WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is temporarily removing a petition tool from its website after 11 months of silence, promising to respond to public concerns next year.
The Trump administration says the platform, used extensively by critics and less frequently by allies, will return in late January as a new site.
A White House official says the move will save taxpayers $1.3 million annually. Initially named “We the People” by the Obama administration, the site launched in 2011.
The official says all existing petitions and responses will be restored next year, when petitions that reach the required 100,000 signatures will begin receiving responses. Among the unanswered petitions that have met the threshold are calls on President Donald Trump to release his tax returns and to place his assets in a blind trust.
Chances this is coming back in January: Zero.
He gonna pull stuff so unpopular that would blow any petition system up. then there’ll be claims that existing petitions were faked so they can all be ignored.
2018 is going to be looked at historically as THE year of constitutional crisis in America, and I’m seriously afraid it won’t survive the test.
Yet the galaxy’s biggest tool still occupies the Oval Trailer…
The new website will have a filter that will only certain word combinations:
• Why + I
• Love + Trump
• Make/Made + America
• Great + Again
• Dearest/Fearless/Bravest/Strongest/Smartest/Best + Leader
• Handsome + Man
Additionally, all petitions must be accompanied by a valid credit card number and proof of a minimum purchase from a Trump-associated website.
Petition away, America!
… promising to respond to public concerns next year.
A promise from Donnie Dumblefuck isn’t worth the breath it took to make the promise.