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State Department is deleting all X posts from before Trump’s return — even from Trump’s first term

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 09, 2026
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Donald Trump (Lucas Parker/shutterstock.com)

The State Department is removing all posts from its X accounts made before January 20, 2025 — and that includes posts from Trump’s own first term.

The posts will be internally archived but no longer publicly visible. If you want to see them, you’ll need to file a Freedom of Information Act request, NPR reports.…

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