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  • 2017-01-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Donald Trump Remove the Terms 'LGBT' and 'Climate Change' from the White House Web Site? (en)
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  • As Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States on 20 January 2017, many people noticed some considerable changes to the official White House web site at WhiteHouse.gov web site, such as the seeming removal of the terms LGBT and climate change: However, it's inaccurate to say that these terms were specifically scrubbed from the site by Donald Trump. On 17 January 2017, WhiteHouse.gov issued an announcement explaining the digital transition that would take place on Inauguration Day. For instance, all of the messages posted by Barack Obama under the @POTUS handle on Twitter were transferred to a new @POTUS44 account, giving Donald Trump the opportunity to take over the previous presidential Twitter account @POTUS. In the same way, the content related to the Obama administration on WhiteHouse.gov was migrated to a new web site, ObamaWhiteHouse.Archives.gov: Content regarding the terms LGBT and climate change are still readily available on ObamaWhiteHouse.gov. As of this writing, Whitehouse.gov is sparsely populated. Its blog currently hosts one post (about the inaugural address), while pages for Press Briefings, Statements, Nominations, and Presidential Actions are all blank: One of the new pages that has since gone up up on Whitehouse.gov (titled An America First Energy Plan) suggests that the Trump administration will be targeting previous climate initiatives in order to help boost domestic oil and gas industries: (en)
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