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From Election Theft to Federal Courtroom
President of the United States - Ordered Operation Southern Spear and Maduro capture
The US Capture of Nicolás Maduro
President of the United States - Ordered and announced Maduro's capture
The White House Ballroom Rush Hits Court: Preservationists Ask Judge to Freeze Trump’s Build
President of the United States - Defending the ballroom project; construction continues after judge declined emergency halt; personally selecting materials
U.S. Deploys Strike Force to Venezuela's Doorstep
President of the United States - Ordered Caribbean military buildup and oil tanker blockade
Israel Recognizes Somaliland, Shattering 34-Year Diplomatic Freeze
President-elect of the United States - Definitively ruled out US recognition of Somaliland
Trump’s 2025 Fuel Economy Reset Reignites the U.S. Auto Emissions Battle
President of the United States - Driving rollback of Biden‑era auto fuel economy and emissions rules
The Military Pay Equation: Congress Races to Fix Recruitment and Retention Through Wallet
President of the United States - Signed FY2026 NDAA on December 18, 2025
The Battle Over Who Controls AI Regulation in America
President of the United States - Issued executive order to preempt state AI laws
Russia's War on Ukraine's Lifelines
President of the United States - Mediating Ukraine-Russia peace negotiations; hosted Zelenskyy December 28, 2025
The Death of Residential Solar Tax Credits
President of the United States - Signed One Big Beautiful Bill into law July 4, 2025
Ukraine's Bloody Endgame: Peace Talks Advance as Assassinations Intensify
President of the United States - Leading peace negotiations through special envoys
Operation Southern Spear: Trump's Undeclared War in the Caribbean
President of the United States - Authorized Operation Southern Spear and CIA covert operations in Venezuela
China Encircles Taiwan with Live-Fire Drills
President of the United States - Downplayed Justice Mission 2025 drills as routine exercises
The Race to Lock Down Ukraine's Peace
President of the United States - Mediating peace negotiations, offering 15-year security guarantees
Iran's Currency in Free Fall
President of the United States - Reimposing 'maximum pressure' sanctions in second term
America Abandons the World's Hungry
President of the United States - Driving foreign aid dismantlement in second term
The End of the H-1B Lottery
President of the United States - Flip-flopped on H-1B policy; now supports program
Thailand and Cambodia's Year of Border Wars
President of the United States - Leveraged trade threats to broker ceasefires
Trump Freezes $28 Billion in East Coast Wind Farms
President of the United States - Delivered on campaign promise to end offshore wind
Trump's Expanding Travel Ban: From Seven Countries to Thirty-Nine
President of the United States - Serving second non-consecutive term, signed fifth iteration of travel ban
Trump's First Strike in Nigeria
President of the United States - Ordered airstrikes after months of warnings
Trump Forces Honduras Back into U.S. Orbit
President of the United States - Successfully backed Asfura's candidacy
Trump's Golden Fleet: The Battleship Returns
President of the United States - Announced program at Mar-a-Lago December 2025
Trump's War on Offshore Wind
President of the United States - Leading multi-front campaign against offshore wind development
Trump's Greenland Gambit
President of the United States (2025-present, 2017-2021) - Pursuing U.S. acquisition of Greenland, refuses to rule out military force
Operation Hawkeye Strike: US Launches Multi-Week Campaign Against ISIS
President of the United States - Directing Syria policy amid competing pressures
The Tanker Hunt: Trump’s Venezuela “Blockade” Turns Into Coast Guard Seizures
U.S. President - Driving a public pressure campaign tying Venezuela’s oil trade to ‘narco-terrorism’
New York’s RAISE Act Turns Frontier AI Safety Into a 72-Hour Countdown
President of the United States - Signed an executive order pressuring states to halt AI regulation
Hawkeye Strike: A Palmyra ambush drags the U.S. back into big-ticket warfighting in Syria
President of the United States - Ordered retaliatory strikes; publicly backing Syria’s interim leadership while pledging revenge.
Jared Isaacman Takes NASA: A Billionaire Astronaut Walks Into a Budget War
President of the United States - Backed Isaacman after withdrawing and renominating him in 2025
Trump’s Venezuela “Blockade” Turns Sanctions Into a Navy Problem
President of the United States - Ordered a blockade targeting U.S.-sanctioned oil tankers tied to Venezuela.
