The U.S. Constitution provides 404 Now

Donald Trump took office as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, quickly issuing apparently illegal executive orders and making changes to social media accounts and websites controlled by the president’s office. Arguably one of the most shocking changes to the president’s internet footprint concerns the US Constitution. Now anyone who googles the Constitution and follows the link to the White House website currently sees a 404 error.

Prior to January 20, 2025, the White House website had a page describing the Constitution and its ratification date. As seen during Joe Biden’s presidency, the site is available at the Internet Archive. Reversing machine and shows the About the White House page, which consists of four pages visitors can navigate to, including Presidents, First Families, Foundations, and Our Government.

To click Our government brought visitors to a page explaining the US system, including the judiciary, executive and legislature “whose powers are vested in the US Constitution.” This note of the US Constitution includes a hyperlink that brings people to a page that now gives a 404 error. The page’s disappearance went viral on Instagram thanks to a liberal influencer Mercedes Chandlerand it should be noted that the text on all these pages was non-partisan and read like anything you might find in a high school textbook on government.

“Can someone from the MAGA movement enlighten me as to how a party that claims to care about the Constitution removed it from its website?” Chandler said. “Is it because we know what’s in it?”

Chandler speculated that this may have something to do with Trump issuing an executive order on Monday to no longer recognize the concept of birthright citizenship, which has been guaranteed by the 14th Amendment since its ratification in the 19th century. after the civil war. Prosecutors General 18 states On Tuesday, he sued the federal government over the executive order, which he said was a clear violation of the Constitution.

Obviously, any major changes to a website can break all kinds of links. Maybe the Trump White House put information about the Constitution somewhere else? If so, we can’t find it.

Scrolling down the home page for Whitehouse.gov provides a section titled “About the White House.” There are three main buttons to click there, including the White House, Camp David, and Air Force One. But clicking on any of those pages doesn’t show anything about the US Constitution. In fact, we didn’t see the word “Constitution” anywhere on the White House website outside of news releases, which is strange.

The Trump administration made other changes to websites controlled by the federal government on Monday, including removing the website. reproductiverights.gov. The site was launched in 2022 by the US Department of Health and Human Services under President Biden to inform Americans about birth control and abortion after the US Supreme Court struck down federal abortion rights in the landmark case Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health. .

The reproductive rights website told Americans that employers are required under the Affordable Care Act to provide access to health services like birth control, a fact that is currently being challenged in court. Also archived by reproductiverights.gov Back Car.

Other White House-controlled social media accounts also made the switch Monday afternoon, including X, Facebook and even lesser-known sites. Flickr. Few Americans check Flickr these days (and Trump’s people haven’t posted any new photos there yet), so little-known sites can actually be interesting places where news happens to break. For example, we couldn’t have this photo of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg shaking Donald Trump’s hand. Fall 2019if the White House photographer hadn’t posted it via Flickr.

Stay safe out there, folks. Will buy much, much worse before things get better for Americans.