New White House Website Reflects Shifting Priorities

With inauguration festivities still taking place, President Donald Trump has already taken over the White House’s Twitter feed (though his original, unfiltered Twitter is still up) and website. Trump’s website, though sharing the Obama site’s format, already reflects contrasts between Trump’s and Obama’s priorities. Where Obama’s page listed Civil Rights, Climate Change, Economy, Education, Foreign Policy, Healthcare, Iran Deal and Immigration Action as his central priorities, Trump’s priorities all seem to point towards putting “America first.” The below image shows Obama’s “issues” tab on the left, and Trump’s on the right.

Along with Trump’s radical shift in language from Obama’s language comes a correspondingly different set of policy priorities. The shift from a “Climate Action Plan” to an “Energy Plan” is mirrored by Trump’s promise, on the page, to focus on oil independence. The page’s energy policy priorities include energy deregulation, increased drilling and coal mining in the U.S. The page also promises to “refocus the EPA on its essential mission of protecting our air and water,” though it doesn’t specify how it has lost focus of that mission.