He brought the stock market to the Medal of Honor.
At a Medal of Honor ceremony, the President opened with the stock market and joked that he wanted the medal for himself.
Vincent Crowe.
By V. Crowe.
The President says Israel would not exist without him.
At the G7, the President claimed a country founded in 1948 owes its existence to him personally. The calendar disagrees.
The President says a man got seven years for fixing his car.
The President said, twice, that he pardoned a man sentenced to seven years for fixing his own car. The real case: a diesel shop that disabled emissions controls on 344 trucks, a one-year sentence, seven months served.
President promises peace in days, orders strikes the same night.
The President said an Iran deal could land in two or three days and the Strait of Hormuz would reopen immediately. Hours later he announced retaliatory strikes, and the Nasdaq dropped 3 percent on the news.
The President Says His Predecessors Spent Hundreds of Millions on the Pool.
Defending his own reflecting pool renovation, the President claimed his two predecessors spent hundreds of millions on the same work. Federal contracts show one spent $35.3 million, the other did no major work, and his own job is $13.1 million.
The President Signed the AI Safety Order He Cancelled Last Month.
The President signed an AI safety executive order he had pulled at the last minute in May. The signed version makes model submission voluntary and cuts the government's review window from 90 days to 30.
The President's Settlement Fund Came to Exactly $1.776 Billion.
The President dropped a $10 billion suit against the government over his leaked tax records, and in its place the Justice Department created a $1.776 billion 'anti-weaponization fund.' This week 35 former federal judges asked the court to reopen it, and a judge agreed.
The President's Economic Speech in Suffern Mentioned the Economy.
Friday afternoon, at Rockland Community College, the President campaigned for a vulnerable House incumbent and was billed as speaking on the economy. NBC News and the AP wire documented what he actually said.
The President Toured Reporters Through His New Underground Complex.
On Tuesday, the President walked Reuters and other reporters through the new ninety-thousand-square-foot White House ballroom, narrating the drone port on the roof, the military hospital underground, and the four-inch glass. He asked Congress for one billion dollars in the same tour.
White House: The President Was Blinking
The president appeared to nod off while RFK Jr. discussed a fertility crisis in the Oval Office. The White House rebuttal was brief, certain, and addressed to morons.
President Declares Ceasefire 'Life Support.' He Also Hadn't Finished Reading the Proposals.
Iran sent proposals. Trump called them unacceptable. He also hadn't finished reading them. The ceasefire is on life support. Make that make sense.
Administration claims 345,000 federal workers gone; the calendar of when they are gone is somewhat aspirational.
The administration announced 345,000 federal workers are gone. Many are still at their desks.
President declares American victory in a war that, technically, kept going.
May 8 proclaimed as the US Victory in WW2. The actual American war ended September 2.
President signs proclamation reviving the Presidential Fitness Test for schoolchildren.
Sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups, the mile run, and the gymnasium dread of an entire generation, restored.
President posts eleven times in forty-two minutes from his bedroom.
Eleven posts in forty-two minutes, after eleven at night, on a Friday. The President is doing fine.
President hosts the Artemis II crew in the Oval Office and uses the time to talk about UFOs.
Wiseman, Glover, Koch, Hansen. They flew around the Moon. The Oval Q&A ran on Iran, the Comey indictment, and UFOs.
After the shooting, the Justice Department asks the Trust to drop its lawsuit against the ballroom.
Inside twenty-four hours of the shooting: the DOJ asks the National Trust to drop its case. The argument is that there should be no off-site dinners.
U.S. special-forces soldier charged with Polymarket bets on the Maduro raid he ran.
Special forces soldier bets on Polymarket the day before the raid he is on. Wins about $409,000. The President compared it to Pete Rose.
FBI Director sues The Atlantic for $250 million; the Labor Secretary resigns the same day.
The Bureau Director files a defamation suit. The Labor Secretary, separately, resigns. Same Monday news cycle.
