White House launches app promoting Trump’s record with major omissions

The White House on Friday launched a smartphone app that selects accomplishments from President Donald Trump’s second term and curates favorable news articles.

It also invites users to report tips to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

app will provide updates “Straight from the source, no filters,” about the Trump administration The White House said The app was unveiled in a message on X.

This comes after the White House shared several short, cryptic videos on its official social media channels that hinted at an upcoming announcement but provided little context.

The app’s home page features a tile containing information about Trump’s policy priorities and another tile about his accomplishments in office. Both direct viewers to links to existing pages on the official White House website.

Below the “Social” tab is a button that allows users to submit tips to ICE. This button links to ICE’s tip form on its official site.

Another page on the app focuses on affordability, a major issue for Americans since the Covid-19 pandemic has grown more pressing during Trump’s first year in office.

The app displays a handful of grocery items — eggs, milk, bread, butter and potatoes — and tells you how much the cost of those items has dropped year over year. The listed price of each item appears to be in line with US Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Some items are more specific than they appear on the app: For example, the per-gallon price and year-over-year decline listed for “milk” aligns with federal data on low fat, low fat, and low fat. skimmed milkinstead of whole milkWhich has fallen by a small percentage in the same period.

The app doesn’t mention several other items that have increased over the past year, including ground beef, coffee and orange juice.

Oil is also absent, which has increased rapidly double digit percentage Before February 28, when the US and Israel started a war against Iran.

The Trump administration has insisted that the war will last only six weeks and that energy prices will fall immediately afterward.

“I believe energy prices will be lower (and) inflation will be lower as well,” Treasury Secretary Scott Besant said in a televised meeting with Trump and his Cabinet on Thursday, before saying the conflict would create a period of “short-term instability.”

The affordability section also includes a line claiming a 0.7% year-over-year decline in prescription drug costs. Trump has claimed that drug prices are falling to record lows as a result of his policies, including efforts to sign “most favored nation” agreements with drug manufacturers. The impact of those deals is unclear, said John F., a senior policy manager for the Medicaid and Uninsured program at KFF, a non-partisan health policy research group. wrote this month.

The app also includes a section on investments that foreign countries and large corporations have pledged to make in the US, and a page about the border that says, “0 illegals released in the last 10 months.”

It also aims to offer livestreams, although Trump’s remarks to farmers at the White House on Friday afternoon were not projected in real time on the app.