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August 27, 2018 – In response to the death of Senator John McCain, Donald Trump issued no public statement and declined to answer questions about McCain, a veteran who spent 31 years in the Senate.

Flags at the White House were lowered on Saturday night after McCain’s death and raised again Sunday, the bare minimum required by law.

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August 27, 2020 – The Trump administration broke norms and flouted the Hatch Act by using government property — the White House — for a political convention.

Trump delivered his closing-night speech from the South Portico, flanked by Jumbotrons on the South Lawn that screened campaign billboards.

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August 27, 2020 – In visiting his own properties 271 times as president, Trump and Secret Service agents netted the Trump Organization more than $900,000.

According to the Washington Post, Trump’s business also brought in at least $3.8 million in fees associated with 37 political events held at Trump’s properties.

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August 27, 2025 - The president held an Oval Office meeting about the postwar future of the Gaza Strip with his son-in-law and former adviser Jared Kushner, special envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Trump had previously mused about the Gaza Strip becoming a luxury resort.

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August 26, 2020 - Without making an announcement, the White House's coronavirus task force changed the advice on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.

Whereas the wording had said anyone in contact with an infected person should be tested, it now said people without coronavirus symptoms "do not necessarily need a test."

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August 26, 2025 - Trump held a lengthy, televised cabinet meeting that mainly consisted of cabinet members showering him with praise.

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August 25, 2017 – Following up on tweets he wrote in July, Donald Trump signed a directive to prevent transgender individuals from joining the military.

The order gave Defense Secretary James Mattis the ability to decide if transgender members currently in the military could continue to serve.

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August 25, 2017 – Sebastian Gorka, White House Deputy Assistant to the President, was ousted from office.

Trump gave no explicit reason for his departure, but one White House official wrote, “Sebastian Gorka did not resign, but I can confirm he no longer works in the White House.”

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August 25, 2017 – Donald Trump pardoned former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio.

An Arizona judge had convicted Arpaio of criminal contempt-of-court for “flagrant disregard” of a court order to cease and desist his practice of racially profiling Latinos.

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August 25, 2020 – The Trump administration announced that if hospitals did not report coronavirus data to the Department of Health and Human Services — until now a voluntary program — they would have their Medicare and Medicaid funding revoked.

The loss of the money could force hospitals to close.

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August 25, 2025 - Kilmar Ábrego García was detained again by immigration authorities at the ICE offices in Baltimore, during what officials referred to as "an interview."

Ábrego García's lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, said, "Clearly, that was false."

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August 24, 2020 – New York State’s attorney general asked a State Supreme Court judge to compel Eric Trump, the president’s son, to testify in an investigation.

The inquiry was looking into whether Trump and his business overstated assets “to secure loans and obtain economic and tax benefits.”

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August 24, 2025 - National Guard troops deployed to Washington, DC, began carrying firearms, according to the federal task force managing the operation.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the authorization of two thousand National Guard troops in DC to begin carrying weapons.

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August 23, 2018 – The US and China implemented a second round of tariffs on $16 billion worth of imports on both sides.

China filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization about the tariffs.

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August 23, 2020 – Twitter hid one of Trump’s tweets behind a warning that said the president’s wording violated the company’s rules about “civic and election integrity.”

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August 23, 2020 – Without providing any proof, Trump alleged that the Food and Drug Administration was intentionally delaying coronavirus vaccine trials.

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August 22, 2017 – During an Arizona rally, Donald Trump blamed American news media for the vehement public reactions after the white supremacist-led “Unite the Right” rally.

He declared, “It’s time to expose the crooked media deceptions… the only people giving a platform to these hate groups is the media itself and the fake news.”

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August 22, 2020 – Trump was ordered by a California judge to pay an adult-film actress $44,100.

The money was for her legal fees related to a lawsuit that she had brought against the president.

Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, had sued Trump to be released from a $130,000 nondisclosure agreement to keep her quiet about their alleged sexual relationship.

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August 22, 2020 – “You can’t trust him,” Maryanne Trump Barry said about her brother, Donald, in a conversation secretly recorded by their niece, Mary Trump.

A retired federal judge, Barry said, “His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God. I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy shit.”

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August 22, 2025 - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Lieutenant General Jeffrey Kruse, head of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

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August 22, 2025 - The Justice Department released transcripts and audio of Todd Blanche's July interviews with Jeffrey Epstein associate and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell.

During the interviews, Maxwell claimed she never saw Trump engage in improper or illegal acts and downplayed the president's long friendship with Epstein.

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August 21, 2017 – Eight months into his presidency, the Secret Service exhausted the annual funding allocated to agents to protect the Trump family, mostly due to the frequency of the first family’s travels.

By August 2017, more than 1,000 agents had already hit the federally mandated cap for salary and overtime allowances meant to last the entire year.

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August 21, 2017 – In a nationally televised speech on strategy in Afghanistan, Donald Trump gave no indication of how many troops the U.S. would commit to war efforts, nor any criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of those operations.

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August 21, 2017 – The U.S. Secret Service spent substantial sums with Donald Trump’s businesses, including at least $137,000 on golf cart rentals at Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster.

Based on a Government Accountability Office report, each trip to Mar-a-Lago costs the taxpayer $3 million in total.

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August 21, 2018 – The Trump administration announced plans to cut back Obama’s coal emissions standards for coal-fired power plants, calling them “overly prescriptive and burdensome.”

The Trump plan increased the state authority to make decisions on coal emission standards, saying it “empowers states, promotes energy independence, and facilitates economic growth and job creation.”

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August 21, 2018 – Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was convicted of five counts of tax fraud, two counts of bank fraud and one count of failure to disclose a foreign bank account.

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August 21, 2018 – On the same day Manafort was convicted, Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, plead guilty in a federal court in New York to, among other charges, campaign finance violations for paying hush money to women who claimed to have had affairs with Trump.

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August 21, 2019 – The Department of Homeland Security introduced an updated policy that would allow the government to detain migrant families with children indefinitely.

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August 21, 2019 – After mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, Trump blamed mental illness, not guns, for the violence.

“Mental illness and hatred pull the trigger, not the gun,” Trump said.

The American Psychiatric Association, however, has said that mental illness is a factor in less than one percent of mass shootings in the United States.

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August 21, 2020 – Trump said he had a “theory” that if November’s election results were not known by the end of 2020, “Crazy Nancy Pelosi would become president, you know that. No. No. I don’t know if it’s a theory or a fact, but I said, ’That’s not good. That’s not good.’”

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