Trump adminstration 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. The website now gives users an "Error 404" message and a "Go To Home Page" button that directs them to a page featuring a video montage of Trump in his...
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Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the new administration took down the Spanish-language version of the official White House website.
The site — currently
https://www.whitehouse.gov/es/ — now gives users an “Error 404” message. It also included a “Go Home” button that directed viewers to a page featuring a video montage of Tru
mp in his first termand on the campaign trail. The button was later updated to read “Go To Home Page”.
Hispanic advocacy groups and others expressed confusion at the abrupt change and frustration at what some called the administration’s lack of efforts to maintain communication with the Latino community, which helped propel him to the presidency.
The Spanish profile of the White House’ X, @LaCasaBlanca and the government page on reproductive freedom also were disbanded. Meanwhile, the Spanish versions of other government agencies such as the Department of Labor, Justice and Agriculture remained available for users on Tuesday. …”
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A few things —
- the “Go Home” button is unlikely to be accidental, though it is possible if not plausible
- Will be interested to see if the Trump Admin gives agricultural workers a wide birth in their deportation zeal
- I don’t want to be rude, but hard to take seriously the confusion expressed by Hispanic advocacy groups at this turn of events
