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[Lord Frieza]

This is silly. All the pages from the old whitehouse.gov are gone. It's a whole new website with a new site structure. Of course the old links aren't going to work.

Although it is a bit amateurish that they didn't use 301 redirects.

Then where are the new links? His energy was up. Is that normal?

 

[Man-is-Obsolete]

This seems like premature jumping the gun. Why would he keep Obama's web layout?

His energy page is here



Get mad at actual issues when he has a complete lack of follow-through on stuff - not nonsense fake news.

While it is certainly is true the Obama White House site appears to have been dumped entirely, it does show a lack of effort and wide reach from the Trump team to exclude so many important issues on their version of the site. Again the site is basically a campaign site now with lots of vague ideas on certain things.

 

[Crossing Eden]

Same page

And there's not a single fucking mention of LBGT rights.

 

[Llyrwenne]

This seems like premature jumping the gun. Why would he keep Obama's web layout?

His energy page is here



Get mad at actual issues when he has a complete lack of follow-through on stuff - not nonsense fake news.

From that very page:

For too long, we’ve been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule.

The Trump Administration will embrace the shale oil and gas revolution to bring jobs and prosperity to millions of Americans. We must take advantage of the estimated $50 trillion in untapped shale, oil, and natural gas reserves, especially those on federal lands that the American people own.

The Trump Administration is also committed to clean coal technology, and to reviving America’s coal industry, which has been hurting for too long.

Get your head out of the sand. Rejection of Climate Change science within the Trump camp is a well documented fact, not some rumor people started.

 

[darkwing]

Now its official, he is President. Can we impeach now? Conflict of interests? Still hasn't done jack with that.

Also he is letting his son in law in his administration which is a violation too.

lol , who will do the impeaching? a GOP controlled congress/senate/governorship?

 

[v1lla21]

Give the Orange Consumption a chance they said. Lol please.

 

[Davey Cakes]

We should wait until the new website is up in full.

 

[Kthulhu]

I think it's just been archived over to a new site:

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/energy


https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/lgbt

The fact that it has been replaced with lies is the issue.

 

[RPGCrazied]

lol , who will do the impeaching? a GOP controlled congress/senate/governorship?

I heard even democrats can bring up impeachment, anyone in congress can. But he is already violating the constitution.

 

[darkwing]

From that very page:
Get your head out of the sand. Rejection of Climate Change science within the Trump camp is a well documented fact, not some rumor people started.

I'd like to see an actual clean coal

 

[OnPoint]

lol , who will do the impeaching? a GOP controlled congress/senate/governorship?

This is what I've been saying. They'll use it as a bargaining chip to get him to play ball when he tries to go rogue.

 

[dave is ok]

From that very page:
Get your head out of the sand. Rejection of Climate Change science within the Trump camp is a well documented fact, not some rumor people started.

Yeah, those are his policies - but acting like he's deleting rights of people because he's not using the same subdomain name or hasn't set up his entire website an hour after his inauguration is just silly fearmongering.

Basically:

We should wait until the new website is up in full.

 

[Already Torn]

WHAT

I'm shocked

 

[alternade]

CLIMATE CHANGE HAS BEEN FIXED.

 

[Nivash]

The entire site is changed so don't bother freaking out over the old links not working. That's not the problem though, the problem is that climate change isn't in any of the new sections.

Here's something else that's weird and/or potentially disturbing though: as can be expected, the site has profiles on the previous presidents. Check out Obama's:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/barackobama

It doesn't mention his actual presidency with a single word. It's like it's stuck in 2008. Maybe that's actually because you're not supposed to write a summary until after his presidency is over and that it might get changed now that it's ended, but who knows. Certainly would be a weird way of denying him his legacy if it stays like that.

EDIT: OK, I checked it out. It's simply retained from the old site.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/1600/presidents/barackobama

Will still be interesting to see if they bother updating it, though.

 

[DeathoftheEndless]

Ayyy lmao

 

[Fantastapotamus]

We should wait until the new website is up in full.

Wait for what? There is already enough shit on there.
We were at a point were even China at least pretended to care about climate change and now this happens. Fuck this.

 

[Ravensmash]

The fact that it has been replaced with lies is the issue.

Of course, but I take issue with the framing of the article which is implying that Obama's administration pages being removed is surprising.

It's not.

I completely agree that the absence of any mention from this new administration is worrying though.

 

[gutshot]

Then where are the new links? His energy was up. Is that normal?

I'm saying that the old URLs are going to be invalid now since it is a totally different site with a different structure. They should have had 301 redirects so when someone tries to go to "/energy/climate-change" it would redirect to the current energy policy page which is now "america-first-energy".

The 'page not found' issue is just a failure on the web admins, not some anti-climate change agenda by the Trump administration (although they may still have that agenda, this is just not an example of it).

 

[scarletham]

For too long, we've been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/america-first-energy

That sort of says it all? Not sure what's worth waiting around for

 

[WedgeX]

We should wait until the new website is up in full.

The Trump administration had a full campaign cycle to create actual policy positions which could be updated right now but instead chose to create no actual policy positions and govern the world's most powerful superpower by the seat of their pants.

 

[GrizzleBoy]

As has the LBGT rights page

whitehouse.gov/lgbt

These fucking people........

 

[SgtCobra]

#4TheJobs

Good luck Americans, and the whole world while we're at it.

 

[Foffy]

"Why are you all so pessimistic, GAF?" claimed one user, squinting into the brown sky, trying to find the shape of the sun.

