The Trump Tracker
Comprehensive documentation of 868 controversies, backed by evidence and sources
Trump's Pick for Intelligence Chief Refuses to Say Biden Won 2020, Offering Only That He Was 'Certified'
At his Senate confirmation hearing on July 15, 2026, Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and Trump's nominee for director of national intelligence, refused to say that...
The FCC Commissioner Who Cast the Deciding Vote for Paramount's Merger Took $12,000 in Gala Tickets From Paramount; the Chair Sat in Its $125,000 Skybox
In December 2025, the Kennedy Center's annual honors gala, hosted by Trump and feting Sylvester Stallone, Kiss, and Gloria Gaynor, drew the usual rich and famous. ProPublica found two quieter guests w...
Hegseth Orders Annual Testosterone Screenings for Every Service Member Over 30, With Replacement Therapy on Offer
On July 15, 2026, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the military will screen every service member aged 30 and older for testosterone deficiency annually as part of routine health assessmen...
ICE Suspended Vehicle Stops After Its Second Wrong-Man Killing. Trump Ordered Them Resumed: 'We CANNOT Give Up... THE TRAFFIC STOP!'
For one night, ICE's own leadership treated its deadly vehicle stops as the emergency its critics say they are. Late on July 14, 2026, hours after agents in Maine killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero, the s...
Epstein Survivors Film a PSA Against Blanche's Attorney General Nomination as the NYC Bar Calls Him 'Unfit'
Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal defense lawyer who has run the Justice Department as acting attorney general, is now before the Senate for confirmation as attorney general, and the opposition is...
The Pentagon Extends Trump's National Guard Deployment in Washington Until Inauguration Day 2029, With Nearly 5,000 Troops at $3 Million a Day
The National Guard will stay deployed on the streets of Washington, D.C., through Inauguration Day 2029, the Pentagon confirmed to NPR, unless Trump decides otherwise. What began as an emergency is no...
Mahmoud Khalil Sues Rubio, Miller, and Blanche Under the 1871 KKK Act, Alleging a Public-Private Conspiracy Against Pro-Palestinian Activists
Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University protest leader whom ICE arrested at his New York apartment in March 2025 and held for 100 days, causing him to miss the birth of his first child, filed a 131-pa...
Wisconsin's Bipartisan Elections Commission Finds Musk Likely Broke the Bribery Law With His $1 Million Voter Checks and Refers Him to Prosecutors
The Wisconsin Elections Commission, a bipartisan body of three Democrats and three Republicans, voted 5-1 in closed session to find probable cause that Elon Musk violated the state's election bribery ...
Senate Democrats Block the $1.15 Trillion Defense Bill Over Trump's Unauthorized Iran War
On July 14, 2026, Senate Democrats blocked the $1.15 trillion National Defense Authorization Act. The procedural vote drew 50 yes votes against 46 no, but fell short of the 60 needed to advance. The ...
The CDC Cut Foodborne-Illness Monitoring From Eight Pathogens to Two, a Year Before a Cyclospora Outbreak Spread Faster Than It Could Track
In July 2025, the CDC scaled back FoodNet, the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network it runs in partnership with states to track food poisoning. The program's required monitoring was cut from...
Trump Schedules a Primetime Address to Claim Declassified Intelligence Shows the 2020 Election Was Compromised
Trump is scheduled to address the country in primetime on Thursday, July 16, 2026, about supposed fraud in the 2020 election he lost. According to the Guardian's reporting on the confirmation hearing ...
Trump Cuts Bears Ears and Grand Staircase by About 90 Percent, Roughly 3 Million Acres, and Reopens Them to Mining
On July 13, 2026, Trump signed proclamations stripping protection from roughly three million acres of southern Utah, shrinking two national monuments by about 90 percent in what conservation groups ca...
ICE Agents in Maine Fatally Shot a 26-Year-Old Colombian Worker, the Second 'Wrong Man' Killing in a Week
Shortly after 7 a.m. on Monday, July 13, 2026, gunfire woke residents of Biddeford, Maine, a working-class coastal city of about 23,000. Witnesses saw federal agents chasing a white car with a windshi...
Survivors of the Deadliest Attack on U.S. Troops in Trump's Iran War Say Commanders Ignored Warnings Before an Iranian Drone Killed Six
On March 1, 2026, an Iranian one-way attack drone struck a makeshift tactical operations center at Port Shuaiba, Kuwait, killing six U.S. Army Reserve soldiers, the first American deaths of the war Tr...
Trump Amplifies a Video Demanding That 'Hardcore Communist Bastards' Like Mamdani Be Criminalized and Deported
On Sunday, July 12, 2026, Trump shared on Truth Social a 49-minute video by conservative commentator Michael Savage titled "DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM MUST BE CRIMINALIZED; LEADERS DEPORTED." The video argu...
The FBI Fired Two Analysts Who Refused to Work on Patel's Investigation of Georgia's 2020 Election
FBI Director Kash Patel has directed roughly 260 intelligence analysts from around the country to spend their time on what an internal memo called a "priority investigation" in Atlanta: a probe of Geo...
The White House Had Patel Run a Leak Investigation Into the Times's Air Force One Reporting, Then Four Reporters Were Subpoenaed
After the New York Times reported that Trump's new Qatari-gifted Air Force One lacked the defensive systems of the plane it replaced, the White House moved against the reporting itself. According to ...
Trump Says Maggie Haberman 'Will Pay the Price' After She Called His Health a 'Black Box'
On July 11, 2026, New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman appeared on MS NOW's "The Weekend," where host Jonathan Capehart asked about Trump's mental acuity. She said his health had b...
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 White House Touts 25 'Freedom Fuel' Stations Selling Gas at $3.47, but No One Will Say Who Is Funding the Below-Cost Prices
In early July 2026, Trump began promoting a network of 25 "Freedom Fuel" gas stations in the greater Philadelphia area and southern New Jersey, selling gasoline at $3.47 a gallon, a number pitched as ...
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...
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