The White House in Washington, DC, pictured on October 3. Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg/Getty Images

In 2000, President Bill Clinton made an “Internet Address” celebrating new changes to the White House website that his administration launched just a few years earlier. Intended to be a source of government information for Americans and a connection to the White House from their homes, Clinton stressed that leaders have the responsibility to use tools like the website “to expand the reach of democracy.”

“We’ve made the website a permanent part of the Executive Office of the President, so that future presidents will be able to change it to suit their needs as easily as they can change the furniture here in the Oval Office,” Clinton said.

Twenty-five years later, President Donald Trump has do

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