Eyebrows were raised on Saturday when the White House unveiled a new website meant to help farmers in the US track their agricultural costs and boost their income. Democratic leaders began ripping into U.S. President Donald Trump, saying he launched a “porn-inspired” government website.
The backlash was caused by the name of the website — OnlyFarms.gov—which reminded people of the popular adult content website OnlyFans. OnlyFarms is housed on the White House official website, but can only be found by searching OnlyFarms.gov.
California governor Gavin Newsom was one of the first to criticise the name, saying on X, “The White House spent more time launching a parody porn website than lowering your gas prices this week.”
Newsom then continued his attack, saying, “Is anyone surprised the sexual abuser president who protects Jeffrey Epstein just launched a porn-inspired government website?”
The trump administration launched the website to help farmers with the government's agricultural policies. Users can click on their state in an interactive map to see the amount they have saved due to Trump's new farming agenda. One of the new programs cover loans to vegetable, grain and seed farmers as well as cattle, pig and poultry producers and ensures a 90 per cent guarantees to lenders who work with small business in the agricultural industry.
The new policies come amid rising diesel prices and high fertiliser costs, largely driven up by Trump’s war in Iran. The supply routes through the Strait of Hormuz are also facing intense disruptions.
Critics said that the relief however is not getting to those who are in most need of it. Data by the Cato Institute shows the top ten farms capture about half of all the subsidies, The Daily Beast reported.
Even Republican leaders were unsure of the farming website's branding.
Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie blasted the site and said that it was a misuse of taxpayer money and that the government shouldn't be parodying a porn site.”
“Can you arrest Epstein’s co-conspirators instead of riffing on a porn site?” Massie wrote on X.
Massie, a long-time rival to Trump, has also disagreed with the administrator on the transparency of the Epstein file and foreign police interventions like the Iran war.