The Trump Tracker
Comprehensive documentation of 849 controversies, backed by evidence and sources
State Republican Parties Are Charging Up to $20,000 for 'Honorary Delegate' Seats at Trump's Midterm Convention, Which Nominates No One
Trump's midterm "convention," to be held in the Dallas Mavericks' arena, will choose no candidate and adopt no platform. State Republican parties are nevertheless selling access to its floor. The Tex...
The Interior Department Is Paying Energy Companies Billions to Cancel Offshore Wind Projects and Invest in Fossil Fuels Instead
The Trump administration has spent $2.7 billion of taxpayer money on its campaign against wind power and another $1.125 billion propping up coal, according to a Guardian accounting. Since March, the I...
Trump Denies $227 Million in Blizzard Aid to Four Blue States Two Days After Approving Aid for Six Red Ones
Trump rejected FEMA disaster aid requests from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, four states that did not vote for him. Together they had asked for about $227 million after a seve...
The GAO Cleared DOGE of Raiding Labor Board Systems, Then Buried in a Footnote That the Records Proving It Had Been Deleted
In April 2025, an IT staffer at the National Labor Relations Board named Dan Berulis filed a whistleblower complaint with Congress alleging that DOGE members had accessed and possibly exfiltrated sens...
Mexico Will Ask U.S. Prosecutors to Open a Criminal Investigation Into the Deaths of 17 Mexicans in Trump's Immigration Crackdown
On July 9, 2026, Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco announced that Mexico would stop confining its objections to diplomacy and instead seek criminal charges in American courts over the deaths of...
New Mexico's Attorney General Says Trump's Justice Department Is Withholding the Records His Epstein Ranch Prosecution Would Be Built On
New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez has accused Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's Justice Department of obstructing the state's investigation into Zorro Ranch, the property south of Santa Fe ...
Palm Beach's Airport Becomes 'President Donald J. Trump International,' Trading Its PBI Code for DJT in a $2.75 Million Rebrand
Palm Beach International Airport, roughly five miles from Mar-a-Lago, became "President Donald J. Trump International Airport" on July 9, 2026, retiring its longtime PBI code in favor of DJT. Florida ...
The Secret Service Told Trump Not to Fly His Qatari-Gifted Air Force One Out of a War Zone, Because It Lacks the Old Plane's Defenses
Leaving the NATO summit in Turkey on July 8, 2026, with U.S. and Iranian forces trading strikes, Trump flew home on the older Air Force One and sent the new Qatari-gifted jet ahead to England. The Sec...
To Build His 250-Foot Arch, Trump's Interior Department Argues a 1910 Law Capping Washington's Buildings Never Applied to Federal Ones
Trump wants a 250-foot triumphal arch in Washington. The Height of Buildings Act, passed in 1910, generally forbids buildings taller than 130 feet in the capital, which is why the city has its low sky...
Trump Fires the Last Members of the Bipartisan Election Assistance Commission, Leaving It Unable to Act Before the Midterms
On July 9, 2026, Trump removed the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, the bipartisan federal agency Congress created after the 2000 election to help run American elections....
Trump Tells a Reporter She Will Die With Him if Iran Hits Air Force One: 'If I Go, You Go'
Flying out of the NATO summit in Turkey on July 8, 2026, hours after ordering fresh strikes on Iran, Trump held a gaggle with reporters aboard Air Force One. Asked about the risk of an Iranian attack ...
Trump Says the 'Islamic Republic of Japan' Fired 111 Missiles at a U.S. Aircraft Carrier
Speaking to reporters alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the NATO summit in Ankara on July 8, 2026, Trump described an attack on an American warship: "We had 111 missiles shot by the ...
The Navy Will Move to Discharge Sailors Whose Shaving Condition Does Not Clear in a Year, a Disorder Affecting an Estimated 60 Percent of Black Men
Under guidance issued in July 2026, the Navy will no longer grant permanent shaving waivers to sailors with skin conditions caused by shaving. Active-duty and reserve sailors with facial-hair accommod...
Trump Declares His Iran Ceasefire 'Over,' Calling Tehran's Leaders 'Scum' as the War Reignites
The ceasefire Trump had promoted as a personal victory collapsed within weeks. The 14-point memorandum signed June 17, 2026, which was supposed to halt the fighting and reopen the Strait of Hormuz in ...
Trump Has Pocketed $1.5 Million Licensing the 'God Bless the USA' Bible, Which Is Printed in China
Trump's financial disclosures show he has now earned $1,514,521 licensing his name to the "God Bless the USA" Bible: $1,306,035 reported the year before, plus another $208,486 for 2025. The Bible, cre...
A Judge Throws Out Trump Media's $3.8 Billion Defamation Suit Against The Washington Post
On July 7, 2026, a federal judge threw out the $3.8 billion defamation lawsuit that Trump Media and Technology Group, the president's social-media company, filed in 2023 against The Washington Post. ...
Trump Shares a Right-Wing Account's Video of St. Paul Kindergartners Wearing Hijabs, and Ms. Rachel Answers the Children Directly
In early July 2026, Trump shared on Truth Social a post from the right-wing account End Wokeness showing kindergartners wearing white hijabs at their spring graduation ceremony at Gateway STEM Academy...
ICE Agents Shot and Killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Houston Father of Three Driving to a Construction Job After 35 Years in the Country
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo came to the United States thirty-five years ago, a few years too late to qualify for the 1986 immigration law known as the Reagan amnesty. He worked construction, became a small...
