Trump Action Archive

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• Supreme Court begins new term with cases threatening voting rights and election access — The Supreme Court's 2025–26 term opens with multiple cases poised to restrict voting access and election administration. Two redistricting cases (Louisiana v. Callais and Robinson v. Callais) challenge Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by attacking race-conscious redistricting even when it complies with VRA requirements. A case brought by Rep. Mike Bost seeks to prevent counting of late-arriving mail-in ballots postmarked before Election Day. A separate case challenges Mississippi's late-ballot law. National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, with Vice President Vance as a challenger, threatens to eliminate coordination limits between parties and candidates, potentially circumventing individual campaign contribution caps.

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• Trump warns military leaders of "enemy within" and suggests using Democratic cities as training grounds — On September 30, 2025, President Trump addressed hundreds of top military officials and warned darkly about the need to counter "the enemy within," declaring that "America is under invasion from within" and that "Democrats run most of the cities that are in bad shape." Trump suggested the military could be useful in his drive against crime in Democratic cities and could use these cities as military "training grounds," raising concerns about violations of the Posse Comitatus Act.
• Trump addressed military commanders on deploying troops in U.S. cities — President Trump spoke to assembled military commanders at Quantico, framing domestic civil unrest as an "invasion from within" equivalent to foreign military threats. He stated he had signed an executive order establishing a quick reaction force for quelling civil disturbances and indicated that deploying combat troops to major U.S. cities including San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles would be "a major part" of military operations. He referenced the constitutional oath to defend against "all enemies foreign and domestic" and characterized inner cities as a "war" requiring military intervention.
• Trump told military leaders to confront "enemy from within" — Speaking to hundreds of senior US military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on September 30, President Trump warned of an unspecified "enemy from within," stating "We're under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways, because they don't wear uniforms." He also suggested that cities like San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles could be used "as training grounds for our military," language echoing authoritarian rhetoric about internal enemies and military deployment against civilian populations.
• Trump deploys National Guard troops to Chicago in October — In October, President Trump deployed National Guard troops to Chicago, continuing the pattern of using military forces for domestic law enforcement and immigration enforcement purposes.

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• Trump threatened to withhold federal funds from NYC over mayoral candidate — On September 29, Trump posted on Truth Social that he would withhold federal funds from New York City if Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor, writing, "He won't be getting any of it, so what's the point of voting for him?" The threat represents an attempt to use federal funding as leverage to influence a local election.

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• Trump claimed FBI placed 274 agents in January 6 crowd — President Trump posted on social media claiming that the FBI placed "274 FBI Agents into the Crowd just prior to, and during, the January 6th" Capitol attack, "probably acting as Agitators and Insurrectionists." Trump criticized FBI Director Christopher Wray for contradicting this claim and accused Wray and former Director James Comey of "LYING." A Department of Justice inspector general report found no undercover FBI agents at the January 6 riots and that 26 confidential human sources were not authorized to enter the Capitol or break the law.
• Trump spread false claims about FBI agents at January 6 — After right-wing media outlet The Blaze mischaracterized an FBI report claiming 274 plainclothes FBI agents were "embedded in the crowd" to instigate the January 6 riot, Trump amplified the false claim on social media, demanding to know the identities of the agents and suggesting they acted as "agitators and insurrectionists." FBI Director Kash Patel was forced to issue a clarification stating agents were sent into crowd control after the riot was declared, not before or during it to incite violence.

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• Speaker Mike Johnson continued false claims about January 6 FBI agents — After FBI Director Kash Patel clarified that FBI agents were sent into the January 6 crowd after the riot was declared to assist with crowd control, not before or during to incite violence, Speaker Mike Johnson went on CNN and continued to repeat the false claim that "there were 274 FBI agents in the crowd," perpetuating the debunked conspiracy theory.

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• Trump posts directive to deploy troops to Portland — On September 27, Trump's social media account posted a directive to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon, to protect ICE facilities from what Trump characterized as attacks by "Antifa" and "domestic terrorists." Trump authorized "Full Force, if necessary." The post was based on Trump's assertion that Portland was a "war ravaged" city plagued by "anarchists" and "crazy people," claims contradicted by local officials and reporting.
• Trump directed troop deployment to Portland, Oregon — On September 27, Trump announced via Truth Social that he directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon, which he baselessly called "War ravaged" and "under siege" by antifa. Portland Mayor Keith Wilson responded that "the number of necessary troops is zero, in Portland and any other American city." The deployment was presented without evidence of the claimed crisis.
• Trump directed military deployment to Portland with authorization for full force — President Trump posted that he was directing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to provide troops to protect the ICE facility in Portland and "any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists," and authorized "Full Force, if necessary." The order came after Trump claimed the facility was under siege, but Senator Ron Wyden posted a video showing the ICE facility with no people present.
• Trump announced deployment of federal troops to Portland — Trump announced on Truth Social that he is directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to deploy federal troops to Portland, Oregon at the request of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to protect against what he characterized as attacks by "Antifa" and "domestic terrorists." Trump authorized "full force, if necessary." Oregon Governor Tina Kotek and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson both rejected the deployment, stating there is no insurrection or threat to national security warranting military presence in the city.

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• Trump administration installs "Presidential Walk of Fame" without Biden — The Trump administration introduced a "Presidential Walk of Fame" on the West Wing Colonnade of the White House, which features portraits of presidents in gold frames, except for Joe Biden's, whose portrait is substituted by a photograph of an autopen.