Trump's AI-Powered .Gov Redesign Initiative Produces Six-Toed Children, Illegal Trackers, and a $400 RFK Jr. Poster

The National Design Studio (NDS), a DOGE-adjacent executive-order creation tasked with redesigning all 27,000 federal websites in three years, has spent roughly a year producing single-page sites, odd redirects (aliens.gov, why.gov, onlyfarms.gov), and a since-vanished merch store selling a $400 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. autographed poster. Its most-discussed design achievement to date: an AI-generated image on TrumpRX.gov depicting a child with six toes running toward an American flag with no stars. An NDS staffer celebrated one site launch on X as "almost entirely generated by our internal AI agent system end to end," prompting critics to note the code looked like it was written by "an AI with a hangover."

More seriously, the Guardian confirmed that four NDS-built federal sites — including trumprx.gov and trumpaccounts.gov — ran commercial visitor-tracking software configured to evade common privacy tools, with no required Privacy Act filings, and no public accounting of what happened to the collected data after the trackers were quietly removed. Unshipped versions of vote.gov and passport.gov raise further surveillance concerns, while most NDS launches fail basic ADA accessibility standards and ship comically oversized code payloads. Most agencies are now reportedly refusing to engage with the studio at all.