2018 Day 516: Michael Cohen has signaled that he is "willing to give" investigators information on Trump; Trump accused Democrats of wanting "illegal immigrants ... to pour into and infest our country"; the Trump administration has lost track of nearly 6,000 unaccompanied migrant children; and Trump threatened to shut down the government in September if Congress doesn't provide $25 billion for his border wall. Jun 19, 2018
2019 Day 881: The EPA rolled back Obama's Clean Power Plan; Hope Hicks refused to answer questions during a closed-door hearing before the House Judiciary Committee; Mike Pompeo is claiming that Iran has ties to Al Qaeda in order to justify invoking the 2001 war authorization; and Sarah Huckabee Sanders is "extremely serious" about running for governor of Arkansas. Jun 19, 2019
2020 Day 1247: Trump threatened the "protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes" planning to gather at his Saturday rally in Tulsa that they "will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis"; the mayor of Tulsa declared a civil emergency, imposing – but later rescinding – a curfew surrounding the arena where Trump will hold his rally after speaking with Trump; the Trump campaign hasn't distributed a "health and safety" plan for preventing the spread of the coronavirus at the rally; and the White House insisted that COVID-19 is “absolutely ... still a priority” for the administration despite not holding a public briefing in 53 days. Jun 19, 2020
2026 Day 1977: Trump defended his interim Iran deal as “probably” Iran’s “unconditional surrender” and said the war taught him nothing about the limits of his power; Obama said the U.S. may be “worse off” after Trump’s 15-week war with Iran; the Pentagon said it needs $80 billion for the Iran war; the Trump administration redirected $352 million in Secret Service funding into “White House Security Measures” tied to his ballroom; Trump’s $14.7 million resurfacing and renovation of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool failed to deliver the clean, “American flag blue” water he promised as algae has already turned the pool green days after it reopened with blue material peeling off from the bottom; the Trump administration reversed its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system; the Trump administration will phase out HIV/AIDS funding for South Africa; and Republicans now believe their redistricting efforts to redraw several state maps has created “structural dynamics [that] favor Republicans” in the midterms. Jun 19, 2026