The Trump Tracker

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump-appointed federal judge in Washington, D.C., issued a ruling on May 28, 2026 declining to temporarily block President Trump's executive order restricting mail...

On May 28, 2026, Katie Miller — the wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller — publicly identified Paulina Mangubat, the staffer who runs the official Democratic Party social media acc...

Philip Alito, 39, the son of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, has been working as an attorney-adviser in the Treasury Department under Trump's second term, per a Daily Beast investigation published...

Trump-appointed Treasury officials have pushed the federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design a $250 bill bearing Trump's portrait, per a May 28, 2026 Washington Post investigation drawing on ...

Speaking on Fox News on May 28, 2026, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened to remove Customs and Border Protection officers from airports in U.S. "sanctuary" cities that restrict local police coo...

ProPublica published a May 28, 2026 investigation showing that White House Senior Counselor Peter Navarro initiated a $620 million Pentagon loan to Vulcan Elements, a North Carolina rare-earth magnet ...

The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll — the writer who won $5 million in damages from a jury that found Trump sexually abused her in the mid-1990s, plus $83 m...

On May 27, 2026, the Department of Defense awarded Dell Technologies a five-year, $9.69 billion contract — the Core Enterprise Technology Agreement (CETA) — to act as the sole intermediary for Microso...

President Trump appeared to fall asleep at his May 27, 2026 cabinet meeting, hours after his third Walter Reed checkup in 13 months (see [[trump-walter-reed-third-checkup-mri-ct-correction]]). Video c...

CBS News let "60 Minutes" correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi's contract expire, ending more than a decade at the network. Per a New Republic report on May 27, 2026, Alfonsi's December 2025 investigative seg...

During his May 27, 2026 visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for his third checkup in 13 months, President Trump met with some military personnel at the facility but declined to visit...

Roughly one month after Trump removed Pam Bondi as Attorney General, the White House has appointed her to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), an Axios scoop on May 2...

Construction crews are assembling a temporary octagon-shaped UFC cage on the White House South Lawn for a June 14, 2026 event that yokes together two occasions: America's 250th anniversary and Preside...

The New York Times published an analysis on May 27, 2026 of more than 12 hours of footage spanning ten Trump cabinet meetings between February 2025 and March 2026. The Times found that at least one in...

On May 26, 2026, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton beat three-term incumbent Sen. John Cornyn in the Texas Republican Senate primary runoff by a margin of nearly two to one. The win was Trump's; he ha...

On Memorial Day, May 26, 2026, ICE agents pepper-sprayed Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) outside Delaney Hall, the 1,000-bed privately run ICE detention facility in Newark where roughly 300 detainees were on h...

President Trump summoned his entire cabinet — including outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard — for a Wednesday meeting over a crumbling Iran ceasefire. The meeting was originally scheduled for Camp David, then ...

Delivering the Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery on May 26, 2026, President Trump paused while listing the common first names of service members buried there. After naming William (1...

President Trump traveled to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, for what the White House announced as a "routine annual dental and medical assessment." It is his thi...

On Memorial Day eve, May 25, 2026, President Trump returned from an Arlington event and stopped for six minutes outside the White House North Portico to study one of the building's columns. White Hous...

Foreign tourism to the United States fell by four million visitors in 2025 compared to 2024, with total foreign visitor spending down more than $8 billion year over year, according to industry data re...

U.S. officials at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have been barred from communicating directly with the World Health Organization during active virus outbreaks, inclu...

At 6:15 a.m. on Memorial Day, May 25, 2026, President Trump posted a 206-word screed on Truth Social attacking fellow Republicans — Sens. Thom Tillis and Bill Cassidy and Rep. Thomas Massie — by name,...

Vice President JD Vance attended a private 100-guest dinner hosted by Chief Justice John Roberts for his former Supreme Court clerks, arriving as an unbilled plus-one to his wife Usha Vance, a Roberts...

On Sunday, May 24, 2026, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) appeared on NBC's Meet the Press and accused Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche of unlawfully withholding Jeffrey Epstein documents. "Todd Blanche...

The Trump Justice Department has deleted hundreds of press releases from its own website that documented charges, guilty pleas, convictions, and sentencings tied to the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack....

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — whose title the Trump administration now styles as "Secretary of War" — delivered the U.S. Military Academy commencement address at West Point on May 23, 2026, to roug...

One day after Stephen Colbert's final episode of "The Late Show" aired on May 21, 2026, President Trump posted an AI-generated video to his Truth Social account showing himself grabbing Colbert on sta...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth canceled the long-planned deployment of 4,000 U.S. troops — an armored brigade from Fort Hood — to Poland for a nine-month rotation, citing Trump's frustration with Euro...

On Friday, May 22, 2026, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued a sweeping rule change requiring most green card applicants currently inside the United States to leave the country and apply ...

The Trump administration is ordering every federal agency to install the White House's own app on every government-issued phone its employees use. The directive went out from federal CIO Greg Barbacci...

On May 22, 2026, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told President Trump in a letter, which she posted on X, that she is resigning. She cited the diagnosis of her husband, Abraham William...

On May 22, 2026, Reuters reported, and HuffPost and the New Republic followed, that Trump administration officials spent months trying to ban the Dominion Voting Systems machines used in more than hal...

On May 21, 2026, the Daily Beast reported the fullest accounting yet of U.S. military losses in Trump's war with Iran, drawing on a Congressional Research Service compilation of Department of Defense ...

On May 21, 2026, The Intercept reported that a Colorado law-enforcement intelligence unit warned the federal government that the Department of Homeland Security's own ICE recruitment posts contained w...

A three-month investigation by the Daily Beast and PunchUp, published May 21, 2026, found that the Department of Homeland Security quietly rehired Dr. Alexander Eastman, 51, despite a record of miscon...

On May 20, 2026, Harry Dunn, a former U.S. Capitol Police officer, and Daniel Hodges, a current Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police officer, both of whom defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021, file...

On May 20, 2026, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested a man inside a New York City immigration court, less than 24 hours after a federal judge issued an order pausing such arrests. The man, Vi...

On May 20, 2026, U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth renewed a preliminary injunction barring the federal government from transferring transgender women inmates to men's prisons, extending the block...

Within a single week in May 2026, Donald Trump removed two sitting Republicans who had defied him and moved to remove a third, demonstrating near-total control over Republican primaries. On May 19, 2...

On May 19, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth headlined a campaign rally in Kentucky's 4th Congressional District for Ed Gallrein, a Navy SEAL officer and Trump-endorsed primary challenger to incumb...

On May 19, 2026, the Senate voted 50-47 to advance a war powers resolution directing President Trump to end U.S. military involvement in the war with Iran, the first time the Democratic-led effort has...

On May 19, 2026, Colorado Governor Jared Polis (D) announced he was commuting the sentence of Tina Peters, the former Mesa County clerk convicted in 2024 for helping breach her county's election equip...

About a year ago, President Trump issued an executive order to address veterans' homelessness, with a centerpiece promise: house 6,000 homeless veterans on the sprawling VA campus in West Los Angeles....

During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on May 19, 2026, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche testified that he had met with Jeffrey Epstein's survivors. Pressed by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who...

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, designated as President Trump's special envoy to Greenland, visited the capital of Nuuk in mid-May 2026 and was met with public coldness, including a middle-finger gest...

On May 18, 2026, Iran's Supreme National Security Council announced the creation of the Persian Gulf Strait Authority (PGSA), a state body to administer the Strait of Hormuz. The PGSA opened a social-...

On May 18, 2026, Vice President JD Vance spoke at Milbank Manufacturing in Kansas City, Missouri. In his closing pitch, Vance told the audience: 'If you want to make America great, if you want to prot...

On May 17, 2026, the White House-backed 'Rededicate 250' rally brought thousands of attendees to the National Mall for a nine-hour faith-focused program celebrating the country's 250th anniversary. Sc...

On May 17, 2026, Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News host Maria Bartiromo there is 'a ton of evidence' the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump. He also conceded...

On Saturday, May 17, 2026, Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough struck down a $1 billion provision in a Republican DHS funding package that would have used taxpayer money for Secret Service sec...

On May 16, 2026, on MS NOW, Jen Psaki fact-checked Eric Trump's public denial that he had ever been a board member of Alt5 Sigma, a fintech company connected to the Trump family's cryptocurrency ventu...

On May 16, 2026, Eric Trump publicly claimed that 'every single asset of my father is wrapped up in a blind trust' and that no Trump family members buy or sell individual stocks, calling the suggestio...

On May 16, 2026, Franklin Foer's Atlantic essay 'Xi Jinping Was Only Humoring Trump' framed the Beijing summit as the public moment when American power was openly treated by an adversary as a wasting ...

In a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on May 15, 2026, two days after his Beijing summit with Xi Jinping, Trump defended two complete reversals of his 2024 campaign promises on China. On Chinese o...

After his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Trump said he is unsure whether he will approve a planned $14 billion U.S. arms package for Taiwan, telling reporters aboard Air Force One...

On May 15, 2026, the New Republic reported that Dr. Brian Christine, Trump's appointed Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS, is leading the federal hantavirus response. Christine has no infectious-di...

Around May 15, 2026, ABC News redirected all FiveThirtyEight (538) articles on its website to the generic abcnews.com/politics page, making the full 538 archive inaccessible. The New York Times confir...

On May 15, 2026, South Dakota Searchlight reported that 12 of the 19 inmates former Gov. Kristi Noem released early from prison without a Board of Pardons and Paroles review have since been charged wi...

On May 15, 2026, aboard Air Force One returning from his Beijing summit, Donald Trump accused New York Times national security reporter David Sanger of being 'sort of treasonous' for his reporting on ...

During the U.S.-China bilateral meeting in Beijing on May 14, 2026, Xi Jinping invoked the Thucydides Trap, the theory that a war becomes likely when a rising power threatens to displace an establishe...

On May 14, 2026, HUD Secretary Scott Turner appeared before the Senate Appropriations Committee to defend his proposed budget cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. When senators pre...

On May 14, 2026, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics published Trump's first-quarter 2026 financial disclosure. The filing covered more than 3,700 individual trades over three months, more than 40 pe...

On May 14, 2026, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump's team is planning to announce approximately 250 pardons tied to the country's 250th anniversary. The Journal said the announcement is bein...

On May 14, 2026, The New Republic reported that Trump's $10 billion personal lawsuit against the IRS — filed in his personal capacity in January 2026 over the leak of his tax returns to the New York T...

On April 30, 2026, after three days of testimony in his lawsuit against OpenAI, Elon Musk was placed on 'recall status' by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in the Northern District of Califo...

