The Trump administration wasted no timedismantlingthe Obama White House ’s digital footprint short after taking berth on Friday . One of the most obtrusive changes is that theEspañol versionof the White House website no longer live .
After Mexico , the United States currently has the world’ssecond - largestSpanish - talk population , making the fade of the internet site even more lurid . It would n’t take long or be much for the White House to translate its site into Spanish , either . accord to Acclaro , a New York - found language religious service provider that builds and maintains multilingual websites for companies like Netflix , J. Crew , and Visa . The company cypher there are some 80,000 words on the total website , and that it would cost about $ 40,000 to translate them .
“ There are small companies that spend this much every day on version , ” Acclaro ’s frailty president of client development Matthew Grotenstein tell Gizmodo . “ Given the amount that the US government spends on displacement and interpretation , putting a budget away to pop the question White House - dot - org in Spanish is a little price to pay compared to do good of receive the information available to that residential area . ”
Other translation services who verbalize to Gizmodo cite even tacky price tags . “ calculate on the nature of the schoolbook , one would in all likelihood be looking [ at ] between $ 11,000 and $ 12,500 to complete the translation , ” Straker Translations executive commercial manager Lee Konstanty told Gizmodo . “ A unmarried transcriber could completel[e ] the job in about 45 day , if the undertaking were to be double staffed , I could foresee a 21 day turnaround . ”
The Trump administration could also do the bare lower limit or even follow Obama ’s wind . During the premature presidency , the official White House website wasnever fully translated . It was or else used to portion out Spanish lyric versions of policies and news announcement .
We call for the various translation services how much it would be to render Trump’slatest newsandissuesWhite House pages , and the price was miniscule . “ Everything together is $ 1,265 , ” a Globe Language Services salesperson told Gizmodo . The cost was also tiny when we ask Acclaro , who priced it at $ 3,320 .
Six different translation services contacted by Gizmodo said it typically costs between 20 - 40 cents per word for English - to - Spanish version , depend on whether you count project management fees . “ I would also include a monthly budget for updates , so any young legislating , press exit , or communication would be translated on an ongoing basis , ” said Grotenstein . “ I would put aside an additional $ 4,000-$5,000 a month for update . ”
This would evidently be just a miniscule fraction of the $ 3 trillionfederal budget . It ’s not new for the federal government to spend fistfuls of money on translations , either . One report found that the US government expend about$4.5 billionon transformation and rendering services between 1990 - 2009 .
The Obama governance used subcontractor and its communications squad to keep the whitehouse.gov/espanol internet site updated on a regular basis . The Obama White House also on a regular basis used the Spanish Twitter account ( @LaCasaBlanca ) to share news about the president ’s speeches and update policies . The Trump organization has not yet used the Spanish language write up .
George W. Bush — the mostunpopularpresident in history — also maintained a Spanish rendering of the White House website . The former Governor of Texas was also famous for break speeches in ( broken ) Spanish during his presidency .
Trump made it clear during the hunting expedition season that he has no interest in preserving a relationship with Mexico or Spanish - mouth voter . He has regularly promise tobuild a wallon the US - Mexico border that he says Mexico will yield for ( despite require Congress for thefunding ) . In 2015 , Donald Trump alsocriticizedJeb Bush for speak Spanish on the campaign trail . Trump told Bush that he should set an lesson by speaking English . When involve about it during a presidential public debate , Trump dismissed the penury for bilingualism .
“ We have a commonwealth where , to ingest , you have to speak English , ” Trump sound out . “ I think that where he was and the way it fall out did n’t sound great to me . We have to have acculturation to have a country . We have to have absorption . ”
Trump ’s uncongenial office towards immigrant in this country has been no cloak-and-dagger . And through the White House website we see that his position is immediately evident after the inaugural .
We contacted the Trump administration for scuttlebutt , and will update if and when we hear back .
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