188 years ago, President Andrew Jackson had a 1,400-pound block of cheddar cheese brought to the foyer of the White House and opened the People’s House to thousands of Americans to talk with him and his staff. That remains the “most accessible” White House ever.

In 2025, the Trump White House isn’t disclosing visitor logs, ethics waivers, financial records, or presidential tax returns.

The record shows the Press Secretary’s claim that they are the “most transparent White House in history” to be false.

Interviews with dozens of friendly influencers doesn’t make a White House historicallly transparent.

Disclosing open data, reports, and discussions an administration do not have to post helps.

Forcing staff to sign nondisclosure agreements… doesn’t. Nondisclosure agreements in the Trump White House were an unconstitutional restraint on the free expression of public servants. NDAs alone invalidated historic claims of transparency.

If this White House is using NDAs, renewed claims of historic transparency are even more ludicrous.

The “most transparent administration in history” would honor the Presidential Records Act and fire a National Security Advisor who set records to auto-delete in a Signal chat, not tolerate lawlessness.