Trump’s AI-Powered Push to Redesign All Government Websites Produces Disastrous Results

President Trump’s executive order created the National Design Studio (NDS) in August 2025, tasking it with overhauling all 27,000 federal .gov websites within three years using AI. The ambitious effort was hindered by deep cuts from DOGE, which dismantled key technology teams like 18F and absorbed the US Digital Service. The resulting AI-generated designs have been widely criticized as unusable and visually jarring, undermining the initiative’s goal of a more beautiful and user-friendly government web presence.