2018 Day 551: The Trump administration will provide over $12 billion in emergency aid to farmers hurt by retaliatory tariffs; as many as 463 separated parents were deported without their children; Trump claimed that he is "concerned" Russia "will be pushing very hard for the Democrats" in the midterms; and two top Trump donors paid Rick Gates more than $300,000 for help navigating the new administration. Jul 24, 2018
2019 Day 916: Mueller testified before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees that Trump "was not exculpated for the acts that he allegedly committed," adding that Trump could potentially be indicted after he leaves office and condemned Trump's tweets about WikiLeaks' stolen emails during the 2016 campaign; Mueller declined, deflected, or deferred nearly 200 questions; and before Mueller's testimony even began, Trump accused Democrats of trying to "illegally fabricate a crime" and pin it on a "very innocent President." Jul 24, 2019
2020 Day 1282: The CDC published new guidance recommending that schools reopen in the fall; Trump canceled the in-person portion of the Republican National Convention as the coronavirus continues to spread across the U.S.; Trump said he would deploy as many as 75,000 federal agents into U.S. cities as part of his "surge" against "violent crime"; and Trump repealed a fair housing regulation he claimed would lead to “destruction” of the country’s suburbs. Jul 24, 2020
2023 Day 916: Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley; Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suggested that Black people benefited from slavery by learning skills like "being a blacksmith," which they applied to "doing things later in life"; Alabama Republicans defied a Supreme Court order to create a second majority-Black district in the state; the Justice Department sued Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott for building floating barriers in the Rio Grande; and Trump's trial in the classified documents case is set for May 20, 2024. Jul 24, 2023
2024 Day 1282: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Israel’s war in Gaza and condemned American protesters as “Iran’s useful idiots” in his speech to a joint session of Congress; Democrats adopted rules to choose their presidential nominee via a virtual roll call vote; the Trump campaign filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission arguing that the Harris campaign can’t take over the Biden campaign's $91.5 million dollars; almost 40,000 people registered to vote in the 48 hours after Biden announced he was suspending his reelection campaign and endorsing Harris; and 49% of voters support Trump, compared to 46% for Harris. Jul 24, 2024
2025 Day 1647: Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Ghislaine Maxwell at a federal courthouse in Tallahassee for a six-hour interview; Trump staged a visit to the Federal Reserve to publicly call for Chair Jerome Powell to “do the right thing” and lower interest rates while accusing him of mismanaging a $2.5 renovation billion project; Trump signed an executive order directing cities and states to remove homeless people from public spaces and force them into treatment or institutional settings to "restore public order"; the Trump administration sued New York City, claiming the city’s sanctuary laws obstruct federal immigration enforcement and violate the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause; Trump signed an executive order banning “third-party, pay-for-play” payments to college athletes; the FCC approved the $8 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance after Skydance promised to drop all DEI programs and add a news ombudsman at CBS; and a Florida man who sued Gawker into bankruptcy over a sex tape and got dropped by WWE after racist comments is dead at 71. Jul 24, 2025