Protectionism
Economic policy of regulating trade between states through government regulations
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| July 4 2025 | On Independence Day, Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law, which extended 2017 tax cuts, added new tax deductions, increased immigration enforcement funding, and imposed additional Medicaid work requirements. The Congressional Budget Office projected the bill would increase the budget deficit by $3.4 trillion. |
| 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 2025 | A significant split occurred in the MAGA movement over Trump's support for Israeli strikes against Iran, with prominent supporters like Tucker Carlson, Rand Paul, Charlie Kirk, Saagar Enjeti, Mollie Hemingway, and Marjorie Taylor Greene criticizing potential United States involvement in the Middle East conflict. |
| June 10 2025 | The Department of Homeland Security reported deporting over 207,000 migrants as part of Trump's aggressive immigration enforcement strategy. |
| 2025 | George Simion ran as a candidate in the Romanian presidential election, drawing comparisons to Donald Trump due to his political style and ideological alignment. |
| 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. |
| May 2025 | Trump issued Executive Order 14290 instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Board of Directors and all executive departments to cease Federal funding for NPR and PBS. |
| 2025 | Launched two cryptocurrency tokens, $Trump and $Melania, which he personally promoted and benefited from. |
| 2025 | Trump nominated 23 former Fox News employees to his administration, including John Bolton as National Security Advisor. |
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Merchant Marine Act of 1920
The Connecticut House of Representatives passes a committee resolution calling for amendments to the Jones Act.
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| 2025 | Trump pursues new overseas real estate deals involving state-affiliated entities during his presidency. |
| May 5 2025 | In a CNBC interview, FCC Chair Carr stated he would consider pulling CBS's broadcast license. |
| 2025 | Trump repeals existing ethics guidelines and enforcement mechanisms for anti-corruption laws, effectively removing legal barriers to potential conflicts of interest. |
| 2025 | Trump maintains ownership of Truth Social, a publicly traded company, while serving as president, breaking traditional presidential ethical norms. |
| 2025 | Trump's family company World Liberty Financial begins operations, mixing government policy with private cryptocurrency enterprise in an unprecedented manner. |
| 2025 | Trump grants thousands of shares of stock to cabinet officials, further blurring lines between government service and personal financial interests. |
| 2025 | Trump launches and promotes $Trump, a cryptocurrency memecoin, directly benefiting from its promotion while serving as president. |
| May 1 2025 | By May 1, his orders and actions had been challenged by over 300 lawsuits nationwide, with most still moving through the courts. |
| 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. |
| April 21 2025 | Reuters and Wall Street Journal reported that Harvard began pushing back against the Trump administration's financially punitive policies, resulting in additional sanctions of one billion dollars from Trump. |
| 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'. |
| April 2025 | Trump's administration and DOGE declared approximately 6,300 living immigrants as dead in Social Security's Death Master File, in an attempt to encourage 'self-deportation'. |
| 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 | Banned transgender people from the military and prevented transgender women from competing in women's sports programs at federally funded institutions. |
| 2025 | Initiated a review of the EPA endangerment finding and withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Agreement on climate change. |
| 2025 | Ended the ability to change gender on passports and halted federal funding for gender-affirming care to minors. |
| April 2025 | Trump triggered a stock market crash following a global tariff announcement, causing large drops in consumer sentiment and increased expectations of higher inflation rates. |
| 2025 | Trump canceled and paused federal grants, making significant cuts to scientific research during his second presidency. |
| April 2025 | Imposes tariffs on nearly all countries, raising them to their highest levels since World War II. |
| 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 | Trump threatened and signed executive actions targeting his political opponents, critics, and organizations aligned with the Democratic Party, demonstrating an aggressive political strategy. |
| 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 proposed expansionist plans to acquire Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal, drawing comparisons to 19th-century Manifest Destiny doctrine as part of his 'America First' nationalist agenda. |
| 2025 | Attempted to remove birthright citizenship and suspend the Refugee Admissions Program. |
| 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 | 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 | Donald Trump began his second presidential term, immediately launching a series of controversial executive orders that challenged existing legal and constitutional boundaries. |
| 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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