The Trump White House published a formal National Counterterrorism Strategy in mid-May 2026, authored by White House counterterrorism czar Sebastian Gorka. The strategy equates three threat categories...

On Wednesday, May 13, 2026, Vice President JD Vance announced from the White House that the Trump administration is withholding $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California and is threatening to su...

Trump's two-day Beijing summit with Xi Jinping in May 2026 came with an entourage whose combined net worth approached $1 trillion. The traveling delegation included Eric Trump (executive vice presiden...

On Monday night, May 12, 2026 (continuing into Tuesday morning May 13), Trump posted more than 55 times on Truth Social in three hours. The volume and content together formed what The New Republic cha...

On Tuesday, May 12, 2026, before departing for China, Trump was asked by reporters how much Americans' financial situations were motivating him to negotiate a deal with Iran — alluding to the inflatio...

On May 12, 2026, Democracy Docket and The Guardian reported that the Supreme Court's May 1 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais — which gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and struck down Louisiana's ...

On May 12, 2026, Mother Jones reported on the resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachian coal country alongside the Trump administration's repeated delays of the federal rule designed to reduce m...

On May 12, 2026, NOTUS reported the existence of a dedicated FBI team, informally called the 'payback squad' by bureau personnel, that is building criminal cases against former officials perceived as ...

On Sunday, May 10, 2026, President Trump announced on Truth Social that Republicans will deploy a large 'Election Integrity Army' to every state for the 2026 midterms — invoking the same debunked clai...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, his Fox News host wife Rachel Campos-Duffy, and their nine children spent seven months filming a five-part reality YouTube series called 'The Great American Road T...

On May 8-9, 2026, at the Milken Institute Global Conference, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) — the author of the Trump Accounts provision in the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act — explicitly said out loud what pr...

On May 9, 2026, NBC News reported that ABC, Disney's broadcast network, filed a 52-page document with the Federal Communications Commission accusing the Trump administration of violating the network's...

On May 8, 2026, the AP reported that the State Department will begin revoking the U.S. passports of approximately 2,700 American passport holders who owe $100,000 or more in unpaid child support. The ...

On Thursday, May 8, 2026, a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel heard arguments on the Trump administration's appeal of an earlier ruling that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth could not strip retired Na...

On May 8, 2026, the Supreme Court of Virginia voted 4-3 to strike down the voter-approved redistricting referendum that Democrats had used to authorize a mid-decade congressional map. The court's reas...

On May 8, 2026, the Freedom of the Press Foundation and Reporters Without Borders publicly alleged that Larry Ellison — the Oracle co-founder and majority Paramount Skydance shareholder following the ...

On May 8, 2026, the New York Times and Independent reported that Trump used a government 'urgent situation' contracting exemption — typically reserved for preventing 'serious injury, financial or othe...

On May 8, 2026, the Congressional Budget Office published its monthly budget update, and Fortune reported that the U.S. Treasury paid approximately $3 billion daily in interest during the first seven ...

On May 8, 2026, The New Republic and Washington Post reported that FEMA dramatically reduced hazard-mitigation grant awards to Democratic-led states across 2025-2026. Monthly awards collapsed from $91...

On May 7, 2026, the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled 2-1 in Burlap and Barrel, Inc. v. Trump that the Trump administration's tariffs imposed under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 are unlaw...

On Wednesday, May 7, 2026, the White House released a new United States Counterterrorism Strategy — the first such directive since the 2021 Biden-era memo emphasizing the need to combat white supremac...

On May 7, 2026, Scientific American reported that an Andes hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius has produced three confirmed deaths and at least eight cases (five WHO-confirmed). Pass...

On May 7, 2026, Democratic Reps. Dave Min (D-CA) and Raul Ruiz (D-CA), along with Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT), launched a formal investigation into whether Trump's pardon recipients secured their clemency...

On May 7, 2026, Fortune reported that approximately 30,000 cubic yards of rubble from the demolition of the White House East Wing has been deposited at East Potomac Golf Links — a public golf course o...

On May 7, 2026, The Guardian published an interactive investigation by Amy Qin documenting that the Trump administration has been altering and removing decades' worth of federal datasets across multip...

On May 7, 2026, a Reuters review of federal court records found that the Trump administration's massive immigration enforcement push in Minnesota — roughly 3,000 immigration agents deployed to the Twi...

On May 7, 2026, the Washington Post reported on a confidential CIA analysis delivered to Trump administration policymakers that directly contradicts the administration's public claims about the Iran w...

On Wednesday, May 6, 2026, the FBI raided the Portsmouth, Virginia office of Sen. L. Louise Lucas, the 82-year-old Democratic President Pro Tempore of the Virginia Senate, along with an adjacent canna...

On May 6, 2026, at a White House event for military mothers, Trump's hands appeared visibly swollen and covered with mismatched concealer makeup. The Daily Beast documented the appearance with side-by...

On May 5, 2026, the Trump administration closed the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman — the independent agency, separate from DHS, that reviews complaints about civil rights abuses, excess...

On Tuesday, May 5, 2026, the State Department officially terminated the employment of approximately 200 foreign service officers and at least 30 civil service officials as part of a long-delayed reduc...

On May 5, 2026, President Trump fell asleep at the Resolute Desk during an Oval Office ceremony to sign the Presidential Fitness Award restoration. Children, Cabinet officials, and senior staff were p...

On May 5, 2026, The New Republic reported that Phillip 'Bert' Callais — the lead plaintiff in Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court case the conservative 6-3 majority decided last week to gut Sectio...

On May 5, 2026, the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees released a $72 billion Republican spending package that bundles immigration-enforcement funding with $1 billion for Trump's White ...

During Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on May 4-5, 2026, four of President Trump's federal judicial nominees — John Marck, Jeffrey Kuntz, Arthur Roberts Jones, and Michael Hendershot — refused to ...

On May 5, 2026, The New York Times reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has blocked the publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against COVID-19 and...

On May 5, 2026, Thomas B. Edsall of The New York Times published an opinion-section investigation laying out the legal architecture experts say has been assembled to allow the Trump administration to ...

On May 4, 2026, President Trump derailed a White House small-business summit with an extended monologue about his mental and physical fitness. The remarks departed from his prepared script. He recited...

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey called a special session of the state legislature in early May 2026 to redraw the state's congressional map mid-decade, in coordination with Trump's directive following the S...

On May 4, 2026, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new mid-decade congressional map that draws partisan advantage for Republicans in 24 of Florida's 28 House districts — 86% of the delegation. The...

On May 4, 2026, the Bureau of Land Management revoked the American Prairie Foundation's grazing license for approximately 900 bison on federal lands in Phillips County, Montana — an area larger than C...

On May 4, 2026, The New Republic reported that Trump has personally directed Senate Republicans to attempt to recruit Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman to switch from Democrat to Republican — a move th...

In the days following the Supreme Court's May 1 decision in Louisiana v. Callais — which gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and struck down Louisiana's congressional map containing two majority...

On Sunday, May 3, 2026, Trump announced on Truth Social that the U.S. military would begin guiding commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday. The mission launched the following mor...

On May 4, 2026, NPR published an exclusive analysis from States United Action, a nonprofit that has tracked candidate positions on the validity of the 2020 election since 2022. The findings: in 23 sta...

On May 3, 2026, The Independent reported (citing Guardian sourcing) that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has begun bringing his wife Jennifer Rauchet — a former Fox News producer — to Pentagon meetings...

On Saturday, May 3, 2026, Trump told reporters he was 'looking at' Iran's new 14-point peace proposal. A reporter reminded him that the previous night he had said the U.S. might be better off not maki...

On Sunday, May 3, 2026 — Day 65 of the U.S.-Iran war — Trump publicly rejected Iran's new 14-point peace proposal. The plan called for guarantees of nonaggression by both countries, sanctions relief, ...

On May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines began an orderly wind-down of all operations — the first major U.S. airline to go out of business for financial reasons in 25 years. Approximately 17,000 jobs ended ove...

On Thursday, May 1, 2026 — the same week the Louisiana governor suspended U.S. House primaries citing the Supreme Court's Callais decision — Gov. Jeff Landry quietly signed legislation abolishing the ...

On May 1, 2026, the Pentagon announced the withdrawal of approximately 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany over the next 6 to 12 months. The decision was widely understood — and reported by NPR, CNN, the W...

On Thursday, May 1, 2026, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced investigations of 36 public school districts in Illinois over whether they let parents opt their children out of less...

On May 1, 2026, Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry issued an executive order suspending the state's U.S. House primaries — scheduled for May 16 and June 27, 2026 — citing the Supreme Court's de...

At a Presidential Fitness Test reinstatement event in the Oval Office in early May 2026, with elementary and middle-school-aged children gathered behind the Resolute Desk wearing government-branded T-...

On April 30, 2026, at 10:26 PM ET, President Trump publicly accused The New York Times of being 'seditious' for publishing an op-ed about the U.S. military's performance in the Iran war. The op-ed, ti...

On April 30, 2026, two prominent Republican lawmakers made false on-record claims about U.S. gas prices on the same day that AAA reported the national average had hit $4.30 a gallon. Sen. Tim Scott (R...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), led by Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, exposed the Social Security numbers of healthcare providers on a publicly-accessible Medicare directory for week...

On April 30, 2026, the House voted 215-211 along party lines to adopt the Senate-passed budget resolution that unlocks reconciliation 2.0. The resolution directs authorizing committees to write legisl...

On April 30, 2026, the merger agreement was announced between Cove Kaz Capital — a U.S. government-backed entity that had already secured $1.6 billion in federal support to develop 'the largest known ...

On April 30, 2026, the Department of Justice's 'Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias' — created by Trump's February 6, 2025 executive order 'Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias' — released a 197-pa...

On April 30, 2026, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) issued a 'Dear Colleague' letter ending federal funding for fentanyl and xylazine test strips. The letter cite...

On April 30, 2026, Trump withdrew Casey Means' stalled Surgeon General nomination and announced his third nominee for the role: Dr. Nicole Saphier, a radiologist and longtime Fox News medical contribu...

On April 30, 2026, the Wall Street Journal and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) marked the milestone: as of March 31, U.S. federal debt held by the public stood at $31.27 trillion...

The April 2026 Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index — the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation gauge — came in at 3.8% year-over-year, up from 3.5% in March and the highest reading in ...

On April 30, 2026, Jacobin published an investigation reconstructing the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel — the venture capitalist whose protégé J.D. Vance is now Vice President of...

On April 30, 2026, pollster G. Elliot Morris's Strength in Numbers/Verasight April 2026 survey reported Trump's approval rating on inflation and cost of living at -40.3 points — so far below his other...

