Highly unusual presidential conduct, symbolic actions and political theater with institutional significance.
Apple Maps showed Lake Ontario labeled "Lake America" on Sept. 1, according to a review by Axios, five days after Trump signed an executive order renaming the lake. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said on Fox Business the...
Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday that "The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in that we don't expect to doing much business with Ontario any longer,"...
Trump waved the green flag on Sunday, Aug. 23, to start the Freedom 250 Grand Prix, the first IndyCar race run through downtown Washington. Kyle Kirkwood won the 147-lap race, which ran past the Smithsonian's National...
At a rally in Myrtle Beach on the night of Aug. 21, President Trump asked supporters to treat the November midterms as though his own name appeared on the ballot. "The problem that we have is, they say that Trump does...
The Navy is working to rename the aircraft carrier under construction as the USS Doris Miller, three sources familiar with internal discussions told CNN on Aug. 20, and two said there have been internal conversations...
Politico reported on Aug. 17, 2026 that Palm Beach County records showed President Trump cast a mail ballot in Florida's primary, which included the governor's race. PolitiFact reported the next day that an Aug. 18...
The Associated Press called Minnesota's Republican gubernatorial primary for state House Speaker Lisa Demuth late on Aug. 11, with Demuth leading MyPillow founder Mike Lindell roughly 43% to 33% with about 265,000 votes...
Contractors began dismantling the 100-foot-wide granite presidential seal installed on President Trump's new White House helipad on Aug. 4, 2026, after he objected to its appearance and to the downward slope of the South...
The National Park Service released an assessment on Aug. 3, 2026 finding that Trump's proposed 250-foot Triumphal Arch would adversely affect dozens of historic sites in and around Washington — about 40 by the agency's...
Hours before U.S. Central Command announced a new round of strikes, President Trump wrote on Truth Social that "1000 missiles are locked and loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands more to...