唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统就职几小时后，新政府就关闭了白宫官方网站的西班牙语版本。
该网站-目前https://www.whitehouse.gov/es/—现在为用户提供“错误404”消息。它还包括一个“回家”按钮，指引观众进入一个页面，上面有特朗普在第一个任期和竞选活动中的视频剪辑。该按钮后来更新为“转到主页”。
拉美裔倡导团体和其他人对这一突然变化表示困惑，并对一些人所说的政府缺乏与拉美裔社区保持沟通的努力感到沮丧，这种沟通有助于推动他当选总统。
白宫的西班牙文简介“X”，@LaCasaBlanca和关于生育自由的政府网页也被解散了。与此同时，美国劳工部、司法部和农业部等其他政府机构的西班牙语版本周二仍可供用户使用。
当被问及这些变化时，白宫首席副新闻秘书哈里森·菲尔兹周二回应说，政府“致力于恢复网站的西班牙语翻译部分。”
“这是第二天。我们正在开发、编辑和调整白宫网站。作为这项持续工作的一部分，网站上的一些存档内容进入了休眠状态。我们致力于在短时间内重新加载这些内容，”他说，但没有详细说明。
特朗普在2017年删除了该页面的西班牙语版本。当时，白宫官员表示，他们将恢复它。乔·拜登总统在2021年恢复了这一页。
该页面的移除与特朗普的移除同时发生行政命令的第一波浪潮打击非法移民是他的主要竞选承诺之一。特朗普周一宣布美墨边境进入国家紧急状态，并宣布计划派遣美国军队帮助支持移民代理人，限制难民和庇护。
根据2023年人口普查局的估计，约有4340万美国人——占美国5岁及以上人口的13.7%——在家里说西班牙语。美国没有官方语言。
莫妮卡·里维拉(Monica Rivera)是纽约市的一名波多黎各和古巴裔品牌和传播策略师，她说，关闭发出了一个明确的信号。
里维拉说:“有4300万拉丁美洲人以西班牙语为第一语言，直接从白宫获取信息的做法划清了他们为谁服务的界限，更危险的是，这向政府的MAGA基地发出了信号，即我们作为拉丁美洲人是这个国家的‘另一个’和不太重要的一部分。”
美国首都的律师助理安东尼·埃尔南德斯(Anthony Hernandez)最初并没有意识到这一举动，并表示这表明特朗普第二个总统任期的未来几年将会是什么样子，具体问题会成为头条新闻，而“像这样轻微但同样恶意的事情不会被注意到。”
埃尔南德斯说:“像关闭西班牙白宫页面和X个人资料这样的举动除了切断数百万试图合法进入美国的西班牙裔美国人和移民的资源之外，没有任何作用。”“对于在最近的选举中支持他的数百万拉美裔选民来说，这是一记耳光。”
特朗普的马尔科·卢比奥国务卿是古巴裔美国人，会说西班牙语。在周二的宣誓就职仪式上，他用西班牙语发表了讲话，感谢上帝、他的家人和特朗普。
与此同时，鉴于特朗普在某些拉美裔选民中的受欢迎程度，拉美裔领导人和沟通策略专家对该页面的删除表示惊讶。
西班牙裔联合会主席兼首席执行官弗兰基·米兰达说:“如果白宫真的有兴趣与拉美裔人接触，那么他们需要确保更新也可以用西班牙语发布，西班牙语是我们社区数百万人的首选语言。”
他称这是确保“每个人都是公民进程的一部分”的一种方式
康涅狄格学院(Connecticut College)专门研究种族、性别和性的美国历史学家克里斯·克莱恩·埃尔南德斯(Kris Klein Hernández)表示，从白宫官方网站上删除内容不仅限制了说西班牙语的美国公民和移民的访问，还导致“一些人质疑政府优先考虑哪些选区。”
前内阁副秘书、前加州州长杰里·布朗的对外和国际事务副主任李璠表示，鉴于有机会“展示”政策变化，特别是与经济和边境安全有关的政策变化，此举似乎有悖常理。
“我没有看到任何其他被禁止的语言媒介。所以我认为挑出这一点真的很有趣——如果是这样的话，”李说。
美联社VoteCast在全国范围内对超过12万名选民进行了调查，发现特朗普赢得了更大的份额黑人和拉丁裔选民的支持率比他在2020年高，尤其是在45岁以下的男性中。年轻的拉丁美洲人，特别是年轻的拉丁美洲男子，也比2020年对特朗普更加开放。大约一半的年轻拉美裔男子投票给民主党副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯，相比之下，大约60%的人投票给拜登。
Trump Administration shuts down White House Spanish-language page, social media
Within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the new administration took down the Spanish-language version of the official White House website.
