https://thetrumptracker.com Comprehensive documentation of Trump's controversies, backed by evidence en-us Fri, 29 May 2026 00:47:15 GMT https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=april-pce-inflation-3year-high-tariffs-iran-war https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=april-pce-inflation-3year-high-tariffs-iran-war Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 three years. Core PCE (excluding food and energy) rose 3.3% year-over-year, its biggest annual gain since November 2023. The data was released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis on May 28, 2026 and reported by CNN Business and others. The causal story is documented and crosses outlets. Underlying i corruption https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=dell-pentagon-9-7-billion-ceta-software-trump-courtship https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=dell-pentagon-9-7-billion-ceta-software-trump-courtship Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Microsoft enterprise software licenses, cloud subscriptions, and software assurance across the entire U.S. military, the global intelligence community, and the U.S. Coast Guard. The award is administered through Dell Federal Systems. The CNBC framing was the news: "Dell wins a $9.7 billion Pentagon softwa corruption https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=doj-criminal-probe-e-jean-carroll-perjury-hoffman-funding https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=doj-criminal-probe-e-jean-carroll-perjury-hoffman-funding Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 million in a separate defamation case — over whether she committed perjury in a 2022 deposition. CNN broke the story on May 27, 2026; CBS, Time, and other outlets confirmed. The perjury theory rests on a single answer in Carroll's 2022 deposition: she said no one else was paying her legal fees. It w abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=judge-nichols-declines-block-trump-mail-in-voting-eo https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=judge-nichols-declines-block-trump-mail-in-voting-eo Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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-in voting. The ruling leaves the order in effect for now. The executive order directs the administration to compile a list of "confirmed U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state." Under the order, the U.S. Postal Service would only deliver mail-in ballots to voters on the resulting DHS-maintai democracy https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=katie-miller-doxes-paulina-mangubat-democrats-social https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=katie-miller-doxes-paulina-mangubat-democrats-social Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 account. Mangubat had used the @TheDemocrats account to respond "shut up you ugly f***" to a transphobic post Stephen Miller had made about Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico. Katie Miller's post on X named Mangubat, shared her photo, listed her age (30), her marital status (unmarried), women https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=mullin-dhs-pull-cbp-sanctuary-cities-airports-threat https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=mullin-dhs-pull-cbp-sanctuary-cities-airports-threat Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. When asked whether this would halt international flights at major hubs like Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, Mullin said: "won't be able to process them because we won't have officers there." Mullin framed the redirection as necessary to protect DHS ice-enforcement https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=nyt-cabinet-flattery-analysis-one-in-six-sentences https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=nyt-cabinet-flattery-analysis-one-in-six-sentences Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 every six sentences spoken by cabinet ministers contained praise of Trump, credit to Trump for administration achievements, or attacks on Joe Biden and the Democrats. The pattern is more pronounced than during Trump's first term, when some aides still occasionally tempered the president's impulses narcissism https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=philip-alito-secret-treasury-job-tariff-recusal https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=philip-alito-secret-treasury-job-tariff-recusal Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 May 28, 2026. The role places him in the office that provides legal and policy guidance to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Philip Alito has no public-facing resume of the job. He keeps no LinkedIn profile, the Treasury employee directory does not list him, and he has not appeared in court since corruption https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=tourism-decline-4-million-fewer-visitors-2025 https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=tourism-decline-4-million-fewer-visitors-2025 Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 reported by CNN on May 25, 2026 and surfaced in a People magazine report. The drop is the first real year-over-year decline in U.S. inbound tourism since the COVID-19 pandemic. The context is unusual. International travel globally grew by 80 million people in 2025; the United States is the outlier. T corruption https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-250-bill-treasury-bessent-design https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-250-bill-treasury-bessent-design Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 four current and former employees. Two Trump political appointees were named as having urged the drafts. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent then publicly confirmed the design at the White House the same day: "we've created the bill" because "we have to be prepared." Bessent framed authorization as a corruption https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-epstein-wsj-defamation-lawsuit-dismissed https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-epstein-wsj-defamation-lawsuit-dismissed Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Epstein. The judge found Trump "failed to adequately allege that the statements in the Article are false or defamatory, actual malice, or special damages for his defamation per quod claim." However, the judge gave Trump a chance to file an amended complaint. Trump responded on Truth Social, claiming t character https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-falls-asleep-cabinet-meeting-may-27 https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-falls-asleep-cabinet-meeting-may-27 Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 captured by Aaron Rupar and others shows Trump with closed eyes while seated next to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and visibly struggling to maintain alertness during Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's briefing on the Iran war. The New Republic identified this as at least the eighth on-camera Trump d character https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-jr-vulcan-elements-620m-pentagon-loan-navarro https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-jr-vulcan-elements-620m-pentagon-loan-navarro Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 startup with fewer than 50 employees at the time. Three months before the loan was announced (August 2025), Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm 1789 Capital had invested in Vulcan. After the loan, Vulcan's valuation increased roughly tenfold, from $200 million to approximately $2 billion. The P corruption https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-skips-iran-war-wounded-walter-reed-visit https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-skips-iran-war-wounded-walter-reed-visit Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 the 14 service members recovering at Walter Reed from wounds sustained in the Iran war he started. CBS News first reported the omission; The New Republic followed (May 28). The White House declined to comment on why the wounded were skipped. Trump has a documented history of avoiding visibly injur narcissism https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=bondi-pcast-ai-panel-after-attorney-general-ouster https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=bondi-pcast-ai-panel-after-attorney-general-ouster Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 27, 2026 reported. Bondi will sit on the council alongside Nvidia's Jensen Huang, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, and Oracle's Larry Ellison, with the panel chaired by former White House AI adviser David Sacks and science adviser Michael Kratsios. Bondi's stated brief is to help coordinate between the admini corruption https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=cbs-bari-weiss-kills-alfonsi-cecot-60-minutes-segment https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=cbs-bari-weiss-kills-alfonsi-cecot-60-minutes-segment Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 segment documenting the suffering of Venezuelans deported under Trump administration policy to El Salvador's CECOT prison was pulled before air by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss. Alfonsi said the report had passed five internal screenings and was cleared by CBS attorneys and the standards office. abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=iran-february-2026-offer-three-five-year-suspension-rejected https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=iran-february-2026-offer-three-five-year-suspension-rejected Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 by Joe Cirincione in a May 27, 2026 New Republic analysis and corroborated by Al Jazeera (May 11) and House of Commons Library briefings. The terms were more restrictive in some respects than the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that Trump had withdrawn from in 2018. The February 17, 2026 ro abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=paxton-cornyn-texas-senate-runoff-trump-win https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=paxton-cornyn-texas-senate-runoff-trump-win Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 had endorsed Paxton over Cornyn months earlier and campaigned actively for the challenger. Paxton, 63, now faces Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in November. Cornyn, 74, was the senior Republican senator from Texas, a former Senate Majority Whip, and a member of the Senate Republican leadership. abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-bans-niaid-disease-researchers-who-ebola https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-bans-niaid-disease-researchers-who-ebola Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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, including the resurgent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. CNN reported the policy on May 25, 2026, citing internal documents and sources. The restriction was first imposed during the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship and has since been only marginally relaxed. A public-health https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-ufc-cage-south-lawn-80th-birthday https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-ufc-cage-south-lawn-80th-birthday Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 President Trump's 80th birthday. The structure will seat 5,000 spectators with ringside accommodations for a marching band, surrounded by red, white, and blue patriotic stage dressing and large video screens. The card includes two interim championship fights: Alex