2018 Day 557: Rudy Giuliani said that "collusion is not a crime"; Trump meanwhile claimed that Mueller's investigation has multiple "conflicts of interest," accused journalists of being "driven insane by their Trump Derangement Syndrome"; and threatened to shut down the government if Democrats don't agree to pay for his proposed border wall. Jul 30, 2018
2019 Day 922: Mitch McConnell defended his decision to block an election security bill; Trump defended McConnell and accused the Washington Post of being a "Russian asset"; Trump's pick for director of national intelligence promoted the now-debunked conspiracy theory of an anti-Trump "secret society" operating within the FBI; and for the fourth consecutive day, Trump attacked Elijah Cummings and asserted – without evidence – that black Baltimoreans "really appreciate what I'm doing." Jul 30, 2019
2020 Day 1288: Another 1.43 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week; the U.S. suffered its worst quarterly economic contraction on record in the second quarter; lawmakers are "nowhere close to a deal" on a new round of coronavirus aid; and Trump – lacking authority – mused about a "delay" of the 2020 election, questioning the integrity of voting during the coronavirus pandemic, and claiming without evidence that widespread mail-in voting would be a “catastrophic disaster” and lead to fraudulent results. Jul 30, 2020
2021 Day 192: Trump pressed top officials at the DOJ to claim the election was fraudulent and "leave the rest to me" and his congressional allies; the DOJ ruled that the IRS must release Trump's tax returns to Congress; Trump said the officers who testified about the 1/6 insurrection are "pussies"; the delta variant appears to spread as easily as chickenpox; and Biden ordered the military to move toward mandatory vaccinations. Jul 30, 2021
2024 Day 1288: Trump repeated his assertion that if Christians "vote for me, you’re not going to have to do it ever again – it’s true"; Trump attempted to clean up JD Vance’s past comments that Democrats, like Kamala Harris, are “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable,” saying Vance "likes family [...] a lot of people like family"; JD Vance confirmed that his feelings are not hurt by Democrats calling him “weird” for his remarks that the country was run by “childless cat ladies”; and Lara Trump, the Republican Party co-chair and Trump’s daughter-in-law, compared Harris to a designer handbag made to look like a “trash bag.” Jul 30, 2024
2025 Day 1653: Texas Republicans proposed a new congressional map that would give them five additional U.S. House seats by redrawing Democratic districts in major metro areas and South Texas; the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady at 4.25% to 4.5%, but two governors appointed by Trump dissented, calling for an immediate quarter-point rate cut; the U.S. economy grew at a 3% annual rate in the second quarter, but the data showed signs of slowing; Senate Democrats invoked a rarely used law to try to force the Justice Department to release the full Jeffrey Epstein case files; federal prosecutors said that the grand juries that indicted Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell only heard testimony from two law enforcement officials – not the victims, alleged accomplices, or associates; and Kamala Harris said she will not run for California governor in 2026. Jul 30, 2025
2026 Day 2018: Trump threatened to temporarily withdraw Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general rather than accept limits on an IRS settlement that protects Trump, his family, and their businesses from tax audits; Iran vowed to “punish the aggressor” after the U.S. launched a “heavy wave of strikes” against dozens of Iranian targets; ICE expanded immigration arrests at airports beyond travelers with deportation orders to people who entered the country legally, but overstayed their visas; the U.S. economy slowed to a 1.5% annualized growth rate in the second quarter; and the Energy Department admitted that it selected more than 600 clean-energy grants for cancellation “solely” because the projects were in states Kamala Harris won in 2024. Jul 30, 2026