Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #sevenyearsagotoday, aggregated by home.social.
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October 23, 2017 – When asked about gay rights while in the company of Mike Pence, Donald Trump joked, “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!”
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October 23, 2017 – To repair Puerto Rico’s electric power infrastructure, the Trump administration awarded a $300 million contract to Whitefish Energy—a small Montana-based company with only two employees.
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October 23, 2017 – Myeshia Johnson, the widow of a fallen US soldier, said Donald Trump forgot her husband’s name when calling to console her.
On Twitter, Trump denied the Gold Star widow’s allegations, saying he had said her husband’s name without hesitation.
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October 17, 2019 – White House acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announced that one of Trump’s golf resorts would host the annual G7 summit in June 2020.
The move was swiftly condemned as an attempt on Trump’s part to profit from the presidency.
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October 15, 2019 – Rudy Giuliani, loyal to Trump since the 1980s, refused to comply with a congressional subpoena for documents related to his work in Ukraine; they were requested as part of an impeachment inquiry into Trump. Giuliani called the inquiry “illegitimate, unconstitutional, and baseless.”
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October 7, 2019 – Trump threatened to punish Turkey if it mounted an offensive in Syria.
His tweet read, “As I have stated strongly before, and just to reiterate, if Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey (I’ve done before!).”
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October 4, 2019 – Trump signed a proclamation barring immigrants without health care from entering the country.
Only migrants with approved health insurance or the means to pay for “reasonably foreseeable medical costs” would be allowed to immigrate.
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October 3, 2019 – Trump, already under investigation for applying political pressure on Ukraine, publicly called for China to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden.
The remarks recalled when Trump urged Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s email servers in 2016.
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October 1, 2019 – Trump congratulated China on the seventieth anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, sparking backlash from conservatives for celebrating communism.
Trump sent his congratulatory message as Chinese protesters were calling for democracy, and just hours after Hong Kong police shot a teenage demonstrator.
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September 24, 2019 – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump to determine if he pressured Ukraine to investigate the son of his political rival, Joe Biden.
Trump immediately responded via Twitter, calling the inquiry “Witch Hunt garbage.”
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September 14, 2019 – New sexual assault allegations were brought up against Trump-nominated Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh a year after his confirmation hearing in which Christine Blasey Ford accused him of sexual assault.
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September 9, 2019 – House Democrats launched an investigation of Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
Their goal: to look into his alleged scheme to “coerce the Ukrainian government into pursuing two politically motivated investigations under the guise of anti-corruption activity.”
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September 7, 2019 – Trump announced in a series of tweets that he planned to meet with Taliban leaders at Camp David to negotiate peace.
But Trump had to cancel the meeting with the fundamentalist group after an attack of theirs in Kabul killed an American soldier and several civilians.
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September 1, 2019 – Engaged in a trade war with China, the Trump administration implemented 15% tariffs on $112 billion worth of Chinese imports.
JPMorgan Chase estimated that the taxes on consumer goods would cost the average American household an additional $1,000 a year.
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September 1, 2019 – Trump inaccurately tweeted that Hurricane Dorian would hit Alabama.
The National Weather Service corrected the misinformation, but later in the day the president doubled down on his statement.
The following day, he held up a map of the hurricane’s projected course that had been clearly altered with a Sharpie.
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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 20, 2019 – Trump suggested that the U.S. purchase Greenland, telling reporters, “Strategically, it’s interesting.”
Greenland, which is part of Denmark, has a wealth of natural resources, including coal, zinc, and copper, that held an interest for Trump.
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August 14, 2019 – The Department of Homeland Security finalized a rule that limits benefits such as food stamps, housing support, and Medicaid to immigrants.
The rule denies green cards to immigrants who are “likely at any time to become a public charge.”
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August 13, 2019 – Speaking about a new regulation that denies government benefits to immigrants, Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli twisted the poem written on the Statue of Liberty.
“Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge,” he said.
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August 12, 2019 – The Trump administration significantly weakened the Endangered Species Act, signed in 1973 by Republican Richard Nixon.
The adjustment allows economic assessment to factor into the protection of a species.
It also removed the blanket rule that requires the same treatment for threatened species as endangered species.
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August 12, 2019 – A federal whistleblower issued a complaint to Senator Richard Burr and Representative Adam Schiff that “the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.”
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August 10, 2019 – Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was found dead by apparent suicide in his jail cell.
The FBI and the Department of Justice opened investigations into his death, which occurred after case documents naming several high-profile figures were unsealed.
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August 2, 2019 – The United States withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a Cold War-era agreement between the United States and Russia that limited the types of weapons the two nations could possess or pursue.
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August 1, 2019 – Providing no evidence to support his claim, Trump told the crowd at a rally in Cincinnati that “We will be ending the AIDS epidemic shortly in America and curing childhood cancer very shortly.”
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July 27, 2019 – Trump attacked Representative Elijah Cummings, calling him a “brutal bully” and referring to Baltimore as “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess.”
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July 25, 2019 – In early July, at Trump’s behest, Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland urged aides of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskey to investigate democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Days later, Trump blocked planned U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
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July 24, 2019 – The Trump administration proposed changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that would cancel food assistance for Americans.
Trump said that a robust economy and low unemployment meant that the program was not needed by many people. Roughly 40 million Americans rely on the program’s free food.
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July 17, 2019 – At a rally in North Carolina, Trump ridiculed U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s name.
“No, no,” he said. “I don’t have time to go with three different names. We’ll call her Cortez.”
Trump had made racist remarks about Ocasio-Cortez in the past.
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July 15, 2019 – The Trump administration announced a new rule that migrants who pass through other countries on their way to the United States were ineligible to seek asylum.
However, Congress — and not the President — has the authority to determine if such migrants have the right to enter the country.
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