Independent public record / Administrations 45 + 47
Donald Trump’s presidencies, day by day
Every day leaves a record.
Power counts on you forgetting it.
Latest reviewed record
Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews as Xi began the first Chinese state visit to the United States in more than a decade; the ceremony preceded the September 24 White House talks and state dinner.
01 / The scale
We are building from both ends: opening day forward and the live edge backward. Every gap is labeled backlog—not quietly passed off as coverage.
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02 / By the numbers
A measured view of the reviewed record
These figures describe what this archive has documented so far. Switch the sample, follow the bars, and keep the denominator in view.
The reviewed sample, not the whole presidency
1.19 per documented day
3.24 per documented day
Normalized by publisher name
Calendar months containing reviewed dossiers
most frequent archive tag
1285 of 1285 dossiers
Gaps remain explicitly labeled
01 / Tagged fault lines
02 / Evidence
03 / Research density
05 / Sample comparison
Administration II currently has 612 reviewed days. Its per-day rates are descriptive, not a fair whole-term comparison.
06 / Outside the archive sample
22 of 100 cells are filled; the display rounds the exact 21.7% rate to the nearest whole percent.
+6.0 pts Term II’s tracked-property rate is higher.
Presence at a golf property is not proof of a played round. A stricter tracker reports 120 confirmed outings — 21.9% of Term II days.
Through · methodology ↗ · data ↗ · confirmed-outing comparison ↗
07 / Public judgment
Points sit at the first day of each fieldwork window. The first-term series is Gallup weekly. The second-term series uses Gallup through 2025 and named national all-adult pollsters thereafter, as compiled by The American Presidency Project. Changes in pollster, mode and fieldwork create house effects; read the broad direction, not every small zigzag.
Sources: Gallup weekly ↗ · first-term table ↗ · second-term table ↗
03 / The record
2 reviewed spans · 1,285 documented days
Latest seven reviewed days
Seven days of power, compressed into one briefing. Open any dispatch for the facts, consequences, caveats and complete source trail.
Trump met Chinese President Xi Jinping at Joint Base Andrews as Xi began the first Chinese state visit to the United States in more than a decade; the ceremony preceded the September 24 White House talks and state dinner.
The United States, Denmark and Greenland signed an agreement expanding U.S. military access while preserving Danish sovereignty and Greenlandic self-determination; Trump then framed military force as the core of his U.N. address.
CNN, MS NOW and Politico sued after their credentials were disabled; the White House defended the removals, while the other major television networks suspended pool coverage in solidarity.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said U.S. negotiators proposed a mechanism for notifying China about artificial-intelligence incidents reaching the national-security level, ahead of Trump's meeting with Xi Jinping.
After Trump announced a Greenland security agreement in expansive terms, Danish and Greenlandic leaders said the prospective pact would expand U.S. military access without surrendering territorial sovereignty or Greenlandic self-determination.
An executive order expanded interagency scrutiny of skilled-worker visas and employer layoffs; hours later, Trump said CNN, MS NOW and Politico were barred because he disliked their coverage.
Two executive orders directed agencies to expand recreational access and revise fisheries management, while a Fish and Wildlife directive said accidental killing generally would not qualify as an illegal take unless protected wildlife was intentionally targeted.
The rest of the record
Use the time machine for an exact office day, or open the archive index to search, filter and page through reviewed dossiers in compact batches.
Compact archive index
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04 / The standard
Ruthless does not mean reckless. The point is to make the record harder to evade—not easier to dismiss.
Verified events and attributed reporting appear as the record. Our judgment appears separately under an explicit Editorial analysis label.
Orders, court records, agency releases, votes, and transcripts anchor the facts. Reuters, AP, and rigorous national reporting supply independent context and scrutiny.
Source markers sit beside the passages they support. Every dossier includes publisher, title, date, source type, and a direct link.
Each record carries a review date and correction history. Before public launch, edits remain visible in version history; a public correction desk is a launch requirement.
05 / The build
This is a working archive, not a victory lap. The system is in place; most of the record is not. We will add one rigorously sourced month at a time, deepen individual days when the evidence changes, and show exactly where the work stops.
No sane person can remember it all. So we will.