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| - It is unclear why the Spanish-language version of the White House website is no longer available as of this writing on Jan. 22, 2025. Snopes has reached out to the Trump administration to learn more. Based on archived pages, the website was online on the day of Trump's second inauguration and removed the day after.
After U.S. President Donald Trump took office in late January 2025, people online noticed that the Spanish-language version of the White House website, which was operational during the previous administration of former President Joe Biden, was apparently no longer available (archived).
Snopes readers messaged us asking about the alleged update, which was also discussed on social media. For example, one X user, whose post had amassed more than 16.1 million views as of this writing, wrote: "The Spanish version of the White House website and the White House's Spanish Twitter account have been deleted."
Some social media users also posted screenshots of the change that included a "Page Not Found" message instead of the actual website and the button "Go Home."
(X user @v8mile)
The whitehouse.gov/es website is indeed offline on multiple browsers as of this writing on Jan. 22, 2025. It appeared to be functional on the day of Trump's second inauguration but was no longer available by Jan. 21, based on archival links. As such, we have rated this claim as true.
However, it is unclear why the site was taken down and whether it was just a technical issue or part of the new administration's agenda. Snopes reached out to the Trump administration for more information and will update this story if we receive a response.
According to archival website archive.org, whitehouse.gov/es was online as recently as Jan. 20 (archived). However, on Jan. 21, 2025, the site read "Page Not Found" (archived).
(Screenshot via Whitehouse.gov)
The current Spanish-language website has a button stating "Go to Home Page," directing visitors to the official White House page in English, which now has an image of Trump over the words "America is Back." According to The Associated Press, however, the button initially read "Go Home" before it was updated to state "Go to Home Page." This report is supported by another archived version of the page.
There is also no Spanish-language X account for the White House with the handle @LaCasaBlanca. The one under the Biden administration has been archived on X as @LaCasaBlanca46.
This is not the first time the Trump administration has removed its predecessor's Spanish-language version of the White House site. In 2017, soon after Trump took office for the first time, the site went dark despite being online just days before, prior to his first inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017.
The White House press secretary at that time, Sean Spicer, said the administration was going to have a Spanish-language site up and running. However, it never did, as can be seen in an archived version of the webpage from Jan. 17, 2021, days before the end of Trump's first term. The site was back up and running following Biden's inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021.
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