Pereira versus Ciryl Gane (interim heavyw absurd https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=doj-deletes-jan6-press-releases-partisan-propaganda https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=doj-deletes-jan6-press-releases-partisan-propaganda Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. The deletions, confirmed by the department on Friday, May 23, 2026, are described as part of what DOJ called "stripping DOJ's website of partisan propaganda." The DOJ Rapid Response account on X posted: "Nothing 'quiet' about it. We are proud to reverse the DOJ's weaponization under the Biden admi rewriting-history https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=hegseth-poland-cancellation-wrong-country-trump-reversal https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=hegseth-poland-cancellation-wrong-country-trump-reversal Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 European allies' refusal to back his Iran war. The problem: Germany, not Poland, was the European ally Trump was angry at. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz had publicly criticized Trump's Iran strategy, saying "the Iranians are clearly stronger than expected, and the Americans clearly have no truly conv abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=hegseth-west-point-graduation-democrats-dei https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=hegseth-west-point-graduation-democrats-dei Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 roughly 998 graduating cadets. Breaking with the long-standing convention that addresses at military academy graduations remain nonpartisan, Hegseth devoted much of his speech to attacking past Democratic administrations and to denouncing diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in the armed forces. " character https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=ice-pepper-sprays-senator-andy-kim-delaney-hall https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=ice-pepper-sprays-senator-andy-kim-delaney-hall Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 hunger and work strike over alleged medical neglect and living conditions. Kim had been attempting to mediate. He told reporters he was trying to negotiate an arrangement where immigration advocates — not armed ICE agents — would inspect vehicles leaving the facility to check whether detainees were ice-enforcement https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=massie-meet-the-press-blanche-violating-law-epstein https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=massie-meet-the-press-blanche-violating-law-epstein Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 is violating the law," Massie said, adding that "there's still millions of files they haven't released" and that the 302 forms collected from victims' attorneys have not been turned over. Massie also said the First Lady understands the scope of the Epstein case despite her public denials of any co corruption https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-6000-homeless-veterans-la-budget-zero https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-6000-homeless-veterans-la-budget-zero Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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. NPR reported on May 19, 2026 that his administration's VA budget request funds zero new beds on the campus for the year ahead. The plan for the 6,000 beds was delivered to Congress the night before a scheduled House hearing on the topic — an unusual late-stage submission. At that hearing, Danielle corruption https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-ai-video-colbert-dumpster-late-show-finale https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-ai-video-colbert-dumpster-late-show-finale Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 stage and throwing him into a green dumpster, then dancing to the Village People's "YMCA" before a studio audience. The clip splices real Late Show footage with AI-generated elements to create the staged confrontation. Trump captioned the post celebrating Colbert's departure from CBS and predicting ot character https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-arlington-not-too-many-donalds-memorial-day https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-arlington-not-too-many-donalds-memorial-day Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 (18,000+), John (20,000+), James (13,000+), Isaac, Elijah, Earls, Hanks, Helens, Juans, Margarets, and Marius, he reached "Donalds…" — and then giggled and added: "not too many." The quip ran across cable news and social media within hours. Critics — including veterans — called the line tone-deaf and character https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-cabinet-iran-strikes-ceasefire-violation https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-cabinet-iran-strikes-ceasefire-violation Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 relocated to the White House because of weather. The trigger: on Monday, May 24, U.S. forces struck Iranian boats and missile launch sites just hours after Iranian officials arrived in Qatar for peace negotiations. CENTCOM characterized the strikes as defensive — vessels attempting to lay mines in t abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-irs-10-billion-doj-settlement-with-himself https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-irs-10-billion-doj-settlement-with-himself Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Times — has entered settlement negotiations in which the proposed settlement would 'drop any IRS audits of Trump, his family, or his businesses.' The defendant agency (IRS) is in the executive branch Trump controls. The plaintiff's negotiating counsel (DOJ) is also in the executive branch Trump contr corruption https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-memorial-day-615am-rage-post-sleazebags