{"id":2219,"date":"2021-01-11T20:54:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T20:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1333690"},"modified":"2021-01-11T20:54:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T20:54:12","slug":"heres-why-the-us-state-department-website-says-donald-trumps-term-ended-on-11-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=2219","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s why the US State Department website says Donald Trump\u2019s \u2018term ended\u2019 on 11 January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In yet another apparent case of giving (perhaps) too much power to a single person, an unnamed US State Department employee is being blamed for the agency website displaying text indicating US President Donald Trump was no longer in office as of 11 January.<\/p>\n<p>Background:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.8643216080402\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hey, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">@StateDept<\/a>, what do you know that the rest of us don&#8217;t?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donald J. Trump&#8217;s term ended on 2021-01-11 19:49:00.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ntl1BSqsb9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Ntl1BSqsb9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristopherJM\/status\/1348721821575733252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">January 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Buzzfeed\u2019s Christopher Miller appears to be the first to report the US State Department\u2019s website made changes to the president\u2019s page stating \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache:-Im7acxO-xYJ:https:\/\/www.state.gov\/people\/donald-j-trump\/+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=nl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Donald J. Trump\u2019s term ended on 2020-12-17 11:04:57<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The timestamp (2020-12-17 11:04:57 above) appears to change over various cached versions with many (including the one in Miller\u2019s tweet) showing 11 January as the date instead of 12 January.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1333692 size-full lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/01\/ussdscreenshot.jpg\" alt width=\"1574\" height=\"773\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1574px) 100vw, 1574px\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/01\/ussdscreenshot.jpg 1574w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/01\/ussdscreenshot-280x138.jpg 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/01\/ussdscreenshot-540x265.jpg 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/01\/ussdscreenshot-270x133.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2021\/01\/ussdscreenshot-796x391.jpg 796w\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/11\/heres-why-the-us-state-department-website-says-donald-trumps-term-ended-on-11-january\/#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2Fpolitics%2F2021%2F01%2F11%2Fheres-why-the-us-state-department-website-says-donald-trumps-term-ended-on-11-january%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: A screenshot taken from the webcache.\" data-title=\"Share A screenshot taken from the webcache. on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share A screenshot taken from the webcache. on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>A screenshot taken from the webcache.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It appears as though the State Department has taken the page down as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/people\/donald-j-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">the current live version<\/a> as of the time of this article\u2019s publishing displays a 404 error indicating the file was removed from the server.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quick take<\/strong>: Miller followed up their earlier tweet with one indicating that Buzzfeed sources tell the outlet the change was made by someone on the inside.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.9383259911894\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATE: Sources tell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzFeedNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">@BuzzFeedNews<\/a> a &#8220;disgruntled staffer&#8221; is behind the State Department site&#8217;s change of Trump and Pence&#8217;s biographies. More TK. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Gbb3cEhRK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/5Gbb3cEhRK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChristopherJM\/status\/1348725601335717889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">January 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is easy enough to laugh off as a prank or the actions of a peaceful activist. But the reality of the situation is that there are apparently parties within the US State Department who have administrative access to the agency\u2019s actual website and code who, for whatever reason, are willing to act in defiance of order and loyalty to the government agency they\u2019ve obligated themselves to serve.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, it\u2019s yet another sign that the current White House administration and government leaders throughout the US have seemingly less control over their own offices and agendas than it would appear. And, taken in context with the attempted coup earlier this month, that\u2019s saying something.<\/p>\n<p><em>Developing\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>TNW reached out to the State Department for comment and will update this article as we receive new information .<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/politics\/2021\/01\/11\/heres-why-the-us-state-department-website-says-donald-trumps-term-ended-on-11-january\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another apparent case of giving (perhaps) too much power to a single person, an unnamed US State Department employee is being blamed for the agency website displaying text indicating US&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}