2020 Day 1230: Trump threatened to deploy “thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers” to end “riots and lawlessness” if states and cities failed to quell the demonstrations sparked by the killing of George Floyd; as he spoke from the Rose Garden, police cleared peaceful protesters outside the White House with tear gas and flash grenades so Trump could pose by a church for photographs to dispel the notion that he was “weak” for hiding in a bunker over the weekend; the Episcopal bishop of Washington is "outraged" at Trump for using St. John’s Church as a backdrop to threaten the use of the military against Americans; and Dr. Anthony Fauci has not spoken or met with Trump in two weeks. Jun 2, 2020
2021 Day 134: Biden declared June a “national month of action” to meet his goal of having 70% of U.S. adults at least partially vaccinated and 160 million adults fully vaccinated by the Fourth of July; Texas Gov. Greg Abbott defended the restrictive voting bill that failed to pass before the legislative session's midnight deadline, while attacking Biden for his comments that the Texas voting bill is “part of an assault on democracy”; Biden tapped Harris to lead the administration's efforts to protect voting rights; Biden called out Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema for aligning too closely with Republicans and blocking efforts to pass the voting rights bill; and Trump permanently shut down his blog after 29 days, frustrated by the lack of readership. Jun 2, 2021
2022 Day 499: The House will vote on legislation banning military-style “assault” weapons as early as next week; Biden claimed that he wasn't aware of the baby formula shortage despite company executives telling him at the White House in February that a shortage would be severe; the Biden administration canceled $5.8 billion in student loan debt for 560,000 borrowers; the EPA will reverse a Trump-era rule and restore authority to states to oppose gas pipelines, coal terminals, and other energy projects that pollute local rivers and streams; the Florida Supreme Court refused to consider a challenge to a new congressional map that gives a substantial advantage to Republicans; and Social Security is projected to be able to pay benefits until 2035 – one full year later than previously projected. Jun 2, 2022
2025 Day 1595: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst dismissed concerns that Medicaid cuts in Trump’s tax bill would lead to deaths, saying “Well, we all are going to die”; the Trump administration corrected multiple fake citations in its “Make America Healthy Again” report, which included references to studies that don’t exist and appears to have been partly generated by AI; the Supreme Court refused to hear challenges to Maryland’s assault weapons ban and Rhode Island’s magazine limit, leaving both laws in place; the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to revoke humanitarian parole for 532,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela; Elon Musk left the Trump administration; the Trump administration is using Palantir to build a centralized system that merges Americans’ personal data across federal agencies; and Trump reposted a baseless claim that Biden was “executed in 2020” and replaced by “clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities.” Jun 2, 2025