On Wednesday night, April 29, 2026, President Trump reshared on Truth Social an AI-generated map showing the shipping channel between Iran and Oman labeled the 'Strait of Trump' instead of the Strait ...

On April 29, 2026, The Atlantic published an insider profile based on interviews with multiple senior Trump administration officials and a longtime Trump confidant describing how the 79-year-old presi...

In late April 2026, the Polk County Sheriff's Office in Florida announced a human-trafficking and prostitution sting that produced 266 arrests. Two of those arrested have profiles that connect the sti...

By the end of the first nine months of Trump's second term, the Department of Justice had lost roughly 5,500 employees out of a starting attorney workforce of about 10,000 — a generational evacuation ...

On April 29, 2026, in his House Armed Services testimony, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked by Rep. Jill Tokuda (D-HI) whether he would comply with a hypothetical Trump order to deploy troops t...

On April 29, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Dan Caine, and Pentagon CFO Jules 'Jay' Hurst testified before the House Armed Services Committee — the first time Hegseth ha...

On Tuesday night, April 28, 2026, all six conservative justices of the U.S. Supreme Court — Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanau...

On April 28, 2026, during King Charles III's historic address to a joint session of Congress, the White House's official X account posted a photograph of Trump and Charles together on the South Lawn w...

On April 28, 2026, Trump's FCC ordered Disney to file license-renewal applications within 30 days for ALL of its licensed TV stations. The eight ABC-owned spectrum licenses were not scheduled for rene...

On April 28, 2026, a federal grand jury in North Carolina indicted former FBI Director James Comey for a second time, this time over a May 15, 2025, Instagram post showing seashells arranged on a beac...

On April 28, 2026, the State Department announced a limited-edition U.S. passport featuring President Donald Trump's portrait and signature in gold on the inside cover, to commemorate America's 250th ...

On Tuesday, April 28, 2026, the Nord, a 142-meter Russian superyacht owned by interests linked to Vladimir Putin, cruised through the Strait of Hormuz despite the U.S. naval blockade. iNews reported t...

ProPublica reported on April 28, 2026 that a proposed Trump administration rule under review at the White House Office of Management and Budget would reduce or eliminate Supplemental Security Income (...

On April 28, 2026, The Independent reported that Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), and Katie Britt (R-AL) are pushing legislation to fund Trump's $400 million White House ballroom p...

Bloomberg Law reported on April 28, 2026 that Justice Department officials filed an unconventional 9-page motion just before midnight Monday asking U.S. District Judge Richard Leon to dissolve his own...

On the night of April 27, 2026, Donald Trump used Truth Social to endorse a supporter's meme proposing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement be renamed 'National Immigration & Customs Enforcement' ...

The Economist reported on April 27, 2026 that the cumulative impact of Trump's tariff policy on American farmers — the rural constituency that delivered him both presidential elections — has reached t...

Within 24 hours of the Saturday April 25 shooting at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the Department of Justice asked the National Trust for Historic Preservation to voluntarily dismiss its law...

On April 27, 2026, the Trump administration announced two new payouts totaling nearly $900 million to energy companies that have agreed to walk away from federally-leased offshore wind projects. Bluep...

On Monday afternoon, April 27, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Kid Rock (Robert James Ritchie) each flew in an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, the U.S. Army base o...

On April 27, 2026, lawyer and political commentator Katie Phang filed suit against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in federal court in Washington, D.C., alleging that the Justice Department is in...

In an official government release filed with the United Nations Security Council, Reed D. Rubinstein, the State Department's legal adviser, wrote that the United States 'is engaged in this conflict at...

On April 27, 2026, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said publicly that the United States is being 'humiliated' by Iran in the negotiations to end the war Trump launched on February 28. Bloomberg first...

On April 27, 2026, People (citing a New York Times investigation) reported that internal Department of Homeland Security training materials direct U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers to...

On April 27, 2026, The Hill reported that a growing group of Senate Republicans is losing confidence in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's leadership and that some GOP lawmakers want him to 'move on.' R...

On Saturday, April 25, 2026, at approximately 8:35 p.m. ET, a man armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives charged a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents' Dinner at the Wa...

On April 25-26, 2026, Donald Trump abruptly canceled a planned round of U.S.-Iran negotiations in Islamabad because, by his own account, the 18-hour flight was too long. Special envoy Steve Witkoff an...

On April 25, 2026, the Trump administration dismissed the entire National Science Board, the apolitical body created by Congress in 1950 to advise the president and Congress on the National Science Fo...

An NBC News investigation published April 25, 2026 documents that Iranian forces inflicted more than $5 billion in damage to U.S. military bases across the Middle East during the war Trump launched on...

Late on the night of April 24, 2026, Donald Trump used Truth Social to call for the arrest of his predecessor Barack Obama, accusing him of 'treason' over the 2016 Russia investigation. Trump amplifie...

On Friday, April 24, 2026, the Department of Justice released a report — authored under Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche — formally directing the Bureau of Prisons to expand federal execution meth...

On April 24, 2026, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that Trump's January 20, 2025 executive order suspending asylum access at the southern bo...

On April 24, 2026, the Wall Street Journal reported that Kristi Noem — fired as Secretary of Homeland Security on March 5, 2026 — has been seen coming and going from the U.S. Coast Guard commandant's ...

On April 24, 2026, Reuters reported on a leaked Pentagon memorandum prepared by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's top policy adviser, that lays out options for the United States to retaliate against NATO...

On April 24, 2026, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro — the top federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia — announced on X that she was abandoning the criminal investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jer...

Slate reported on April 23, 2026, that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth informed Estonia's defense minister that the delivery of munitions for the HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) platform...

From the Oval Office on April 24, 2026, Trump threatened to impose a "big tariff" on the United Kingdom unless it drops its digital services tax on U.S. tech companies. The tax, first introduced in 20...

A New York Times investigation published April 23, 2026 — syndicated and summarized by Irish Times, Haaretz, CNN, Washington Post, NPR, Air & Space Forces Magazine, and CSIS — reports that Trump's Ira...

On the afternoon of April 23, 2026, Donald Trump convened an Oval Office event to announce the 17th Most Favored Nation pricing deal with a major pharmaceutical manufacturer — this one with Regeneron....

On April 23, 2026, a Department of Homeland Security contractor building Trump's second border wall cut a 60-foot section through Las Playas Intaglio — a 1,000-year-old, 280-by-50-foot desert etching ...

The Department of Justice unsealed the first-ever prediction-market insider-trading indictment on April 23, 2026. Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a 38-year-old active-duty U.S. Army soldier stationed at Fort Bra...

On April 23, 2026, Eric Trump appeared on Fox Business to take what Mediaite called a "victory lap" for Foundation Industries, a humanoid robotics firm where he serves as chief strategic adviser. The ...

On the morning of April 23, 2026, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he had ordered the U.S. Navy "to shoot and kill any boat" laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz. "There is to be no hesitation...

Brown University's Costs of War Project, in a report published April 23, 2026 and detailed by The Intercept, has produced the first comprehensive accounting of the Trump administration's 8-month undec...

Starting at midnight on Wednesday, April 23, 2026, Donald Trump — 79 years old and roughly two weeks into the public collapse of his presidential authority following the Iran civilization threat — pos...

Hung Cao, who was confirmed as Under Secretary of the Navy in October 2025 in a 52-45 Senate vote, became acting Secretary of the Navy on April 22, 2026, after Secretary John Phelan abruptly departed ...

On April 22, 2026, the University of Georgia women's tennis team — winners of the 2025 NCAA Division I championship — visited the White House. White House press aide Margo Martin posted a celebratory ...

On April 22, 2026, the ACLU of Alaska, the ACLU Voting Rights Project, and the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed suit on behalf of the League of Women Voters of Alaska and the Alaska Black C...

On April 22, 2026, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the Senate Finance Committee and defended the FDA's second rejection of Replimune's RP1, an oncolytic immunotherapy for advanced...

On Wednesday, April 22, 2026, Donald Trump posted a four-page transcription of remarks by rightwing podcast host Michael Savage on Truth Social, along with a video of Savage delivering them. The remar...

On April 22, 2026, Devin Nunes — the former Republican congressman who left the House in 2022 to run Trump Media & Technology Group — stepped down as CEO. He is being replaced on an interim basis by K...

An AP-NORC poll (2,596 adults, April 16-20, 2026) shows Trump's approval has cratered to 33% — down from 38% in March, with 67% disapproving. Economic approval hit 30%, an 8-point single-month drop. ...

After New York Times reporter Elizabeth Williamson published an article about FBI Director Kash Patel directing FBI SWAT teams to serve as a personal security detail and chauffeur service for his 27-y...

On April 16, 2026, Ghislaine Maxwell sent a FedEx envelope from her minimum-security prison in Bryan, Texas to the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York. The envelope contained ...

At an April 22, 2026 Senate Finance Committee hearing, Sen. Elizabeth Warren grilled HHS Secretary RFK Jr. about Trump's repeated claims that he reduced drug prices by "300, 400, 500, even 600 percent...

On April 22, 2026, Trump posted on Truth Social attacking Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson — the only Black woman on the Supreme Court — as "that new, Low IQ person, that somehow found her way to the ben...

On April 22, 2026, Trump declared the Virginia redistricting referendum "RIGGED" after voters narrowly approved it 51.45%-48.55% — his first concrete claim that a 2026 election was stolen. Trump on T...

CNN's investigative report on April 21, 2026 revealed that Trump's Weaponization Working Group — formed by AG Bondi to investigate "politically motivated" prosecutors from prior administrations — prod...

On April 21, 2026, U.S. District Judge George C. Hanks Jr. of the Southern District of Texas dismissed FBI Director Kash Patel's $250 million defamation lawsuit against Frank Figliuzzi, the former FBI...

On April 21, 2026, a federal grand jury in Alabama returned an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, the civil rights organization that has tracked the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi gr...

On April 21, 2026, in a CNBC 'Squawk Box' interview, Donald Trump told companies that they should not seek tariff refunds they are legally entitled to receive following a Supreme Court ruling that str...

On April 21, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum ending the mandatory annual flu vaccine for all U.S. military service members — active duty, reserves, National Guard, and DoD civ...

In a 30+ minute phone interview on CNBC's Squawk Box on April 21, 2026, Trump pulled out a "little chart" comparing war durations and declared: "I would have won Vietnam, very quickly. I would have wo...

On April 21, 2026, Trump reversed himself within hours on the Iran ceasefire in what Fortune called "ceasefire whiplash." Morning (CNBC, before markets opened): "I don't want to do that. We don't hav...

