Presidential Activity
Subtopics
- Administration Errors
- Carrier Corporation Jobs Deal
- Executive Orders
- First 100 Days
- Reversals
- Unprecedented Actions
- Unpresidential Behavior
Timeline
| 2017.01.20 | Photos show Trump's inauguration to be sparsely attended in comparison to Obama's. austin.blog.statesman.com No official estimate of the crowd size is available, but the crowd in the photo for Trump's ceremony is noticeably thinner. |
| 2017.01.20 | Trump strikes nationalistic tone in his inaugural address. wsj.com (See also Unprecedented Actions, Fascism) Historians and speechwriters describe the speech as one of the most ominous inaugural addresses ever, reinforcing familiar campaign themes of American decline, in contrast to the inspirational speeches of his predecessors. |
| 2017.01.21 | Trump reportedly orders the National Park Service director to produce photos proving Trump's claims about the size of his inauguration crowd. washingtonpost.com (See also Unpresidential Behavior, Assaults on Facts) |
| 2017.01.24 | Trump administration orders media blackout at EPA. latimes.com (See also Assaults on Facts, Authoritarianism) Update on 'Trump signs memorandums to reopen Keystone XL, Dakota pipeline negotiations' |
| 2017.01.24 | Trump puts 17 agencies on chopping block for political reasons to tweak Democrats. time.com Trump wants to kill these 17 federal agencies/offices. Here's what they actually cost (and do). |
| 2017.01.30 | Trump fires acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she orders government lawyers not to defend Muslim immigration ban. nytimes.com (See also Department of Justice, Muslim Immigration Ban, Muslims, Immigration, Immigrants, Assaults on Government) |
| 2017.02.01 | Trump threatens to send U.S. troops to Mexico to take care of "bad hombres." time.com (See also Mexico) |
| 2017.02.05 | Improvisation proves costly for stumbling Trump administration; leaks show Trump unaware of everything in his executive orders. nytimes.com (See also Administration Errors) |