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Trump Actions

In the vain hope that those who supported, voted for and then celebrated his victory will take full ownership for all of his actions both good and bad over the next 4 years.

My original intent for this page was to capture every action, but Trump is flooding the zone. It's hard to keep up. If you see anything I missed, please let me know.

Court Watch: All of the Lawsuits Related to Trump

YouTube: Ronald Reagan on Tariffs

1/23/26

NYTimes: How Trump Has Pocketed $1.4 Billion

AlJazeera: Imperial Agenda: What's Trump's Gaza Development Plan, Unveiled in Davos?

1/19/26

AlJazeera: The US Economy Seems Strong After a Year of Trump, But Is It Really?

1/17/26

Guardian: How Trump's Promise to Slash Energy Bills in Half Has Failed Across the US

1/16/26

Common Dreams: Guess Who Else was Gifted a Nobel Prize He Didn't Win - Joseph Goebbels

12/8/25

NYTimes: Honduras Issues Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump

NYTimes: Trump Insisted Tariffs Would Buoy the Economy. But Now He's on Damage Control.

12/1/25

Intercept: Trump Frees Ex-President of Honduras, Right-Wing "Narco-Dictator" Convicted of Drug Trafficking - Honduras immediately issues a warrant for his arrest.

10/8/25

NYTimes: Trump Claims 'Rebellion' in American Cities - Next step: Marital Law, Trump is King

AJC: SNAP Overhaul, Lost Data Complicate Hunger Fight in Rural GA - ...and across the country.

1) The USDA survey that helps quantify food insecurity in America is discontinued. Trump: "They do nothing more than fear monger."

2) Government researchers are furloughed.

3) Cuts to WIC and SNAP funding are expected once the budget bill/govt. shutdown gets resolved. Trump and Republicans are holding the entire country hostage.

10/2/25

Democracy-NOW: "Orwell 2+2" Movie Review

10/1/25

Intercept: The Trump-Netanyahu Gaza Peace Deal Promises Indefinite Occupation

9/24/25

NYTimes: The U.A.E. Got A.I. Chips. Trump's Inner Circle Got Crypto Riches

9/23/25

CNN: Trump Lies in UN Speech and Makes a Complete Fool of Himself As Usual - I hope people will soon recognize that this is just a grumpy old man and needs to be locked up in the attic for his own good, before he starts WWIII.

9/18/25

AP: Trump Asks Whore Court to Let Him Fire Lisa Cook - Two lower courts have denied that request, but this is the way it works now.

9/17/25

NYTimes: Trump Invokes Kirk's Killing in Justifying Measures to Silence Opponents

9/16/25

Intercept: Trump Sanctions Palestinian Human Rights Groups for Doing Their Job. Anybody Coule Be Next.

9/10/25

AP: Trump Upsets Key Allies Needed to Counter China

9/8/25

NYTimes: Appeals Court Upholds Carroll's $83 Million Judgement Against Trump

9/4/24

Guardian: Trump Asks US Whore Court to Overturn Trade Tariffs Ruling - And as usual, I'm sure they will be stumbling all over themselves to get this done quickly for der Führer.

9/2/25

NYTimes: Judge Says Trump's LA Troop Deployment Was Illegal

NYTimes: Court Hands Big Win to Trump As Frozen Climate Funds Stay That Way

NYTimes: How Trump is Changing American Capitalism

8/29/25

NYTimes: Defying Congress, Trump Moves to Cut $4.9 Billion in Foreign Aid

8/26/25

AlJazeera: US Warships Head to Venezuela: Fight Against Cartels or Imperial Ambition? - Also Note that Venezuela has the most proven oil reserves of any country in the world, and that when Bush II invaded Iraq in 2003, it had the 5th most. Michael Moore says we live in a 'petrostate'.

AlJazeera: Trump Orders Removal of Fed Governor Cook Over Mortgage Fraud Claims - unprecedented,markets dive

8/24/25

NYTimes: Reframing Jan. 6: After the Pardons, the Purge - Trump is destroying our country and putting Thug-Nation in its place.