On April 21, 2026, Tucker Carlson — once the most influential conservative media figure in America — delivered a public apology on his podcast for helping Trump get elected. Carlson, interviewing his...

Trump announced he would attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner on April 25, 2026 — his first time as a sitting president, after boycotting all four years of his first term and 2025. He boasted...

Effective April 20, 2026, the U.S. Army raised its maximum enlistment age from 35 to 42 for the Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard. The regulation also eliminated waiver requirements ...

On April 20, 2026, Trump signed five presidential determinations invoking Section 303 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 for the entire fossil fuel chain — petroleum production/refining/logistics, ...

Iran refused to attend a second round of Pakistan-mediated peace talks on April 19-20, 2026, after the U.S. seized an Iranian cargo ship — which Iran called piracy and a ceasefire violation — and Trum...

ProPublica's investigation reveals that Joseph Schwartz, owner of the Skyline Healthcare nursing home chain (~100 facilities, ~15,000 residents), was pardoned by Trump in November 2025 — just 3 months...

On April 20, 2026, the Trump administration launched an online portal for businesses to claim refunds of tariffs the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in February 2026. The government owes more tha...

Over Sunday and Monday (April 19-20, 2026), Trump made a series of publicly contradictory statements about VP Vance's role in Iran peace talks that his own White House couldn't keep straight. Sunday:...

Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, told Chatham House in London on April 20, 2026 that the Iran war costs approximately $2 billion per week — and that his entire humani...

On April 20, 2026, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles summoned dozens of Republican political consultants from across the country to an emergency strategy meeting at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in W...

On April 19, 2026, FBI Director Kash Patel appeared on Fox News and announced that arrests related to the 2020 presidential election are imminent. Patel: "I can announce on your show that we've got a...

A Wall Street Journal investigation published April 19, 2026 — citing multiple senior administration officials — revealed that Trump was physically kept out of the Situation Room during a critical Ira...

The Trump administration is in discussions about providing a currency swap line to the UAE, which faces economic damage from the Iran war and Strait of Hormuz closure. UAE Central Bank Governor Khaled...

On April 18, 2026, U.S. District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai issued a 49-page summary judgment voiding HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s declaration banning federal funding for pediatric gender-affi...

On April 18, 2026, Judge Jorge L. Alonso of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois ruled that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment when it pressured Facebook an...

On the evening of April 17, Trump called reporters to declare the Hormuz crisis "over" — "It's a great victory." He told CBS that Iran "agreed to everything." Less than 12 hours later, on the morning ...

After Trump cut U.S. military aid to Ukraine by 99% — a move VP Vance called "one of the proudest" achievements of the administration — Ukraine has abandoned hope of American support and aggressively ...

Nicholas Enrich, former acting assistant administrator for global health at USAID, published "Into the Wood Chipper" (Simon & Schuster, foreword by Atul Gawande) detailing the inside story of DOGE's d...

On April 17, 2026, the Department of Justice issued a subpoena requiring Fulton County, Georgia's election board custodian to appear in federal court with 'the full election staff roster, including na...

On April 17, 2026, U.S. District Judge Mary S. McElroy — a Trump appointee — dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit against Rhode Island demanding unredacted voter registration data including names, addresses, b...

The Trump administration is blocking appointments to the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC), the 15-member federal panel established under the Help America Vote Act that develops standa...

On April 17, 2026, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi announced the Strait of Hormuz is "declared completely open" for commercial vessels for the remaining period of the ceasefire. Oil plunged 10...

The Atlantic reported on April 17, 2026, based on interviews with more than two dozen sources including current and former FBI officials, that FBI Director Kash Patel "is known to drink to the point o...

On April 17, 2026, Rep. Jamie Raskin launched a House Judiciary investigation into Jared Kushner's "glaring and incurable conflict of interest" — serving simultaneously as Trump's informal Middle East...

During House committee hearings on April 17-21, 2026, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeatedly told Congress: "I've never been anti-vaccine. Everything you've said is a lie." He said the measles...

After the Trump administration terminated the Tomato Suspension Agreement with Mexico and imposed a roughly 17.1% antidumping duty on fresh tomato imports, prices have surged 23% year-over-year. BLS d...

On April 17, 2026, Trump went on a multi-platform meltdown demanding praise for the Iran ceasefire — a crisis he started. On Truth Social, he wrote in all caps: "Why don't they just say, at the right...

On April 17, 2026, Trump told CBS News that Iran "agreed to everything" including handing over enriched uranium. He said U.S. and Iranian officials would "go get it" together and bring it to the Unite...

FEC filings reveal Trump's Save America PAC has spent over $60 million on his personal legal fees since 2020 — funded entirely by small-dollar donor contributions. The PAC is now drowning in debt: $1....

Testifying before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee in mid-April 2026, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attacked Medicaid programs that pay family members to provide hom...

On April 16, 2026, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty charged ICE agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr., 35, of Temple Hills, Maryland, with two counts of second-degree assault with a dangerous weapon ...

ICE's own data — including testimony from Acting Director Todd Lyons before Congress on April 16, 2026 — shows that Trump's repeated claim of deporting the "worst of the worst" is contradicted by the ...

U.S. sailors and Marines deployed to the Arabian Sea to enforce Trump's naval blockade of Iran are reporting severe food shortages, rationing, and degrading conditions aboard warships. Family members ...

On April 16, 2026, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. When Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) asked if he had met with any of the 1.4 million ...

On April 16, 2026, Trump posted a tirade on Truth Social from Air Force One attacking Fox News host Jessica Tarlov as "one of the Least Attractive and Talented People on all of Television" after she c...

In an escalation of the Trump-Pope Leo feud, Trump fabricated the claim that Pope Leo XIV said "Iran can have a nuclear weapon." The Pope has never said anything remotely close to this — he has consis...

On Tax Day, April 16, 2026, Trump spoke at a Las Vegas roundtable promoting his "no tax on tips" policy. Gas was above $5 per gallon at many Las Vegas stations. Trump called the war-driven inflation "...

During a Tax Day roundtable in Las Vegas on April 16, 2026, Trump read from prepared remarks about tax cuts for "restaurants, dry cleaners, corner stores" — then stopped and asked: "What is a corner s...

On April 15, 2026, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced "Operation Economic Fury" at a White House press briefing, describing it as "the financial equivalent of what we saw in the kinetic activi...

The Trump administration canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami for housing and caring for unaccompanied migrant children — a program that dates back more...

On April 15, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that Trump's executive orders do not have the force of law and cannot be used to establish that transgender participation in s...

Trump is pushing for a "clean" 18-month extension of FISA Section 702 surveillance with no warrant requirement for searching Americans' communications — a complete reversal from his April 2024 Truth S...

On April 13-15, 2026, DNI Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents from Trump's 2019 impeachment proceedings and sent criminal referrals to the DOJ targeting both the whistleblower whose complaint trigger...

On April 15, 2026, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller appeared on Fox News' Hannity and declared that the United States has the capacity to continue its naval blockade of Iran "indefinit...

In March 2026, the FCC under Trump-appointed Chairman Brendan Carr banned all new foreign-manufactured consumer routers, citing Chinese cyberattack campaigns. On April 15, Netgear became the first maj...

On April 15, 2026 — just three days after deleting an AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ following backlash from his own base — Trump posted a second Jesus image on Truth Social. This time ...

On April 14, 2026, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche appeared on Fox News for the second time in 11 days to insist the DOJ would not release a single additional Epstein file — this time confronted ...

On April 14, 2026, former Attorney General Pam Bondi failed to appear for her scheduled deposition before the House Oversight Committee on the Epstein files — defying a bipartisan subpoena that five R...

A Wired investigation published April 14, 2026 documents a systematic pattern of Christianity being pushed on federal workers across multiple civilian agencies — from mandatory-feeling prayer services...

On April 14, 2026, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 to terminate Chief Judge Boasberg's criminal contempt inquiry into Trump administration officials who defied a court order by deporting 1...

On April 14, 2026, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed at a Semafor-hosted dinner that an executive order requiring banks to collect citizenship information from all customers is "in process." ...

On April 14-15, 2026, the Department of Justice filed motions to dismiss the seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and multiple Proud Boys members — asking the D.C. Ci...

Within the first 24 hours of Trump's naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz — which took effect at 10 AM ET on April 13, 2026 — independently verified maritime tracking data showed at least seven vess...

David Paul Daniel, 37, of Mint Hill, North Carolina — a pardoned January 6 rioter — reached a plea agreement on April 14, 2026 to admit guilt on federal charges of sexual exploitation of a minor and p...

A peer-reviewed study published in Choices (Agriculture and Applied Economics Association) by researchers at Cornell University and Ohio State University found that Trump's tariffs dealt an economic b...

Alvin Brown, former Vice Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board and former mayor of Jacksonville, is suing the Trump administration alleging he was fired because of his race in violation...

On April 14, 2026, Trump gave an interview to Italy's Corriere della Sera in which he branded Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni — once his closest European ally — as "unacceptable" and said he was...

On April 14, 2026, VP JD Vance spoke at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Georgia's Akins Ford Arena (capacity ~8,000). The arena was roughly a quarter full — estimates range from 1,000 t...

At the same TPUSA event on April 14, VP JD Vance — a Catholic convert since 2019 — told Pope Leo XIV he should "be careful when he talks about matters of theology." On Fox News the day before, Vance s...

At a poorly attended Turning Point USA event on April 14, 2026, Vice President JD Vance called ending Ukraine military aid "one of the things I'm proudest that we've done in this administration." He a...

Bureau of Labor Statistics data released April 14, 2026 showed the Producer Price Index (wholesale inflation) rose to 4.0% annually in March — the highest in three years and up from 3.4% in February. ...

The White House released the 2026 Economic Report of the President on April 13, claiming Trump had driven core inflation "down to 1.7%" in the last three months of 2025. The number was fabricated thro...

A study by three Federal Reserve economists found that Trump's tariffs are entirely responsible for the recent surge in consumer and household goods prices. The tariffs raised core goods prices by 3.1...

CNN reported on April 13, 2026 that Elon Musk — who wielded unprecedented power dismantling federal agencies through DOGE — has been evading legal efforts to compel him to answer questions under oath ...

On April 13, 2026 — the day Trump's Strait of Hormuz blockade was supposed to begin at 10 AM EST — NATO allies announced they would not participate, despite Trump's repeated claims that 'many other co...

On April 13, 2026, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet that the Trump administration reports to him every day about the Iran war. Netanyahu said: "I spoke yesterday with Vice P...

ProPublica published a major investigation on April 13, 2026, revealing how Trump has systematically replaced the federal officials who protected the 2020 election with loyalists from the election den...

