State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NPR

February 7, 2026 5:00 AM ET


The State Department is removing all posts on its public accounts on the social media platform X made before President Trump returned to office on Jan. 20, 2025.

The posts will be internally archived but will no longer be on public view, the State Department confirmed to NPR. Staff members were told that anyone wanting to see older posts will have to file a Freedom of Information Act request, according to a State Department employee who asked to remain anonymous for fear of retaliation by the Trump administration. That would differ from how the U.S. government typically handles archiving the public online footprint of previous administrations.

The move comes as the Trump administration has removed wide swaths of information from government websites that conflict with the president's views, including environmental and health data and references to women, people of color and members of the LGBTQ+ community. The government has also taken down signs at national parks mentioning slavery and references to Trump's impeachments and presidency at the National Portrait Gallery.

The White House has also launched a revisionist history account of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and has replaced the government's coronavirus resource sites with a page titled "Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19."

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/07/nx-s1-5704785/state-department-trump-posts-x

[Lovie777]

1. Why?.......................

but alas, posts were saved by countless many.

Rest assure, shithole and staffers and comrades will continue with the ugly post because it's in their genes.

[Joinfortmill]

2. People still on X? So outdated.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. That's because WAY WAY WAY before Muskrat bought it and destroyed it

many governmental entities created processes and policies for its use for transmitting information, which could be done quickly to both the media and the general populace.

Twitter first went online in 2006, 20 years ago. Muskrat bought it in 2022, just 4 years ago.

So there is a lot of legacy usage - notably happening in the mid-late 2010s with deployments that would be difficult to transition.

As a note - I have never nor will ever, have any social media accounts. If such a thing allows me to view the content on the web, then I will read it. But otherwise I don't use any of those apps.

[Joinfortmill]

8. Ah, interesting. Thanks for the info.

[twodogsbarking]

4. Delete Trump. Reboot.

[love_katz]

5. So, what are they trying to cover up now?

[BumRushDaShow]

6. ...

[Walleye]

7. We will never delete the deep racism from Trump's "brain"

[BumRushDaShow]

9. He's a "natural born" racist.

[dalton99a]

10. "The history of the United States began on January 20, 2025 when our Lord and Savior returned"