Senate Democrats say White House removed some Trump transcripts and they built a backup archive

Senate Democrats say the White House began taking some official transcripts of President Donald Trump’s public remarks off its website in late May 2025. In response, they put up their own archive of Trump transcripts and say it is meant to keep the record accessible. Their page says the White House “quietly began removing” official transcripts and that the government site now offers only a limited selection of videos and audio recordings. The Democratic archive is not a claim that every presidential statement disappeared. It is a backup record built around one narrower complaint: that the public transcript trail became harder to find and easier to lose. The archive itself says it is being updated periodically and draws material from Roll Call’s Factba.se. That matters because it undercuts the grander version of the story. This is not proof of a formal censorship policy, and it is not evidence that all White House statements vanished. It is evidence that lawmakers saw a gap in how the administration was preserving and presenting transcripts, and decided to mirror the material elsewhere. The White House still posts releases and briefing materials on its own site. So the real fight here is over completeness, not silence. Who keeps the official record, how much of it stays online, and whether the public can still find it without digging through a patchwork of pages. If the administration wants its words treated as the durable version, the burden is on it to keep those transcripts organized, available, and easy to verify later.