Record $901 Billion US Defense Bill Tests Trump-Era Military Priorities and Ukraine Commitment
President of the United States - Signed the FY2026 NDAA into law on Dec. 18, 2025, despite provisions bolstering Ukraine aid and limiting unilateral force-posture reductions in Europe.
SOUTHCOM makes lethal boat strikes a public show: three vessels hit, eight killed in the Eastern Pacific
President of the United States - Driving a militarized counternarcotics strategy; signaling possible land operations
TikTok’s U.S. Escape Hatch: Oracle-Led Deal Cuts ByteDance to 19.9%
President of the United States - Used executive authority to repeatedly delay enforcement while a sale was negotiated
Trump Administration Takes Harvard Funding-Freeze Loss to Appeals Court, Betting on a Bigger Fight Over University Control
President of the United States - Administration pursuing appeals and parallel pressure campaigns involving Harvard
House Passes SPEED Act: A Hard Turn Toward Faster Permits—and a New Fight Over Who Gets to Build
President of the United States - Using permitting speed as a governing priority tied to energy and industrial buildout
Trump orders a fast-track marijuana reschedule to Schedule III—reviving a stalled Biden-era process
President of the United States - Signed executive order directing expedited completion of marijuana rescheduling and expanded cannabinoid research
The $11.1B Taiwan Arms Tranche: Washington Bets Big on Long-Range Firepower, Beijing Sees a Red Line
U.S. President - Directing policy during the tranche’s notification and public rollout
Washington vs. The Hague: U.S. Sanctions ICC Judges to Shield Israel Case
President of the United States - Executive authority behind E.O. 14203 and the ICC sanctions architecture
Trump Keeps Troops in the Capital—for Now: Appeals Court Freezes Order to End D.C. Guard Deployment
President of the United States - Guard deployment continues in D.C. while his administration appeals
The Western Arctic Rule War: BLM’s 2024 NPR-A protections are officially gone
President of the United States - Driving a rapid Alaska-focused energy and permitting agenda
Trump Takes His Media-Lawsuit Playbook Global With a $10B Shot at the BBC
President of the United States; plaintiff - Filed suit in Florida federal court seeking up to $10B
Doha Draws the Blueprint for a Gaza Stabilization Force—Before Anyone Agrees to Send Troops
U.S. President; sponsor of the Gaza peace framework - Driving Phase 2 governance-and-security architecture; Board of Peace membership pending
TikTok’s U.S. ‘Sell-or-Ban’ Law Hits Another Deadline—But the Real Clock Is Now January 2026
President of the United States - Issuing executive orders to delay enforcement and steer a divestiture framework
DHS Pulls the Plug on Family Reunification Parole—A Legal Pathway Turns Into a 30-Day Countdown
President of the United States - Driving a second-term immigration crackdown centered on ending categorical protections
A commander’s funeral becomes a referendum on Gaza’s ceasefire
President of the United States - Broker and self-described guarantor of the Oct. 2025 ceasefire; pushing stabilization plan
Zelensky Puts NATO Dream on the Table to Buy a Ceasefire—If the West Will Sign in Ink
President of the United States - Driving a fast-track diplomatic push to end the war via a U.S.-brokered framework
Trump Reopens China to Nvidia’s H200—Now Congress Wants the National-Security Math
President of the United States - Reversing the practical ban on top-tier U.S. AI chips to China—while excluding Blackwell and Rubin
Trump’s Belarus Gambit: Prisoners Out, Potash Back In
President of the United States - Driving a prisoner-first, dealmaking approach toward Belarus
States vs. Trump’s $100,000 H‑1B fee: a courtroom fight over who controls immigration policy
President of the United States - Policy author; proclamation-based fee faces multiple lawsuits
‘Pax Silica’: Washington Tries to Turn AI Supply Chains into an Allied Bloc
U.S. President - Backing a new coalition model linking trade, security, and AI-industrial policy
Thailand’s Wartime Snap Election
President of the United States - Mediating, or claiming to mediate, ceasefires between Thailand and Cambodia
Chicago’s ICE Crackdown Hits a Wall of Judges
President of the United States - Driving aggressive national immigration crackdown in his second term
House Revolt Against Trump’s Federal Union Crackdown
President of the United States (second term) - Defending executive orders 14251 and 14343 in court and opposing repeal legislation
Trump’s Tina Peters Pardon Tests the Limits of Power Over State Election Crimes
U.S. president in his second term, wielding expansive clemency power - Has granted more than 1,600 pardons and commutations, heavily focused on 2020 and January 6 cases.
