2019 Day 977: Trump admitted that he discussed getting dirt on Joe Biden with with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and that he is withholding the whistleblower complaint from Congress; Trump insisted that he did "absolutely nothing wrong" and denied that he had withheld security aid from Ukraine in an effort to pressure its president to investigate Biden's family; Rudy Giuliani "can't say for 100%" that Trump didn't threaten to cut off aid to Ukraine; and Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned that Trump's "grave new chapter of lawlessness" will "take us into a whole new stage of investigation." Sep 23, 2019
2020 Day 1343: Trump predicted that the election "will end up in the Supreme Court"; Dr. Deborah Birx is reportedly so "distressed" with the direction of the coronavirus task force that she is not certain how much longer she will remain; the Trump administration shifted at least $7 billion from public health programs to Operation Warp Speed; the Department of Homeland Security has awarded more than $6 million in contracts since 2018 to the consulting firm where acting secretary Chad Wolf's wife is an executive; the Department of Justice won't allow any senior officials to testify before Congress in the next two weeks because of the way Democrats treated Attorney General William Barr previously; and a former National Security Council official accused White House aides of falsely asserting that John Bolton's book contained classified information in order to prevent its publication. Sep 23, 2020
2024 Day 1343: The House unveiled a bipartisan spending bill to temporarily fund the government through Dec. 20; the Georgia State Election Board approved a new rule requiring all ballots to be hand-counted on Election Day; a Nebraska Republican state lawmaker blocked a Trump-backed effort to change how the state awards its five electoral votes; the Justice Department said the man suspected of attempting to assassinate Trump last week left a note stating "this was an assassination attempt"; North Carolina's Republican gubernatorial candidate, who is Black, referred to himself as a “black NAZI,” praised Adolf Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf,” and expressed support for reinstating slavery; Trump said "that will be it" if he loses the presidency in November; Trump said it’s "too late to do another" debate after Kamala Harris accepted an invitation from CNN for a second debate on Oct. 23; and U.S. is sending “a small number" of troops to the Middle East following Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon on Hezbollah targets that killed at least 490 people, including dozens of women and children, and wounded more than 1,645 others. Sep 23, 2024
2025 Day 1708: In a combative 56-minute address to the United Nations General Assembly, Trump told world leaders their countries are “going to hell,” accused the U.N. of “not even coming close to living up” to its potential, denounced climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world,” and declared it was “time to end the failed experiment of open borders”; Trump abruptly reversed course and said Ukraine could “WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” calling Russia “a paper tiger”; health agencies worldwide rejected Trump’s "based on what I feel" claim that Tylenol use during pregnancy is linked to autism; Trump canceled a planned White House meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries a week before the Sept. 30 government shutdown deadline; Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned that inflation risks are rising while hiring slows; and House and Senate Democrats opened investigations into why the Trump administration shut down an FBI bribery probe of border czar Tom Homan. Sep 23, 2025