Trump scrubbed WH site? not exactly

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This will be a quick journal because two of my followers have sent me messages asking about it.

EMANON, DID TRUMP WIPE CLEAN THIS PART OF THE SITE BECAUSE IT WILL NOT BE PART OF HIS AGENDA

Not exactly.

The WH websites are always archived and scrubbed when a new administration is coming in.

when Bush became president (though the WH.gov was still in its infancy having only been launched in 1994.. when the net was still relatively young. it was made relatively bare other than the basics, Clinton policies removed...
(sometimes the wayback machine may change page links, so just go to archive.org/web/ and put whitehouse.gov and check the dates if they did that.)

January 18th, 2001 (Before bush was sworn in)
web.archive.org/web/2001011820…
Clinton  website, policy pages still there

Feb. 2nd 2001 (a few weeks after Bush was sworn in)
web.archive.org/web/2001020207…

site wiped bare, for Bush to start putting his policy stuff there.

January 19th 2009, (before Obama was sworn in )
web.archive.org/web/2009011906…

Whitehouse.gov full of policy links etc from Bush

January 20th, 2009 (inauguration day)
web.archive.org/web/2009012020…

Obama inauguration, policy pages of Bush erased.

January 19, 2017 (before Trump was sworn in)
still full of Obama's policies
web.archive.org/web/2017011923…

and now . January 21st.  (day after inauguration)
scrubbed and archived for the next administration
www.whitehouse.gov/

still rather blank with a few policy pages but nothing in depth as of yet.


so while as the Trump administration sets up the websites with his policies, .. I am not expecting any progressive, far-reaching things but just unsure why people are acting like the WH website being archived and scrubbed as it was from Clinton to Bush, from Bush to Obama..and now from Obama to Trump is somehow OH NOES!! WHAT HAS HAPPENED FOR THE LAST THREE NEW ADMINISTRATIONS IS HAPPENING NOW as if it has never been done before.. it is always done when a new administration is coming in.


Now, to repeat myself. When the Trump administration actually starts putting stuff on his website I am not expecting to agree with much of it but that is not the point of this piece


Now, if in 2020 Trump is defeated, or if in 2024 when the new President wins. you will see the day of their inauguration the Whitehouse website will be scrubbed and archived again so the next administration can start placing their policies and such on the site. It is not some massive conspiracy .. which is how some people are acting as it is.
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