An investigator who writes as The Drey Dossier dug through public web-certificate records and found 40 federal-looking websites all registered to the White House. Among them: a working copy of vote.gov, a passports.gov, and other agency staging sites. (The real vote.gov is owned by the Election Assistance Commission, an independent agency Congress established after the 2000 Florida recount, specifically so that a sitting president couldn't see who was registering to vote.)
All 40 sites trace to the same place: the National Design Studio, a new White House office Trump established last August by executive order and put under Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia. Gebbia reports to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, faced no Senate confirmation, and filed no financial disclosures. His staff is hired as "temporary advisors" — a category that exempts them from salary and ethics rules. All 40 sites route through one Cloudflare account named "loveisaskill," a slogan Gebbia has used for years to describe Airbnb's product philosophy.
The studio ships TrumpRx, its federal drug-pricing site, runs analytics that record every visitor's mouse movements, clicks, and keystrokes, then forwards the data through a trick that slips past ad blockers. The site's own privacy policy admits that the tool captures which medications people view, then, two paragraphs later, claims that the site collects no health information.
Two of the studio's staffers came from DOGE, the office that is currently being sued for allowing unvetted engineers to access Social Security and DHS systems. One of them, Greg Hogan, now runs Login.gov, the sign-in that 150 million Americans use to reach federal services. Another, Akash Bobba, walked state election officials through a new federal voter-registration tool on a recorded call last October and admitted, "I don't know what they retain and what they are logging."
Because the White House Office sits outside any inspector general's reach, the Presidential Records Act seals everything the studio touches until 2040.
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