8/22/25

NYTimes: Trump Administration Orders Work Halted on Wind Farm That Is Nearly Built

8/21/25

NYTimes: Whore Court Lets Trump Administration Cut NIH Grants for Disfavored Research

7/11/25

Al Jazeera: Trump Administration Confirms It is Relying on the Shadowy Website 'Canary Mission' to Identify Student Protesters for Deportation

7/3/25

NYTimes: Whore Court Lets Trump Deport Eight Migrants to South Sudan

7/1/25

NYTimes: Trump Withholds Nearly $7 Billion From Schools, With Little Explanation

6/12/25

NYTimes: Trump's Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades

6/3/25

Guardian: Elon Musk Calls Trump's 'Big, Beautiful' Tax Bill a 'Disgusting Abomination'

Snopes: FEMA's Acting Head David Richardson Said He Did Not Know About US Hurricane Season

5/30/25

Rolling Stone: The Supreme Court's Latest Gift to Trump Will Be 'Disastrous' For the Environment

NYTimes: Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine

NYTimes: Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin, for Now, to End Biden-Era Migrant Program - It appears that regardless of what lower courts rule, whenever any measure reaches the Supreme Court, it finds some rationale to rule in Trump's favor.

NYTimes: Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans - From the article:

"The Trump administration has expanded Palantir’s work with the government, spreading the company’s technology — which could easily merge data on Americans — throughout agencies."

Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed -- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull.

1984 - George Orwell

5/29/25

CNN: Supreme Court Limits Environmental Review of Major Infrastructure Projects

Intercept: Trump's Big, Beautiful Handout to the AI Industry

5/27/25

NYTimes: Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner

5/21/25

Intercept: How Trump's Embrace of Afrikaner "Refugees" Became a Joke in South Africa

5/17/25

New Yorker: The President Who Became a Prophet - From the article:

"Such movements share a predictable structure. People in crisis exhibit an instinctive paranoia. They are quick to blame suffering on individuals, especially the distrusted and powerful. Charismatic figures co-evolve with these understandings. They name enemies, invoke cosmic stakes, and present themselves as exceptional in precisely the ways necessary to vanquish agents of misfortune. They offer futures that are prosperous and pure but also backward-looking—lost paradises regained through sacrifice....

Core to all of this are depictions of evil. Conjured opponents are more than malicious—they’re inhuman, perverted, and often supernatural. In Alice’s sermons, they were sorcerers. In the Taiping Rebellion, they were demons dressed as bureaucrats. When I analyzed beliefs about harmful magic across sixty diverse societies, I found that the most feared malefactors were suspected not just of causing calamity but of engaging in moral depravity, with a cross-cultural fixation on cannibalism and sexual deviance. Among the Tlingit of the Pacific Northwest, witches (both male and female) were said to have sex with corpses and their own family members. The Santal, in South Asia, believed that witches (always female) copulated with spirit familiars and devoured the organs of children. Similar fears haunted Europeans and British Americans during the early modern period; one need only consult the witchcraft paintings of Francisco Goya, which show covens of half-naked women killing babies, eating people, and cavorting with the Devil...

These depictions serve a purpose. Portrayed as cannibals, child-killers, and corpse-defilers, enemies become existential threats and the worst imaginable offenders, lying beyond the pale of redemption. The fear of them galvanizes collective action and deepens devotion to leaders. Unable to be reformed, opponents must be destroyed...

Trumpism revives these mythic structures. This fact is nowhere clearer than in QAnon, the sprawling super-conspiracy centered on three beliefs: first, the government, mainstream media, and élite financial institutions are controlled by Satan-worshipping pedophiles who exploit children in a global sex-trafficking ring. Second, Donald Trump was recruited in a secret campaign to dismantle the cabal. Third, there will come a moment, “the Storm,” when mass arrests and public reckonings will purge the country of evil and restore the rightful to power...

Trump is brusque and erratic, but he is far from irreplaceable. Although he has no clear successor, there are numerous contenders who orbit his office like hungry ghosts. These include the dynastic heirs (Donald Trump, Jr.), the administrative acolytes (J. D. Vance, Stephen Miller, Pam Bondi), and the new-media influencers (Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon). Carlson, for his part, has begun speaking in occult terms, claiming this past November that he was “physically mauled” by a “demon.” Whether any of them will manage to consolidate Trump’s power remains to be seen. But unless the grievances that fuelled his apotheosis are reckoned with, his downfall may only clear the stage for someone else—more polished, more destructive, more ruthless—to ascend his holy throne and finish what he began."

5/7/25

Intercept: Musk Set to Win Big With Trump's Trillion-Dollar Pentagon Budget - "Trump's proposed Pentagon budget cuts SpaceX competitors out of the NASA budget and could add billions to the company's defense contracts."

5/6/25

NBC: US Intelligence Agencies Contradict Trump's Tren de Aragua Claims

5/5/25

Guardian: NPR and PBS Push Back Against Trump's Order to Cut Funding

4/29/25

New York Times: Secret Deals, Foreign Investments, Presidential Policy Changes: The Rise of Trump's Crypto Firm - It’s just another scam where Trump sells his name and the promise of direct access to the White House, but this time crypto is the vector. He and his family stand to make $Billions.

