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rhetoric-011 · Rhetoric · verified 2026-10-05
On September 6, 2025, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated 'Apocalypse Now'-style meme on Truth Social showing Chicago in flames with helicopters, captioned: 'Ch…
Documented updated 2026-10-05
project2025-010 · Project 2025 · verified 2026-10-05
EPA has erased the legal foundation of federal climate regulation — and the courts are now deciding whether that stands.
Kept updated 2026-10-05
rhetoric-010 · Rhetoric · verified 2026-10-05
On July 1, 2025, at the 'Alligator Alcatraz' migrant detention facility in Florida, Donald Trump said NYC mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani should be arrested if h…
Documented updated 2026-10-05
project2025-009 · Project 2025 · verified 2026-10-05
The administration pushed mass federal layoffs through resignations, probationary firings, and RIFs — and the courts repeatedly forced it to retreat.
Compromised updated 2026-10-05
rhetoric-009 · Rhetoric · verified 2026-10-05
On June 9, 2025, arriving at the White House from Camp David, Donald Trump told reporters he would support border czar Tom Homan arresting California Governor G…
Documented updated 2026-10-05
promises-008 · Promises · verified 2026-10-05
"One other thing I'll be doing very early in the administration is closing up the Department of Education in Washington, D.C., and sending all education and edu…
Stalled updated 2026-10-05
project2025-008 · Project 2025 · verified 2026-10-05
The administration reinstated the global gag rule in its first week — then, in 2026, expanded it far beyond abortion.
Kept updated 2026-10-05
rhetoric-008 · Rhetoric · verified 2026-10-05
On May 21, 2025, in the Oval Office with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Donald Trump played a video he described as 'burial sites... over a thousand..…
Documented updated 2026-10-05
promises-007 · Promises · verified 2026-10-05
"When I return to the White House, I will declassify and unseal all JFK assassination related documents. It's been 60 years, time for the American people to kno…
Kept updated 2026-10-05
project2025-007 · Project 2025 · verified 2026-10-05
The United States is officially out of the Paris Agreement — the second time in eight years.
Kept updated 2026-10-05
rhetoric-007 · Rhetoric · verified 2026-10-05
On April 14, 2025, in the Oval Office with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, Donald Trump said on camera that he wanted to deport 'homegrown criminals' to El S…
Documented updated 2026-10-05
promises-006 · Promises · verified 2026-10-05
"On day one of my new administration, I will seal the border, stop the invasion, and send Joe Biden's illegal aliens back home where they belong."
Kept updated 2026-10-05
project2025-006 · Project 2025 · verified 2026-10-05
Illegal border crossings are at their lowest in half a century — and deportations are at the center of a fight over the numbers.
Kept updated 2026-10-05
rhetoric-006 · Rhetoric · verified 2026-10-05
On March 18, 2025, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg — who had blocked deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act…
Documented updated 2026-10-05
promises-005 · Promises · verified 2026-10-05
"As part of my plan to secure the border, on Day One of my new term in office, I will sign an executive order making clear to federal agencies that under the co…
Stalled updated 2026-10-05
project2025-005 · Project 2025 · verified 2026-10-05
The Pentagon's ban on transgender military service is fully in effect for new enlistments, and thousands of serving troops have already been separated — but abo…
Kept updated 2026-10-05
rhetoric-005 · Rhetoric · verified 2026-10-05
On February 15, 2025, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social and X: 'He who saves his Country does not violate any Law' — a maxim attributed to Napoleon — amid cou…
Documented updated 2026-10-05
promises-004 · Promises · verified 2026-10-05
"I'm going to be acting very quickly, first day." (On pardoning January 6 defendants; allowed possible exceptions for 'radical' or 'crazy' conduct.)
Kept updated 2026-10-05
project2025-004 · Project 2025 · verified 2026-10-05
The administration didn't just stop DEI — it closed the offices, put the staff on leave, and told contractors their funding depends on it.
Kept updated 2026-10-05
rhetoric-004 · Rhetoric · verified 2026-10-05
At an October 31, 2024 campaign event in Glendale, Arizona with Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump said of former Rep. Liz Cheney: 'Let's put her with a rifle standin…
Documented updated 2026-10-05
promises-003 · Promises · verified 2026-10-05
"When I get to office, we are going to not charge taxes on tips, people making tips." (Repeated Jan 25, 2025, Las Vegas: to be done 'right away, first thing in …
Compromised updated 2026-10-05
project2025-003 · Project 2025 · verified 2026-10-05
The administration didn't just shrink America's foreign-aid agency — it shut it down.
