The Trump Tracker
Comprehensive documentation of 1236 controversies, backed by evidence and sources
Justice Department Gives California 48 Hours to Set Aside Mail Ballots of Voters on an Unexplained Federal Noncitizen List
On October 13, 2026, Acting Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter wrote to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar Dean Logan about a password-protected thumb ...
FIFA Signed a $4 Million, Seven-Year Lease for a Trump Tower Office It Rarely Uses
FIFA, international soccer's governing body, agreed to pay $4 million for a seven-year lease on a nearly 5,000-square-foot, 17th-floor office in Trump Tower, according to documents obtained by Le Mond...
Judge Clears Fired FEMA Finance Chief After the Government Concedes Musk and DHS Spread Claims Officials Knew Were False
On February 11, 2025, FEMA's chief financial officer, Mary Comans, was fired, and DHS and DOGE officials publicly blamed her for payments to New York hotels housing migrants. Elon Musk, then head of D...
Judge Halts USDA's Reorganization, Finding It Likely Spends Money in Ways Congress Did Not Expect
On October 13, 2026, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco stayed the Agriculture Department's reorganization in AFGE v. USDA, a suit by federal employee unions, nonprofits and local gov...
Trump Called His New Press Secretary 'an Attorney.' Reporters Found No U.S. Bar Admission for Her
Announcing Katie Zacharia as White House press secretary on October 9, 2026, Trump described her as "a distinguished Graduate of Pepperdine University, and the Pepperdine Caruso School of Law, an atto...
Trump Posts Footage of a Fatal Tiger Attack in England, Then an AI Video of Himself Wrestling the Tiger
On October 13, 2026, Trump posted footage of the tiger attack on William Chapman, who later died of his injuries after the attack at a wildlife park in England, with the caption "Don't ever mess with ...
Federal Agents Search Ilhan Omar's Home 22 Days Before the Election, Two Days After Trump Told a Rally 'Our People Are Looking at It Very Strongly'
On the morning of October 12, 2026, Homeland Security Investigations agents searched the Washington, D.C.-area home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a longtime target of Trump's attacks who is running fo...
Trump Called a Heckler 'Scum' and a 'Fat Guy' as She Was Led Out After a Rallygoer Punched Her in Youngstown
At Trump's October 12, 2026 rally at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio, a rallygoer punched a woman protester in the face and pulled her hair after she stood up in a "Release the Epstein Files" s...
Trump Says China and Russia Aren't Helping Iran 'at All,' Months After His Defense Secretary Told Senators They Are
Late on October 12, 2026, Trump posted: "I see so many comments from the Radical Left Morons and Lunatics that China and Russia are helping the 'wonderful' Islamic Republic of Iran. If they are, it's ...
Trump Says the U.S. 'Might Have Gone Too Far' Killing Iran's Leaders Because 'We Don't Know Who the Hell We're Dealing With'
At a rally in Youngstown, Ohio, on October 12, 2026, Trump said of Iran, "They got no leaders even. That's the problem. We might have gone too far with the leaders because we don't know who the hell w...
Houston's DA Says an ICE Officer Appears to Have Run a Man Down on Purpose, Then Drove the Vehicle Away Before a Warrant
On the morning of October 10, 2026, during an immigration traffic stop in northwest Houston, an ICE vehicle struck Miguel Parra Hernandez, 48, who had fled on foot, breaking his leg, the AP reported. ...
Justice Department Opens Antitrust Probe of Five TV Networks for Refusing to Fill CNN's Slot in the White House Pool
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division is investigating the five networks that make up the White House television pool, NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and Fox News, over their temporary refusal to provide po...
Trump Calls the Nobel Peace Prize 'Forever Discredited' After It Goes to Navi Pillay, and Says Norway's Choice 'Will Never Be Forgotten'
On October 9, 2026, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, a former International Criminal Court judge and UN human rights chief. Told of the award, the 85-year-old joke...
Trump Lifts Sanctions on Russian Diesel After a Call With Putin, and Senators From Both Parties Say It Breaks a 2022 Law
On October 9, 2026, Trump posted that after "a highly successful discussion" with Vladimir Putin, "it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American an...
Trump's Justice Department Takes Jan. 6 Witness Cassidy Hutchinson to a Grand Jury
The Justice Department is seeking to charge Cassidy Hutchinson, the former Trump White House aide whose testimony to the House January 6 committee was among the most damaging to Trump, with lying to C...
Hegseth Says the First Military Firing Squad Since World War II Will Be Public, and the Pentagon Plans to Livestream It
Trump approved the execution by Army firing squad of Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in 2009, the Pentagon announced on October 5, 2026; federal law requires presidential approval befor...
Huckabee's Top Aide Blocked Embassy Reports Critical of Israel, Including One on Killings of Americans, NYT Reports
David Milstein, a senior aide to Trump's ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, repeatedly suppressed or reshaped U.S. Embassy reporting that was critical of the Israeli government, the New York Times r...
ICE Has Held Children in Hotels Where Lawyers Could Not Find Them, Despite a Court Order to Stop
ICE has detained more than 8,750 children since Trump returned to office, according to data obtained by the Deportation Data Project, and court filings in the long-running Flores case document 86 chil...
