Donald Trump
Coverage of the 45th president of the United States, from his domestic and foreign policy to his tweets.


The president’s hardline message helped him get elected. Now it appears to be backfiring.


And Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to say it.


Trump’s DOJ turns its back on police reform.


A former federal prosecutor explains the Trump administration’s bizarre handling of the Epstein Files.


The economic logic of deporting undocumented workers doesn’t add up.


And why he’ll get away with it.


The White House wants to send Medicaid recipients to the mines.


NATO countries will buy weapons from the US — and deliver them to Ukraine.


And they didn’t even bother to explain themselves.


The change reverses decades of federal policy.


A truly scary new revelation about Trump’s effort to circumvent the TikTok ban.


ICE just got its biggest cash infusion in more than two decades. We know how they’re going to spend it.


Trump wants to lay off thousands of federal employees. Now, he can.


The new tariff deadline is August 1, Trump says.


The push to strip non-native Americans of citizenship echoes a dark chapter in American history.


What’s happening in the Democratic Party? A Vox reporter explains.


The public tends to dislike big budget bills, and the way they’re passed.


It cuts taxes, slashes the safety net, funds deportations, harms the clean energy industry, and sends the debt soaring.


Republicans are at varying levels of misleading, avoidance, or denial about this.


The $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts will be felt by all Americans.


The Trump administration is withholding nearly $7 billion in education funding.


How a 1965 prediction of impending Canadian doom sheds light on Trump’s talk of the 51st state.


Trying to keep track of all the chaos is overwhelming. So here’s a one-stop guide to the turmoil this Court caused.


How Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” attacks abortion and reproductive care, in 2 charts.


The president’s “big, beautiful bill” just got worse.


Is this the start of the Democrats’ Tea Party?


Trump attacked Iran. What he did next was even more revealing.


This decision isn’t really about birthright citizenship.


Anti-vaxxers are coming for health recommendations parents rely on.


Republicans are proposing huge cuts to Medicaid. The impact on Americans’ health would be devastating.


The public doesn’t like it when the president actually does something.


The decision nullifies a treaty designed to protect immigrants from torture.


Two charts that show how the attack on Minnesota lawmakers is part of a dangerous trend.


Donald Trump brings America into Israel’s war on Iran.


Democrats can no longer paper over their party’s core contradiction.


Trump derided “kooky Tucker Carlson” — the leading right-wing voice opposing involvement in Israel’s Iran war.


Even with immigration raids, Trump has not surpassed Obama’s record.


It’s a case with high takes for freedom of speech and the rule of law.


Trump seems to be trying to associate himself with the attacks after the fact.

