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with $14.7B - 237.5K. Maybe savings and how many regulations they have. No key. How was the $5 bank overcharge fee listed when the Republicans changed it back to $35? Found it in the 126 regulations repealed or modified. Says by repealing it, $9.5 billion was saved. But this wasn't a saving for the government, this was a saving for the banks. Actually not a saving, but increased revenue. How many more are like that? 148 Agency Guidances are recessions or revisions of regulations with just words deleted without any reason.

DOGE still has its Unconstitutionality Index of 18.5, which shows "the number of agency rules created by unelected bureaucrats for each law passed in 2024." Bureaucrats. If you don't have a bureaucracy with bureaucrats, what do you get? Chaos. There have to be people who know what they're doing running the show. Not DOGE bros that know nothing. Bureaucracy and bureaucrats have become curse words like DEI. This has to be challenged, not just letting them make statements like this.

Whatever is behind Waste.gov is still password protected. Who knows what is going on behind it? Why have the site at all? Did DOGE just supercede it, or is it doing something?

Try going to Creators.gov gets you and Error 403 Forbidden. The domain was created by the White House.

WhiteHouse.gov/wire is a hodgepodge of links to online articles that stroke Trump. Mostly the New York Post and Fox Business.

There is TrumpLibrary.gov, but it's just a static fluff page, part of the National Archives, and no plans for a library to be created at all. Hard to see how the Qatari 747 is going to be part of a library that doesn't even exist online.

There is a new article on June 2nd called: Mythbuster: No, People Wiil Not "Literally Die" with the One Big Beautiful Bill. Except, people are going to die and Trump calls it a hoax. Not hardly. Take 13 million people off of Medicaid and cut $500 billion from Medicare, and of course people will die. The article spouts 1.4 million immigrants being taken off Medicaid and making older people work longer to get their benefits. More deaths.

This was just highlighting the boring webpages dedicated to Trump. There are many controversies about information being scrubbed from agency websites for DEI or simply verboten words taking the page out through AI webcrawling.

Then there is the complete replacement of Covid.gov, which now blames a Chinese lab leak at Wuhan. Trump looks so cute standing in the middle of LAB LEAK. Why did they put him there? Implies he was behind it.

Trump is spreading misinformation because it serves his purpose, and it's fun.

Maybe it's better that Trump doesn't make webpage changes. When his webbie pros do a change, these dark and depressing websites, especially WhiteHouse.gov, only get worse.

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