The White Home has launched a brand new authorities web site referred to as the “White House Wire,” which appears to just about simply be a rip-off of the famously conservative Drudge Report.
However as an alternative of Drudge’s flashing pink gentle, the White Home web site encompasses a working ticker that repeats “WHWIRE” again and again … and over once more.
Drudge, as soon as an ally however now a critic of Trump, responded by calling out the waste of taxpayer {dollars}.
“IT TAKES AN ENTIRE WEST WING TO COMPETE WITH DRUDGE…DEVELOPING: TRUMP LAUNCHING HIS OWN DRUDGE REPORT… USING TAXPAYER DOLLARS!” it wrote.
A screenshot of the official White Home X account asserting its new White Home Wire web site on April 30.
Shockingly, the White Home Wire’s Thursday tales excluded any point out of the Division of Labor’s report displaying that joblessness elevated final week, nor was there any protection of prime Trump official Mike Waltz getting axed for his position within the Signalgate scandal.
That is simply the newest instance of the Trump administration reworking authorities assets into propaganda. Final month, the White Home turned its official COVID-19 web site right into a conspiracy principle touchdown web page, selling a revisionist historical past of Trump’s lethal mishandling of the pandemic.
In the meantime, the White Home briefing room has been changed into a MAGA home of mirrors, stocked with each right-wing nitwit prepared to softball inquiries to press secretary and front-facing lie machine Karolyn Leavitt.
Trump has additionally put in failed election conspiracy theorist Kari Lake to dismantle Voice of America, a U.S.-funded worldwide media community based in 1942. In March, greater than 900 full-time workers had been placed on indefinite go away and 550 contractors had been let go—and several other at the moment are suing Lake and the Trump administration for violating their First Modification rights.
Clearly, Trump—and the Republican Get together at massive—has discovered that flooding the general public with lies is an efficient technique to cowl up how little he’s really undertaking.
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