Trump EPA Moves to Stall and Unravel Biden’s Auto Pollution Rules
President of the United States - Driving broad rollback of Biden‑era climate, EV, and fuel‑economy policies
Trump AI Order Uses Federal Cash to Choke Off State Tech Laws
President of the United States - Driving a federal-first, deregulatory AI agenda using executive power.
Congress Lets ACA Subsidy Cliff Hit, Setting Up a 2026 Premium Shock
President of the United States - Backed the Republican HSA alternative while presiding over the subsidy showdown
Trump Turns the Southern Border Into Military Ground
President of the United States - Driving aggressive military-led immigration crackdown
Mexico Builds a Tariff Wall Against Asian Imports
President of the United States - Using broad tariffs on China and threats against Mexico to reshape North American trade
Trump’s Deportation Machine Turns to Threats and Indefinite Detention
President of the United States - Pursuing an unprecedented mass deportation agenda in his second term
Trump’s $1 Million ‘Gold Card’: When U.S. Immigration Goes Pay-to-Stay
President of the United States - Driving an aggressive immigration crackdown while personally branding a pay-to-stay visa program.
US Tanker Raid Puts Venezuela’s Shadow Fleet on Notice
President of the United States - Driving a renewed maximum‑pressure campaign on Nicolás Maduro using tariffs, sanctions and military power.
Bombers Over the Sea of Japan: US–Japan Answer China–Russia’s Show of Force
President of the United States - Publicly quiet on the flare-up while his administration greenlights visible bomber support
House’s $900 Billion Defense Bill Ties Troop Raise, Ukraine Aid and a Boat-Strike Backlash
President of the United States - Backs the NDAA and boat‑strike campaign while vacillating on Ukraine support.
Fed’s 2025 Rate-Cut Run: Three Eases, One New Playbook, and a President Pushing Hard
President of the United States - Publicly pressuring the Fed for steeper cuts and seeking greater control over its leadership.
US Sanctions Force Lukoil Into a $22 Billion Global Fire Sale
President of the United States - Overseeing sanctions that forced Lukoil and Rosneft into selling foreign assets
Trump’s Permitting Crackdown Strands U.S. Wind and Solar Boom
President of the United States - Driving a pro-fossil, anti-wind-and-solar permitting agenda
Trump’s Gulf Lease Sale Kicks Off 30-Auction Offshore Drilling Spree
President of the United States - Driving an "energy dominance" agenda built around mandated Gulf lease sales
U.S. Walks Away From Its Flagship FIFA TV Bribery Case
President of the United States (second term) - Driving a broad pullback from anti‑corruption and foreign‑bribery enforcement while courting FIFA leadership
Florida and Texas Declare CAIR a Terror Group, Setting Up a Constitutional Fight
U.S. President - Ordered review to designate certain Muslim Brotherhood chapters as terrorist organizations
How the SAVE Student Loan Plan Was Built, Frozen, and Dismantled
President of the United States - Overseeing rollback of Biden-era student loan policies, including settlement to end SAVE.
Thailand and Cambodia Slide Back Into Border War
President of the United States - Preparing new intervention calls after earlier tariff‑backed ceasefire deals frayed
Radar Lock Over Okinawa: Japan–China Air Clash Pulls in the U.S.
President of the United States - Trying to reassure Japan while preserving a fragile trade truce with China.
