He returned to office in January 2025 having been convicted on thirty-four felony counts, having been found liable for sexual abuse and for fraud, and having promised in public to be a dictator on day one. Seventy-seven million Americans voted for him with all of it known.
Within the first week he pardoned or commuted the sentences of roughly fifteen hundred people convicted in connection with the January 6 attack, including men convicted of seditious conspiracy and of assaulting police officers. The officers who defended the Capitol watched their attackers walk out.
Inspectors general were fired en masse without the notice the law requires. Career prosecutors who had worked on cases touching the president were removed. The civil service protections built after Watergate were reclassified out of existence by executive order.
Deportation operations were expanded past the objections of federal judges, with the administration arguing in open court that orders staying removals could not be enforced once a plane had left American airspace. Citizens and lawful residents have been detained in the sweeps.
Tariffs were imposed, withdrawn and reimposed by announcement, at a cost to households the administration disputes and the Congressional Budget Office does not. Longstanding alliances were treated as protection arrangements to be renegotiated in public.
The press was sued, excluded from the pool, and threatened with license review. Universities, law firms and broadcasters were pressed for concessions under investigation. This section of the archive is updated daily because it has to be.
Jan 2025
Congress certified the result, 312 electoral votes to 226, with the defeated vice president presiding over the count. Four years to the day after the attack on the same proceeding.
Jan 2025
Mass clemency for those convicted over the Capitol attack, including seditious conspiracy.
Feb 2025
Inspectors general removed without the statutory thirty-day notice to Congress.
Mar 2025
Deportation flights continue after a federal judge orders them halted.
Mar 2025
Military aid to Ukraine suspended after an argument with its president in the Oval Office, and restored a week later. Air defense munitions were held back again that July.
Jun 2025
Iranian nuclear sites at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan struck by American bombers. Congress did not authorize it.
Jun 2025
Trump v. CASA, six to three: federal courts told they likely cannot issue nationwide injunctions, which left the birthright citizenship order enforceable against anyone who had not personally sued. The Court struck that order down a year later in Trump v. Barbara.
Aug 2025
Vladimir Putin received on a red carpet at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska, his first visit to the United States in ten years, under an International Criminal Court warrant outstanding since 2023 for the deportation of Ukrainian children.
Aug 2025
Six Republican governors sent National Guard troops to Washington at the president's request. The deployment was later extended through 2026.
Oct 2025
Troops withdrawn from NATO's eastern flank in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia, over the objection of the Republican chairs of both armed services committees. Further cuts followed in May 2026.
Oct 2025
The East Wing demolished after 123 years for a ninety-thousand-square-foot ballroom. The president called the project 'taxpayer-free', with 'no taxpayer putting up 10 cents'. Reporting puts the cost at six hundred million dollars and more than half of it public money, drawn from the Secret Service, the White House Military Office and the Executive Residence.
Jan 2026
The enhanced marketplace subsidies lapsed at the end of 2025 and were not renewed. The Affordable Care Act was not repealed; the help that made its premiums payable was allowed to run out. The Congressional Budget Office puts the result at 2.2 million more people uninsured in 2026 and 3.7 million in 2027. Independent estimates run higher.
Feb 2026
Major combat operations opened against Iran alongside Israel. Congress has never declared war or authorized the hostilities; the war powers report went up four days later.
Jun 2026
The House passed a resolution directing an end to the hostilities with Iran. The Senate did not take it up.
Jun 2026
Trump v. Slaughter, six to three: Humphrey's Executor overruled and the heads of the independent agencies made removable at will, the Federal Reserve alone excepted.
Jun 2026
On June 29 the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal of the five million dollar verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll. That 2023 jury finding now stands. The separate 83.3 million dollar defamation judgment is a different case and remains under appeal.
Jul 2026
The Iran ceasefire agreed in April collapsed.
Aug 2026
Trade talks with Canada collapsed and fifty per cent tariffs took effect on some twenty-eight billion dollars of goods, after eighteen months of public suggestions that the country become the fifty-first state.
Aug 2026
Joint exercises with South Korea scaled back as an inappropriate and hostile signal to Pyongyang, whose leader the president has called a nuclear power and a friend.
Sep 2026
Canada's prime minister said he had spent the year planning for the extreme tail risk of American military action against his own country.
Sep 2026
The Supreme Court cleared the federal voter database for use before the midterms, and let deportations to third countries resume.
Sep 2026
Television advertisements promoting the president began airing before the midterms carrying the line 'paid for by the U.S. government', at least 2.5 million dollars of it drawn from Customs and Border Protection. Complaints went to the Government Accountability Office and the Office of Special Counsel, citing the Hatch Act and the standing ban on spending appropriated funds on publicity or propaganda.
2025–26
Civil service protections stripped by executive order; career staff reclassified at will.
2025–26
No new American-funded aid to Ukraine authorized since January 2025. Weapons reach Kyiv as sales to NATO allies, who pay for them in full.
Ongoing
Suits, exclusions and license threats directed at news organizations covering the administration.
Ongoing
Tariff regime imposed and reversed by announcement; costs contested in public, documented here.
Two of these fall outside this presidency. They are set apart from the record above rather than folded into it, because what ties them to this file is not the date but the three appointments of the first term, which have held a six to three majority ever since.
2017–2020
Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett confirmed, the last of them eight days before the 2020 election.
Jun 2022
Dobbs v. Jackson overruled Roe v. Wade. Thirteen states now ban abortion outright and seven more restrict it between six and twelve weeks. Research published since reports higher maternal mortality in the states that banned it. 'I was able to kill Roe v. Wade,' the president wrote afterwards, claiming the result as his own.
Jul 2024
Trump v. United States, six to three: absolute immunity for a president's core constitutional acts and presumptive immunity for his official ones. The federal prosecution over January 6 did not survive it.
2025–26
CASA, Slaughter, Barbara and this term's emergency orders are in the record above, in their own places.