On April 13, 2026, Trump told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo that gas prices "could be the same or maybe a little bit higher" by the November midterms. The national average was $4.12/gallon — up 37% from p...

On April 13, 2026, Trump threatened to impose an immediate 50% tariff on China after U.S. intelligence reports indicated Beijing was preparing to ship MANPADS (shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles) t...

On April 13, 2026, the White House staged a publicity event where 58-year-old DoorDash driver Sharon Simmons delivered McDonald's to the Oval Office to promote Trump's "no tax on tips" policy. But Tru...

U.S. District Judge Darrin P. Gayles dismissed Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch on April 13, 2026, over a story on Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epst...

The Associated Press published a deep investigation on April 13, 2026, documenting how the Trump family business — led by Eric and Donald Jr. — is undergoing the fastest overseas expansion since its f...

On April 13, 2026, President Trump was driving a golf cart through Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach with his 17-year-old grandson, Donald Trump III, when he spotted a woman jumping and...

On April 13, 2026 — the same day Trump's naval blockade of Iranian ports took effect — Vice President JD Vance appeared on Fox News with Bret Baier to defend the administration's strategy. In doing so...

On April 12, 2026, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban — Trump's closest authoritarian ally in Europe — lost the Hungarian election after 16 years in power, despite extraordinary support from the Tr...

On April 12, 2026 — hours after attacking Pope Leo XIV on Truth Social — Trump posted an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jesus Christ. The image shows Trump in white robes with a red sash, lay...

On April 12, 2026, Trump posted a lengthy attack on Pope Leo XIV on Truth Social, calling him "WEAK on Crime and terrible for Foreign Policy." Trump claimed, without basis, that Leo owed his papacy to...

On April 11-12, 2026, VP Vance led 21 hours of face-to-face negotiations with Iran in Islamabad, Pakistan. The marathon talks collapsed over Iran's nuclear program and demand to control the Strait of ...

Former Secretary of State John Kerry revealed on MSNBC on April 11, 2026 that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pitched military action against Iran to three consecutive presidents — George W....

On April 11, 2026, Trump fired all six Biden-appointed members of the Presidio Trust board, which manages San Francisco's Presidio — a historic 1,500-acre waterfront park and former military base. Cha...

The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index fell to 47.6 in preliminary April 2026 readings — the lowest in the survey's 74-year history, surpassing Biden's June 2022 nadir of 50 that Republic...

On April 10, 2026, Trump posted a 482-word Truth Social rant attacking four of the most prominent conservative media figures who had criticized his Iran war. He called them "Low IQs," "NUT JOBS," "LOS...

On April 10, 2026, Trump shared surveillance footage of a deadly hammer attack in Fort Myers, Florida on Truth Social. The graphic video shows a Haitian immigrant, Rolbert Joachin (40), allegedly blud...

After Pope Leo XIV criticized Trump's war in his State of the World speech, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre — the Vatican's U.S. representative ...

Under anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., CDC scientists have been blocked from publishing a scientifically vetted study finding significant health benefits from this season's COVID-1...

The Financial Times revealed on April 9, 2026 that it was Trump — not Iran — who had been privately begging for a ceasefire for weeks. Five people familiar with the diplomatic back channel confirmed t...

The Partnership for Public Service — a nonpartisan good-government organization — released an analysis on April 9, 2026 estimating that the Trump administration's federal workforce changes have cost t...

On April 9, 2026, Trump posted on Truth Social: "NATO WASN'T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON'T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!" The o...

On April 9, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo ordering the termination of nearly all Department of Defense collective bargaining agreements within 24 hours. The action affects approxi...

CBS News interviewed several dozen members of the 103rd Sustainment Command who survived the March 1, 2026 Iranian drone strike at Port Shuaiba, Kuwait that killed six soldiers. Their accounts flatly ...

On April 9, 2026, First Lady Melania Trump delivered a remarkable five-minute address from the White House denying any connection to Jeffrey Epstein or knowledge of his abuse. She condemned "unfounded...

A Washington Post analysis of 270 Supreme Court decisions — conducted by three political science professors using the Supreme Court Database — found that Trump's three appointees have remade the court...

Just before midnight on April 8, 2026 — one day after agreeing to a ceasefire and backing down from his threat that "a whole civilization will die tonight" — Trump posted another incendiary war threat...

The Wall Street Journal reported on April 8, 2026 that the White House kept a $70 million Boeing 737 luxury jet — originally leased by DHS under Kristi Noem for supposed deportation flights — for use ...

On April 8, 2026, the Department of Justice told Congress that Pam Bondi will not appear for her upcoming deposition in the House Oversight Committee's Epstein investigation — arguing that she was sub...

A forthcoming book by New York Times reporters Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman — 'Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump' — reveals that Trump's top cabinet members were deepl...

Ed Martin, Trump's pardon attorney, is claiming executive privilege and Article II authority to evade D.C. Bar misconduct charges stemming from his use of government power to threaten Georgetown Unive...

Hours after announcing a ceasefire with Iran on April 7, 2026, Trump launched an "investigation" into CNN for reporting Iran's own characterization of the deal. CNN's live blog had reported: "Iran cl...

On April 7, 2026, VP JD Vance was in Budapest with Hungarian PM Viktor Orban when reporters informed him that the U.S. was striking targets on Kharg Island. The Vice President of the United States lea...

In a historically unprecedented convergence, Trump's own political base began publicly calling for his removal via the 25th Amendment following his April 7 threat that "a whole civilization will die t...

On April 7, 2026, Trump escalated his rhetoric to its most extreme yet: "A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again." He had designated Tuesday as "Power Plant Day, and Brid...

The Washington Post reported on April 7, 2026 that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has made multiple false claims about the Iran war that contradict Pentagon's own intelligence and internal assessments...

On April 6, 2026, Rep. John Larson (CT) filed H.Res.1155 — the most comprehensive impeachment resolution of Trump's presidency, containing 13 articles of impeachment drafted with assistance from Ralph...

Trump's April 6, 2026 press conference — ostensibly about the rescue of two airmen shot down over Iran — devolved into one of the most unhinged presidential performances in American history. He calle...

On April 6, 2026, Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-AZ-03) — the only Iranian American in Congress — announced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. On April 15, the formal 7-page reso...

Trump's threats to bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran — power plants, bridges, desalination plants — have placed U.S. military officers in what The Guardian described as an unprecedented dilemma: di...

The Trump administration pressured Planet Labs — a major commercial satellite imagery provider — to indefinitely withhold all satellite images of Iran and the Middle East conflict zone. Planet Labs an...

The Trump administration is building a massive national voter database by demanding states hand over voter-roll data to DHS for "citizenship verification" using the SAVE program. DOJ finalized a data-...

At 8:03 a.m. on Easter Sunday — Christianity's holiest day — Trump posted on Truth Social: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. Open the F---n' Strait, you...

Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump hold equity stakes in Powerus, a Florida-based drone manufacturer that is now conducting demonstrations across Gulf states — Saudi Arabia, UAE, and others — to sell def...

On April 4, 2026, Federal Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV blocked Trump's order requiring colleges in 17 states to provide 7 years of race-based admissions data. The judge called the Education Department's ...

On April 4, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked the green cards of Hamideh Soleimani Afshar — niece of slain IRGC commander Qasem Soleimani — and her daughter, both living in Los Angeles. ICE...

In his April 2 primetime address, Trump declared that Iran has "no anti-aircraft equipment" and that "their radar is 100% annihilated." Both he and Hegseth had touted "complete air dominance." Within...

On April 3-4, 2026, Trump signed executive memos ordering the Treasury to pay all DHS employees their full compensation despite the ongoing DHS shutdown — now 48+ days. This includes 35,000+ workers a...

The Trump administration's FY2027 budget requests $166.1 million and 328 new positions for the FBI to operationalize NSPM-7 (National Security Presidential Memorandum 7) — a domestic terrorism directi...

The Trump administration ordered the most devastating attack on the US Forest Service in its 121-year history. Not a budget cut or reorganization — a systematic dismantling. The headquarters is being...

The Trump White House eliminated the paid internship program Biden introduced in 2022, which paid $750 per week for 35 hours of work — specifically designed to remove financial barriers for low-income...

On April 3, 2026, Iran refused to meet with U.S. officials in Islamabad, telling mediators that Trump's demands are "unacceptable." Pakistan-mediated ceasefire efforts were declared to have "reached a...

On April 3, 2026 — one day after replacing the fired Pam Bondi — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche went on Fox News and declared: "The Department of Justice has now released all the files with resp...

The military's own ranks have turned Hegseth's rebranding against him. Active-duty Marines now call his Pentagon the "Department of War Crimes" — combining his rebrand of the DOD as "Department of War...

On April 3, 2026, Trump released his FY2027 budget proposal requesting $1.5 trillion for defense (a 44% increase) while slashing nondefense spending by 10% to $660 billion. The budget was released dur...

On April 2, 2026, Trump fired Pam Bondi as Attorney General — the second Cabinet member fired in his second term. The 12-year pipeline from $25,000 illegal donation to Attorney General ended not with ...

On April 2, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth forced Army Chief of Staff General Randy George to resign effective immediately — during an active war with Iran, on day 34 of Operation Epic Fury. Ge...

On April 2, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo directing military base commanders to allow service members to carry personally owned firearms on installations, with a "presumption that...

On April 2, 2026, Trump's Department of Justice released a 52-page opinion declaring the Presidential Records Act of 1978 unconstitutional — the law that has governed presidential record-keeping for n...

On April 2, 2026, Trump signed an executive order imposing up to 100% tariffs on imported patented pharmaceutical drugs and their active ingredients. The policy creates a tiered coercion system: compa...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian issued an open letter directly to the American people — not to Trump — during the 34th day of the war Trump started without congressional authorization. The letter ...

The Trump administration killed the VA Servicing Purchase (VASP) program on May 1, 2025 — a Biden-era rescue program that was giving struggling veterans new mortgages at 2.5% interest rates. Since the...

On April 1, 2026, Trump delivered his first primetime address to the nation on "Operation Epic Fury" — the Iran war, now in its 33rd day. In roughly 20 minutes, he claimed "core strategic objectives a...

The White House accidentally uploaded video of Trump's remarks from a closed Easter lunch to YouTube on April 1, 2026, before making it private after realizing the error. The leaked footage revealed c...

At a White House Easter lunch on April 1, 2026, Trump told OMB Director Russell Vought to stop sending money for daycare, stating: "We can't take care of day care. We're fighting wars." He expanded th...

Gregg Phillips, Trump's associate administrator of the Office of Response and Recovery at FEMA — the person responsible for emergency aid, search and rescue, infrastructure restoration, and distributi...

