2019 Day 949: Trump was the only world leader to skip a session devoted to climate change at the G7 summit; Trump floated the idea of holding the next G7 summit at his "magnificent" Doral golf resort in Miami; and Trump has repeatedly suggested dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes to stop them from hitting the U.S. Aug 26, 2019
2020 Day 1315: The CDC abruptly changed its COVID-19 testing guidance to exclude people without symptoms who have been exposed to COVID-19; the White House pressured the CDC to change the guidance; the Trump administration threatened to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals if they don't report COVID-19 data to the Department of Health and Human Services; the intelligence community said there is "no information or intelligence" that foreign countries, including Russia, are "engaged in any kind of activity to undermine any part of the mail-in vote"; and Trump said he will send federal law enforcement and the National Guard to to Kenosha, Wisconsin to "restore law and order." Aug 26, 2020
2024 Day 1315: Special counsel Jack Smith urged a federal appeals court to reverse the dismissal of the criminal classified documents case against Trump; an Arizona judge set a January 5, 2026, trial date for Trump allies charged in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election; Texas and 15 Republican-led states sued the Biden administration over a new federal program that offers a path to citizenship for immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally and are now married to U.S. citizens; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his election bid and endorsed Trump; Trump, who openly bragged about being the person who "was able to kill Roe v. Wade," claimed he "will be great for women and their reproductive rights; and the Trump and Harris campaigns are at odds over whether the microphones will be live throughout the Sept. 10 presidential debate. Aug 26, 2024
2025 Day 1680: Trump claimed he fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook; a whistleblower said Trump administration officials uploaded a copy of the Social Security database to a private cloud server that "lacks independent security, monitoring and oversight"; a Trump-appointed judge dismissed the Trump administration’s lawsuit challenging a Maryland court order that paused deportations for two business days when immigrants filed habeas petitions; the Department of Homeland Security appointed an election conspiracy theorist as deputy assistant secretary for election integrity; Trump appointed his deputy chief of staff, who manages most of his social media, to lead the White House Presidential Personnel Office; the Trump administration plans to remove COVID-19 vaccines from the U.S. market “within months”; and Trump, while meeting South Korea’s president at the White House, repeatedly praised North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-un and said, “I’d like to meet him this year.” Aug 26, 2025
2026 Day 2045: A federal judge lifted the final nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s mail-voting order; two dozen Democratic-led states and D.C. sued to block the Postal Service’s mail-voting rules; annual U.S. inflation rose 3.7% in July, the same as in June, but well above the Fed’s 2% target; Trump called Canada “one of the worst countries” in the world to deal with; Trump claimed that the U.S. is “achieving a very big victory” in his nearly six-month war with Iran and that the conflict “will continue for as long as necessary”; a federal judge struck down a 2023 Texas law that banned drag shows; Meta agreed to an $18 billion settlement with 48 states to resolve a lawsuit that it intentionally designed its social media platforms to addict children; and Trump’s nominee to lead the FDA previously called for “conservative-based” scientific journals and funding research aligned with conservative policy goals. Aug 26, 2026