WASHINGTON - The White House has removed the official transcript of President Donald Trump's public remarks from its administration website, replacing them with selected videos of his public appearance.

Just Sunday, the transcript of Trump's speeches and comments was still appearing in the "Rhetoric" section of whitehouse.gov. The next day, they disappeared, and the snapshots on the website were on the Internet Archives show. The only report card that appears now is Trump's inauguration ceremony on January 20.

A White House official said the administration stenographer is still recording and transcribing Trump's remarks. But amid internal policy changes in recent days, the White House has canceled its transcript in favor of audio and video appearances.

The idea behind the move is that people will gain a more fulfilling and more accurate Trump awareness by watching and listening to him rather than reading transcripts, officials said, and they may not be willing to do it anyway. The audio and video of clearing transcripts and switching to Trump’s remarks is intended to create “consistency” across the website, officials said.

“For consistency, previously available transcripts have been removed and replaced with audio and visual components of that transcript,” the official said. “The White House continues to work to upload a large number of public activities the president has done and will continue to ensure that the website is complete and fully represented by the president’s public comments.”

"The president's remarks are live on the website of everyone in the world, including journalists," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the office of Vice President JD Vance continues to be made public The transcript of his remarks sent it to the media. Since last month, Vance's office has shared eight transcripts with reporters, including comments he made at a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who spoke about American manufacturing, and another war involving Russia and Ukraine.

When asked why Vance launched its official transcript when Trump was away, Vance's office declined to comment.

Historians and former White House officials condemned the move to cancel a public transcript that has long been the final record that the president said in public.

"I hope he and his communication team can see the light about it," said Barbara Perry, co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.

“Not only is it good for history, they may not care, and they do care how he sees history.

If Trump feels misquoted or misunderstood, public transcripts also provide him with some protection. He could point out the document to solve the problem.

Report cards coming out of the White House have sometimes become a point of debate. A few days before the 2024 election, President Joe Biden made a comment, which seemed to be demeaning Trump voters.

A comedian who spoke at the Trump rally called Puerto Rico a "floating garbage island."

"The only trash I see is his supporters," Biden told Latino audiences. The comment has the potential to alienate millions of voters on the eve of the election and could damage the opportunity of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

But the Biden Press Office changed the stenographer's transcript and instead released a document that changed the meaning of his remarks, adding an apostrophe to quote "supporters', which is clearly a reference for the comedian who made the speech.

Beck Dorey-Stein said President Barack Obama had mistakenly used the term “abortion” in an interview. Dory Stan said Obama aides marked Obama's marks, but the transcripts were allowed to stand.

In another transcript, in 2007, George W. Bush, however, turned the word into "children." The White House insisted that it did not ask for editing and exchanged it back to Bush's true words.

Dory Stein said the withholding transcript “seems really irresponsible, it’s a self-inflicted wound.” “With the transcript, he can say, ‘That’s exactly what I said.’”

She added: "How many times have people in the press room say, 'President Obama said, 'The press secretary would say, 'No, he didn't. Check the transcript'? Now, no one can check the transcript."

Others questioned the reasons raised by White House officials. The real motivation, critics say, may be that the off-topic talk Trump often calls “weaving” may appear in writing.

Mike McCurry, the White House press secretary for Bill Clinton, said maybe the White House “don’t want to reveal 'weaving'.

The last presidential incident transcribed and published by the White House happened more than two months ago - an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

Although there are some videos of Trump's appearance on the White House website, many of them do not.

The website showed 10 videos in April, including events with Ohio State University football team, Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, Philadelphia Eagles football team, and Italian and Norwegian prime ministers.

What is not shown is videos of more than twenty events Trump attended last month. These include an Oval Office meeting on April 14 with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, who accepts immigrants deported from the United States and places them in a maximum security prison. Trump said at the meeting that he hopes Bucker “take over as many criminals as possible.”

Videos of various interactions between Trump and the media are also lacking. For example, there were no records on April 17 Q&A with reporters, involving issues involving school shootings at Florida State University (“guns do not do guns; he said”) and Harvard’s tax-free status (“I think Harvard is a shame. Apparently anti-Semitic.”).

This month, the White House website released 11 videos about Trump's appearance. So far, this is less than half the Q&A session compared to media and other events.

The remaining events include meetings with Canada’s new Prime Minister Mark Carney, who beat Trump’s interest in making Canada’s 51st state.

"Canada will never be sold," Carney said.

The White House used to promote formal transcripts of presidential remarks. Indeed, in the first four months of Trump's first term, the White House made more than 100 remarks. By comparison, during Trump's new term, his White House released only 30 before his disappearance.

Dory-Stein said the new president's aides were on alert to the corps of stenographers at the beginning of Trump's first term. Dorey-Stein recalls that a former news official said the stenographer positioned the microphone too close to Trump's face and he didn't like it.

“There was an overwhelming distrust at the time,” she said in an interview. “They do feel we are an extension of the press, not a guarantee.”