2019 Day 825: Trump vowed to "fight all the subpoenas" by House Democrats and will oppose requests for current and former White House aides to testify to Congress; the White House is trying to block a subpoena to Don McGahn for testimony about the Mueller report; the Justice Department refused to comply with a congressional subpoena about the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census; and Trump, claiming he "DID NOTHING WRONG," plans to "head to the U.S. Supreme Court" if Democrats "ever tried to Impeach." Apr 24, 2019
2020 Day 1191: The death toll from the coronavirus pandemic surpassed 50,000 in the U.S.; health officials, the makers of Lysol and Clorox, doctors, and lawmakers all warned against ingesting household disinfectants and cleaning products after Trump speculated that an "injection" of disinfectants could be a cure for the coronavirus; Trump claimed he was being "very sarcastic" – "just to see what would happen" – when he proposed that disinfectants could be injected inside people to fight the coronavirus; the FDA warned doctors against prescribing hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for treating the coronavirus; and Trump is reportedly tens of millions of dollars in debt to China. Apr 24, 2020
2023 Day 825: Fox News parted ways with Tucker Carlson, effective immediately; the Supreme Court protected full access to the most commonly used abortion pill in the U.S.; Chief Justice John Roberts declined to directly respond to a congressional request to investigate possible ethics violations by Justice Clarence Thomas; Trump’s legal team discussed using data from a breached Georgia voting machine to try and decertify the state’s 2021 U.S. Senate run-off election; Florida’s surgeon general personally omitted information from a state study about Covid-19 vaccines last year to suggest that young men should not get vaccinated; and the Supreme Court rejected appeals from oil and gas companies facing nearly two dozen lawsuits by state and local governments accusing them of contributing to climate change. Apr 24, 2023
2024 Day 1191: Biden signed the $95 billion national security package into law, overcoming months of opposition and infighting by Republicans in Congress; Biden signed legislation forcing TikTok's Chinese parent company to divest from its U.S. operations or face a nationwide ban; the Arizona House repealed a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions – two weeks after the state’s Supreme Court upheld the 1864 law; the Supreme Court appeared divided over whether Idaho’s abortion ban is constitutional; and Trump, Mark Meadows, and Rudy Giuliani were named as "unindicted co-conspirators" in the Michigan attorney general’s case against the state's 15 "fake electors" in the 2020 election. Apr 24, 2024
2025 Day 1556: A federal judge blocked part of Trump’s executive order that would have required people to prove their citizenship to register to vote in federal elections; Trump will direct the Justice Department to investigate the Democrats’ main online fundraising platform; two federal judges blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a policy that threatened to cut federal funding from schools with diversity, equity, and inclusion programs; Trump signed an executive order to overhaul the role of college accreditors to eliminate “ideological overreach” and to increase “intellectual diversity” on campus; Trump asked the Supreme Court to let the Pentagon enforce his ban on transgender troops; Trump called on Putin to "STOP!" after Russia launched a massive airstrike on Kyiv that at least 12 and injured 90; 33% of Americans said they’ve heard the false claim that the MMR vaccine is more dangerous than measles; and 44% of Americans in a Fox News poll approve of the job Trump is doing as president – the lowest 100-day approval rating ever recorded – which caused Trump to attack Fox News for the poll that showed his job approval 11 points underwater. Apr 24, 2025