Trump White House shuts down comments line

[highplainsdem]

Source: ThinkProgress

In his inaugural address on Friday, Donald Trump said that ordinary people would be heard under his administration.

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As Blue Virginia reported on Monday, the White House comments line, which is still advertised on the White House’s website, has been shut down.

ThinkProgress repeatedly called the number and received the same message each time: “Thank you for calling the White House comments line. The comment line is currently closed.”

Citizens are instead urged to go to the White House web form or Facebook messenger to send a message to the president. This would seem to indicate that the 13 percent of American adults who do not use the Internet have, just days into Trump’s presidency, been forgotten.

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Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/trump-white-house-shuts-down-comments-line-cfaeca5290a2#.ri6gd8my1

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I guess they couldn't pay anyone enough to listen to what the people really think of Trump...

[MineralMan]

1. Waaaaa...People were saying mean things about The Donald.

Shut it down RFN!

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. firiing more hard working people.

and shutting out the people at the same time, win win.

[Sunny05]

3. K and R / nt

[pkdu]

4. But there is still (for now) this...

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/

[avebury]

8. Perhaps a petition should be started to ask them to

restore the comment line.

[Sunlei]

9. lol hush, now they'll notice & remove it.

[ffr]

5. Give it back to you. The people. - tRump

"It" is suppose to be power. But if you go by his word, that means he's going to take power from the people.

Kinda figured that would be the cause already, so shutting down the WH Comments Line, while disappointing YET AGAIN, it is hardly a surprise.

Slowly taking our liberties away.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Our Comments are better heard as they were Saturday

loudly, vocally, for all the world to see

more will hear us and join us than if we prattle to some deaf
White House sow

[LisaM]

7. Even Bush kept the comment line open.

I should know, I called it often enough.

What's more chilling to me about this is the way people are more easily tracked in they use a platform like Facebook Messenger to comment. You can't tell me that this isn't partially about tracking people as part of his petty revenge tactics.

[2naSalit]

10. I find it interesting that my

computer stopped working on the internet last night. I have two services available and the connection works but not one web page will load on either of them. I am on a computer I borrowed and I am able to get on with it. I wonder if my computer was compromised somehow, I've run scans and conducted disc cleanup after every session lately, just because. There always seem to be a ton of "things" lingering after I've been at Du for a while and clicking on links. I don't go to most off-site links and have filters on my browser etc. Not liking the new world so far.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. If we can get him to close his Twitter account we will seal him off in the Oval Office.

Mission Accomplished.

[forgotmylogin]

12. It's possible...

That these operators might have been part of the previous admin staff that he swept out. Many phone menus are designed to drop to a "sorry we're closed" message when nobody is logged in to take the calls.

It's possible this is a low priority item for them and they just haven't gotten around to filling those positions yet.

Not that I'm defending him, but it sounds like a lot of balls were dropped this weekend.

[ailsagirl]

13. Oh, my...

they're certainly busy-busy-busy, aren't they?

When does he plan to paint the WH gold?

[Richard D]

23. He already changed the oval office curtains .

. . to gold.

[ailsagirl]

29. Oh, brother!!

This is just the beginning, I know.

I thought the clod wasn't going to live there anyway

[Hekate]

14. The Mad King listens to the voices in his head

[alarimer]

15. Well here's comment" FUCK YOU, TRUMP

Not that he's reading this, but maybe I'll tweet him instead.

[Angry Dragon]

20. and a little birdy told him ........ FUCK YOU

[SeattleVet]

16. Reminds me of:

"But the plans were on display..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'"

(Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's guide to the Universe)

[rurallib]

17. was just about to post and ask if it was still open

had a couple of things I wanted to say

[IronLionZion]

18. Trump doesn't have time for our comments

Trump will give us his comments to help us out.

[Angry Dragon]

19. I just called and it is still shut down ............. I guess he has all the advise he needs

[MindPilot]

21. "Please listen to the menu, as the options have changed"

"Select 1 to leave a message lavishing praise and adoration on our most popular president ever."

"Select 2 to add "bigly" to selection one."

"Select 3 to donate to the president's 2020 campaign fund."

"Select 4 to end call. Sad."

[Norbert9]

22. To be fair

We all know no one in his admin cares about any "comments"

Why should expect them to waste the time of fielding calls?

[Marie Marie]

24. Guess it's time for me to open a Twitter account

We do know that the Twit reads Tweets.

[woodsprite]

25. He probably had them set the email to route directly to trash. n/t

[C_U_L8R]

26. "Lalalalalalalalala I can't hear you"

is not a strategy. But then we expect no better from Trump..

[WhiteTara]

27. White House comment line operators are not paid

they are all volunteers. He just doesn't want to hear it.

[Turbineguy]

28. Just yell at your TeeVee!

He'll hear you. He's listening. He's interested in your view!