Independent public record / Administrations 45 + 47
Donald Trump’s presidencies, day by day
Every day leaves a record.
Power counts on you forgetting it.
Latest reviewed record
In one predawn session, senators confirmed Trump’s former personal lawyer to run the Justice Department, passed a funding patch that temporarily checked parts of the White House’s grants and border agenda, and failed to advance the president’s voter-ID priority.
01 / The scale
We are building from both ends: opening day forward and the live edge backward. Every gap is labeled backlog—not quietly passed off as coverage.
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02 / By the numbers
A measured view of the reviewed record
These figures describe what this archive has documented so far. Switch the sample, follow the bars, and keep the denominator in view.
The reviewed sample, not the whole presidency
1.36 per documented day
3.06 per documented day
Normalized by publisher name
45.9% of the documented sample
most frequent archive tag
303 of 303 dossiers
Gaps remain explicitly labeled
01 / Tagged fault lines
02 / Consequence
03 / Evidence
04 / Research density
05 / Sample comparison
Administration II currently has seven reviewed days. Its per-day rates are descriptive, not a fair whole-term comparison.
06 / Outside the archive sample
22 of 100 cells are filled; the display rounds the exact 21.7% rate to the nearest whole percent.
+6.0 pts Term II’s tracked-property rate is higher.
Presence at a golf property is not proof of a played round. A stricter tracker reports 120 confirmed outings — 21.9% of Term II days.
Through · methodology ↗ · data ↗ · confirmed-outing comparison ↗
07 / Public judgment
Points sit at the first day of each fieldwork window. The first-term series is Gallup weekly. The second-term series uses Gallup through 2025 and named national all-adult pollsters thereafter, as compiled by The American Presidency Project. Changes in pollster, mode and fieldwork create house effects; read the broad direction, not every small zigzag.
Sources: Gallup weekly ↗ · first-term table ↗ · second-term table ↗
03 / The record
2 reviewed spans · 303 documented days
Latest seven reviewed days
Seven days of power, compressed into one briefing. Open any dispatch for the facts, consequences, caveats and complete source trail.
In one predawn session, senators confirmed Trump’s former personal lawyer to run the Justice Department, passed a funding patch that temporarily checked parts of the White House’s grants and border agenda, and failed to advance the president’s voter-ID priority.
An appeals court stopped aboveground ballroom construction without congressional approval; the White House reopened its effort to remove a Federal Reserve governor; the Senate advanced Russia sanctions and 74 nominees; Treasury expanded Iran sanctions; and the Pentagon punished a former service secretary over an unproved leak allegation.
Two immigration orders reopened constitutional and statutory fights; a hybrid polysilicon trade wall raised the price floor for a strategic supply chain; HHS proposed stripping most Head Start standards; and disputes over war stocks and the president’s tax immunity reached the public record.
A judge implemented the Supreme Court’s TPS ruling; Iran and Oman awaited final approval on a navigation plan; the White House released the FBI’s Trump-Russia opening memo; and Treasury quietly removed Fly Baghdad while leaving its chief designated.
Iran and Oman reported progress but disputed the terms; an appeals court checked EPA’s $20 billion climate clawback; and official records exposed unplanned FEMA cuts, a three-year Guard bill and a proposed single-source contract for migrant-child counsel.
The president escalated his public deadline for disputed Iran talks, created an advisory military-spouse commission and faced fresh resistance to tariffs, tax-audit immunity and a reported Head Start rewrite.
Trump said Gulf leaders helped stop a planned Sunday strike and promised new Iran talks the next afternoon despite Tehran’s contrary account; hours later, his acting attorney general rescinded the $1.776 billion ally-compensation fund but left the settlement behind it unresolved.
The rest of the record
Use the time machine for an exact office day, or open the archive index to search, filter and page through reviewed dossiers in compact batches.
Compact archive index
Showing 24 of 303 documented days
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04 / The standard
Ruthless does not mean reckless. The point is to make the record harder to evade—not easier to dismiss.
Verified events and attributed reporting appear as the record. Our judgment appears separately under an explicit Editorial analysis label.
Orders, court records, agency releases, votes, and transcripts anchor the facts. Reuters, AP, and rigorous national reporting supply independent context and scrutiny.
Source markers sit beside the passages they support. Every dossier includes publisher, title, date, source type, and a direct link.
Each record carries a review date and correction history. Before public launch, edits remain visible in version history; a public correction desk is a launch requirement.
05 / The build
This is a working archive, not a victory lap. The system is in place; most of the record is not. We will add one rigorously sourced month at a time, deepen individual days when the evidence changes, and show exactly where the work stops.
No sane person can remember it all. So we will.