- His FCC forced ABC's broadcast licenses into early review after the network aired criticism of him, and ABC sued, calling it a retaliatory campaign the First Amendment forbids.
- His attorney general endorsed a candidate at a campaign rally, something no recent AG of either party had done.
- The man who runs the U.S. Forest Service called in an air fleet for a 7-acre fire near his own ranch.
- He ordered the Navy to rip out the electromagnetic catapults on its newest carriers and go back to 1950s steam, at a cost of billions, just as China put the very same technology to sea.
- His DHS waived dozens of laws to bulldoze a border wall through Big Bend National Park, over a cease-and-desist from Texas’s Republican land commissioner and the objections of seven former park superintendents.
- His Homeland Security signed a $464 million no-bid contract for planes it said it urgently needed to deport people, then let them sit parked for months, turned three into luxury jets, and lent one to the FBI director.
- His Iran war has kept a carrier’s crew at sea for nine months, and conditions grew so dire, food shortages, exhaustion, a mental-health crisis, that sailors tried to jump overboard. His defense secretary called the families’ warnings “fake news,” then the Pentagon pulled the ship.
- He signed an executive order rewriting the childhood vaccine schedule, splitting up the measles shot and dropping others, as U.S. measles cases hit a 35-year high. Pediatricians and the AMA say it puts children at risk.
- One of the biggest known buyers of his family's crypto was a man under an active money-laundering investigation.
- He launched a war on Iran without Congress, and even Republicans said it was unauthorized.
- He handed Elon Musk a mandate to cut waste. The nonpartisan GAO found DOGE's savings claims were mostly unverifiable or wrong.
- His health department reversed the CDC’s finding that vaccines don’t cause autism, then canceled half a billion dollars in vaccine research.
- As deaths in ICE custody hit their highest level in decades, his administration indicted a Democratic congresswoman over an inspection visit and rewrote the rules to block surprise congressional inspections.
- His own company began selling hedge funds the fastest access to his market-moving posts for up to $100,000 a month, and he profits from every subscription.
- His administration criminally charged an innocent man to cover up a botched renovation, then his own Justice Department admitted the truth and dropped the case.
- His own agencies were investigating a foreign cyberattack on water systems in seven states, and he blamed a Democratic governor.
- He pushed to take Greenland from a NATO ally “one way or the other” and threatened tariffs on European allies to force it.
- He steered no-bid contracts for a Lincoln Memorial project to a firm tied to him and to a donor.
- His government detained a former Olympian for five hours and charged him with vandalism, then admitted its own construction caused the damage.
- He fired his own Homeland Security secretary over a nine-figure, taxpayer-funded ad campaign starring her, after a Republican senator raised fraud allegations and she claimed the president had personally signed off on the spending.
- Federal immigration agents shot 14 people in five months and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, a nurse and a woman in her car. In case after case, video contradicted the government’s account.
- He sued the IRS for $10 billion, then his own Justice Department settled the case with itself, handing him permanent tax immunity and a $1.8 billion fund for “victims” of federal investigations. Thirty-five former judges from both parties called it “a fraud on the court.”
- He ordered military strikes across Venezuela and seized its president, with no authorization from Congress.
- A crypto firm under federal investigation donated $11 million to his political committees and hired a lobbyist close to him. The investigation was dropped, and the firm then poured about $1 billion into a venture with his own company.
- More people died in immigration custody in 2025 than in any year in two decades.
- He is spending tens of billions in taxpayer money to bail out farmers hurt by his own tariffs, which his own party has called welfare.
- He sent troops into American cities over their governors' objections, and the Supreme Court blocked it.
- He denied disaster aid to Democratic-run states at the highest rate in FEMA's history.
- He demolished the White House East Wing for a corporate-funded ballroom, without the usual approval.
- He pardoned a convicted crypto executive whose company had just helped enrich his family.
- He turned official government websites into partisan attack messages during the shutdown.
- He had federal agents subpoena reporters at their homes over a news story.
- He pushed out the prosecutor who found too little evidence to charge his enemies, installed his own former lawyer to indict James Comey and Letitia James, and a federal judge threw out both cases as unlawful.
- His FCC chairman threatened a broadcaster’s license to push a late-night host off the air, and his own party called it mafioso.
- He diverted military money to immigration enforcement, including from base schools.
- He ordered strikes that killed more than 60 people on boats at sea, with no trial and no evidence shown.
- He froze roughly $2.6 billion of Harvard’s funding over campus antisemitism. A federal judge vacated it as a First Amendment violation and “a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically motivated assault” on universities, and a second judge later threw out his related lawsuit.
- His team copied hundreds of millions of Americans' Social Security data to a risky server, the agency's own whistleblower says.
- He pushed states to redraw their maps mid-decade to hold his majority, and a judge he appointed struck one down.
- He put the government into ownership of 30 private companies, which his own party calls socialism.
- He tried to fire a Federal Reserve official for the first time in the bank's history, and the Supreme Court blocked it.
- He is using lawsuits and settlements to make news outlets pay for coverage he dislikes.
- He hit an entire country with tariffs to protect a political ally on trial.
- He signed the largest Medicaid cut in the program's history, and members of his own party voted against it.
- He drove members of his own party out of office for crossing him.
- His Commerce Secretary kept sweeping financial conflicts while running trade policy.
- A small circle tied to one investor holds key posts while his companies win billions in contracts.
- Tens of thousands of trades ran through his accounts in a single year, many in companies his policies moved.
- His family made more than a billion dollars from a crypto venture, including a deal with a foreign government signed days before he took office.
- He withheld money Congress had already approved, and the GAO ruled it broke the law six times.
- He accepted a $400 million jet from a foreign government.
- His administration appears to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen, and the judge who found so was one he appointed.
- He barred the AP from covering him for refusing to say “Gulf of America,” and a judge he appointed ruled it violated the First Amendment.
- He fired officials the law protected, and the Supreme Court overturned 90 years of precedent to let him.
- He punished law firms for representing his opponents, and a judge called it an attack on the Constitution.
- He fired the military's top leadership during wartime.
- His administration helped free two men facing human-trafficking charges while running on public safety.
- He shut down an agency Congress created, and a judge ruled it likely unconstitutional.
- The vice president lectured European allies on free speech while urging them to work with a far-right party.
- He fired the government's own watchdogs, and a court ruled it was illegal.
- Corporations that wanted things from his government gave record sums to his inauguration and library.
- He and Melania launched memecoins days before his inauguration, and hundreds of thousands of small buyers lost money while the family took the fees.