Trump Administration Uses Official Government Website To Bash 'Radical Left'

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

Sep 30, 2025, 02:53 PM EDT | Updated 3 hours ago


Visitors to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s official government website were greeted by a highly unusual and overtly political message on Tuesday:

“The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands,” the notice blared at the top of the site, set against a red background. “The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people.”

In case anyone missed it, the same exact message quickly surfaced in a pop-up box covering the page. A visitor had to close the box before navigating anywhere on the HUD site. HUD Secretary Scott Turner, a Trump appointee, shared the message on X and said, “HUD.gov has been updated accordingly.”

It should surprise no one that the Trump administration might use government resources to promote its political views in its shutdown standoff with congressional Democrats. After all, President Donald Trump has been using his government post to enrich his family to the tune of billions of dollars.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-administration-hud-website-shutdown_n_68dc19c3e4b003b6c8dc601b?origin=home-latest-news-unit

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[msongs]

1. poster designs are right out ot he goebbels design center nt

[erronis]

2. Posted earlier from The Guardian

Pity it's so hard to search for duplicates!

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220686902
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/30/hud-website-government-shutdown-banner

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Yours is in General Discussion

This thread is in LBN.

[erronis]

5. Not sure why this is a feature, not a problem.

I may not understand how most people see new/interesting posts. Do they go first to forums, or the home page/trending? Or follow certain posters?

I've seen some posts be reposted multiple times in different forums. Is this really necessary? When a comment is made to one of thee OPs is it automatically seen in other forums? Or does the commentator need to reply everywhere.

In the end, the more a particular topic has visibility, the better.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. I've tried to encourage people to post "news" in "Late Breaking News" main forum

THAT is what it is here for. But General Discussion usually has the most DUers viewing posts because all kinds of things are discussed there.

But due to its popularity, you literally have so many threads being generated that "news" can get lost quickly.

Each forum/group has 30 pages of threads before the last thread on page 30 is "archived" and any additional posts to it will not kick the thread to the first page.

Each page has 80 threads so you are literally talking up to 2400 threads within a forum/group at any given time.

And because the threads are generated so quickly in GD, it ends up that the 30 pages only has about 7 days worth of posted threads before the thread goes "bye bye" (for kicking). Some of the lightly trafficked groups still have threads from 2011 and the start of DU3 and may not have even reached 30 pages.

LBN has a strict criteria of timeframe for story publication, source restrictions, and content restrictions that should avoid "opinions/Editorials", "analyses" and "features".

It's all a matter of preference!

[erronis]

9. Thanks for your cogent explanation.

Always appreciate a rational discussion.

DU seems based on the old usenet/forum model where conversations have to be pre-allocated to a particular category (and DU's list of topics seem to be very dated.)

I've thought that a simple (from my armchair) perspective approach would let every new post (OP) be placed in a general Inbox which could then have "tags" (such as forum names) associated. From my armchair, this doesn't seem like a huge shift but I've worked in fragile environments (PHP, Perl) before.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. Well remember

that DU was originally created as a "political" discussion site that supports the Democratic party and Democrats. But because people have so many other interests outside of "politics", there were smaller groups that were added over the years (by DU member requests) to satisfy that need to "take a break from politics" and engage in a "community" setting, alongside others who still follow politics as much as this membership does. I know there are some who I dub "Lounge Lizards" who I rarely or never see posting outside of the Lounge.

The current topics have been consolidated with the move to DU4 but back when those smaller groups were created, there were many members who were very active discussing those issues and they ended up cluttering and pushing out other discussions in General Discussion. At that point, there appeared to be a need to create a place for those discussions. But as time went on, many members of the-then active groups either passed away or moved on, and that is when decisions needed to be made about whether to combine groups or just deprecate them.

I think that EarlG made DU customizable to a good degree, to allow people to filter out stuff (forums, groups, and even subjects by keyword) that they are not interested in, and members can subscribe, not only to people, but to forums/groups.

I remember way back trying to decide whether to join here or Daily Kos. The DKos style was basically an OP and then what is a "comments section" below - e.g., like a "weblog" thing. I preferred the old BBS style formatting having gotten used to it on the old USENET back in the '90s, as well as some of my hobby forums. To me, it makes it easier to search for subjects and content. I suppose an alternate is how Reddit does their categorizing.

[Torchlight]

3. Mr trump: "A shutdown falls on the President's lack of leadership..."

"...he can’t even control his own party and get people together in a room. A shutdown means the president is weak."

Also Mr trump: "I am proud to shut down the government... I will be the one to shut it down".

[riversedge]

8. Trump says that even Gov shutdowns are about him. OK!!

[kerouac2]

7. Control media, control thought

It's breath taking how they get their messages out

[DrFunkenstein]

10. So What Are The Demands From These Radical Leftists?

What is on this scary wish list? Please be specific.

I'm going to hold my breath until they answer.

[HappyLarge]

12. Health Care Subsidies and SNAP

You know, the radical leftist goal of letting people see a doctor and eat.

[HappyLarge]

11. My organization got the memo as well.

I’ve been through many government shutdowns. Was in the military, was a DOD employee and now employed by a different federal agency.
That memo was the most, unprofessional crock of bullshit, I’ve ever seen.
These people are loathsome.