4/28/25

New Yorker: From "America First" to "Sell America" - Words used to describe Trump's first 100 days: 'haphazard', 'irrational', 'reckless', 'chaotic'

4/25/25

NYTimes: Trump Deports 2-Year-Old US Citizen to Honduras and Politico

4/24/25

Guardian: Trump Signs Executive Order Boosting Deep-Sea Mining Industry

4/23/25

Daily News: JD Vance Lays Down pro-Russia Stance for Ukraine Peace Talks

4/21/25

NYTimes: Welcome to Trump's Mafia State

4/18/25

AP: 70 Killed in US Airstrike on Yemeni Oil Port Escalates Trump's Campaign Against the Houthis - Note that the Houtis are acting in accordance with international law, but our stenographic media never mentions that fact.

4/16/25

ACLU: Trump's Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All

Guardian: US Judge Finds Probable Cause to Hold Trump Officials in Contempt Over Alien Act Deportations

4/13/25

NYTimes: DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress - Musk is just a side-show barker.

4/10/25

New Yorker: Trump's Do-Over Presidency

4/8/25

DNYUZ: Wall Street Bursts With Anger Over Tariff 'Stupidity'

NYTimes: Top IRS Officials Said to Resign After Deal to Give ICE Migrants' Data

Guttmacher Inst: Trump Administration's Withholding of Funds Could Impact 30% of Title X Patients

4/7/25

Guardian: Harriet Tubman Webpage Targeted Amid Trump-led Anti-DEI Efforts

Guardian: Which Trump-Supporting Billionaires Have Lost the Most in Tariff Markets Turmoil?

4/6/25

Oregon Live: 3rd Measles-Related Death Reported; 2nd Child Dies in Texas

4/5/25

CNN: 'Hands Off!' Protests Across US Rally Against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk and AP News- per the article: hundreds of thousands, 1,200 locations in all 50 states; 100,000 in DC alone

4/4/25

AP: How Trump's Latest Tariffs Could Affect Your Wallet

Guardian: 'Oligarchy': Trump Exempts Big Oil Donors From Tariffs Package

4/1/25

AP: Mass Layoffs at the Nation's Public Health Agencies - HHS, FDA, CDC, NIH, DOT

3/28/25

Guardian: Hillary Clinton Warns Trump 'Stupidity' Will Leave US 'Feeble and Friendless' - "This is not shooting ourselves in the foot, this is shooting ourselves in the head."

3/27/25

CNBC: Dow Falls 200 Points After Trump Slaps 25% tariffs on Autos, GM Shares Tumble 8%

3/26/25

NBC News: Tufts Grad Student Grabbed Off the Street by Federal Immigration Officials -

She had violated no laws. She was kidnapped off the street illegally and transported to an immigration processing center in Lousiana despite a federal court order not to.

Her "crime" was that she had co-authored an opinion essay urging the university to "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide" and "divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel." She is not a supporter of Hamas and she did not advocate for the killing of Americans.

The First Amendment to the US Constitution, written by our 'founding fathers', guarantees the right to free speech among other things. The feds will probably be coming for me soon.

Rolling Stone: Trump Eviserates a Bedrock Public Health and Environmental Protection Law

3/25/25

CNBC: Consumer Confidence in Where the Economy is Headed Hits 12-year Low - From the article:

“Consumers’ optimism about future income — which had held up quite strongly in the past few months — largely vanished, suggesting worries about the economy and labor market have started to spread into consumers’ assessments of their personal situations,” said Stephanie Guichard, senior economist, global indicators at The Conference Board.

The survey comes amid worries over President Donald Trump’s plans for tariffs on U.S. imports, which has coincided with a volatile stock market and other surveys showing waning sentiment."

3/21/25

Intercept: Trump EPA's Next Move: Making it Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer From Roundup

Politico: Pentagon Admits to Mistakes in Campaign Against 'DEI' Content - How silly and shameful does this have to get?

3/20/25

BBC: Trump Signs Executive Order in First Step to Shut Down Department of Education - From the article:

"Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, the head of advocacy group MomsRising notes that 90% of students in the US attend public schools, and that dismantling the education department will lead to large class sizes, more schools without equipment or books, and end to tutoring programmes.

She adds that these changes will specifically impact students with disabilities."

