“Those who forget the past are condemed to repeat it”
A collection of Trump’s actions and how they effect you.
New Things added every week through the election.
#1 Remember when Trump supported white nationalists in Charlottesville
AUG 12, 2017 In response to the “Unite the Right Rally” in Charlottesville, VA, where white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us” and one of those white nationalists killed a woman named Heather Heyer and injured many others by ramming his car into them, Trump condemned hate “on many sides”
#2 Remember when Trump took away overtime from 2.8M workers
SEPT 24, 2019 Trump changed the Obama administration’s overtime rule so that 2.8 million fewer workers would be able to access overtime pay
#3 Remember when Trump manipulated a law to make $5M for himself
JUNE 17, 2017 Trump proposed large cuts to federal housing aid in 2017, but exempted from those cuts a type of federal aid paid to a Brooklyn building that he maintained an ownership interest in that earned him $5 million during the previous year
#4 Remember when Trump increased health insurance premiums for everyone
MAY 18, 2017 Trump caused insurance premiums to increase for plans purchased through the Obamacare health exchanges by as much as 50% in 2017 due to regulatory changes he made
#5 Remember when Trump froze hiring at CDC before COVID
MAY 19, 2017 Trump intentionally froze hiring at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which fights infections diseases like COVID-19, and other health agencies
#6 Remember when the Kushner’s offered visas for $500K in Chinese investment
MAY 6, 2017 Jared Kushner’s sister asked Chinese businesses to invest in Kushner family-owned ventures in exchange for American visas to emigrate to the United States
#7 Remember when Trump shutdown the government the first time
MAY 5, 2017 Trump said the United States needed a “good shutdown” of the federal government to address a disagreement he had with Congress over the federal budget
#8 Remember when Trump shutdown the government again, this time for over a month
JAN 1, 2019 Trump presided over the longest shutdown of the federal government in history; it lasted 34 days, 13 days longer than the previous longest shutdown
#9 Remember when Trump tried to stop census gathering for political reasons
SEPT 5, 2020 Trump was ordered by a federal judge to continue census gathering operations when the administration tried stop efforts for political reasons
#10 Remember when Trump took the US out of the Paris Agreement
NOV 7, 2017 Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement, making the United State the only country in the world to reject the agreement it had previously signed
#11 Remember when Trump signed a bill that killed a worker safety rule
MARCH 28, 2017 Trump signed a bill that killed an Obama-era worker safety rule that required businesses competing for large federal contracts to disclose and correct serious safety and other labor law violations
#12 Remember when Trump called the COVID-19 pandemic a hoax and said it would just go away
MARCH 2020 Trump’s mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the most deaths and the most cases in the world
#13 Rember when Trump allowed people to enter the US from China after the COVID-19 outbreak began (and lied about it)
APRIL 4, 2020 Trump allowed at least 430,000 people to arrive in the United States on direct flights from China, including nearly 40,000 in the two months after President Trump imposed restrictions on such travel
#14 Remember when Trump forced out the top White House official in charge of the pandemic response
MAY 10, 2018 Trump closed the White House office that dealt with deadly pandemics and the senior official in charge of it resigned two years prior to the outbreak of COVID-19
#15 Remember when Trump described American soldiers who died in battle as “losers” and “suckers”
SEPT 3, 2020 Trump has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members, and asked that wounded veterans be kept out of military parades
#16 Remember when Trump’s campaign managers were convicted and charged with felonies
SEPT 2, 2020 Steve Bannon’s arrest began the further investigations that lead to six senior members of Trump’s 2016 campaign being confirmed or suspected as felons
#17 Rember when Trump told the CDC to soften coronavirus testing guidelines
AUG 26, 2020 Trump’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reversed prior policy to say that people without COVID-19 symptoms need not be tested, risking more disease spread by those without symptoms
#18 Remember when Trump’s new pandemic advisor pushed for “herd immunity”
AUG 31, 2020 Trump’s pandemic advisor Scott Atlas has advocated that the United States adopt the model Sweden has used to respond to the virus outbreak, which did not impose lockdown orders or close most schools and businesses
#19 Remember when Trump let brokers and agents take advantage of their clients by removing protections
MAY 7, 2019 Trump ended the “fiduciary rule” which required brokers and insurance agents to act in their clients’ best financial interest, allowing the increased sale of questionable financial products
#20 Remember when Trump said corona virus cases would soon go down to zero when it got warm
AUG 26, 2020 Trump predicted that the original fifteen COVID-19 cases would “go down to close to zero” and disappear when the weather got warmer
#21 Rember when Trump refused to release his tax returns
APRIL 17, 2017 Trump broke his own numerous promises to release his tax returns, ending 40 years of practice by every presidential candidate
#22 Remember when Trump asked the supreme court to overturn the ACA, removing protection for preexisting conditions
JUNE 25, 2020 Trump asked the Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare, which provides healthcare to 20 million Americans and protections for everyone with a preexisting medical condition
#23 Remember when Trump allowed Veteran Affairs to be run by his wealthy friends
AUG 7, 2018 Trump appointed Marvel Entertainment chairman Ike Perlmutter and two other Mar-a-Lago cronies to secretly shape the Trump administration’s veterans policies
#24 Remember when Trump’s enforcement of air pollution rules led to 10,000 more deaths
JULY 15, 2020 Trump has dismantled most of the major climate and environmental policies that were in place and rolled back many more rules governing clean air, water and toxic chemicals
#25 Rember when Trump made it easier for polluters to expose you to harmful mercury pollution
APRIL 16, 2020 Trump weakened regulations on the release of mercury and other toxic metals from oil and coal-fired power plants, another step toward rolling back health protections in the middle of a pandemic
#26 Remember when Trump tried to terminate payroll tax, which funds Social Security
AUG 25, 2020 Trump proposed tax changes would exhaust Social Security funding by 2023, endangering beneficiaries
#27 Remember when Trump undercut the postal system, which could effect the election
SEPT 24, 2020 Trump’s appointees had blamed lower-level managers for controversial changes that lead to mail delivery delays, but they had actually ordered the changes themselves
#28 Remember when Trump supported the appointment of Postmaster General Louis Dejoy, which led to mail delays
SEPT 24, 2020 Trump’s Postmaster General has implemented a series of cost-cutting measures that have caused the Postal Service to miss on-time delivery goals by “wide margins”
#29 Rember when Trump used CDC money for a COVID-19 ad campaign, instead of spending it to fight the virus
SEPT 25, 2020 Trump is using $300 million in funding from the Centers for Disease Control on an advertising campaign to “defeat despair” from COVID-19 and improve his image instead of to fight the disease itself
#30 Remember when Republicans tried to quickly fill Justice Ginsberg’s seat, even though they promised they would not in an election year
SEPT 21, 2020 Trump’s recent nominee to the Supreme Court risks overturning the Affordable Care Act, which provides health insruance to millions of Americans
#31 Remember when Trump was accused of undercutting the postal system
SEPT 24, 2020 Trump’s appointees had blamed lower-level managers for controversial changes that lead to mail delivery delays, but they had actually ordered the changes themselves
New things added every week through the election. Let us know what we missed!