President says, on Air Force One, that an Iran ceasefire extension is 'highly unlikely.'
Air Force One press gaggle: highly unlikely. Four days later: extended. The space between the two sentences is the policy.
President hosts the Dutch king and queen, and the height-comparison photos go around the world.
The Netherlands sent the king. The internet measured the photo with rulers. The Dutch PM said the dinner was constructive.
Federal appeals court lets the President keep building the ballroom for one more week.
The District Court said April 14. The appeals court extended it a week. The argument that worked was the bunker.
Within hours of the Iran ceasefire, Israel launches its largest bombing campaign on Lebanon.
The Iran ceasefire was hours old. Israel's strikes on Beirut were called Operation Eternal Darkness.
President posts a profanity-laden threat hours after a U.S. colonel is rescued from Iran.
An airman is recovered from behind enemy lines. The President's post afterwards is a profanity-strewn deadline. The two events are written, online, in the same paragraph.
President fires the Attorney General, requests an Army Chief retirement, and signs a 100% pharma tariff in one Thursday.
Three personnel and policy moves before lunch. Each individually big. The pharma tariff, on inspection, exempts most of the pharmaceuticals.
The DHS funding lapse becomes the longest shutdown in American history.
On Sunday, the DHS shutdown surpassed the 35-day record from 2019. By the time the new Secretary takes office, it will be longer still.
An executive order bars 'racially discriminatory DEI activities' by every federal contractor.
Executive Order 14398 instructs every federal contracting officer to add a clause prohibiting DEI activities. The clause is not yet drafted.
The President postpones strikes on Iran's power plants for five days, citing 'productive conversations.'
The 48-hour ultimatum became a 72-hour ultimatum became a 5-day postponement. Iran says no talks have occurred.
The President asks Japan to send warships to the Strait of Hormuz.
On the South Lawn, before Marine One, the President asked an ally to do something its founding document forbids.
Treasury sanctions a Colombian president, a Brazilian justice, and a UN human rights official.
Three sanctions actions in a single week against three foreign critics. The legal basis in each case is contested.
The President says the U.S. is 'way ahead of schedule' in the Iran war on day fifteen.
Fifteen days in, two senior officials describe two different timelines. The President says ahead. The Pentagon says longer.
A Pentagon investigation finds a U.S. Tomahawk hit an Iranian elementary school.
The school's coordinates were on a Defense Intelligence Agency target list. The list, according to the inquiry, was outdated.
The President tells the UK he does not need their aircraft carriers because the war is already won.
After the UK's MoD put a flagship carrier on high readiness, the President posted that we will not need 'people that join Wars after we've already won!'
The President fires the DHS Secretary on social media and names a senator to replace her.
After two days of bipartisan grilling on Capitol Hill, the DHS Secretary is reassigned to a new portfolio. The President's senator replaces her.
The administration's stated objectives for the Iran war keep changing as the bombs fall.
The President's messaging on the war has been marked by exaggerated threats and shifting, contradictory objectives.
A House member leaks a deposition photo to a commentator, pausing the Clinton testimony.
Boebert reportedly passed a closed-door deposition photo to a commentator. The deposition paused. The witness continued.
Average tax refunds rise $346, well below the President's promised $1,000.
Refunds are up 11 percent, an average of $346. The White House had projected $1,000 or more.
The Supreme Court rules the President exceeded his authority on tariffs under the Emergency Economic Powers Act.
Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump. 6-3, Roberts. The IEEPA tariffs are vacated. Refunds are an open question.
Defense Secretary invites a pastor who has argued women should not vote to lead the Pentagon prayer service.
Wilson preached at the Pentagon. He has argued, in print, that wives must submit and women should not vote.
A partial shutdown begins, this time for the Department of Homeland Security.
DHS funding talks collapsed. The agency continues operating in shutdown mode.
Vice President tells CNN that Olympians should not 'pop off about politics.'
