The White House Website Under Trump No Longer Has a Spanish Option

Any website worth its code has a sitemap. The list of text links at the bottom of each page is used by search engines like Google to direct people to relevant pages with the information they seek. Those text links are the rafters of a website, and in politics, they can show just how different one president is from the next. And if the incoming president wants to build a border wall between here and Mexico, don’t expect the White House website to be available in Spanish. At 11:23 a.m. Eastern on Friday, this is what WhiteHouse.gov looked like, as captured by the Wayback Machine, the web page recording service done by the people at archive.org. The “ISSUES” column is the longest, with 29 individual issues broken into sections and ranging in subject from “Rural” to “Women” to “Cuba” to “Technology.” The sitemap also includes at the bottom an “En Español” option. In all, it contains 114 links. -- MORE...