2019 Day 837: More than 370 former federal prosecutors asserted that Trump would have been charged with obstruction of justice if he wasn't president; Trump doesn't want Mueller to testify; Pelosi warned that Trump might not voluntarily give up power in 2020; Trump claimed that two years of his first term were "stollen"; and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin rejected House Democrats' request for six years of Trump's tax returns. May 6, 2019
2020 Day 1203: Trump contradicted his plan to shut down the coronavirus task force, vowing that the group would “continue on indefinitely" because of "how popular the task force is"; on the same day Trump praised himself for solving "every problem" and taking care of "all of the things," members of his own administration privately warned that states were still experiencing shortages of masks, gowns, and other medical gear; the Trump administration will urge the Supreme Court to overturn the Affordable Care Act; Betsy DeVos released finalized guidelines for how universities and K-12 schools should handle complaints of sexual assault and misconduct; and Trump ordered Jared Kushner to move forward with the painting his border wall black, which is projected to add at least $500 million in costs. May 6, 2020
2024 Day 1203: Judge Juan Merchan threatened Trump with jail and fined him $1,000 for his 10th violation of the gag order; prosecutors called two witnesses who worked in accounting in the Trump Organization on the 12th day of Trump’s his election interference trial involving falsified business records; the Israel Defense Forces dropped leaflets in Rafah ordering about 110,000 people sheltering there to “evacuate immediately”; Israel’s war cabinet unanimously rejected a Qatari-Egyptian ceasefire proposal that Hamas had agreed to; and Israel Defense Forces carried out air strikes against Hamas in Rafah. May 6, 2024
2025 Day 1568: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Trump that Canada “won’t be for sale, ever” during their first White House meeting, rejecting Trump’s repeated suggestion that Canada should become the 51st U.S. state; the Supreme Court ruled that Trump can enforce his ban on transgender military service while legal challenges continue; the Trump administration defended a Biden-era rule that expanded access to the abortion pill mifepristone; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a 20% cut in the number of four-star generals and admirals across the U.S. military; Trump said the U.S. would stop bombing the Houthis in Yemen after the group “capitulated” and pledged to stop targeting ships in the Red Sea; an Israeli minister said Gaza “will be entirely destroyed” and its residents “will start to leave in great numbers to third countries,” after the government approved a plan to seize and indefinitely hold territory; and Trump’s job approval rating dropped 33 points among Americans who consume little to no news. May 6, 2025