Three days after he was booed in Milan, the VP told a network that Olympians should keep politics off the venue.
President calls a competing Olympic skier a 'real loser' on social media.
Hess had said wearing the flag does not mean he endorses everything. The President said he should not have made the team.
The administration proposes testing a citizenship question in this year's census field test.
Same proposal blocked by the Court in 2019. The administration filed it again, in a regulatory test notice.
President says Republicans should 'nationalize' elections during a podcast appearance.
Said on a podcast: Republicans should 'take over' the voting in 'at least, many, fifteen places.'
President sues the IRS and Treasury for ten billion dollars over a leak the contractor is in prison for.
The President is suing the IRS he runs for $10 billion. The damages, in the complaint, are reputational.
Treasury cancels every contract with Booz Allen Hamilton over a 2018 leak the contractor pleaded guilty to in 2023.
31 contracts. $21 million. Cancelled because of a 2018 leak the contractor was already imprisoned for.
President withdraws Canada's invitation to join the 'Board of Peace.'
The 'Board of Peace' is the President's new body. Canada was invited. Then, by Truth Social, Canada was disinvited.
President spends 104 minutes in the briefing room, holds up a book, and reads from it.
104 minutes. A book held up. 365 wins. The fact-checkers had to add pages.
Twenty thousand people in Copenhagen and five thousand in Nuuk hold the largest protests in Greenland's history.
Five thousand of Nuuk's fifty-six thousand residents marched. Twenty thousand more in Copenhagen.
State Department suspends immigrant visa processing for nationals of seventy-five countries.
Seventy-five countries. By cable. The list, in the version the public can read, is redacted.
On Air Force One the President says the United States is looking at 'very strong options' on Iran.
Off the cuff, on the airplane, on the way back from Florida. The phrase was 'very strong options.'
Senate advances a war powers resolution on Venezuela; five Republicans vote with the Democrats.
Senate advances the war powers resolution. The President's response was a Truth Social post.
HHS removes flu, COVID, and hepatitis B from the recommended childhood vaccine schedule.
Eighteen diseases on the schedule. Now eleven. The signature was from an acting director.
President says United States is locked and loaded for the protests of a country he is not at war with.
The President said the US would 'come to their rescue.' He did not say with what.
President meets the Israeli prime minister at Mar-a-Lago and says there will be 'hell to pay' if Hamas does not disarm; the prime minister announces the President will receive the Israel Prize for Peace.
Hell to pay if Hamas doesn't disarm. The Israel Prize for Peace was, separately, announced for the President.
President signs an executive order closing federal departments and agencies on December 24 and December 26, granting federal employees a four-day holiday weekend, as he golfs at his Florida club.
The federal workforce got the day off. The President golfed. The two are not, in the federal sense, related.
President warns the Venezuelan leader not to 'play tough' as the U.S. tightens its naval blockade in the Caribbean.
The deadline passed. The leader did not leave. Russia and China backed him. The President said: don't play tough.
Justice Department releases the court-ordered Epstein file batch with extensive redactions; one image of the President appears, briefly, then is removed from the website.
The DOJ released the files Friday. One image, of the President, appeared on the site briefly. The file is now offline.
President announces a 'warrior dividend' of $1,776 for service members; the money is the Congressionally-allocated housing subsidy already on the books.
The 'warrior dividend' is the housing allowance Congress already allocated. The President named it. The check did not change.
President opens his White House Christmas reception by acknowledging three deadly attacks and pivots, within three minutes, into a rambling story about snakes.
He opened with the three attacks. He closed with the snakes. The transit between them took three minutes.
President signs an executive order directing federal agencies to challenge state laws regulating artificial intelligence.
The order opens a federal litigation front against state AI laws. The DOJ has a new task force for the purpose.
One week after the Third Circuit, the President's former personal lawyer resigns the New Jersey U.S. Attorney post she was found to be holding unlawfully.