The site — currentlyhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/es/— now gives users an “Error 404” message. It also included a “Go Home” button that directed viewers to a page featuring a video montage of Trump in his first term and on the campaign trail. The button was later updated to read “Go To Home Page”.
Hispanic advocacy groups and others expressed confusion at the abrupt change and frustration at what some called the administration’s lack of efforts to maintain communication with the Latino community, which helped propel him to the presidency.
The Spanish profile of the White House’ X, @LaCasaBlanca and the government page on reproductive freedom also were disbanded. Meanwhile, the Spanish versions of other government agencies such as the Department of Labor, Justice and Agriculture remained available for users on Tuesday.
Asked about the changes, White House principal deputy press secretary Harrison Fields responded Tuesday that the administration is “committed to bringing back online the Spanish translation section of the website.”
“It’s day two. We are in the process of developing, editing and tweaking the White House website. As part of this ongoing work, some of the archived content on the website went dormant. We are committed to reloading that content in a short timeline," he said without elaborating.
Trump removed the Spanish version of the page in 2017. At that time, White House officials said they would reinstate it. President Joe Biden reinstated the page in 2021.
The page's removal coincided with Trump’sfirst-day wave of executive ordershighlighted by the launch of an illegal immigration crackdown that was one of his key campaign pledges. Trump on Monday declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border and announced plans to send U.S. troops to help support immigration agents and restrict refugees and asylum.
According to 2023 Census Bureau estimates, about 43.4 million Americans — 13.7% of the U.S. population age 5 and older — speak Spanish at home. The U.S. has no official language.
Monica Rivera, a brand and communications strategist in New York City of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, said the shutdown sends a clear signal.
“There are 43 million Latinos who speak Spanish as their first language and removing access to information directly from the White House draws a distinct line as to who they are serving and more dangerously, signals to the administration’s MAGA base that we as Latinos are ‘other’ and a less significant part of this country," Rivera said.
Anthony Hernandez, a paralegal in the nation's capital, wasn’t initially aware of the move and said it suggests what the coming years of a second Trump presidency would look like, with specific issues making headlines while “minor but equally malicious things like that go unnoticed.”
“A move like shutting down the Spanish White House page and X profile serves no purpose other than to cut off resources for millions of Hispanic Americans and immigrants attempting to enter the United States legally," Hernandez said. "And it’s a slap in the face to the millions of Hispanic voters that supported him in this recent election.”
Trump’ssecretary of state, Marco Rubio, is Cuban American and speaks Spanish. At his swearing-in Tuesday, he gave remarks in Spanish, thanking God, his family and Trump.
Meanwhile, Hispanic leaders and communication strategy experts expressed surprise with the page's removal, given Trump’s popularity with certain Latino voters.
“If the White House is seriously interested in engaging with Latinos, the second largest group in this country, then they need to make sure that updates can also be distributed in Spanish, a preferred language for millions in our community,” said Frankie Miranda President and CEO of the Hispanic Federation.
He called that a way to ensure "everyone is a part of the civic process.”
Kris Klein Hernández, a U.S. historian specializing in race, gender, and sexuality at Connecticut College, said the content removal from official White House websites not only limits the access available to Spanish-speaking U.S. citizens and migrants but leads "some to question which constituencies the administration prioritizes.”
Jeff Lee, former deputy cabinet secretary and deputy director of external and international affairs for former California Gov. Jerry Brown, said the move seems counterintuitive given the opportunity to “showcase” policy changes, especially ones related to economics and border security.
“I didn’t see any other language mediums that got the kibosh. So I think that’s a really interesting thing to single out — if that’s the case," Lee said.
AP VoteCast, a nationwide survey of more than 120,000 voters, found Trumpwon a larger shareof Black and Latino voters than he did in 2020, and most notably among men under age 45. Young Latinos, particularly young Latino men, also were more open to Trump than in 2020. Roughly half of young Latino men voted for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, compared with about 6 in 10 who went for Biden.