Congress Forces Open the Epstein Files
47th U.S. President; signed Epstein Files Transparency Act - President since January 2025; previously publicly linked socially to Epstein
Congress Moves to Revive Secure Rural Schools After 2023 Funding Cliff
President of the United States - Weighing whether to sign SRS extension sent by Congress
Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Meets a Wall in Europe
President of the United States - Driving a U.S.-led peace framework seen as favoring Russian positions on territory and NATO
Paramount Skydance’s $108 Billion Hostile Bid Ignites a Fight for Warner Bros. Discovery
President of the United States - Signaling concern about Netflix–WBD deal; positioned to influence antitrust review
Trump’s Unitary-Executive Showdown With Independent Agencies
President of the United States - Driving expansion of presidential removal power over independent agencies
Trump’s 2025 Mass-Deportation Drive Reaches New Orleans With ‘Catahoula Crunch’
President of the United States - Architect of 2025 mass-deportation agenda and city-based sweeps
Global Humanitarian Funding Collapses as UN Slashes 2026 Appeal
President of the United States - Leading donor retrenchment from multilateral humanitarian and health agencies
Thailand–Cambodia 2025 Border Crisis: From Landmines and Trump-Brokered Ceasefire to Airstrikes
President of the United States - Primary external broker of the ceasefire; U.S. trade leverage central to negotiations
From Trade Wars to Bailouts: Trump’s Tariffs and the Farm Sector
President of the United States - Driving tariff policy and authorizing repeated farm bailouts
Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy Recasts Russia and Rattles the Atlantic Alliance
President of the United States - Architect of the 2025 National Security Strategy and ongoing Ukraine peace push
Scott Bessent’s Farmland Divestiture: Ethics Clash Inside Trump’s Treasury
President of the United States - Relies on Bessent to execute tariffs, farm aid and consumer initiatives; administration faces renewed ethics questions in second term
Nigeria’s Northern Security Crisis Pulls In France and a Hardline U.S.
President of the United States - Threatening sanctions and possible military action over alleged Christian persecution in Nigeria; ordering contingency planning while broader tools are considered
Papiri School Mass Kidnapping and Partial Release in Northern Nigeria
President of the United States - Driving U.S. pressure campaign involving potential sanctions and military action over Christian persecution claims
Trump’s Contentious Push to End the Ukraine War
President of the United States - Driving a fast-track peace push, under criticism for perceived pro-Russian terms
Axon Revives Police Facial Recognition on Bodycams With Edmonton Pilot
President of the United States - Backing federal efforts to limit state-level AI regulation
From Special Counsel to Subpoena: The Jack Smith–Trump Showdown Moves to Congress
45th and 47th President of the United States - Incumbent president; former federal defendant whose Smith-led prosecutions were dismissed
Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order Heads to the Supreme Court
47th President of the United States - Defending Executive Order 14160 before the Supreme Court
US Hepatitis B Birth-Dose Policy Upended by New Vaccine Advisory Panel
President of the United States - Backing ACIP’s shift and ordering a broader review of childhood vaccines
Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy Revives Monroe Doctrine and Pivots U.S. Power to the Americas
President of the United States - Architect and signatory of the 2025 National Security Strategy
Trump and RFK Jr. Launch Overhaul of U.S. Childhood Vaccine Schedule
President of the United States (47th, second nonconsecutive term) - Driving review of U.S. childhood vaccine schedule
Europe’s Big Tech Crackdown Under the DSA and DMA
President of the United States - Threatening trade retaliation and legal action over EU tech enforcement
America First Global Health Compacts: Rewiring U.S. Health Aid
President of the United States - Architect of America First Global Health Strategy and foreign aid overhaul
Trump’s Gaza Ceasefire Plan Hits a Critical Test Over Who Governs and Who Disarms
President of the United States; Chair-designate of the Board of Peace for Gaza - Principal architect and political guarantor of the Gaza ceasefire and post-war governance plan
Trump’s Envoys Push Miami Track for Ukraine Peace as War Rages On
President of the United States - Political driver and ultimate decision‑maker on U.S. plan
Bill Pulte’s FHFA Mortgage-Fraud Crusade Faces Watchdog Scrutiny
President of the United States - Backs Pulte’s efforts; political patron of FHFA mortgage-fraud campaign
Trump‑Brokered DRC–Rwanda Peace Deal Tested by Renewed Fighting
President of the United States - Chief political sponsor of the Washington Accord; under scrutiny as renewed fighting clouds his claimed diplomatic win
India–Russia Strategic Partnership in the Sanctions Era
President of the United States (current in this timeline) - Applying tariff and sanctions pressure on India over Russian oil ties
RBI’s 2025 Rate-Cut Cycle Meets a US Tariff Shock
President of the United States - Imposed punitive tariffs on Indian exports in 2025