4-2021
(((trump won't turn over his speeches;
Most likely he doesn't want history to document how
he destroyed America- His lies, his corruptions, his affiliation
with Putin, and all his harmful bullshite that tore America apart in his hate-filled speeches )))
Defying custom, Trump isn’t giving the National Archives records of his political rally speeches.
Public figures live on within the words they are remembered by.
To understand the effect they had on history, their words need to be documented.
In the case of modern presidents, for the official record, we rely upon transcriptions of all their speeches collected by the national government.
But in the case of Donald Trump almost 10% of the president’s total public speeches are excluded from the official record.
And that means a false picture of the Trump presidency is being created in the official record for posterity.
The government collects and retains all presidential communications, including executive orders, announcements, nominations, statements and speeches.
This includes any public verbal communications by presidents, which are also placed as public documents in the Compilation of Presidential Documents.
These are part of the official record of any administration, published by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration on a weekly basis by the White House press secretary.
In most presidencies, the document or transcript is available a few days to a couple of weeks after any event. At the conclusion of an administration, these documents form the basis for the formal collections of the Public Papers of the President.
Government documents are among the primary records
of who we are as a people.
These primary records speak to Americans directly; they are not what others tell us or interpret to us about our history.
The government compiles and preserves these records to give an accurate accounting of the leaders the country has chosen. They provide a shared history in full instead of an excerpt or quick clip shown in a news report.
Since 1981, the public has legally owned all presidential records. As soon as a president leaves office, the National Archivist gets legal custody of all of them.
But these public documents, which I work with constantly, have so far always been available to the public – and they’ve been available quickly.
Internal presidential documents like memos or email have a rigorous archival procedure that lasts years before they are even accessible.
I have a record of every presidential speech from 1945 to 2021 – every president since Clinton has all their public speeches available online.
Until President Trump, there have been no missing public speeches in the permanent collection.
By removing these speeches Trump is creating a false perception of his presidency.
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