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.”
The Texas education board votes 9-4 to require Bible stories in public school reading lists and to rewrite K-8 history in ways that play down racial and cultural diversity.
A National Park Service official swears in a court filing that the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was cut with a knife, backing Trump’s vandalism claims days after he made them.
Trump headlines his own Great American State Fair on the National Mall after musical acts quit over the event’s partisan tone, declaring a once “dead” America now the world’s hottest country.
Trump’s $16 million Reflecting Pool renovation will miss July 4, as the administration fences it off and blames ‘leftist activists’ for the cracks and algae.
The Treasury Department plans to launch a public website, fraud.gov, for Americans to report suspected waste and fraud in federal programs, taking effect immediately before any public comment.
Trump says five people were arrested for vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, offering no evidence, as a law professor says the bystanders merely witnessed damage his own botched renovation caused. 30 words
A Washington Post investigation reports that confidential memos appear to show former DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s childhood guru secretly guiding her conduct in Congress.
A conservative nonprofit secretly funded super PACs named Lead Left and Real Change to boost weaker Democratic primary candidates and engineer easier Republican matchups.
Trump says he personally inspected the troubled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and orders immediate repairs, blaming unconfirmed vandalism for damage to his $15 million restoration.
Trump blames vandals for the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool’s peeling paint and accuses an ABC reporter of trying to tear up the surface.
Italian Prime Minister Meloni says she is shocked by Trump’s completely made-up claim that she begged him for a photo together at the G7.
A federal judge orders the Trump administration to restore climate change and Wabanaki Nations signs removed from Acadia and other national parks, ruling the removals rewrote history “with a white-out pen.”
A federal appeals court grants the Trump administration’s appeal to strip Philadelphia’s President’s House slavery exhibits, undoing a February order that had forced their restoration.
The Trump administration blames Obama after the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool turns green days after its $14 million renovation.
Trump declares Washington’s federally funded July 4 celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary “the most spectacular Trump rally of them all.”
Trump stages a UFC fight card on the White House South Lawn for his 80th birthday, with the arena alone costing over $60 million per a Park Service filing.
The Pentagon releases a third batch of UFO files it bills as transparency, though they show strange lights and no proof of alien craft.
Trump says he scheduled a meeting with major AI companies about the government taking equity stakes, but the firms say no one told them.
Trump storms out of an NBC interview after Meet the Press host Kristen Welker fact-checks his baseless election-fraud claims.
Trump recasts his June 24 Freedom 250 rally around Lee Greenwood and Christopher Macchio after most announced performers pull out.
Trump posts an AI video of himself filling the renovated Reflecting Pool with the tears of a distressed woman from his 2017 inauguration.
Trump adds himself as the headliner for the nation’s 250th birthday fair after six of nine acts quit over ties to him.
White House launches a space-themed website mocking immigrants as extraterrestrials that lists more than 700 locations where arrests were made of people born in the United States.
Treasury prepares to issue a new $250 bill featuring Trump’s face, pending congressional approval to put a living person on U.S. currency.
Labor Department urges employees to report colleagues for past DEI work, citing a three-year window that reaches back before Trump took office.
