2018 Day 572: Omarosa released audio of Trump campaign aides discussing how to handle the potential release of a tape where Trump used the "n-word"; Trump called Omarosa "that dog" and a "crazed, crying lowlife"; Sarah Huckabee Sanders can't "guarantee" that Trump hasn't been recorded using the n-word; and Trump allegedly called Trump Jr. "a fuckup" after he released his emails about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting. Aug 14, 2018
2019 Day 937: The Trump administration formally proposed regulation allowing some businesses to discriminate against workers on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sex, and LGBTQ status by citing religious objections; Planned Parenthood will withdraw from the nation's family planning program because of new Trump administration rules; Trump claimed – without evidence – that being president will personally cost him $5 billion dollars; and the Dow posted its largest decline of the year. Aug 14, 2019
2020 Day 1303: Trump’s top two officials at the Department of Homeland Security are illegally serving in their positions; Trump perpetuated a racist and false conspiracy theory that Kamala Harris is not eligible to be vice president because her parents were immigrants; the U.S. Postal Service warned that it cannot guarantee all ballots cast by mail will arrive in time to be counted; USPS proposed removing 20% of letter sorting machines; and the internal USPS watchdog is reviewing recent policy changes and examining the new postmaster general's compliance with federal ethics rules. Aug 14, 2020
2023 Day 937: A Montana judge ruled that the state's oil and gas policies failed to consider climate change when approving energy projects, violating young people’s constitutional right to a “clean and healthful environment”; an Atlanta area grand jury started hearing evidence against Trump and others in the 2020 election subversion case; Trump attacked the judge handling his election conspiracy case – despite being warned that he refrain from “inflammatory” attacks against those involved in his case; and federal prosecutors accused Trump of seeking “special treatment that no other defendant would receive” in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case. Aug 14, 2023
2026 Day 2033: Trump signed an executive order to scale back the federal childhood vaccine schedule; Trump signed executive orders to narrow birthright citizenship and end “birth tourism"; ICE plans to spend up to $20 million in a no-bid contract on thousands of electric shock gloves to use on people they're trying to detain; Trump authorized U.S. companies to conduct government-directed cyberattacks against foreign hacking groups; Trump secretly after hid inside an airport catering container to secretly get off Air Force One and fly out of Turkey using a smaller military jet last month; the Navy is replacing the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East following complaints about exhaustion, supply problems, and sailors’ mental health; the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general; the Trump official who oversees the U.S. Forest Service demanded for more resources to fight a seven-acre wildfire near his Idaho ranch; a federal judge dismissed the Trump administration’s antisemitism lawsuit against Harvard; the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow construction to continue on Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom despite a federal appeals court ruling that the project likely requires congressional approval; U.S. consumer sentiment fell 8% in August as the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July; Trump reported at least $2.2 billion in income in 2025 while the average American family lost about $1,625 to inflation; the White House gave Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook 21 days to answer to allegations that she made false statements on mortgage documents; Justice Samuel Alito said he plans to remain on the Supreme Court for at least another term, ending speculation that the 76-year-old conservative justice would retire and give Trump the chance to name a fourth Supreme Court justice; and Trump’s handpicked Kennedy Center board voted to re-add his name to the building’s facade and close the main venue for a two-year renovation. Aug 14, 2026