Trump unveiled plans for his presidential library on March 31, 2026, revealing renderings of a Miami glass skyscraper. The next day, he admitted it will "most likely" be a hotel. His exact words: "It'...

On April 1, 2026, Trump became the first sitting president in American history to attend Supreme Court oral arguments — and watched his own handpicked justices dismantle his case in real time. Trump ...

The Intercept revealed on April 1, 2026 that the Pentagon is systematically understating U.S. casualty figures from the Iran war. CENTCOM's official statement reported "approximately 303 U.S. service ...

British security officials have been withholding intelligence from the Trump administration, with American officials asked to leave UK government meetings when sensitive information is discussed. The ...

On April 1, 2026, Trump told The Telegraph he is "strongly considering" pulling the United States out of NATO, calling the 77-year-old alliance a "paper tiger." Asked whether withdrawal was under reco...

Trump Mobile announced a Trump-branded gold smartphone, the 'T1,' approximately one year before May 2026. The product is a $500 Android handset with a gold shell, an American-flag motif, Trump Mobile ...

On the evening of March 26, 2026, the official White House accounts on X and Instagram posted two unexplained, cryptic videos during an active war with Iran. The first — a four-second smartphone clip ...

On March 31, 2026, journalist Eugene Ramirez — a former Sinclair lead anchor — was detained at the Kennedy Center during opening night of "Chicago" for booing Trump and giving a thumbs-down gesture. S...

On March 31, 2026, Trump signed an executive order titled "Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections" that directs DHS to create federal voter lists of verified citizens for...

On March 31, 2026, the national average gas price crossed $4.02 per gallon — the first time above $4 since 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine. Gas prices have risen 35% since Trump started the Iran war...

The Pentagon under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has imposed new media rules designed to control what reporters can learn about the Iran war — and a federal judge has already struck down the first ve...

On March 30, 2026, Trump escalated his threats against Iranian civilian infrastructure to include water. He threatened to "blow up and completely obliterate" Iran's desalination plants — facilities th...

House Republicans led by Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington are proposing to cut federal health spending to help pay for a new budget reconciliation bill containing up to $200 billion for the I...

The Financial Times reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's broker at Morgan Stanley contacted BlackRock in February 2026 — before the Iran war began on February 28 — about making a "multimilli...

On February 28, 2026 — the first day of the Iran war and the same day as the Minab girls' school bombing that killed 168 — the U.S. also struck a sports hall and adjacent elementary school in Lamerd, ...

ProPublica revealed on March 31, 2026 that the DOJ under AG Pam Bondi quietly closed over 23,000 criminal cases in the first six months of Trump's second term, abandoning terrorism, drug trafficking, ...

The Wall Street Journal reported on March 30, 2026 that Trump is actively weighing a military operation to send U.S. forces into Iran to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of 60%-enriched uranium from underg...

Bloomberg reported on March 31, 2026 that annual corporate tax revenue fell $65 billion following Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act." The biggest winners: the CEOs who sat prominently at Trump's ina...

A 350.org analysis found that oil and gas price spikes caused by Trump's Iran war have cost consumers and businesses worldwide over $100 billion — money that flowed directly to fossil fuel companies. ...

FBI Director Kash Patel fired approximately a dozen agents and staff over two days in late February 2026 who had worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation into Trump's retention of classifi...

A pattern has emerged: Trump posts Iran war announcements at precise moments calculated to move financial markets, creating massive swings that benefit anyone with advance knowledge of the timing. On...

On March 31, 2026, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Trump cannot use presidential immunity to dismiss the civil lawsuit Lee v. Trump — finding that his Ellipse speech, the Raffensperger "find...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been weaponizing Christianity to justify the Iran war — carrying a Bible stamped with "Deus Vult" (the medieval Crusader battle cry meaning "God wills it") and holdi...

Trump's taxpayer-funded golf habit has crossed the $101.2 million mark in just 14 months of his second term, according to a HuffPost analysis published March 28, 2026. He has spent 110 days on golf co...

On March 27, 2026, Trump hosted what his administration called "the single largest gathering of American farmers that the White House has ever seen" on the South Lawn, complete with a gold tractor. Bl...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth unilaterally removed four Army officers from a promotion list to become one-star generals — two Black men and two women — from a list of approximately 36 officers, most ...

On March 27, 2026, the Iran-linked hacking group Handala published approximately 800 megabytes of data stolen from FBI Director Kash Patel's personal Gmail account — including over 300 emails and pers...

The New York Times reported on March 27, 2026 that Elon Musk joined a roughly 40-minute phone call between Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss the Iran war and the Strait of Hormu...

The Pentagon is considering sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East as the Iran war escalates beyond airstrikes into potential ground operations — all without congressional au...

At the Future Investment Initiative Priority Summit in Miami on March 27, 2026 — a Saudi-backed gathering of global business leaders, investors, and policymakers — Trump opened the Q&A session by tell...

The DHS shutdown — now in its 40th+ day since February 14, 2026 — exists because Trump refuses to fund the department unless Democrats pass the SAVE America Act, a federal elections bill completely un...

The U.S. Treasury Department announced on March 26, 2026 that Trump's signature will appear on all future paper currency — making him the first sitting president in American history to put his name on...

On March 25, 2026, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin released damning new evidence from Jack Smith's investigation revealing that Trump stole classified documents to advance his pe...

At the NRCC's annual fundraising dinner on March 25, 2026, House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that Republicans had "created a new award" — the first-ever "America First Award" — and immediately gave...

On March 24, 2026, Trump deployed ICE agents to 14 major airports during the DHS shutdown — then threatened to send in the National Guard. "And if we have to, we're going to send in the National Guard...

In a span of five days, Trump contradicted himself on the Iran war at every turn. On March 20, he told reporters: "We could have dialogue, but I don't want to do a ceasefire. You don't do a ceasefire ...

At the NRCC dinner on March 25, 2026, Trump admitted he anticipated the Iran war would raise oil prices and hurt the stock market — and did it anyway because the economic pain to Americans "didn't mat...

The entire Trump family voted by mail in a Florida special election for House District 87 — the district that includes Mar-a-Lago — while Trump simultaneously campaigns to ban the practice nationwide....

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem are living in secure military housing, citing safety concerns. Harvard...

Approximately 6,200 oil futures contracts worth $580 million traded between 6:49 and 6:50 a.m. on March 24, 2026. Fifteen minutes later, Trump posted on Truth Social announcing "productive" talks with...

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller met with Texas Republican legislators and pushed them to pass a bill banning undocumented children from public schools, directly challenging the 1982 S...

GOP Senator John Kennedy revealed on Fox News that Trump personally killed a bipartisan deal to end the DHS shutdown and pay TSA agents. Kennedy and Senator Ted Cruz proposed funding all of DHS except...

During the swearing-in of Markwayne Mullin as DHS Secretary on March 24, 2026, Trump made cryptic, boastful claims that Iran had sent him a gift. "They gave us a present," Trump told reporters in the ...

The Treasury Department's consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released in March 2026 to near-total media silence, revealed the United States government is effectively insolvent. Th...

At a public safety roundtable in Memphis, Tennessee on March 23, 2026, Trump publicly pinned the Iran war on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — with Hegseth seated right next to him. Trump told the roo...

On March 22, 2026, President Trump posted on Truth Social: "Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democratic Party!" The sitting President...

On March 21, 2026, Iran launched ballistic missiles at the Israeli cities of Arad and Dimona in southern Israel, both near the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center. At least 180 people were woun...

Robert Mueller — Princeton graduate, Vietnam Marine who saved a comrade's life under fire, Purple Heart and Bronze Star recipient, FBI Director for 12 years under both Bush and Obama (unanimously conf...

On Saturday night, March 21, 2026, Trump posted on Truth Social: "If Iran doesn't FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of ...

The Trump administration altered a Social Security Administration Inspector General report to conceal how badly DOGE layoffs had damaged service to beneficiaries. The published version of the December...

On March 20, 2026, Trump posted on Truth Social calling NATO allies "COWARDS" for refusing to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz during his war on Iran. In the post, Trump wrote that NATO countries are ...

Court documents revealed that DOGE employees used ChatGPT to review over 1,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant proposals, and the AI chatbot flagged a $349,000 grant to replace the aging H...

During an Oval Office meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister on March 19, 2026, Trump was asked by a reporter why the U.S. didn't share its Iran war plans with Japan. Trump responded: "Who knows bet...

On March 18, 2026, Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy AG Todd Blanche appeared for a closed-door briefing before the House Oversight Committee on the DOJ's handling of Epstein files. Within 30 minu...

At the Senate Intelligence Committee's annual Worldwide Threat Assessment hearing on March 18, 2026, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard was asked directly whether the intelligence communi...

At the annual Worldwide Threat Assessment hearing on March 18-19, 2026, Trump's own intelligence chiefs publicly contradicted Special Envoy Steve Witkoff's claim that the US could "take Russia at thei...

Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, Senator Markwayne Mullin, faced stolen valor accusations during his confirmation hearing after claiming on Fox News that "War is ugly, it s...

On March 18, 2026, the U.S. national debt crossed $39 trillion, nearly doubling from the $19.9 trillion when Trump first took office in January 2017. The milestone came roughly two weeks before the te...

On March 18, 2026, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell confirmed that Trump's tariffs account for approximately 0.5 to 0.75 percentage points of the current 3% core inflation rate. Powell stated: "If ...

Joe Kent, Trump's hand-picked Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, resigned on March 17, 2026 — becoming the highest-ranking Trump administration official to quit over the Iran war. Kent,...

On March 17, 2026, the V-Dem Institute at the University of Gothenburg — widely regarded as the world's most comprehensive and credible democracy measurement project, tracking 179 countries with data ...

On March 16, 2026, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston blocked HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule, ruling the changes were "arbitrary and capriciou...

On March 16, 2026, 19-year-old Royer Perez-Jimenez was found dead at the Glades County Detention Center in South Florida of a "presumed suicide," making him the youngest person to die in ICE custody s...

On March 16, 2026, defense attorneys for Brian J. Cole Jr., 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia — the man charged with planting two pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic National Committee headquar...

Three weeks into the Iran war, Congressional Republicans have blocked all public hearings on the conflict. Senate Majority Leader Thune said he doesn't expect public hearings to be held. The war has c...

On March 16, 2026, Trump endorsed Michael Whatley for North Carolina's Senate seat despite Whatley having knowingly elevated Harvey L. West Jr. — a convicted child sex offender — to multiple GOP leade...

On March 16, 2026, President Trump repeated the long-debunked claim that he predicted the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, stating: "I predicted Osama Bin Laden would knock out the World Trade Ce...

