The White Home in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026.
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The White Home on Friday launched a smartphone app that touts a collection of President Donald Trump’s second-term accomplishments and curates favorable information articles.
It additionally invitations customers to report tricks to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The app will present updates concerning the Trump administration “straight from the supply, no filter,” the White Home stated in a message on X unveiling the app.
It comes after the White Home shared plenty of brief, cryptic movies on its official social media channels, hinting at a forthcoming announcement however providing little context.
The app’s dwelling web page features a tile with details about Trump’s coverage priorities and one other on his achievements in workplace. Each direct viewers towards hyperlinks to present pages on the official White Home web site.
On the backside of the “Social” tab is a button permitting customers to submit tricks to ICE. The button hyperlinks to ICE’s tip type on its official website.
One other web page on the app focuses on affordability, a significant difficulty for People for the reason that Covid-19 pandemic that has solely grown extra urgent throughout Trump’s first yr again in workplace.
The app shows a handful of grocery staples — eggs, milk, bread, butter and potatoes — and touts how a lot prices for these objects have gone down yr over yr. Every merchandise’s listed worth seems to correspond to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics knowledge.
Some objects are extra particular than they seem on the app: The listed per-gallon worth and year-over-year decline for “Milk,” as an example, aligns with federal knowledge on low-fat, diminished fats and skim milk, relatively than complete milk, which has fallen by a smaller proportion in the identical interval.
Not talked about within the app are many different objects, together with floor beef, espresso and orange juice, which have gone up over the previous yr.
Additionally absent is oil, which has shot up by double-digit percentages since earlier than Feb. 28, when the U.S. and Israel launched a battle in opposition to Iran.
The Trump administration has insisted that the battle will solely final round six weeks and that power costs will fall quickly afterward.
“I consider power costs can be decrease [and] inflation can be decrease” than they have been earlier than the battle created a interval of “short-term volatility,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated Thursday at a televised assembly with Trump and his Cupboard.
The affordability part additionally features a line touting a 0.7% year-over-year decline in prescription drug prices. Trump has claimed that drug costs are falling by file ranges on account of his insurance policies, together with efforts to strike “most-favored nation” offers with drugmakers. The affect of these offers is unclear, a senior coverage supervisor for the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured at KFF, a nonpartisan well being coverage analysis group, wrote this month.
The app additionally features a part on investments that international international locations and huge companies have pledged to make within the U.S., and a web page concerning the border that claims, “0 Illegals Launched in Previous 10 Months.”
It additionally purports to supply livestreams, although Trump’s remarks to farmers on the White Home on Friday afternoon weren’t supplied in real-time on the app.