 

[ZSeba]

Trump supporters, please come forward and defend this

 

[Formless]

Those environmental plans only became a thing like in the past 2 years

 

[kmax]

Let this be a lesson to the "it doesn't matter if I vote or not, so I'm not gonna bother" crowd.

Your choices count, whatever you do. Now, here come the consequences.

 

[cyba89]

And why exactly are people surprised about that?

 

[Begbie]

 

[kaching]

This seems like premature jumping the gun. Why would he keep Obama's web layout?

His energy page is here



Get mad at actual issues when he has a complete lack of follow-through on stuff - not nonsense fake news.

If I'm a president who doesn't deny climate change and there's already a generic page on the whitehouse.gov site with a generic, easily readable url that thousands of other sites probably already link to, why not just replace the content with info relevant for my incoming administration rather than scrub the page and the link in its entirety? It's a deliberately antagonistic site update.

The original link doesn't even redirect to the archived copy of Obama's whitehouse.gov site.

 

[breakfastchampion]

Absolutely sickening

What was on the LGBT rights page?

Internet archive of the White House's LGBT page:

http://web.archive.org/web/20170112155616/https://www.whitehouse.gov/lgbt

 

[7Th]

Funny how the cowardly whiny Trump supports like that crybaby GuyKazama disappear for these threads,

 

[Ravensmash]

Absolutely sickening

What was on the LGBT rights page?

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/lgbt

 

[Lonewulfeus]

He and all his cronies will be dead long before consequences start to rear their ugly head, so why would they care?

It'll be the toughest Dark Brotherhood quest yet, but can they make it look natural?

 

[dave is ok]

If I'm a president who doesn't deny climate change and there's already a generic page on the whitehouse.gov site with a generic, easily readable url that thousands of other sites probably already link to, why not just replace the content with info relevant for my incoming administration rather than scrub the page and the link in its entirety? It's a deliberately antagonistic site update.

The original link doesn't even redirect to the archived copy of Obama's whitehouse.gov site.

Because it's not my administration and not my policy and I didn't write it?

If he did what you were suggesting there would also be a bunch of articles saying how Trump just copy and pasted Obama's policy pages.

 

[Buba Big Guns]

Why America

 

[JaggedSac]

Cam someone link me to that image that showed before and after images of Bush and Obama after their presidency and then Trump with an after image of Immortan Joe?

 

[scarletham]

Because it's not my administration and not my policy and I didn't write it?

If he did what you were suggesting there would also be a bunch of articles saying how Trump just copy and pasted Obama's policy pages.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=228759810&postcount=120

 

[Lowmelody]

This seems like premature jumping the gun. Why would he keep Obama's web layout?

His energy page is here



Get mad at actual issues when he has a complete lack of follow-through on stuff - not nonsense fake news.

If this phrase wasn't already completely devalued and perverted I would take you to task for actively making it such. Fuck it

 

[Hubbl3]

Now, don't panic, but... Civil Rights page is gone

New (non-existent)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/civil-rights

Old
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/issues/civil-rights

 

[gutshot]

If I'm a president who doesn't deny climate change and there's already a generic page on the whitehouse.gov site with a generic, easily readable url that thousands of other sites probably already link to, why not just replace the content with info relevant for my incoming administration rather than scrub the page and the link in its entirety? It's a deliberately antagonistic site update.

The original link doesn't even redirect to the archived copy of Obama's whitehouse.gov site.

Because it is a totally different site with different content? And the incoming administration didn't have enough content to fill a whole page on climate change?

I don't think they want to redirect whitehouse.gov URLs to the archived site. They likely want to keep that domain always tied to the current administration to avoid confusion.

 

[Downhome]

EDIT

 

[Fancyarcher]

When have they not been pointed at for every issue in the world though

Most of the times the U.S. has been blamed even when they didn't have involvement because they're such a big superpower, but Trump will make the U.S. into a literal fascist evil country.

 

[Netherscourge]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/america-first-energy

For too long, we've been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to eliminating harmful and unnecessary policies such as the Climate Action Plan and the Waters of the U.S. rule.

For fuck's sake. Do they even read this shit to themselves?

Protecting ourselves from pollution is harmful?

 

[TimeEffect]

Maybe it's down because it has to be edited to feature Trump

 

[Bitch Pudding]

Did they also build that fucken wall, yet?

They surely don't seem to waste any time.

 

[Sölf]

Well guys, it was nice knowing you all. I for one embrace our new lava overlords.

 

[WedgeX]

Even Bush's whitehouse.gov was in-depth.

https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/

 

[CREMSteve]

Gross. Hoping it's just an error or a WIP.

 

[RumblingRosco]

The entire site is changed so don't bother freaking out over the old links not working. That's not the problem though, the problem is that climate change isn't in any of the new sections.

Here's something else that's weird and/or potentially disturbing though: as can be expected, the site has profiles on the previous presidents. Check out Obama's:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/barackobama

It doesn't mention his actual presidency with a single word. It's like it's stuck in 2008. Maybe that's actually because you're not supposed to write a summary until after his presidency is over and that it might get changed now that it's ended, but who knows. Certainly would be a weird way of denying him his legacy if it stays like that.

EDIT: OK, I checked it out. It's simply retained from the old site.

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/1600/presidents/barackobama

Will still be interesting to see if they bother updating it, though.

I see your edit, but it just cracks me up that you said "it's like it's stuck in 2008" when you can see that it basically is a page from 2008:

He was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, and sworn in on January 20, 2009. He and his wife, Michelle, are the proud parents of two daughters, Malia, 14, and Sasha, 11.

Well, more like 2012-2013, really.