2019 Day 734: Giuliani claimed that "no plans were ever made" for Trump Tower Moscow, despite hundreds of pages of business documents, emails, text messages, and architectural plans proving otherwise; Trump was reportedly "apoplectic" and "furious" with Giuliani; Michael Cohen indefinitely postponed his plan to testify before Congress; and Pelosi blocked Trump from delivering the State of the Union from the House chamber. Jan 23, 2019
2020 Day 1099: Senators reconvened in the Capitol for the third day of Trump’s impeachment trial; the Trump administration will strip federal pollution protections for rivers, streams, and wetlands; the Director of National Intelligence failed to turn over a report to Congress on the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi; Trump will become the first sitting president to attend and address the anti-abortion March for Life; and room rates at the Trump National Doral more than doubled just before the White House announced that Trump would address the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting. Jan 23, 2020
2024 Day 1099: Nikki Haley vowed to continue her presidential campaign even if Trump wins New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation Republican primary; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who recently ended his 2024 presidential campaign and endorsed Trump, suggested that he would veto a proposed Republican bill to use taxpayer money to help pay Trump’s legal bills; a federal appeals court rejected Trump’s request to lift a gag order that restricts his ability to criticize witnesses in his criminal case for attempting to overturn the 2020 election; Israel proposed allowing Hamas senior leaders to leave Gaza as part of an agreement for a two-month ceasefire in exchange for the release of all remaining hostages; and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set their “Doomsday Clock” at 90 seconds to midnight. Jan 23, 2024
2025 Day 1465: A federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship; the Trump administration ordered federal workers to report colleagues involved in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility roles or face "adverse consequences"; Trump revoked a landmark 1965 anti-discrimination measure enacted by Lyndon B. Johnson to promote affirmative action and prohibit discrimination among federal contractors; Trump signed an executive order to declassify all remaining government records related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr; Trump signed an executive order to evaluate the creation of a "national digital asset stockpile; Trump called for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates “immediately”; the Senate confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director; and the Senate voted 51-49 to advance Pete Hegseth’s nomination as Secretary of Defense, despite allegations of sexual assault, financial misconduct, and excessive drinking. Jan 23, 2025