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Trump administration shuts down White House Spanish-language page and social media

apnews.com Trump administration shuts down White House Spanish-language page and social media

Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, his administration took down the Spanish version of the official White House website.

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His Latino vote hurt themselves in their confusion
- People don't choose to be dumb or confused. 😔
  
  Willful ignorance is when people choose to be ignorant, which often leads to confusion.
  
  Yes they do. Especially in the west. We all have access to all of human knowledge. Ignorance is no longer an acceptable excuse.

It’s not as if the conservative native Spanish speakers that voted him in were using it for anything.

He can barely speak English.

The Biden website was essentially just archived and the new administration is working on building up the site. This isn't something specific, almost all the old website links are broken.
“It’s day two. We are in the process of developing, editing and tweaking the White House website. As part of this ongoing work, some of the archived content on the website went dormant. We are committed to reloading that content in a short timeline,” -Harrison Fields
Everything is archived here: https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/
- That's the part where I'm divided. On the one hand, I understand that they basically have to strip the website down to the basic foundation then rebuild it. On the other hand... I'm not entirely sold that when it returns it will have all of the things it once had. Only time will tell I guess.
  
  We know from Trump's first four years that taking stuff down he doesn't personally like is permanent. He ditched pages on climate change and LGBTQ+ rights and those pages for example.
  
  I'm excited to see the new Bill of Right!
  \2. Get guns and do our work for us
  
  I’m not entirely sold that when it returns it will have all of the things it once had. Only time will tell I guess.
  If you have any belief that any of this stuff will be returning, I have beachfront property on Mars that you may be interested in.
  
  Yeah, I mean every administration rebuilds the entire website after inauguration. I think it's telling, though, that they didn't have the full website ready to go.
- There's also https://eotarchive.org/.
- So the Trump team didn't have even a WIP site to replace as fast as possible the old site?

All these lightning round decisions, I find myself asking, "How does this help anyone?"
- He’s swinging his hate-balls around.
  The juvenile helicopter of our doom.
  Stupidest population on the planet.
- Where have you been living the last nine years? This isn't about helping people, the point is cruelty.
  
  No shit. They just didn't have to lie about it anymore.

This idiot seems to be oblivious to the fact that there is no official language in the US, that several US states have Spanish as a defacto co-official language, that Spanish has been spoken in many parts of the US for longer than English, and that there are approx. 60.000.000 Spanish speakers in the US.
A problem here is that since he can't be re-elected, he doesn't have to care about popularity, except for his ego trips.
- This idiot seems to be oblivious to the fact that there is no official language in the US
  It doesn't matter. Nothing matters. "Small government and low taxes" but when you want to triple the size of ICE and institute historic tariffs (aka taxes) it's OK. "Party of law and order" but when you don't let asylum seekers into the country- overtly breaking US law, it's OK. "The constitution is sacred" but when you sign an executive order that explicitly contradicts the 14th amendment- it's OK.
  Nothing matters. There is no consistency whatsoever. There doesn't need to be. The more disjointed, the better. You make people so disoriented that they'll accept anything.

Remember his Spanish campaign ads?

Ay caramba!

At least the accessibility page is still up. Oh, wait.

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