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A discussion introduces the National Design Studio (NDS) as an office described as “one of the most dangerous offices in the White House,” characterized as building “a parallel federal government inside the executive branch on private infrastructure,” and staffed by people previously linked to legal action involving federal data.
The speaker notes that the TrumpRx federal prescription drug pricing website contains a footer line stating “designed and engineered in DC by National Design Studio” above the privacy policy. The speaker contrasts this with other federal websites, claiming they do not credit external design studios, and adds that the NDS name is hyperlinked to NDS’s website. The speaker says the TrumpRx site appears to have been created with Wix and widgets, and that the byline is “pretty weird because federal websites don’t have design bylines.”
The speaker describes the NDS website as startup-like, with mainly mission-statement language and recruiting copy, and no page listing team members or leadership. During “digging,” the speaker says they found Joe Gebbia as the key name associated with NDS and identifies him as the chief design officer of the United States working with NDS. The speaker states that Joe Gebbia is the co-founder of Airbnb, stepped back from Airbnb in 2022, and that in September 2022 Tesla appointed him to its board of directors to fill a seat vacated by Larry Ellison, founder and chairman of Oracle.
The speaker then ties Gebbia to a federal role: the speaker says that in August 2025 Donald Trump signed an executive order creating the National Design Studio and created the federal title “Chief Design Officer of the United States.” According to the speaker, Gebbia was named to that title on day one, and he reports directly to the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. The speaker says this reporting structure is unusual.
The speaker claims NDS is staffed under a federal hiring authority called Section 3161, originally written for temporary advising bodies. The speaker asserts this means many people at NDS are “part-time advisor[s] or … volunteer[s],” which would result in them not appearing on the White House salary report and not filing financial disclosures. The speaker further claims NDS staff were not confirmed by the Senate and that they answer to no Inspector General because the Executive Office of the President does not have one.
The speaker compares this setup to “DOGE,” stating DOGE gutted federal agencies, fired tens of thousands of career civil servants, and is currently a defendant in multiple federal lawsuits. The speaker specifically mentions lawsuits alleging engineers gained access to Social Security data and Department of Homeland Security data and shared sensitive federal data with outside parties attempting to overturn elections.
The speaker then claims personal connection: the speaker says they found Joe Gebbia was a member of DOGE, that he spent six months there before his current position, and that one of the initiatives he personally led at DOGE was digitizing federal retirement paperwork. The speaker indicates this connects to “East Wing ballroom underground bunker stuff.”