“The future of history: Trump could leave less documentation behind than any previous US president”
“WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.”
“Now, the Trump administration
is scrubbing thousands of government websites of history, legal records and data it finds disagreeable”
“It has sought to expand the executive branch’s power to shield from public view the government-slashing efforts of
Elon Musk’s teamand other key administration initiatives. Officials have used deleted messages containing sensitive information rather than retaining them for recordkeeping. And they have
shaken up the National Archives leadership and even ordered the rewriting of
history on display at the Smithsonian Institution.”
“To historians and archivists, Trump’s presidency will leave less for the nation’s historical record than nearly any before it and that what is authorized for public release will be sanitized and edited to reinforce a carefully sculpted image the president wants projected, even if the facts don’t back that up.”
“Presidents are legally obligated to keep up the historical record. The
Presidential Records Act mandates the preservation, forever, of White House and vice presidential documents and communications. It deems them the property of the U.S. government and directs the National Archives and Records Administration to administer them after a president’s term.”
Donald Trump's administration says it's the most transparent in history. But it's taken even more drastic steps than his first to shield key documents and information from the public.
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How many times have we’ve been told that Trump’s White House is the “most transparent in history?”
Looks like Trump is doing his best to insure that his Presidency is remembered as “tremendous,” “never seen before,” “the greatest,” “most successful” and of course, “the best in history,” appears his narcissism even extends into the future