https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-memorial-day-615am-rage-post-sleazebags Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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, plus "Dumocrats" and "Fools" he said "know nothing about the potential deal I am making with Iran." He called Massie "a major sleazebag," labeled the named senators "weak and ineffective people," and wrote that "these people should go home and rest, they do nothing but create division and loss. In character https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-six-minutes-white-house-pillar-corinthian https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-six-minutes-white-house-pillar-corinthian Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 House press pool video shows the 79-year-old president pointing to the base of the column, walking aides through whatever he was seeing, and running his hands along the stonework. The inspection takes on a different shape against the renovation plans his administration has already advanced. Rodney Mims absurd https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-taiwan-arms-14b-xi-six-assurances-broken https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-taiwan-arms-14b-xi-six-assurances-broken Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 that he and Xi had discussed the sale "in great detail." Trump framed Taiwan as Xi's higher priority, not his own. "The last thing we need right now is a war that's 9,500 miles away," he said. Trump acknowledged that under the 1982 "six assurances" — a long-standing U.S. policy commitment — the Un corruption https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-walter-reed-third-checkup-mri-ct-correction https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-walter-reed-third-checkup-mri-ct-correction Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 third Walter Reed visit in 13 months — a frequency unusual for any president and one the White House has not explained beyond calling it "part of his regular preventive health care." The pattern of opacity around earlier visits is the story. In October 2025, the White House described that trip as a "r character https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=uscis-green-card-applicants-must-leave-us-rule https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=uscis-green-card-applicants-must-leave-us-rule Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 from their home countries instead. The rule reverses decades of "adjustment of status" practice that allowed people already lawfully present in the U.S. to obtain permanent residency without leaving. The scale of the change is large. Of the 783,000 people who received a green card from within the U ice-enforcement https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=vance-crashes-roberts-scotus-dinner-trump-court-rift https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=vance-crashes-roberts-scotus-dinner-trump-court-rift Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 clerk alumna. Roberts gave the vice president no special seating and did not mention him during his remarks. Other guests described being uncomfortable with Vance's uninvited attendance, in part because the Court is preparing to hand down rulings on several Trump-administration cases. The dinner l abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=white-house-app-forced-federal-employee-phones https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=white-house-app-forced-federal-employee-phones Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Barbaccia to agency chief information officers, requesting their help with "the mechanics" of pushing the app onto government devices across the executive branch. The FAA's IT team told employees in an internal communication on Friday, May 22, that it "will automatically install 'The White House' applicatio abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=gabbard-resigns-dni-fourth-cabinet-departure https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=gabbard-resigns-dni-fourth-cabinet-departure Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 Williams, with a serious and rare form of bone cancer. 'At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle,' she wrote. Her last day will be June 30. Trump responded on Truth Social that Gabbard had done 'an incredible job, and we will miss her.' abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-dominion-voting-machine-ban-effort-commerce-hand-counting https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-dominion-voting-machine-ban-effort-commerce-hand-counting Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 half of U.S. states by having the Commerce Department declare their components a national security risk. The plan would have replaced machine voting with hand-counted paper ballots across much of the country, potentially just before the 2026 midterm elections. The effort was spearheaded by Kurt Olsen, democracy https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=colorado-intelligence-bulletin-dhs-ice-recruitment-white-supremacist-memes https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=colorado-intelligence-bulletin-dhs-ice-recruitment-white-supremacist-memes Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 white-supremacist imagery and rhetoric inflammatory enough to incite violence from neo-Nazi groups. The Colorado Information Analysis Center, a state fusion center, issued a bulletin in March 2026 cautioning that DHS social-media content could create a 'permissive environment' for extremist violence abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=crs-iran-war-losses-42-aircraft-13-killed-50-billion https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=crs-iran-war-losses-42-aircraft-13-killed-50-billion Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 