President-elect Trump needs time to make whitehouse.gov great again

Donald Trump’s takeover of the White House’s website is going to come in on time and under budget — with a larger reboot planned a bit later in 2017.

Trump’s digital team plans to put off for a few months any major overhaul to the official White House online portal, even as it will relaunch to reflect the voice and message of its new occupant almost in tandem with Trump’s swearing in. The new administration is keeping — for now — the basic shell and design built under the leadership of President Barack Obama, including the fonts, format and blue colors that have come to be associated with many aspects of the outgoing Democratic administration. And, recognizing the blowback President Obama got in 2012 for appending information about his own presidency onto the biography pages of some of his predecessors, Team Trump said it won’t touch the sites for past presidents and first ladies. “That content is not political. It’s about the White House as an institution,” said Ory Rinat, who is advising the Trump transition on digital strategy.