White House petition site relaunches — and then goes dormant

One year ago, the Trump administration relaunched the official White House petition website, continuing a promise to respond to petitions with 100,000 signatures. But over the past 11 months, President Trump’s deputies have not responded to a single demand that met the threshold.

As the site stagnates, it has attracted off-kilter and increasingly foreign-focused concerns, with responses earned by non-black South African separatists, opponents of a port project in Okinawa, and a creator alleging a “Holocaust in East Turkistan.”