On March 16, 2026, President Trump claimed that a former president privately told him he wished he had launched the war on Iran, quoting the unnamed individual as saying, "I wish I did it. I wish I di...

On March 16, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order creating the "Task Force to Eliminate Fraud," appointing Vice President JD Vance as its chairman. While framed as a government-wide anti-fr...

Gas prices surged 74 cents per gallon since the Iran war began, reaching a $3.72/gallon national average — the highest since October 2023. The 26.9% monthly increase is the largest since Hurricane Kat...

In an NBC News interview on March 15, 2026, Trump said the US had 'totally demolished' most of Iran's Kharg Island and that 'we may hit it a few more times just for fun.' Kharg Island handles 90% of I...

The U.S. Army awarded defense tech startup Anduril Industries a sole-source contract worth up to $20 billion over 10 years for AI command systems, drones, sentry towers, and loitering munitions. Days ...

In depositions taken March 14-16, 2026, DOGE staffers Justin Fox and Nate Cavanaugh admitted under oath that DOGE never reduced the federal deficit — despite that being their stated primary goal. When...

On March 14, 2026, FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened to revoke broadcast licenses of TV networks over their coverage of the Iran war. Carr shared a Trump Truth Social post criticizing 'fake news' and ...

On March 13, 2026, a federal jury convicted 8 of 9 defendants on terrorism-related charges for their roles in a July 4, 2025 protest outside the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. Th...

Richard Grenell, a Trump loyalist installed as president of the Kennedy Center, resigned on March 13, 2026 after a disastrous year marked by mass artist cancellations and plummeting ticket sales. His ...

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem personally approved two contracts worth a total of $1 billion to SLSCO Ltd., a Texas-based construction firm, for border wall construction in Del Rio and Laredo, Texas. SLSCO...

When dozens of tornadoes tore through the Midwest and Plains from Texas to Michigan the week of March 8-13, 2026, killing at least 11 people, search-and-rescue teams deployed without a critical tornad...

In March 2026, the Trump administration lifted sanctions on Russian oil during an escalating oil crisis caused by Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz in response to the US-Iran war. Democrats calle...

On March 13, 2026, Trump called into Fox News Radio's 'The Brian Kilmeade Show' and blamed 'genetics' for recent violent attacks, stating: 'They're sick people, and a lot of them were let in here. The...

In a series of escalating statements on March 13, 2026, Trump posted on Truth Social at 12:33 AM: 'It is my great honor to be killing them,' referring to Iranians. He boasted of 'unparalleled firepowe...

On March 13, 2026, Chief Judge James Boasberg blocked Justice Department subpoenas against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, ruling that the government had produced 'essentially zero evidence' conn...

On March 13, 2026, Trump's primary leadership PAC 'Never Surrender' sent a fundraising email offering supporters 'private national security briefings' in exchange for becoming a paid 'National Securit...

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), facing a competitive GOP primary runoff and seeking Trump's endorsement, reversed his longstanding support for the legislative filibuster to support passing the SAVE Americ...

On March 12, 2026, the Geneva-based Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) issued a decision using its early warning protocol accusing Trump and other US leaders of 'racist hate ...

A ProPublica investigation published March 12, 2026 found that hundreds of mental health professionals have left the VA since Trump took office, leaving veterans waiting up to 6 months for therapy. Th...

ProPublica reported in March 2026 that credit bureaus are leaving far more errors on consumer reports since CFPB enforcement collapsed under the Trump administration. Experian resolved nearly 20% of c...

The Trump administration loosened decades-old restrictions on sharing law enforcement information with the CIA and other intelligence agencies, giving them access to hundreds of millions of documents ...

On March 11, 2026, Democrat Bobbi Boudman won a special election for a New Hampshire state House seat, flipping an R+13 district that Trump carried in 2024. This marked the 28th state legislative seat...

An Inside Higher Ed investigation published March 11, 2026 revealed that DOGE's Small Agencies Team gutted the National Endowment for the Humanities in just 22 days. DOGE used ChatGPT to flag grants a...

The Trump Department of Justice quietly restarted a program dormant for over 30 years to restore gun rights to convicted felons. Congress effectively killed the program in 1992 by blocking the Bureau ...

On March 11, 2026, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) released an 85-second AI-generated deepfake video depicting a fabricated version of James Talarico, the 36-year-old Democratic no...

ICE is terminating its $1.2 billion contract for Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss, Texas — its largest detention facility — after 3 detainee deaths in 8 months. The El Paso Medical Examiner ruled the d...

After a US military strike killed 168+ people — mostly girls aged 7-12 — at the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran on February 28, 2026, President Trump initially blamed Iran for the b...

A ProPublica investigation published March 11, 2026 revealed that the Trump administration dismantled approximately 90% of the Pentagon's Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response (CHMR) program before th...

CNN reported in March 2026 that DOGE spending cuts have specifically hampered the government's ability to function during the Iran war. The cuts affected agencies responsible for cybersecurity (CISA),...

In March 2026, the Trump administration appointed Erika Kirk, widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, to the U.S. Air Force Academy's Board of Visitors. The White House announcement highlighted C...

As of April 11, 2026, at least 47 people have died in ICE custody since Trump's second term began — with the death rate reaching 11 per 100,000 admissions, compared to 7 per 100,000 last year and just...

The Post and Courier, a Charleston, South Carolina newspaper, conducted an extensive records-based investigation and independently verified multiple biographical and contextual details from the FBI te...

A federal judge ruled on March 9, 2026, that Attorney General Bondi violated federal law when she replaced the disqualified Alina Habba with a three-person team to lead the New Jersey US Attorney's Of...

Government watchdog Open the Books revealed that the Pentagon under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spent $93 billion in September 2025 alone — the highest monthly spending since 2008 — in a massive 'u...

Under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC removed six of seventeen previously recommended childhood vaccines from its universal recommendation list: rotavirus, meningitis, hepatitis A, hepati...

In a phone interview with the Times of Israel on March 9, 2026, President Trump said the decision to end the US war with Iran would be a "mutual" decision made with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Net...

The partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown entered its 24th day on March 8, 2026, causing hours-long TSA security lines at airports across the country just as spring break travel surged. Ho...

Oil prices spiked past $100 per barrel in early March 2026 — the first time since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine — as the Iran war disrupted 20% of global oil supply. Brent crude spiked to nearly $...

The OPM's Schedule Policy/Career rule took effect around March 8, 2026, converting approximately 50,000 "policy-influencing" federal employees into at-will workers who can be fired without cause — the...

Between March 6 and March 8, 2026, the United States conducted military attacks across three continents in 72 hours — one of the few instances since World War II that the U.S. has been simultaneously ...

At the "Shield of the Americas" summit at Trump National Doral Miami on March 7, 2026, President Trump repeatedly threatened a "friendly takeover" of Cuba, saying the island nation is "in its last mom...

The February 2026 jobs report showed the US economy unexpectedly lost 92,000 jobs, with the unemployment rate rising to 4.4%. Economists had expected continued job growth. The losses were widespread a...

EPA staffing has dropped to 12,849 employees — the lowest level in 40 years — after losing over 4,000 employees (24% of its workforce) during Trump's second term, according to a March 2026 Inside Clim...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the cancellation of Pentagon-funded attendance at 33+ colleges and universities, banning military personnel from graduate programs at institutions including Prin...

Multiple outlets reported in early March 2026 that Russia is providing Iran with targeting intelligence on the locations and movements of US warships, aircraft, and radar systems — directly endangerin...

On March 4-5, 2026, both chambers of Congress narrowly rejected bipartisan war powers resolutions that would have required Trump to seek Congressional authorization for the ongoing war with Iran — eff...

On March 5, 2026, the Justice Department published 16 pages of previously withheld FBI documents describing multiple interviews with a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her as a te...

Details emerged in March 2026 about a classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard involving an NSA intercept of two foreign nationals discussing Jared Ku...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the military to shed 20% of its four-star general officers and an additional 10% of all general and flag officers, continuing an unprecedented purge of senior m...

Andrew Paul Johnson, a January 6 rioter who received a full presidential pardon from Trump, was sentenced to life in prison on March 5, 2026, after a Florida jury convicted him of sexually abusing two...

On March 5, 2026, Trump fired DHS Secretary Kristi Noem — the first cabinet secretary to lose her post in the second term — after a scandal over a $220 million taxpayer-funded advertising campaign fea...

An analysis by California Governor Gavin Newsom and House Judiciary Committee Democrats found that Trump's pardons and commutations have wiped out nearly $2 billion in court-ordered restitution to cri...

ProPublica released nearly 3,200 financial disclosure records for over 1,500 Trump appointees in March 2026, revealing a web of financial ties between officials and the industries they regulate. Depu...

On March 5, 2026, more than 20 states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a new 15% global tariff, arguing Trump is illegally circumventing the Supreme Court's February 20 ruling tha...

An anti-corruption group sued President Trump and Attorney General Bondi on March 5, 2026, over the TikTok US sale, alleging the deal violated the law's intent and instead enriched Trump's allies. Th...

On March 5, 2026, in an exclusive interview with Axios, President Trump declared that he "must be involved" in selecting Iran's next Supreme Leader following the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamene...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has cut nearly 28,000 employees — approximately 6% of its workforce — including over 14,000 medical positions: nurses, psychologists, social workers, and doctors. An...

Attorney General Pam Bondi's DOJ proposed a rule on March 4, 2026, that would allow her to freeze state bar investigations into DOJ lawyers accused of lying in court or other ethical violations — effe...

The Republican-led House Oversight Committee voted 24-19 on March 4, 2026, to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi for testimony about the DOJ's handling of Jeffrey Epstein files. The subpoena was move...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth criticized media outlets at a Pentagon briefing on March 4, 2026, for prominently covering the deaths of six US service members killed by an Iranian drone strike in Kuwa...

State Medicaid budgets will decline by $665 billion over the next decade under Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," according to a March 2026 analysis. The cuts are already having devastating real-world ...

The Campaign Legal Center filed a formal complaint with the DOJ's Inspector General on March 4, 2026, requesting an investigation into whether FBI Director Kash Patel violated federal travel regulatio...

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer's top two aides — Chief of Staff Jihun Han and Deputy Chief Rebecca Wright — were forced to resign in early March 2026 amid an inspector general investigation into ...

The Washington Post obtained records in March 2026 proving ICE cut 40% of its basic training program — from 580 hours to approximately 340 hours — amid a hiring spree to speed up deportation efforts. ...

By March 3, 2026, less than a week after launching Operation Epic Fury against Iran, the Trump administration had already offered four to five different and contradictory justifications for the war. D...

FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff from CI-12, the FBI's counterintelligence unit specifically tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, just days before the US launched military s...

By March 2026, Trump allies and advisors began publicly pushing for the president to invoke emergency powers ahead of the November 2026 midterm elections. The proposals include sending federal agents ...

The Trump administration has systematically dismantled fair housing protections through a series of coordinated actions targeting every mechanism designed to prevent housing discrimination. HUD Secre...

On February 28, 2026, President Trump launched "Operation Epic Fury," a massive joint US-Israeli military operation against Iran — the largest American military action in the Middle East since the 200...

On February 28, 2026, President Trump launched the largest US military operation in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq — a full-scale regime-change campaign in Iran that killed Supreme Le...

In the negotiations that preceded the U.S. war with Iran, Iran offered to dismantle its enriched-uranium stockpile and suspend uranium enrichment for three to five years, according to reporting cited ...

During his State of the Union address on February 25, 2026, and again at a rally in Corpus Christi, Texas on February 27, President Trump declared that he is "entitled" to a third presidential term be...

On February 26, 2026, ABC News and the Washington Post reported that pro-Trump attorneys who say they are coordinating with the White House circulated a 17-page draft executive order that would declar...

On February 26, 2026, Netflix withdrew its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, clearing the path for Paramount Skydance — controlled by David Ellison, son of Oracle co-founder and Trump ally Larry Ellison...

The day after the State of the Union address, Trump posted about Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, saying they had "bulging, bloodshot eyes of crazy people, LUNATICS, mentally deranged and...

On February 25, 2026, Vice President JD Vance announced that the administration would withhold $259 million in Medicaid funding from Minnesota, framing it as a response to the state's non-cooperation ...

The Trump administration began deporting immigrants not to their countries of origin, but to third countries they have no connection to whatsoever — including Rwanda, Costa Rica, and Panama. Individua...

On February 25, 2026, President Trump delivered his State of the Union address to Congress. Every major fact-checking organization — CNN, FactCheck.org, NBC News, PBS, ABC News, and CBS News — documen...

During his February 25, 2026 State of the Union address — the longest in U.S. history at 1 hour, 47 minutes, 43 seconds — Trump turned a constitutionally mandated address to Congress into what Roll Ca...

On February 24, 2026, NPR, the New York Times, and other outlets reported that the Department of Justice had removed or withheld more than 50 pages of FBI documents from its public release of the Epst...

On February 22, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security announced it would suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry during the partial government shutdown — a plan hatched by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ...

On February 22, 2026, President Trump posted on Truth Social demanding that Netflix "fire racist, Trump Deranged Susan Rice, IMMEDIATELY, or pay the consequences. She's got no talent or skills — Purel...

On February 20, 2026, President Trump announced he was directing the Pentagon and other agencies to release government files on "alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), a...

On February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Trump's sweeping tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) were unconstitutional, holding that the president ...

On February 19, 2026, Trump hosted the inaugural meeting of his "Board of Peace" and committed $10 billion in US taxpayer money to the initiative, which he says will fund Gaza reconstruction and a sta...

On February 17, 2026, Stephen Colbert revealed on air that CBS network lawyers had explicitly barred him from broadcasting a scheduled interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico, a leading Democra...

By February 2026, it became clear that Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency was one of the biggest broken promises of the Trump administration. Musk had pledged DOGE would identify $2 trill...

In February 2026, journalist Roger Sollenberger discovered that the FBI conducted four separate interviews in 2019 with a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor...

On February 19, 2026, the Georgia State Elections Board voted to issue a formal letter of reprimand to Elon Musk's America PAC for violating Georgia election law during the 2024 presidential campaign....

On February 19, 2026, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a 90-second video titled "Secretary Kennedy and Kid Rock's Rock Out Workout" to promote his MAHA agenda. The vide...

On February 19, 2026, official data revealed that the US trade deficit in goods — the very thing Trump's tariff agenda was designed to fix — hit an all-time record of $1.24 trillion in 2025, widening ...

At a rally in Rome, Georgia on February 19, 2026, President Trump explicitly stated that restricting mail-in voting would guarantee Republican electoral dominance for half a century. "Mail-in ballots ...

On February 19, 2026, work crews using cherry pickers installed a giant "Make America Safe Again" banner featuring Donald Trump's portrait on the exterior of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justic...

On February 19, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act — a wartime law — to mandate domestic production of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup wee...

By February 18-19, 2026, the Trump administration's confrontation with Iran escalated from saber-rattling to the brink of war. CNN reported the US military was "prepared to strike Iran as early as thi...

At a rally in Rome, Georgia on February 19, 2026, President Trump told supporters he had considered awarding himself the Congressional Medal of Honor for visiting US troops in Iraq in December 2018. "...

Trump's FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has transformed the Federal Communications Commission from an independent regulatory agency into what The Nation called "a mob enforcer" for the Trump administration'...

On February 18, 2026, the Trump administration ordered FEMA to halt all travel to disaster areas as part of the ongoing DHS partial shutdown, even though FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund had roughly $7 bil...

On February 18, 2026, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett demanded that researchers at the New York Federal Reserve be "disciplined" for publishing a study showing that American businesse...

On February 14, 2026, large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security shut down after Senate Democrats blocked funding bills that did not include oversight reforms for ICE. The shutdown came after...

On February 14, 2026, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency released what it called the largest Medicaid dataset in agency history—millions of claims records covering medical procedures and ...

On February 12-13, 2026, Trump ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford—the world's largest aircraft carrier—to the Middle East to join the USS Abraham Lincoln already stationed there, creating an extraordinary...

On February 13, 2026, President Trump declared on Truth Social that "There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!" He followed up: "If we can't get it throu...

On February 12, 2026, the Trump administration revoked the EPA's 2009 "endangerment finding"—the scientific and legal determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. This singl...

On February 12, 2026, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told comedian Theo Von on his podcast "This Past Weekend" that he "used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats." The comme...

On February 12, 2026, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly—a Trump appointee—blocked the administration from transferring 20 former death row inmates to ADX Florence, the federal "Supermax" prison in Col...

On February 11, 2026, Attorney General Pam Bondi's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee erupted into one of the most combative congressional hearings in recent memory—and revealed something...

On February 11, 2026, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fired program manager Alexis Goldstein for confronting members of Elon Musk's DOGE team during a visit to the agency a year earlier. CFPB...

On February 11, 2026, the Republican-led House passed a resolution 219-211 to terminate Trump's 25-35% tariffs on Canada, with six Republicans crossing party lines to join Democrats. The defecting Rep...

On February 11, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Department of Defense to purchase electricity from coal-fired power plants—using the military as a taxpayer-funded subsidy...

In November 2025, six Democratic lawmakers—Representative Jason Crow, Senator Mark Kelly, Representative Maggie Goodlander, Senator Elissa Slotkin, Representative Chris Deluzio, and Representative Chr...

On February 11, 2026, the Congressional Budget Office released projections showing that Trump's policies have added $1.4 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade, bringing total projected ...

On January 22, 2026, after a New York Times/Siena poll showed his approval at just 40% with 56% disapproval, President Trump declared on Truth Social that "Fake and Fraudulent Polling should be, virtu...

Trump's Department of Justice attempted to indict the six Democratic lawmakers who had posted the "illegal orders" video under 18 U.S.C. section 2387 — a sedition statute carrying a maximum 10-year pr...

On February 10, 2026, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admitted under oath to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that he visited Jeffrey Epstein's private island in December 2012 for lunch, direc...

On February 10, 2026, the Trump administration ordered the removal of the LGBTQ Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument in New York City—the nation's first national monument dedicated to LGBTQ...

In the week of February 9, 2026, Trump's CDC began canceling $600 million in grants used to track and prevent HIV and STDs in four Democrat-led states: California, Colorado, Illinois, and Minnesota. T...

On February 9, 2026, President Trump threatened to prevent the Gordie Howe International Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario from opening unless Canada provides "fairness and respect." Trump d...

On February 9, 2026, convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell appeared virtually before the House Oversight Committee for her deposition in the Epstein probe. She immediately invoked her Fifth Amend...

In February 2026, President Trump excluded Democratic governors from the traditionally bipartisan White House gathering held during the National Governors Association's annual Washington summit—breaki...

On February 8, 2026, President Trump attacked US Olympic freestyle skier Hunter Hess on Truth Social, calling him a "real Loser" after Hess expressed "mixed emotions representing the US right now" at ...

Federal Judge Vernon Broderick (SDNY) blocked a $10 billion freeze on child care funding to five blue states — Illinois, California, Colorado, Minnesota, and New York. The administration had frozen Ch...

The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University, then demanded a $1 billion payment to settle—doubling the previous demand. Trump said Harvard ...

On February 5-6, 2026, President Donald Trump shared a racist AI-generated video on Truth Social showing Barack and Michelle Obama's faces superimposed onto cartoon apes while "The Lion Sleeps Tonight...

On February 5, 2026, the New START treaty expired, leaving the United States and Russia without any binding limits on their strategic nuclear arsenals for the first time in more than 50 years. Each co...

At the National Prayer Breakfast on February 5, 2026, President Trump threatened to use IRS enforcement to punish churches whose leaders criticize him personally. After falsely claiming he eliminated ...

On February 5, 2026, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to guarantee that ICE agents won't be present at polling locations during the November 2026 midterm elections, stating, "I can...

On February 4, 2026, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was caught in a blatant lie during a House Financial Services Committee hearing. When Representative Maxine Waters asked him directly, "Did you wr...

Throughout Trump's second term, Department of Homeland Security has systematically used administrative subpoenas—which require no judicial oversight—to force tech companies to reveal the identities of...

On February 2, 2026, Trump called for Republicans to 'take over" and 'nationalize" voting in approximately 15 states, claiming Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta have 'extremely corrupt" elections—pro...

On February 2, 2026, President Trump told Dan Bongino that, "Republicans ought to nationalize the voting" and should 'take over the voting in at least many — 15 places." This direct call to unconstitu...

On January 30, 2026, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced federal agents arrested four people including journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for covering an immigration protest at a Minnesota church...

On January 30, 2026, the DOJ released 3.5 million pages of Epstein files including document EFTA01660679 containing 'numerous complaints and allegations involving powerful individuals, including Donal...

On January 30, 2026, Trump's Department of Justice released over 3 million pages of Epstein investigation files, including 180,000 images and 2,000 videos. The release included unredacted nude photos ...

Reports in Canadian media said U.S. State Department officials met with representatives of the Alberta Prosperity Project, an Alberta separatist advocacy group. The meetings prompted criticism in Cana...