and CENTCOM statements and news reports. The CRS tally counts up to 42 U.S. aerial vehicles lost or damaged, far more than the administration had publicly acknowledged. The specific losses include 4 F-15E Strike Eagles, 2 MC-130J Commando II special-operations aircraft, 1 E-3 Sentry AWACS early-war abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=dhs-rehires-eastman-doctor-armed-drinking-fentanyl-harassment https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=dhs-rehires-eastman-doctor-armed-drinking-fentanyl-harassment Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 misconduct that had previously gotten him removed, and assigned him to ICE deportation operations. Eastman had served as acting chief medical officer for Customs and Border Protection. According to the investigation, he admitted to drinking beer in a bar in January 2024 while carrying his work firearm, i corruption https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=doj-voter-roll-lawsuits-0-for-5 https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=doj-voter-roll-lawsuits-0-for-5 Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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, birthdates, partial Social Security numbers, and driver's license numbers. She called it a "fishing expedition" lacking legal foundation. This is the DOJ's fifth consecutive loss in voter roll cases. Courts in California, Oregon, Michigan, Massachusetts, and now Rhode Island have all rejected the sa democracy https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=landry-greenland-envoy-middle-finger-chocolate-cookies-nuuk https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=landry-greenland-envoy-middle-finger-chocolate-cookies-nuuk Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 gesture from a resident. The trip is part of the administration's ongoing effort to acquire or annex the autonomous Danish territory. Landry's pitch included handing out MAGA hats to children and telling them they could have 'all the chocolate chip cookies you can eat' if they visited his Louisiana man absurd https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-withheld-federal-funds-colorado-polis-tina-peters-commutation https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=trump-withheld-federal-funds-colorado-polis-tina-peters-commutation Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 equipment in an attempt to find proof of the 2020 election conspiracy theory she believed in. Peters had been sentenced to nearly nine years in state prison. She will now be released on parole on June 1, 2026. Polis cited that her punishment was 'too harsh for a first-time nonviolent offender.' What the abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=capitol-police-dunn-hodges-sue-anti-weaponization-fund-insurrection-debt https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=capitol-police-dunn-hodges-sue-anti-weaponization-fund-insurrection-debt Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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, filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C. to block the Trump administration's $1.776 billion 'Anti-Weaponization Fund.' The fund was created two days earlier as the settlement of Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS. The 29-page complaint argues the fund will be used to pay people who particip abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=doj-presidential-records-act-unconstitutional https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=doj-presidential-records-act-unconstitutional Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 nearly half a century, enacted in direct response to Watergate. The opinion, authored by OLC head T. Elliot Gaiser (a former Trump 2020 campaign attorney who clerked for Justice Alito), concludes that Trump "need not further comply" with the Act. The DOJ argued Congress "cannot preserve presidential abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=epstein-survivors-blanche-lied-under-oath-never-met-them https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=epstein-survivors-blanche-lied-under-oath-never-met-them Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 noted that survivors were 'extremely frustrated that you keep calling for people to come forward with more evidence, but you have not met with them to hear their stories,' Blanche said: 'I have met with them. I've met with many of the lawyers for the survivors.' The next day, eighteen Epstein surv character https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=hegseth-campaigns-massie-primary-kentucky-4-gallrein https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=hegseth-campaigns-massie-primary-kentucky-4-gallrein Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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 incumbent Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY). Military Times reported that Hegseth spoke at the rally in his capacity as Secretary of Defense, criticizing Massie for opposing Trump on the Iran war, Israel aid, and other issues. Hegseth: 'President Trump does not need more people in Washington who are trying to mak abuse-of-power https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=ice-arrest-immigration-court-defies-judge-castel-order https://thetrumptracker.com/controversy?id=ice-arrest-immigration-court-defies-judge-castel-order Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT 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, Vinely Alexander Castillo-Norales, 21, came to the United States as a child seeking asylum, has lived in the country for years, and has no criminal convictions. He was detained for a few hours and then released. The order he was arrested in defiance of came from U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel of ice-enforcement