She resigned eight days after the appeals-court ruling that said she was sitting in the chair unlawfully.
President signs a memorandum directing the CDC to align the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule with peer countries; the agency removes coverage for six diseases.
The recommended schedule moves from seventeen diseases to eleven. Peer countries do not, in fact, recommend what the memo says they recommend.
President opens what he calls 'the final cabinet meeting of 2025' and the room produces a long sequence of false claims.
The final cabinet meeting of the year. False claims on prices, foreign affairs, and 2020. The cameras stayed on.
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President declares Venezuelan airspace 'closed.'
He posted that Venezuelan airspace was closed. Venezuela is the only country that can legally close it.
Two National Guard members are shot near the White House by a man the CIA once trained.
Two soldiers shot two blocks from the White House. The shooter was vetted three times by the U.S. government.
President sets a Thanksgiving deadline for Ukraine to surrender on terms drafted with Russia.
Four days to accept a 28-point plan written with the country invading you. The deadline is a holiday.
BBC apologizes in writing and declines to send a check; the President's lawyer goes on television anyway.
BBC apologized formally. It will not pay. The lawsuit threat continued from the residence.
American envoy and Russian envoy draft a Ukraine peace plan; Ukrainian envoy not on the line.
Witkoff and Dmitriev wrote 28 points. Ukraine, the country in question, was handed the document already finished.
President asks the Justice Department to investigate the meatpackers for charging too much for beef.
He tried to import Argentine beef. It didn't lower prices. So he asked DOJ to investigate the packers.
Photographers atop the Washington Monument, reopened after the shutdown, document an empty hole where the East Wing used to be.
The Monument reopened after the shutdown. The first thing visitors saw was the absence of the East Wing.
FAA cuts flights at forty airports because the people who direct them have not been paid in six weeks.
Air traffic controllers worked unpaid. The FAA cut traffic to keep the system safe. The shutdown was being used as leverage.
Supreme Court asks the Solicitor General whether 'regulate' means 'tax anything forever.'
The administration argued IEEPA authorizes any tariff on any product for any duration. The bench was skeptical.
Canadian prime minister apologizes for an ad that quoted Reagan accurately.
The ad was accurate. The Prime Minister apologized anyway. That is the press release.
South Korea presents the President with a gold crown and the Grand Order of Mugunghwa; he says he would 'like to wear it right now.'
South Korea handed him the Mugunghwa and a gold crown. He said he would 'like to wear it right now.'
USDA announces no SNAP benefits will be paid in November because of the shutdown; the contingency fund Congress set up for this purpose remains untouched.
USDA says no SNAP for November. The contingency fund Congress set up exactly for this is untouched.
President calls off plans to deploy federal troops to San Francisco after phone calls from two tech CEOs.
The Mayor had been asking. The CEOs of Nvidia and Salesforce called. The deployment was canceled the same afternoon.
Demolition of the White House East Wing begins on day twenty of the federal shutdown.
The East Wing is coming down on day twenty of the shutdown. The administration says private donors are paying.
President hosts the Ukrainian president in the Oval Office one day after announcing a summit with Russia he had not consulted Ukraine on.
Phone Russia, announce the Budapest summit, then host the country with the territory. The order of operations matters.
Former National Security Adviser is indicted on eighteen counts of mishandling classified material.
Eighteen counts against the former adviser. The President's own classified documents case was dismissed in January.
President holds up a rendering of a 250-foot triumphal arch he would like built across the Potomac.
A 250-foot arch, gilded at the top, dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial. The country is in day eleven of a shutdown.
President calls for the Governor of Illinois and the Mayor of Chicago to be jailed.
The post called for the governor and the mayor to be jailed for protecting their cities. The court had ruled against the President three days earlier.
Government remains closed; the Navy fires five $2 million missiles into the Atlantic for a 250th anniversary event.
Day five of the shutdown. The Navy fires five $2 million missiles into the Atlantic. The walk-off song is YMCA.
