I discovered something strange when I started writing an article about Trump's Agenda 47. The full page with video clips of Trump elaborating on them, is only found by searching for Agenda 47.
Agenda 47
If you go to just:
Donald Trump website
...there is a link to Agenda 47 with 20 points, but no link to the videos or detail pages. There is a link to the Republican Party Platform PDF file of 16 pages.
The Agenda 47 website is a navigational mess. After selecting and going to the page with the detail, use your own back method because their back option sends you back to the top of the first page, no matter if you started on pages two or three. The text reads like something Trump dictated and then somebody else tried to make sense of it.
The question is why someone hasn't taken the item proposal pages and put the text together to make it readable, or why there's no link to it. The videos are long and rambling, many times not even resembling the text, which also rambles. Journalists have most likely visited the website more than Trump's MAGA supporters because they were looking for it.
Why is there such a poorly designed website for a presidential candidate? Has Trump even looked at it himself? He did all the videos for it. Yes there's lots of news about Trump everyday, but nobody's covered this story.
If you look for the Republican National Committee party platform, the only website you'll find it as a web page is this one:
UCSB website
In addition to the link on Trump's website, you can find it online at this Ballotpedia link as a PDF
Ballotpedia
A different PDF file format here:
Cloud
But that's it. It's like the whole thing is a big secret. Why are these so difficult to find? Why are they apparently covering it up?
The point is that you have to go looking for them. You won't find them at gop.com or rnc.org, in fact both of those websites have absolutely no information at all about their their platform. It's just sign ups and donations.
There is a press release about adopting the platform and 20 points on gop.com, but no direct link to and it's not the full 16 page platform in the PDF files, which are 10 points with lots of detail covering a wide range of what should be separate topics.
Here's the press release, but you won't find a link to it on the GOP main page.
GOP Press Release
Trump's Agenda 47 hasn't been made easily accessible. Maybe it's because every time Trump opens his mouth it's something new and they can't keep up with it, either with his Agenda 47 or the Republican platform. They've just been winging it until the election.
It's also strange that you don't have people running for the US Congress, Senate or state offices that talk about the Republican Party platform. It's a big secret because everything's Trump. All they care about is getting Trump's endorsement.
Seeing how the internet is critical in elections now, it's mystifying to see these poorly designed websites with no information.
Here's a big jpg of work the Washington Post did to show Trump speeches used in the RNC platform:
Washington Post markup
Here's my article called Agenda 47 and More Bad Trump Ideas that goes through all of them.
Agenda 47 and More Trump Bad Ideas
This hide-and-go-seek of Agenda 47 and the Republican Party platform has to be deliberate, because anyone reading it would be confused and alarmed by it.
