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It's highly irregular to have a .gov domain with this sort of content.
It’s actually illegal, but we don’t have laws anymore.
The man does know how to troll people, and this is sure to make people freak out. The real question is what is this trolling designed to distract from?
I do not believe that it is designed to distract from anything.

Trump, the leaders within his administration, and the staffers manning the switches all hate the left and simply want the left to experience pain. No other explanation is needed. Some little fascist spending an afternoon doing something to hurt people they hate is what they wake up in the morning to do.

Really? Myspace is a nostalgia thing for a small percentage of the population and the popularization of safe spaces are but a distant memory. Everything else is just a rerun of his usual shtick like whining about autopen.
It seems to be an attempt to push blame on the Democrats for the shutdown... in the most childish way possible.
Sadly, the level of discourse finds lower lows to reach every day.

(but also, is this relevant for HN?)

Almost certainly a Hatch Act violation.
You could convict the minions who made the page, but the President and VP are exempt from the Hatch Act's employee restrictions. Seems backwards.
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Everything is Democrats fault, if they would just get out of the way, we could finally get the fully automated space communism that Trump is working with the AI companies to bring us.
We are a deeply unserious people who deserve every drop of destruction headed our way.
I feel bad for the people involved in doing this. It’s just… sad.
A majority of the electorate think this is just fine and dandy. Deplorable, indeed.
The proof we are in a simulation, is when the White House becomes the troll account...
Wow. This would be 'meh' if it was some weird individual. This is a 'whitehouse.gov' domain. This our our the Trump Administration folks. Acting like immature 13 year old, and making jokes no one under 40. And doing it using federal resources to do political party activities.

After decades of 'proprietary, respect, professionalism', this kind of childishness is just gross and embarrassing.

Oh, wow. I'd like to already predict that this is going to become a talking point in the EU.

"Nicknames: Temu Obama" (and others)

"Heroes: Anyone who identifies as a radical leftist. Transnational gangs, illegal immigrants"

You want your allies and partners to be honorable and reliable. Allowing this content to remain on a presumably reputable government website long enough for people to talk about it, leaves a rather sour impression. *.gov was supposed to represent all of the American people.

And that "trumprx.gov" advertisement on the top just ticks off my fraud detector. But, apparently, it is a legit government project.

Both "trumprx.gov" and “Trumpcard.gov” said they were created by the National Design Studio which points to https://americabydesign.gov.

Cringeworthy Quote:

     The same way a hotelier anticipates the needs of their guests.  This is the hospitality design for our nation.   This is President Trump going bigger than President Nixon.
Can't even blame gen z staffer for this. What's the youngest you could reasonably be to get this one? 35? Also not having Tom in top 8 is a big miss
Disgusting that this is flagged. How is an unusual White House web page not technology news? Whoever flagged this is a snow flake!
Very inappropriate for a government website but amusing nonetheless. Makes me glad I'm not American. You guys are having some serious governance issues.
This is the trashiest thing I've ever seen
I remember when wearing tan pants was controversial and supposedly unpresidential. This is beyond bizarro world. In the Bible there were hypocritical "leaders" called the Pharisees. Seems there a modern day party of them.
Hacked and defaced? Cyber security at a low point.
For all the folks on the left who dislike this sort of thing: would you agree with trying to make sure that this cannot happen again? If that is the case, we need to work together to massively shrink the federal government. You can still have states that basically set up socialist policies, but if the federal government has enough power to set up socialist policies, it can also set up pseudo dictator policies, right?
After the No Kings AI video it's hard to be surprised by this embarrassment but it feels much worse that it's on the official White House website.
Actual banana republic.
"unbecoming" is the first word that comes to mind. Can't say it really surprises me, though.