Trump’s White House Goes From Hiding 80% Of His Transcribed Remarks To Hiding 99.5%

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-transcript-purge_n_682f797de4b0e1fe96d64b10

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  2. We wouldn’t want the history books to know what Trump is doing.

    For instance, just the other day he shipped a plane full of people to some unknown destination with out due process, and then declared that he couldn’t tell us were they went because that’s classified. For all we know those people are in a mass grave somewhere.

    Nazi Germany did the same thing when they started disappearing the jews and dissidents.

    So thank god, the Archives will have no record of that direct order from the executive branch.

  3. “Democracy Dies in Darkness”? Didn’t that used to mean something?

  4. >“The Trump White House is the most transparent in history,” Leavitt said.

    What a lying sack of shit! That’s like proclaiming that the orange fraud posing as potus is an honest man despite his publicly documented multitude of obvious, easily disprovable lies, e.g., “…they’re eating the cats and dogs!”

  6. History will not be kind to this administration. He will not be remembered as the American hero, among the likes of Lincoln, Washington, and others, whom he fancies his equals. He will be remembered as the least professional, most corrupt and divisive president, in American history.

  7. Even your own White House staff finds your words embarrassing Donald.

  8. Article by S.V. Date

    >WASHINGTON — Mere days after HuffPost [revealed](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-secret-transcripts_n_6824fe20e4b021b5064adc84) how few of President [Donald Trump](https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump)’s transcribed remarks it was making public, his White House decided to post none at all, save for his Jan. 20 inaugural address.

    >HuffPost’s May 15 report showed that, breaking from every previous presidential administration in modern times, Trump’s second-term press office was releasing only a small fraction of the transcripts produced by the nonpartisan civil servants who produce them at taxpayer expense.

    >Over his first 100 days in office, Trump’s White House had released just 29 of the 146 transcripts of his speeches, news conferences and interactions with news media. White House staff did not offer any reason for why they were withholding material that had been released as a matter of course by previous White Houses, including Trump’s first-term White House.

    >At some point between the evening of Saturday, May 17, and the afternoon of Monday, May 19, though, the White House pulled down all of Trump’s transcripts that had been posted — along with several of Vice President JD Vance’s transcripts and two of press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s – and replaced them with videos of Trump’s speeches, according to pages [preserved](https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https:/www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/) by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine tool.

    >The near-total purge was first [reported](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-purges-transcripts-trump-remarks-website-rcna208059) by NBC.

    >The White House on Thursday again refused to offer an explanation for the change, but did provide a statement from Leavitt that equates transcripts, which can be searched for certain words and names, with videos, which cannot.

    >“The president’s remarks are live on the website for every person in the world, including journalists, to access and watch for themselves. The Trump White House is the most transparent in history,” Leavitt said.

    >Neither of her assertions, however, is accurate. The White House’s [“Remarks” web page](https://www.whitehouse.gov/remarks/?cst) now offers a curated sample of videos of Trump’s remarks, with few of the interactions with news media that tend to generate his most outlandish claims, or the events in which he exhibited particularly unhinged behavior. For example, the Feb. 28 meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which he and Vance essentially blamed Ukraine for getting invaded by Russia and demanded mineral concessions in exchange for U.S. assistance, is not posted on the page. In all, the page linked to only 48 videos Thursday, out of some 200 total sets of remarks by that point.

    >What’s more, while Trump interacts with the news media frequently, he has refused to abide by basic transparency measures that previous presidents have undertaken. Trump, for example, has never released any of his tax returns and his White House does not make public its visitors’ logs. While previous presidents permitted reporters in to fundraisers, Trump has not.

    >And on Thursday, as Trump hosts [220 buyers](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-coin-dinner-corruption_n_682e52bae4b09130a584ec82) of his souvenir crypto coins at his Virginia golf resort behind closed doors, neither he nor the White House will release a list of those attendees, who in total spent $192 million for the privilege.

  11. Dementia Donny is too much of a liability for his handlers

  12. This administration is really trying to hide their authoritarian agenda. Trump just isn’t coherent enough to transcribe.

  13. “he drayne that thar swamp tho doohoo”

    ~ cleetus, last name unclear

  14. So much for transparency in the White House… not surprised, but very scared.

  16. I wonder if Jake Tapper will write a book on it. /s

  20. They don’t want people to easily access his transcripts. Searchable transcripts will make it apparent how much of a fucking moron he is.

    Hell, even 10 years ago (it’s crazy its been this fucking long), you could tell how much of a dipshit he was just by reading a transcript of one of his rallies or him calling into Fox News. Just repeating the same braindead phrases and strange sentence structures again and again and again. Like a corrupted broken record.

  21. You know.

    There is still going to be a world, a humanity, even after all of this. Everyone wants something from the Trump administration: power, protection, a sense of belonging, or maybe just revenge. But what I keep thinking about is what the history books will actually say one or two centuries from now.

    Someone will have written something down. There will be a record. Somewhere, in pieces, the truth will remain. What is happening now—the hiding of transcripts, the refusal to turn over official records to the National Archives—will not remain buried forever. It never really does. But the longer the truth is suppressed, the harder it will be to reconstruct it clearly, and the more damage will be done in the meantime.

    It feels like the system is barely holding together. Not through purpose, but through momentum. I hate living in it. But sometimes I feel removed from it, as if I am watching from a distance. I wonder what that future timeline will really look like. No matter how carefully they try to control the moment, getting 330 million people to fall in line is impossible. Not all of them. Not fully.

    I do not think the United States will survive in the way we know it now.

    Anyway, maybe I am rambling. But it seems clearer every day that this moment is not sustainable. It is accelerating whatever collapse is already in motion. Where we go from here, what comes next, is uncertain. But the fall feels inevitable.

  22. Aside from the transcripts, this is an amazing last paragraph in the article:
    > And on Thursday, as Trump hosts 220 buyers of his souvenir crypto coins at his Virginia golf resort behind closed doors, neither he nor the White House will release a list of those attendees, who in total spent $192 million for the privilege.

    There are no words that can adequately describe this level of corruption.

  24. But they will all tell you endlessly about how amazing he is and all that he’s accomplished. Why is he hiding it?

  26. Transparent like a greased pig covered in Christmas lights

  28. He needs to go. He’s a puppet, a sack-of-shit puppet.

  31. Because he sounds like a confused babbling idiot. 

    The old adage walks like a duck talks like a duck has never been more appropriate.

  33. Bro congress could do literally ANYTHING to try to reign him in but instead they enable. Every. Single. One.

  34. Hopefully the final chapter to his book will be the blindfolding and sentence being carried out.

  35. Ah yes, standard operating procedure for capturing a very stable genius’ brilliance for posterity. He’s just *too* smart. The average human mind can only take .5% of such unparalleled genius. /s

  36. Dear Leader’s most transparent administration in history

  38. What else is expected from a corrupt and dishonest admin?

  43. How can anyone trust this guy after all the shady shit he does every day? Harris would be there trying her best to help as many people as possible, building a fairer system, and this guy is just enriching himself and now working in the shadows.

  44. It’s probably a simple thing – transcribers just can’t figure out what he’s saying.

  45. Grifters gotta grift…

    The trump white house is full of cockroaches that scurry into the corners when the lights come on.

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