As the White House underwent a dramatic remake on Monday, a significant part of its official website fell out entirely: the Spanish-language version.
An “Español” button on the website’s landing page disappeared in the transition from former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s administration to President Trump’s. The internet address for the Spanish-language White House website now leads to a barren page with a three-word message: “Page Not Found.”
A White House spokesman, Harrison Fields, said in a statement that the Trump administration was “committed to bringing back” the Spanish-language version of the website. He did not set a time frame for that restoration.
Different parts of the White House website regularly go offline and are replaced in the opening days of a presidency.
But the Hispanic Federation, a New York-based advocacy group, called on Mr. Trump to reinstate the translated version immediately.
“The administration must demonstrate that communicating with Latinos is a top priority, not just an empty campaign promise,” Frankie Miranda, the federation’s president, said in a statement.
At the start of Mr. Trump’s first term, the Spanish-language White House website also vanished. Sean Spicer, Mr. Trump’s press secretary at the time, promised it would return.
“We’ve got the I.T. folks working overtime right now to continue to get all of that up to speed,” Mr. Spicer said at a news conference in January 2017. “And trust me, it’s just going to take a little bit more time, but we’re working piece by piece to get that done.”
When Mr. Trump left office four years later, the Spanish-language feature was still missing from the White House homepage.
About 13 percent of Americans over the age of 4 speak Spanish at home, according to census data.
Mr. Trump, who began his 2016 presidential campaign by calling Mexican immigrants drug dealers and rapists, appeared to make significant inroads with Hispanic voters last year in his third presidential run, based on results in counties with large Hispanic populations. He won Miami-Dade County in Florida by 11 points, a remarkable swing in a majority-Hispanic county he lost by 29 points in 2016.
Former Representative Carlos Curbelo, a Miami Republican, said that the disappearance of the Spanish-language website “doesn’t send a great message” and that Mr. Trump missed an opportunity to continue welcoming Hispanic Americans into his coalition.
But he added that the translated version of the website was not as important as it once was.
“Our politics have evolved, and for the average Hispanic voter, there are a lot of issues that are far more important than these details about how government communicates,” Mr. Curbelo said in an interview, adding, “A lot of minority communities want to be considered mainstream.”
The renovation of the White House website has become a digital tradition that follows the swearing-in of each new president, and Mr. Trump’s administration quickly put its imprint on the website this week, replacing what had been a colorful homage to Mr. Biden’s accomplishments and record.
First-time visitors to the new page were met with a video introduction showing cinematic scenes of jets soaring over the White House and Mr. Trump pointing ahead, facing cameras and flashing a thumbs-up.
The video led to a streamlined landing page that declared in large text: “America Is Back.”
The differences from the Biden administration’s White House website were many.
Gone was the commitment to “tackling the climate crisis,” replaced with a pledge to end “policies of climate extremism.”
The Biden administration’s boasts that the White House had “forged historic partnerships” and “restored American leadership” were also gone. In their place was a promise that the United States would “no longer be beholden to foreign organizations.”
“Every single day I will be fighting for you with every breath in my body,” read a message on the homepage above a rendering of Mr. Trump’s signature. “I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve.”
At the end of Mr. Trump’s first term, before Mr. Biden took office on Jan. 20, 2021, the website carried a banner that said, “Promises Made, Promises Kept,” and highlighted Mr. Trump’s work to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and help American workers.
But on the evening of Mr. Biden’s first day in office, the page showed Mr. Biden at a lectern, hands folded, in front of a large American flag. At the bottom of the site, an “Español” button had popped up, too.
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