Twitter won’t let federal archivists host Trump’s tweets on Twitter

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The National Archives and Records Administration is a federal agency responsible for preserving historically significant federal records, including tweets from senior government officials. For example, former Trump White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders turned over control of her official Twitter account to NARA when she left office. Leaving tweets on Twitter makes them easily accessible by the public.

But Politico reports that Twitter won’t allow anything like this to happen with former President Donald Trump’s now-banned @realDonaldTrump account.

“Given that we permanently suspended @realDonaldTrump, the content from the account will not appear on Twitter as it did previously or as archived administration accounts do currently, regardless of how NARA decides to display the data it has preserved,” a Twitter spokesman told Politico. “Administration accounts that are archived on the service are accounts that were not in violation of the Twitter Rules.”