I currently take ZERO prescriptions but I know a whole lot of people who require them — some with a laundry list of drugs taken on the regular. With the release of the Trump RX website, I couldn’t help but check it out.
The White House Should Hire ME!
I know this isn’t a big deal for everyone, but as a person that started developing websites before it was cool, there’s one thing about the new government website that’s a pretty darned big disappointment for me. The official site, trumprx.gov, is a government domain that lists discounted cash-pay prices for dozens of prescription drugs.
Here’s the oversight: Given how dominant “.com” is in people’s minds, and the fact that Trump himself referred to the site as TrumpRX.com twice, why on earth would there not be a redirect set up from trumprx.com to trumprx.gov?? Currently, it’s nothing but a blank page when the .com version of the URL is entered into a browser.
That’s an amateur mistake in my book.
It takes about a minute to set-up a redirect. Purchasing multiple versions of a domain and using redirects is standard for people and companies that don’t want their visitors hijacked. Redirects ensure you capture anyone trying to find you and send them where they should be. It’s basic shit, y’all.
So TrumpRX.gov was designed and engineered in D.C. by National Design Studio so I follow that link and find their claim to be leading the America by Design initiative — working to improve how Americans experience their government – online, in person, and the spaces in between. A prominent top link on this site says it’s “by Executive Order.” So I click that link too. It goes to a August 2025 page about improving our nation through better design.
If the government truly wants “better design,” they need to hire better DESIGNERS.
The website is visually clean and easy to navigate. Using a pill for the period and the play on words (rewriting the script) is clever. But don’t talk about improving the experience “in the spaces in between” if you’re not delivering just that on such a basic level.
Now you know: The Chief Design Officer of the National Design Studio is Airbnb co-founder, Joe Gebbia. He’s also on the board of Tesla. 🤨