An ICE Officer Fired Seven Rounds Into a Car on a New York Street With a 5-Year-Old in the Back Seat
During an immigration enforcement operation in the Marble Hill neighborhood of New York City on October 8, 2026, at least one ICE officer fired seven rounds, striking 28-year-old Oscar Belgal below hi...
Trump Gives National Science and Technology Medals to Six Tech Leaders Whose Companies His Portfolio Traded in August
At a White House "Science: A New Golden Age" summit on October 8, 2026, Trump awarded the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lis...
Vance Bars Microsoft and Seven Other Firms From Sponsoring Green Cards, Calling H-1B Workers 'Indentured Servants'
At a White House news conference on October 8, 2026, Vice President JD Vance and Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling announced that Microsoft, Adobe and the consulting firms Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wip...
ICE Records Show Investigators Pulled Tens of Millions of Voter Records and Weighed Undercover Agents in a Hunt for Noncitizen Voters
Internal records released on October 7, 2026 by Democracy Forward, 166 pages obtained through a public-records lawsuit, show how Homeland Security Investigations, ICE's investigative arm, has run its ...
ICE Quietly Starts a 45-Day California Sweep Weeks Before the Midterms, and Officers Are Told to 'Go After Anybody'
ICE has begun an unannounced operation across California, known internally as Operation Safe California, that started several days earlier in and around San Diego and is expected to last at least 45 d...
Trump Says He Expected the Democrat He Pardoned to Switch Parties, and Calls Defeating Henry Cuellar 'Payback'
Trump pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) and his wife, who had been accused of accepting almost $600,000 in bribes and laundering funds, after reading a plea from their daughters, The Hill reported...
An FBI Video Named Senate Nominee Abdul El-Sayed as a Failed 'Progressive Democrat,' Drawing a Hatch Act Complaint
An FBI rapid-response account posted a video on October 6, 2026 attacking "The DEFUND THE POLICE crowd" that labeled Michigan's Democratic Senate nominee, Abdul El-Sayed, "Progressive Democrat, Senate...
Pentagon Bars Sen. Chris Murphy From Al Udeid and Refuses Him a War Briefing, Citing a Hegseth Travel Order
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on October 6, 2026 that the Pentagon denied him access to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the largest U.S. base in the...
Trump Bars Gov. Wes Moore From Speaking at a Maryland Submarine Plant Announcement Moore Helped Land
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said on October 6, 2026 that President Trump blocked him from speaking at an event near Baltimore unveiling a defense investment Moore had helped negotiate: Anduril's plan to m...
Trump Says Chicago Crime Is 'Getting Worse by the Day' as the City Heads for Fewer Homicides Than Last Year's 60-Year Low
In a Truth Social post on October 6, 2026, Trump said Chicago is "suffering an unprecedented and particularly violent crime wave that is getting worse by the day" and that "The Federal Government can ...
FBI Whistleblower Says Trump Saw a TikTok of Immigration Protesters and Had Patel Order an Investigation
A former FBI intelligence supervisor in Los Angeles, Jill Fields, says the president personally pushed the bureau to investigate people seen on a TikTok video warning their neighbors about immigration...
St. Louis Archdiocese Sues Trump's DHS After an ICE Contract Jail Bars Priests From Giving Detainees Communion
The Archdiocese of St. Louis, Archbishop Mitchell T. Rozanski and Father Chris Schroeder sued in federal court in the Eastern District of Missouri on October 5, 2026, over a no-contact policy at the S...
Trump Uses an Anti-Transgender Slur Three Times Against South Carolina Senate Nominee Annie Andrews
In a Truth Social post on October 5, 2026, Trump used an anti-transgender slur three times to describe Annie Andrews, the Democratic nominee for the Senate in South Carolina, NBC News reported, as he ...
Trump Tells a Nebraska Rally That Iran 'Can Take Out a City,' Then Says 'Let Them Take Out Los Angeles. Let Them Take Out San Diego'
At a campaign rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, on October 5, 2026, Trump defended the cost of the war with Iran, calling high fuel prices "artificial" and "a small price to pay for keeping the world s...
Trump Says The New York Times and Other Outlets 'Should Be Arrested' for Reporting Empty Seats at His Ohio Rally
After New York Times correspondent Katie Rogers reported that "several areas of an upper deck were empty" by the time Trump finished speaking at his October 3, 2026 rally at Butler High School in Vand...
Trump Posts What He Says Is Sen. Tom Cotton's Cellphone Number and Tells Arkansans to Call Him Over Daylight Saving Time
On the morning of October 3, 2026, Trump posted on Truth Social a phone number he described as Sen. Tom Cotton's cellphone and urged Arkansans to call it, blaming Cotton for holding up the Sunshine Pr...
Putin Raised a Lukoil Asset Sale With Witkoff and Kushner, and the Leading Bid Includes a Trump Donor and Groups That Did Business With Them
U.S.-Russia talks on ending the war in Ukraine now involve a multibillion-dollar deal for the international assets of Lukoil, one of Russia's largest energy companies, The New York Times reported on O...
At an Ohio Rally a Day After Approving a Disaster Declaration, Trump Says He Is 'Not Going to Help' Democrat Amy Acton if She Wins, Then Adds 'Probably'
At a rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on October 3, 2026, for Sen. Jon Husted and gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump said he had signed a disaster declaration for the state the day before at the req...
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