2018 Day 522: Trump wants to "immediately" send immigrants who illegally enter the U.S. "back from where they came" with "no Judges or Court Cases"; Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed that "just because you don't see a judge doesn't mean you don't receive due process"; Trump ally and Blackwater founder Erik Prince provided Robert Mueller with "total access to his phone and computer"; and Trump's job approval ratings fell to 41%. Jun 25, 2018
2019 Day 887: Trump – again – denied the rape allegations against him, claiming E. Jean Carroll is "totally lying" and "not my type"; the New York Post's former top editor deleted a story about Carroll's rape allegations; Congress is trying to pass a $4.5 billion in emergency humanitarian aid to the southwestern border while putting restrictions on Trump's immigration policies; and Trump declined to say if he has confidence in FBI Director Christopher Wray. Jun 25, 2019
2020 Day 1253: The CDC estimated that the number of Americans infected with the coronavirus could be as high as 23 million – 10 times the 2.3 million currently confirmed cases; the federal government sent $1.4 billion in coronavirus stimulus checks to over a million dead people; unemployment claims topped one million for the 14th week in a row; and the Supreme Court ruled that people seeking asylum from persecution have no right to a federal court hearing. Jun 25, 2020
2021 Day 157: The Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit against Georgia, alleging that the restrictions from its new voting law purposefully discriminate against Black Americans; Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 years and six months in prison for murdering George Floyd; the bipartisan infrastructure deal is now in jeopardy; the Manhattan district attorney’s office informed Trump’s lawyers that it is considering criminal charges against the Trump Organization; and nearly all Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. now are among people who weren’t vaccinated. Jun 25, 2021
2024 Day 1253: The U.S. surgeon general declared gun violence a public health crisis; after Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%; the judge who presided over convicted felon Trump's election interference trial involving falsified business records loosened Trump’s gag order; 16 Nobel Prize-winning economists warned that "a second Trump term would have a negative impact on the U.S.'s economic standing in the world; and special counsel Jack Smith revealed new photos in a court filing that depict how haphazardly Trump stored classified materials at Mar-a-Lago, with golf shirts stuffed into boxes alongside the sensitive materials, newspaper clippings and other mementos. Jun 25, 2024
2025 Day 1618: Trump will restrict classified briefings to Congress after a leaked Pentagon report showed U.S. airstrikes didn't cripple Iran’s nuclear program and likely only set it back "a few months"; Trump said the U.S. will meet with Iran next week, but claimed a nuclear deal "is not that necessary" because the U.S. strikes already "destroyed the nuclear"; NATO allies agreed to raise defense spending target to 5% of GDP by 2035; Trump said he might allow Ukraine to buy additional U.S.-made Patriot missile systems; the U.S. won’t deliver $1.2 billion in promised funding to the global vaccine alliance; Health Secretary Kennedy's new vaccine advisory panel will revisit the long-standing childhood immunization schedule; Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary after Andrew Cuomo conceded; and Trump called Mamdani a "Communist Lunatic," claiming "Democrats have crossed the line" and adding that "We've had Radical Lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous." Jun 25, 2025