Twitter doesn't want Trump's tweets, but the National Archives does

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🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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When a presidency ends, the National Archives and Records Administration's work begins. They play a key role in transferring millions of records and artifacts from the White House. And they even archive the Twitter accounts belonging to members of the previous administration. We first saw this happen with the Obama administration, and those archived accounts are still around. But President Trump has created a kind of thorny problem for the National Archives: how do you preserve the tweets of a president who's been banned from Twitter? Politico’s Quint Forgey (@QuintForgey) explains. Read Quint’s story here. Enjoyed this episode? Rate Recode Daily ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. What do you want to learn on Recode Daily? Send your questions and requests to recodedaily@recode.net. We read every email! Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Recode Daily by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This episode was made by: - Host: Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) - Producer: Sofi LaLonde (@sofilalonde) - Engineer: Paul Mounsey Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	When a presidency ends, the National Archives and Record Administration's work begins.
0:41.0	That's an agency that plays a key role in transferring millions of records and artifacts
0:46.0	from the departing White House.
0:48.0	And they even archive the Twitter accounts now belonging to a previous administration.
0:53.0	The National Archives technically has to preserve President Trump's tweets.
0:56.0	But how exactly do you do that when he's no longer on the platform to begin with?
1:00.0	Well, if you think Trump's upset about getting impeached,
1:03.0	imagine how he felt the other day when Twitter announced that they're permanently suspending his account
1:08.0	a lifetime ban.
1:15.0	Here to explain his quint forgy reporter Politico, hey quint.
1:18.0	Hey Teddy, thanks for having me.
1:20.0	So tell me what happens typically when a president leaves office.
1:24.0	Maybe when Barack Obama left office, what happened to his tweets?
1:27.0	Sure, so this all goes back to something called the Presidential Records Act of 1978.
1:32.0	Presidential records serve as a vital resource for the researchers and historians
1:39.0	who document our nation's history.
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