3/16/25

Guardian: Mercenary Mogul Erik Prince Pushes to Privatize Trump Deportation Plans

3/14/25

New Yorker: The Data Hoarders Resisting Trump's Purge - From the article:

"The deletions began shortly after Donald Trump took office. C.D.C. web pages on vaccines, H.I.V. prevention, and reproductive health went missing. Findings on bird-flu transmission vanished minutes after they appeared. The Census Bureau’s public repository went offline, then returned without certain directories of geographic information. The Department of Justice expunged the January 6th insurrection from its website, and whitehouse.gov took down an explainer page about the Constitution. On February 7th, Trump sacked the head of the National Archives and Records Administration, the agency that maintains the official texts of the nation’s laws, and whose motto is “the written word endures.”

Trump/Musk are carrying on a digital book burning.

Data Rescue Project

3/13/25

New Yorker: The Felling of the US Forest Service

Government Executive: Judge Orders Reinstatement for Most Fired Probationary Federal Workers

USA Today: Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Let Birthright Citizenship Changes Proceed

3/10/25

Boston Globe: How Foreign Aid Cuts Are Setting the Stage For Future Pandemics - Just as Ebola breaks out in Uganda and Trump cuts funding for 4 of the 5 Ebola screening/vaccine contracts in that country.

3/8/25

NYTimes: Trump Defunds Inspectors Keeping an Eye on Iranian Research Sites

The Intercept: Columbia Bent Over Backward to Appease Right-Wing, Pro-Israel Attacks - And Trump Still Cut Federal Funding

3/7/25

Intercept: Trump's Vision for America: I Am God - Slate: It Wasn't Abortion That Formed the Religious Right. It Was Support for Segregation.

NYTimes: State Dept. Plans to Close Diplomatic Missions and Fire Employees Overseas

3/3/25

Guardian: Trump Orders Swathes of US Forests to be Cut Down For Timber

3/1/25

Caitlin Johnstone: Trump Sends Netanyahu Weapons While Talking Tough to Zelensky

Guardian: Trump Administration Retreats in Fight Against Russian Cyber Threats - Going on a limb here..."The Dumbest Thing Trump Has Ever Done" What's next? Is he going to hand over the doomsday codes to Putin?

2/28/25

NYTimes: Former Defense Secretaries Call Trump's Firing of Military Leaders 'Reckless'

The Intercept: Hey Elon: We Found a Place to Cut More Than $2 Trillion in Wasteful Spending

2/26/25

New Yorker: Techno-Fascism Comes to America

2/23/25

RSN: Musk's Blitzkrieg Is Unnerving Many of Trump's Senior Advisers

2/21/25

NYTimes: Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Flurry of Dismissals at Pentagon

2/20/25

New Yorker: Trump's Putinization of America

USA Today: Trump Fires, Then Unfires National Nuclear Security Administration Employees

2/14/25

AP: Who is Danielle Sassoon, the US Attorney Who Resigned Rather Than Drop Charges Against Eric Adams - Even though she is a conservative Republican and was appointed by Trump, when ordered to perform an unethical act she maintained her integrity. She fits the profile in courage as defined by Robert Reich.

Reuters: Trump Funding Freeze Halts Wildfire Prevention Work

Mediaite: JD Vance Says U.S. Troops Fighting Russia in Ukraine is 'On The Table' in Stunning Reversal - Who's on first?

AP: Treasury Watchdog Begins Audit of Musk DOGE Team's Access to the US Government's Payment System

2/7/25

Vanity Fair: Is Donald Trump Afraid of Elon Musk?

ABC News: Trump-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump Administration From Placing 2,200 USAID Employees on Leave at Midnight

Reuters: Countries Vow 'Unwavering' Support for ICC, as Trump Hits it With Sanctions

2/6/25

New Yorker: Elon Musk's Revolutionary Terror - The purpose of the 'execution' of U.S.A.I.D is to terrify the rest of the federal government. The strategy of the Democratic 'brain trust' (Axelrod, Emaneul, etc.) think they should just stand by and let it happen. Note: This is the same brain trust that strategized themselves right out of the White House in two of the last 3 elections.

Guardian: Judith Butler: Trump is Unleashing Sadism Upon the World. But We Cannot Get Overwhelmed.

Caitlin Johnstone: As the Gaza Agenda Moves Forward, The Imperial Narrative Shifts With It

Reuters: Trump Administration Disbands Task Force Targeting Russian Oligarchs - Trump promissed he would end the war in Ukraine on his first day in office.

2/5/25

New Yorker: What Happened to the Trump Resistance?

2/4/25

Jewish News Syndicate: Most Israeli Jews Support Trump’s Gaza Relocation Proposal - Stop and think about that for a minute.