ICE Agents Tracked Down a Man Who Called Its Chief a Nazi in an Email, Staking Out His Hotel and Leaving a 'Warning Notice'
On January 26, 2026, after federal immigration officers in Minneapolis fatally shot two U.S. citizens who were observing an enforcement operation, a Rochester, New York, resident named David Streever ...
A Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Freeze on Green Cards and Work Permits, Ruling It Reflects a Preference for White Immigrants
On July 6, 2026, U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley, a Clinton appointee in Columbus, Ohio, issued a preliminary injunction ordering the Trump administration to stop indefinitely freezing work-author...
The Treasury Abandons the Harriet Tubman $20 Bill While Preparing a $250 Bill With Trump's Face
Asked by Spectrum News on Monday, July 6, 2026, whether the Treasury still planned to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said, "We are not at present." He gave no fur...
DOGE Quietly Shut Down on July 4, Leaving an $11 Billion Buyout Bill and Agencies Now Rehiring the People It Cut
The Department of Government Efficiency, the Elon Musk-led cost-cutting effort that tore through the federal workforce during the first months of Trump's second term, quietly went out of existence on ...
Jack Smith, the Prosecutor Trump Spent a Year Attacking, Warns the Rule of Law Faces an Attack Unlike Anything in His Lifetime
On July 2, 2026, former special counsel Jack Smith gave his first television interview since resigning from the Justice Department, telling MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace that he believes the country is liv...
The Energy Department Deleted Its Own '78 Degrees' Thermostat Advice After Mamdani Said the Same Thing
During a July 2026 heatwave, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani posted on X urging residents to set their thermostats to 78 degrees and cut energy use. The advice drew mockery from Republi...
House Democrats Say Donations Meant for the Nonpartisan America250 Commission Were Routed to Trump's Similarly Named 'Freedom 250'
On July 2, 2026, Democratic staff on the House Natural Resources Committee released a report alleging that people who tried to donate to America250, the bipartisan commission Congress created to plan ...
Trump's New Intelligence Chief Starts Firing Dozens of Officials as Trump Says He Expects Him to 'Find Out Some Things About the Rigged Elections'
In early July 2026, dozens of intelligence officials began receiving termination notices under Bill Pulte, the new acting Director of National Intelligence, about two weeks after he arrived at the off...
A Decorated Air Force Major Was Arrested Calling for Trump's Impeachment on the Capitol Steps, and the Air Force Opened an Investigation
On July 1, 2026, U.S. Air Force Major Jason Watson, a decorated active-duty officer, was arrested on the steps of the Capitol while demonstrating for Trump's impeachment. He accused the president of i...
Trump Quietly Ordered ICE to Hit 2,000 Arrests a Day, and It Detained 10,000 People in Five Days
On July 1, 2026, the New York Times reported, based on internal documents and interviews with federal officials, that the Trump administration had quietly ordered a surge in immigration arrests, and t...
Trump's Financial Disclosure Shows He Made Over $2 Billion in His First Year Back, More Than Half From Crypto, While He Insists He 'Doesn't Get Involved' in His Own Money
On June 30, 2026, the Office of Government Ethics released Trump's annual financial disclosure, and it documents a scale of personal profit unprecedented for a sitting president. By The New Republic's...
Kash Patel Failed to Disclose a Six-Figure Stock Purchase in a DOJ Contractor, Breaking the STOCK Act's Deadline
FBI Director Kash Patel bought between $100,001 and $250,000 of stock in MicroStrategy on November 21, 2025, but did not report the trade to federal regulators within the window the law requires, NOTU...
The Supreme Court Blocks Trump's Firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook, Letting Her Stay While It Shields the Federal Reserve
On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 against President Trump's attempt to remove Lisa Cook, a Federal Reserve governor, allowing her to remain in her post. Trump had fired Cook by social-medi...
A Judge Permanently Bars the Administration From Threatening Protesters' Permits Over '8647' Flags Near the National Mall
A federal judge has permanently blocked the Trump administration from using its permit power to shut down an anti-Trump protest, ruling that the government tried to suppress core political speech and ...
The Supreme Court Lets Trump Fire Independent-Agency Members at Will, Overruling a 90-Year Precedent in a 6-3 Decision
On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v. Slaughter that President Trump had the constitutional authority to fire Federal Trade Commission member Rebecca Slaughter without cause, and o...
Trump Bought Up to $5 Million in Axon Stock Two Weeks Before ICE Sought a $220 Million Taser Deal Tailored to the Company
On February 10, 2026, President Trump purchased between $1 million and $5 million of stock in Axon Enterprise, the maker of Tasers and police body cameras, CNBC reported June 29, 2026, citing his fina...
Trump's 'Great American State Fair' Draws Sparse Crowds as He Claims 45,000 and Posts a Pre-Dawn Defense
Trump's "Great American State Fair," a 16-day event on the National Mall run by his Freedom 250 organization as part of the America-250 celebration, opened June 25, 2026 and drew sparse crowds. Trump ...
Trump Spent $689,000 in National Park Service Money on a White House Walkway He Claimed He 'Paid for' Himself
Internal budget documents obtained by The Atlantic show that the Trump administration spent $689,232 in National Park Service funds to replace the West Colonnade walkway connecting the executive resid...
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