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| 2025 | Continued profiting from events held at his hotels and golf courses without placing assets in a blind trust. |
| June 22 2025 | Trump ordered military strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. |
| June 22 2025 | Condemned US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites as an 'unprovoked act of aggression' while simultaneously authorizing Russian strikes against Ukraine. |
| June 2025 | Erdoğan condemned Israeli strikes on Iran as 'state terrorism'. |
| June 10 2025 | The Department of Homeland Security reported deporting over 207,000 migrants as part of Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement strategy. |
| 2025 | Diversified Truth Social into financial services while maintaining ownership of the publicly traded company. |
| 2025 | Trump promoted false claims of white genocide in South Africa. |
| 2025 | Dropped corruption charges against politicians with ties to him. |
| 2025 | Trump disbanded the Public Integrity Section and fired more than twelve inspectors general across the government. |
| 2025 | Sir Charles Roxburgh is set to become the new Chair of Lloyd's, succeeding Bruce Carnegie-Brown. |
| 2025 | Re-elected in a presidential election described as a sham by international observers. |
| 2025 | Presided over the India–Pakistan conflict, which resulted in a ceasefire. |
| 2025 | Trump nominated 23 former Fox News employees to his administration, including John Bolton as National Security Advisor. |
| 2025 | Launched two cryptocurrency tokens, $Trump and $Melania, which he personally promoted and benefited from. |
| 2025 | Trump pursues new overseas real estate deals involving state-affiliated entities during his presidency. |
| 2025 | Trump grants thousands of shares of stock to cabinet officials, further blurring lines between government service and personal financial interests. |
| 2025 | Trump maintains ownership of Truth Social, a publicly traded company, while serving as president, breaking traditional presidential ethical norms. |
| 2025 | Trump launches and promotes $Trump, a cryptocurrency memecoin, directly benefiting from its promotion while serving as president. |
| 2025 | Trump repeals existing ethics guidelines and enforcement mechanisms for anti-corruption laws, effectively removing legal barriers to potential conflicts of interest. |
| 2025 | Trump's family company World Liberty Financial begins operations, mixing government policy with private cryptocurrency enterprise in an unprecedented manner. |
| 2025 | Trump reversed pro-diversity policies in the federal government, moved against transgender rights, and threatened cultural institutions and universities on grounds of DEI and antisemitism. |
| 2025 | The title was altered to An Garda Síochána, further refining the organization's official name. |
| 2025 | Resumed the 'remain in Mexico' policy and ordered construction to be resumed on the border wall. |
| 2025 | Moved aggressively against transgender rights and what his administration termed 'gender ideology'. |
| 2025 | Threatened sixty universities and cultural institutions over DEI and antisemitism grounds, forcing law firms to comply with his administration's directives. |
| 2025 | The White House released a health examination report by physician Sean Barbabella, stating Trump was in 'excellent cognitive and physical health' with well-controlled high cholesterol. |
| 2025 | Trump engaged in an unprecedented targeting of law firms and lawyers who previously represented positions adverse to him, raising concerns about potential constitutional challenges. |
| 2025 | Trump canceled and paused federal grants, making significant cuts to scientific research during his second presidency. |
| 2025 | Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change for a second time. |
| 2025 | Legal experts raised concerns about a potential constitutional crisis due to Trump's defiance of judicial orders and his claimed right to disobey court rulings. |
| 2025 | Donald Trump began increasing criticism of the judiciary and called for impeaching federal judges who ruled against him, signaling a confrontational approach to judicial challenges during his second presidency. |
| 2025 | Trump threatened and signed executive actions targeting his political opponents, critics, and organizations aligned with the Democratic Party, demonstrating an aggressive political strategy. |
| 2025 | Royal Navy plans to withdraw all Sandown-class mine countermeasure vessels from service, replacing them with autonomous systems and planned 'mothership' vessels. |
| 2025 | Attempted to remove birthright citizenship and suspend the Refugee Admissions Program. |
| 2025 | Repealed and reversed pro-diversity policies across the federal government. |
| 2025 | Initiated a review of the EPA endangerment finding, challenging the legal basis for federal greenhouse gas regulations. |
| 2025 | Declared a national energy emergency, which allowed suspension of environmental regulations, loosened rules for fossil fuel extraction, and limited renewable energy projects. |
| 2025 | Halted federal funding to entities providing gender-affirming care to individuals under 19 years old. |
| 2025 | Trump appointed oil, gas, and chemical lobbyists to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), initiating a reversal of climate regulations and pollution controls. |
| 2025 | Prevented transgender women from competing in women's sports programs at federally funded institutions. |
| 2025 | Ended the ability to change gender markers on passports. |
| 2025 | Banned transgender people from serving in the military. |
| 2025 | Trump pardoned approximately 1,500 January 6 rioters, including those who violently attacked police. |
| 2025 | Within the first four days of his second term, Trump's executive actions were found to closely align with approximately two-thirds of the proposals from Project 2025, according to a Time magazine analysis. |
| 2025 | Becomes the 47th President of the United States. |
| 2025 | Commuted the sentences of 14 individuals. |
| 2025 | Issued more executive orders on his first day in office than any other president in history, with 30 out of 47 executive actions aligning with Project 2025 proposals. |
| 2025 | Donald Trump began his second presidential term, immediately launching a series of controversial executive orders that challenged existing legal and constitutional boundaries. |
| 2025 | Trump granted clemency to all participants of the January 6 Capitol riot, including those who had been involved in violent attacks against police officers, in a sweeping and unprecedented presidential pardon. |
| 2025 | Trump ordered the U.S. Government to stop funding and working with the World Health Organization (WHO) and announced the U.S.'s intention to formally leave the organization. |
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