2/2/25

Wired: The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover

RSN: Trump Unleashed Chaos by Freezing and Unfreezing $3T in Federal Grants and Loans. Why?

RSN: Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid

2/1/25

NYTimes: Elon Musk's Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury's Payments System - Musk now has your social security number, IRS filings, credit history, bankruptcy filings, medical history, business records, veterans' personal records, student loan records, Federal Reserve's protected information, etc. This data used to require a 'need to know', but apparently not for DOGE.

Jamelle Bouie: "Billionaire oligharchs with close ties to foreign dictators are currently downloading the most sensitive information the federal government has on its citizens to their own private servers, as well as that of their competitors."

1/31/25

US Senate Finance Committee: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive US Treasury Payments System

1/30/25

Guardian: Trump Blames Others but Washington Air Crash Comes Amid Upheaval in US Aviation

Guardian: Was He Grave, Sombre, the Consoler-iin-Chief? Are You Kidding - This is Trump - What kind of person uses a terribly tragic situation like this to grind his own axe with something that has no relation whatsoever to the situation? A very sick one.

ProPublica: To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Floats Plan to Slash Benefits for the Poor and Working Class

1/29/25

Rolling Stone: Selfies and a Standing Ovation: Sermon Taking On Trump Draws Supporters to D.C. Cathedral - 'PREACH'

From the article:

“The more we fear a tyrant, the more power they have, the more we stand up in compassion, the less power they have. She did what needs to be done...

Attendees:

“Oh my God!” she exclaims. “What’s wrong with mercy and compassion?!

Attending the service, Watkins says, is “a little thing, but I guess if we keep doing little things, they become bigger.”

“But the one thing I can control is I’m going to show up...if we are silent, then we are complicit.”

Here's the Homily.

See entry of 1/22/25.

1/28/25

Guardian: Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump's Halt of Federal Grants and Loans

Guardian: UN Aid Agencies Cut Back Operations After Trump's 90-Day Funding Suspension

Guardian: Trump Invites (ICC fugitive) Netanyahu to be First Foreign Leader to Visit White House

Guardian: Medicaid Payment Portals Down After Trump's Federal Funding Freeze

1/27/25

Guardian: Robert Reich: Here's How Trump's Vengeance Machine Works

1/25/25

Guardian: Trump Again Demands to Buy Greenland in 'Horrendous' Call With Danish PM

1/24/25

Common Dreams: Trump Teases Killing FEMA While Touring Disaster Zones

Guardian: Proud Boys Leader Thanks Trump for January 6 Pardon and Vows Revenge

1/23/25

Guardian: Former 'Maga Granny' Refuses to Accept Trump's Pardon for Actions on Jan 6

Democracy-NOW: "Attack on Science": Trump's Exit From WHO Could Make Next Pandemic More Likely, More Deadly

1/22/25

Democracy-NOW: "Have Mercy": Watch Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's sermon Challenging Trump at Inaugural Service - see entry of 1/29/25 - sermon was delivered 1/21

Guardian: DoJ Says It Will Prosecute Officials Who Resist Trump's Immigration Crackdown

New Republic: Pro-Trump Police Union Slams January 6 Pardons - after repeatedly endorsing him

Intercept: Trump Halts Sanctions on Israeli Settlers, Threatens to Seize Assets of War Crimes Investigators

Guardian: Trump's Slew of Immigration Orders Designed to Sow Chaos - 'He Wants You to Feel Afraid'

1/21/25

New Yorker: Donald Trump Invents an Energy Emergency

Guardian: Trump Supporters Celebrate as First January 6 Prisoners Are Released - He eventually released them all including the violent ringleaders and the ones that had previous convictions for violent acts. Even many Republican congressmen were upset. Police say this sends a dangerous message. This web site has been reporting on Cecil Rhodes/Oathkeepers since 2010.

Guardian: Experts Alarmed by Trump's Crypto Meme Coins: 'America Voted for Corruption'

1/20/25

Caitlin Johnstone: Donald Trump is The Empire Unmasked

1/9/25

Guardian: Trump Shares Inflammatory Video With Crude Reference to Netanyahu

1/8/25

Guardian: Germany and France Warn Trump Agaiinst Use of Force Over Greenland

1/7/25

ABC News: Trump Says He Will Annex Greenland, Rename the Gulf of Mexico and Make Canada a US State - Totally delusional. Next he'll name it the Gulf of Trump.

1/6/25

Guardian: Trump Loses Bid to Delay Sentencing in Hush-Money Case

1/5/25