On day two of the shutdown the President posts an AI music video of the budget director as the Grim Reaper.
The budget director appears as the Reaper. The song is not licensed. The shutdown is in day two.
President meets congressional leaders the day before the shutdown deadline; the Vice President says afterward that a shutdown is likely.
Eleventh-hour meeting. Hours of negotiating. The VP walks out and says the shutdown is likely.
President attends the first day of the Ryder Cup; the federal government has four days to a possible shutdown.
First sitting president at a Ryder Cup. Government funding lapses in four days. The schedule was the schedule.
President demands an investigation of 'triple sabotage' at the UN; the escalator stopped because his videographer triggered the safety mechanism.
Escalator stopped. Teleprompter dark. Audio on the interpreter feed. The UN explained each in turn.
Administration takes the Fed governor firing to the Supreme Court; the next FOMC meeting is in three days.
Two courts denied. The administration filed at the Supreme Court. The Fed meets in three days.
President toasts the Princess of Wales as 'so radiant, so healthy, so beautiful' at the state banquet.
State banquet. The toast called Catherine 'radiant, healthy, beautiful.' The Queen, separately, was 'very special.'
President posts ALL BETS ARE OFF on Truth Social about Hamas; the bet had been a ceasefire he was personally negotiating.
Sunday Truth Social post. ALL BETS ARE OFF. The bet was the ceasefire. The ceasefire was his.
President marks the twenty-fourth anniversary of September 11 by attending a Yankees game; the crowd's reaction is mixed.
Pentagon at noon. Yankees at seven. The anthem on the jumbotron caught audible boos.
President says he is 'not thrilled' that an ally bombed another ally on his watch and did not tell him.
Israel bombed Doha to hit Hamas negotiators discussing his own ceasefire. He found out after. He was 'not thrilled.'
President signs an executive order renaming the Department of Defense the Department of War; only Congress can actually rename it.
The order is a rebrand. Only Congress can rename the department. The website is now war.gov.
President announces Space Command will move from Colorado to Alabama; the basing study, signed under his predecessor, picked Colorado.
The basing study picked Colorado. The President picked Alabama. The basing study still picked Colorado.
President invokes a budget maneuver last used in 1977 to cancel $4.9 billion in foreign aid.
The pocket rescission was last attempted in 1977. The GAO has said it is illegal. The administration is using it anyway.
Cabinet meeting runs three hours and sixteen minutes; opens with a forty-five minute monologue.
Three hours, sixteen minutes. Forty-five minute opener. A reduction of 1,500 percent. The math does not exist.
President paves over the Rose Garden lawn; cites women's heels.
The grass came out. The stone went in. Yellow-and-white umbrellas. A speaker system. The President can DJ.
President describes Crimea, on the same radio show, as 'a piece of land right in the ocean.'
Crimea is a peninsula. Attached, by land, to Ukraine. The size of Massachusetts. None of these facts survived the interview.
President writes 'Obama-given Crimea' on his social network the night before meeting Zelenskyy.
Russia seized Crimea by force in 2014. The President's verb of choice on Sunday night was 'given.'
President marks the 90th anniversary of Social Security by claiming a tax was eliminated; the tax remains.
The 90th anniversary remarks claimed a tax had been ended. The tax remains. The deduction expires in 2028.
President declares Liberation Day in the capital; the city's violent crime is at a thirty-year low.
Federal takeover of DC police, declared on the basis of a crime emergency the actual data does not support.
Caucasus transit corridor renamed for the President; the development rights run 99 years.
A real and serious diplomatic achievement, named for the man at the podium, with a 99-year U.S. claim attached.
President wanders out onto the roof of the White House for a chat with reporters.
The President took a walk on the roof. He waved. He pointed. He answered questions about nuclear missiles. It was a Tuesday.
President wins club championship at his own golf club; the press release describes it as winning.
The owner of the course beat the membership of the course. The White House press shop confirmed it.