White House launches app touting Trump’s record, with key omissions

The White House on Friday launched a smartphone app that touts a selection of President Donald Trump‘s second-term accomplishments and curates favorable news articles.

It also invites users to report tips to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The app will provide updates about the Trump administration “straight from the source, no filter,” the White House said in a message on X unveiling the app.

It comes after the White House shared a number of short, cryptic videos on its official social media channels, hinting at a forthcoming announcement but offering little context.

The app’s home page includes a tile with information about Trump’s policy priorities and another on his achievements in office. Both direct viewers toward links to existing pages on the official White House website.

At the bottom of the “Social” tab is a button allowing users to submit tips to ICE. The button links to ICE’s tip form on its official site.

Another page on the app focuses on affordability, a major issue for Americans since the Covid-19 pandemic that has only grown more pressing during Trump’s first year back in office.

The app displays a handful of grocery staples — eggs, milk, bread, butter and potatoes — and touts how much costs for those items have gone down year over year. Each item’s listed price appears to correspond to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Some items are more specific than they appear on the app: The listed per-gallon price and year-over-year decline for “Milk,” for instance, aligns with federal data on low-fat, reduced fat and skim milk, rather than whole milk, which has fallen by a smaller percentage in the same period.

Not mentioned in the app are many other items, including ground beef, coffee and orange juice, that have gone up over the past year.

Also absent is oil, which has shot up by double-digit percentages since before Feb. 28, when the U.S. and Israel launched a war against Iran.

The Trump administration has insisted that the war will only last around six weeks and that energy prices will fall soon afterward.

“I believe energy prices will be lower [and] inflation will be lower” than they were before the conflict created a period of “short-term volatility,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday at a televised meeting with Trump and his Cabinet.

The affordability section also includes a line touting a 0.7% year-over-year decline in prescription drug costs. Trump has claimed that drug prices are falling by record levels as a result of his policies, including efforts to strike “most-favored nation” deals with drugmakers. The impact of those deals is unclear, a senior policy manager for the Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured at KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group, wrote this month.

The app also includes a section on investments that foreign countries and large corporations have pledged to make in the U.S., and a page about the border that says, “0 Illegals Released in Past 10 Months.”

It also purports to offer livestreams, though Trump’s remarks to farmers at the White House on Friday afternoon were not offered in real-time on the app.