US EditionTrump could leave less documentation behind than any previous US president
- Since early 2025, President Donald Trump's administration has posted far fewer official records and briefings on whitehouse.gov than were present during the Biden administration.
- This scarcity stems from practices such as discouraging note-taking, scrubbing disagreeable data from government websites, refusing to release visitor logs, and disputes over mishandled classified documents.
- Historians and archivists warn that this approach risks leaving a less complete historical record, noting that authorized public releases will be sanitized to reinforce a carefully managed presidential image.
- Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian, warned that the administration is attempting to shape the narrative about its actions in a way that limits what the public can learn, which poses a serious risk to transparency.
- Experts expect the reduced availability of records from Trump's presidency will complicate future accountability efforts and scholarly evaluations of his administration's decisions.
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Trump poised to erase history like few presidents ever have: analyst
President Donald Trump is engaged in a war on government records unlike any other chief executive in modern history — and he is flouting the law to suit his purposes, wrote Zeeshan Aleem in a blistering column for MSNBC published on Monday afternoon.Some of this effort has led to the infamous "Signa...
Trump could leave less documentation behind than any previous US president
For generations, official American documents have been meticulously preserved and protected, from the era of quills and parchment to boxes of paper to the cloud, safeguarding snapshots of the government and the nation for posterity.
History: Trump Could Leave Less Documentation than the Other Presidents.
For generations, American official documents have been meticulously preserved and protected, from the era of feathers and parchments to the boxes of paper, through the cloud, thus preserving snapshots of government and the nation for posterity.
On White House website under Trump, there’s a sporadic commitment to documentation
By The Associated Press A look at some of what’s missing from the Trump White House’s website: — On whitehouse.gov under “Remarks,” the last posting is from April 22 and is Vice President JD Vance’s comments while he traveled in India. There has been nothing posted for President Donald Trump since his comments on March 13 while meeting with NATO’s secretary-general. — The last transcription of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s brief…
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