Trump says the US has “essentially taken over Iran” while holding no Iranian territory, and calls the war “small potatoes” and a “military conflict.”
White House website launches arcade games where players catch “crossers” for a deportation high score, with an official calling it “a culture of fun and winning.”
Trump floats renaming the Strait of Hormuz “TRUMP STRAIT,” claiming US control of a waterway shared by Iran and Oman, weeks after vowing to declare it US territory.
US Mint starts selling $1 coins with Trump’s face after its advisory committee refused to review them, putting the first sitting president on US currency since Coolidge in 1926.
Trump says US hit Iran “very hard” and can strike again “anytime,” as Pentagon confirms troops were told to stop saying “Operation Epic Fury,” declared over May 5.
Homeland Security Secretary Mullin touts about 2,100 ICE arrests in New York and threatens more agents unless leaders cooperate, despite the city’s record low murders.
Pentagon quietly installs 3 retired colonels turned conservative influencers, 1 million X followers combined, in undisclosed civilian roles as they defend Defense Secretary Hegseth online, the Post reports.
Kennedy questions whether Pennsylvania’s 2 measles deaths happened a day after his own CDC posted condolences for the measles-associated deaths.
Trump threatens the Center for American Progress with a $5 billion suit unless it retracts a report finding his Guard deployments had no effect on crime.
Reflecting Pool contractor returns to fix the failed liner as new Park Service signs still blame vandals for damage DOJ attributed to botched installation.
Trump votes by mail in Florida’s primary for the second time this year while calling mail voting cheating and ordering restrictions on it.
Official White House account tells CNN’s Kristen Holmes her children will someday be “sickened and embarrassed” after she asked Trump to respond to Ossoff criticism.
Trump blames vandals for dead grass on the Mall where webcam photos show his July 4 stage and crowds covered the lawn.
Trump posts 21 times in a Saturday spree, mixing AI images of himself with George Washington and a “Trump 2028” photo captioned “We are going to win.”
ICE agent points gun at a Northern Virginia counselor who cursed at agents, as DHS alleges a vehicle attack her own dashcam video disproves.
Rep. Lisa McClain falsely claims on Fox Business that 82% of women vaccinated in early pregnancy miscarried, citing a debunked misreading showing normal rates.
White House staged a decoy Air Force One with press aboard as Trump secretly flew from Turkey after an Iranian assassination threat, the Washington Post reveals.
Trump posts an AI image of himself as a decorated general beside Patton and MacArthur, promoting a “DronePort” rising over the White House ballroom.
Water system cyberattacks spread to Michigan as utilities in at least 7 states report intrusions to the FBI, some forcing full shutdowns.
Iran and U.S. officials both deny Trump’s claim that direct talks began Monday, two days after he canceled strikes on Iranian energy sites.
Trump floods Truth Social with more than 40 posts including AI images of himself kissing a Jesus statue, arresting an alien, and looming over Greenland.
FBI and EPA warn utilities nationwide after cyberattacks degrade water systems in 7 states, some forcing boil-water notices and manual operations.
Maryland Gov. Moore, taking over the National Governors Association, says he is very concerned Trump will interfere in the midterm elections.
Trump publicly rebukes US Attorney Pirro for dropping Reflecting Pool charges after her office admitted a rushed installation, not vandals, caused the damage.
Trump blames “grossly incompetent” Minnesota and its governor for water system cyberattacks that state and federal investigators trace to likely Iranian hackers.
Trump claims boat strikes cut ocean drug smuggling 98% while his own DEA finds 67 strikes killing 221 people never dented cocaine supply.
GOP Sen. Cassidy, who voted to confirm Kennedy, calls the CDC website’s claim linking vaccines and autism almost an insult to Americans.
Trump posts more than 40 AI images over six hours, mixing depictions of strikes on Kharg Island and seized Iranian tankers with mockeries of comedians and a CNN anchor.
Acting intelligence director Pulte announces a fourth round of ODNI layoffs in five weeks while releasing declassified documents questioning 2020 voting technology.
Pentagon restarts its Iran war casualty count under a new Overseas Operations category, days after cutting four dead troops from the official toll.
Trump administration plans to send two State Department envoys to Brazil to question its electoral system before the October presidential vote, officials tell the Washington Post.
Trump orders the Smithsonian’s American History museum to post signs warning visitors about exhibits a White House report calls radical social justice activism.
Pentagon erases four soldiers killed this month from the Iran war death toll, claiming their deaths came after Trump declared a ceasefire in April.
Pentagon casualty database records four soldier deaths and 20 wounded only after CNN reports it lags weeks behind, with nearly 100 injuries undisclosed.
Trump demands ABC and NBC lose their broadcast licenses for declining to air his election address live, while merger-seeking CBS carried it.
Trump orders voter roll purges and criminal probes of intelligence officials in a primetime address airing debunked election claims four months before midterms.
Trump suggests images of the Iranian girls’ school strike that killed 120 children may be AI-generated, months after Pentagon investigators identified a U.S. Tomahawk.
Trump says his primetime address Thursday will reveal election security findings, with sources expecting voting machine claims four months before the midterms.
Trump names a climate skeptic with no climate science training to lead the National Climate Assessment, the congressionally mandated report his administration already pulled offline.
White House announces and promotes Freedom Fuel stations selling gas around Philadelphia at $3.47 while insisting the unnamed company behind them gets no government money.
Trump claims Walmart cut prices “at my Administration’s request” while the retailer’s own statement announcing the reductions never mentions him or the government.
Trump inflates his July 4 crowd claim from 375,000 during his speech to 422,000 the next day, offering no evidence for either figure.
White House Independence Day report brands Smithsonian leadership radical activists who cannot be trusted to tell America’s story, signaling Trump may install loyalists.
Trump posts a doctored image of the Obamas boarding a graffiti-covered Air Force One, months after his deleted post depicting the couple as primates.
Energy Department deletes its own 78-degree thermostat guidance after conservatives mock NYC Mayor Mamdani for giving identical heat wave advice.
A federal judge blocks Hegseth’s rule requiring press escorts inside the Pentagon, ruling the policy retaliatory and its security rationale “facially dubious,” another First Amendment loss for the Defense Department.
The Trump administration freezes federal funding for New York’s Medicaid fraud unit over too few convictions, the second such suspension this year and part of a campaign focused largely on Democratic-led states.
Trump posts an apparent AI-generated image of a giant golden eagle on the White House balcony, calling it “a Golden Gift” for the nation’s 250th birthday.
Trump posts a commemorative passport rendering featuring his own image looming over the Resolute Desk, captioned “Welcome, but be good!” to mark America’s 250th anniversary.
A Trump commission urges replacing the separation of church and state with “building bridges,” its chairman telling the Oval Office the principle holds “no power.”