Kept updated 2026-10-05
rhetoric-003 · Rhetoric · verified 2026-10-05
In an October 13, 2024 Fox News interview with Maria Bartiromo, Donald Trump called political opponents 'the enemy from within' and said the problem could be ha…
Documented updated 2026-10-05
promises-002 · Promises · verified 2026-10-05
"Bring down the price of everything from electricity rates to groceries, airfares, and housing costs." (Also, Aug 15, 2024, Bedminster, NJ: "Starting the day I …
Broken updated 2026-10-05
project2025-002 · Project 2025 · verified 2026-10-05
Trump is dismantling the Education Department by executive action — but only Congress can legally abolish it.
Compromised updated 2026-10-05
rhetoric-002 · Rhetoric · verified 2026-10-05
During the September 10, 2024 ABC News presidential debate in Philadelphia, Donald Trump claimed that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating reside…
Documented updated 2026-10-05
promises-001 · Promises · verified 2026-10-05
"If I'm president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. ... I'll meet with Putin, I'll meet with Zelensky. ... And within 24 hours that war will b…
Broken updated 2026-10-05
project2025-001 · Project 2025 · verified 2026-10-05
The administration is converting thousands of career federal jobs into at-will positions.
Kept updated 2026-10-05
rhetoric-001 · Rhetoric · verified 2026-10-05
On September 7, 2024, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that if he won the election, people who 'cheated' would be prosecuted 'to the fullest extent of the La…
Documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-lutnick-tesla-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
On March 19, 2025, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick went on Fox News and told viewers to "buy Tesla," saying it was "unbelievable" the stock was so cheap. At t…
alleged updated 2026-10-05
corruption-lutnick-patents-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
Reuters reported (April 2, 2026) that Interactive Games LLC, an affiliate of Lutnick's former firm Cantor Fitzgerald, sued DraftKings and FanDuel alleging infri…
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-property-secretservice-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
On October 17, 2022, House Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney released Secret Service records showing more than $1.4 million in agency spending at Trump-owned…
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-property-travel-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
GAO-19-178 (January 2019) examined four presidential trips to Mar-a-Lago between February 3 and March 5, 2017 and found federal agencies spent approximately $13…
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-property-secondterm-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
CREW's analysis of Secret Service records obtained via FOIA found nearly $100,000 in spending at Trump properties in the second term's first months: over $50,00…
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-pardons-j6-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
The January 20, 2025 proclamation granted 'full, complete and unconditional pardons' to all individuals convicted of offenses related to the events at or near t…
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-pardons-milton-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
Milton was convicted in October 2022 of securities and wire fraud over false claims about Nikola's electric trucks, sentenced to four years, and faced a prosecu…
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-pardons-walczak-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
Walczak was sentenced on April 11, 2025 to 18 months in prison plus $4.38 million in restitution for failing to remit more than $10 million in employee payroll …
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-pardons-cz-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
Zhao pleaded guilty to anti-money-laundering violations; Binance paid a $4.3 billion penalty and Zhao served about four months in 2024. On May 1, 2025, World Li…
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-pardons-herrera-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
Julio Herrera Velutini, Wanda Vázquez Garced, and Mark Rossini were pardoned (DOJ clemency list dates January 15, 2026; amended pardons January 20, 2026) after …
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-pardons-process-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
Pardon attorney Elizabeth Oyer was fired on March 7, 2025 by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, hours after she refused to recommend restoring gun rights to …
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-wlfi-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
WLFI, launched in fall 2024, lists Donald Trump as 'Chief Crypto Advocate,' Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump as 'Web3 Ambassadors,' and Barron Trump as 'DeFi Vis…
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-trumporg-qatar-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
In late April/early May 2025, the Trump Organization agreed to develop a golf course and villa project in Qatar with Qatari Diar, the real-estate company establ…
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-campaign-legal-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
FEC filings show Save America PAC spent $25.7 million on legal fees in the second half of 2023 and $25.5 million in the first half — about $51.2 million in 2023…
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-workforce-cuts-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
GAO-26-108477 (September 2026) found federal agencies spent an estimated $9.5 billion in salary costs on paid administrative leave in 2025, a sixfold increase o…
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-visitorlogs-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
The White House confirmed in February 2025 that it will not release visitor logs during the second term — a break from the Biden administration, which published…
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-truthapi-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
Trump Media & Technology Group launched 'Truth API' in August 2026: a paid feed delivering real-time, machine-readable posts from top Truth Social accounts, inc…
documented updated 2026-10-05
corruption-govads-01 · Trump · verified 2026-10-05
On September 19–20, 2026, OMB transferred One Big Beautiful Bill Act funds to Customs and Border Protection, which awarded a $20 million 'National Media Campaig…
documented updated 2026-10-05
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Oct 5, 2026 · Power tracker · Unprecedented Power and Control
Harvard funding freeze — 1st Circuit appeal argued; Judge Lynch questioned the absence of any findings or investigation. Status: decision pending. Page updated.
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