The List

Remember when he promised to release his taxes? Yeah. Instead he got the government to guarantee they can never be audited again. Buried in a settlement addendum — not announced, not explained, just quietly signed by his own Acting Attorney General — is a clause saying the IRS is “forever barred and precluded” from auditing Trump, his family, his businesses, his trusts, and anyone associated with them for any returns filed before the settlement date. Forever. Not this year. Not ever. ...

Courts said it was unconstitutional. He’s doing it anyway. Trump issued executive orders targeting four major law firms — Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, and Susman Godfrey. The punishment: bar their lawyers from federal buildings, revoke security clearances, terminate government contracts with their clients. The crime: representing clients he didn’t like, running diversity programs, having the wrong political associations. Lower court judges threw the orders out as unconstitutional. The administration appealed. They’re still fighting to make this stick. ...

While running the country, Trump reported 3,642 stock trades in the first quarter of 2026. Not “thousands” — 3,642. That’s 58 trades every single market day. Worth somewhere between $220 million and $750 million — they don’t have to tell you exactly, just a range. Think about what that means. The man setting trade policy, tariff policy, regulatory policy, and export controls holds massive positions in the companies affected by those decisions. Every policy call he makes, every executive order he signs, every phone call with a foreign leader — all of it happens while he’s sitting on hundreds of millions in corporate securities that go up or down based on what he does. ...

The administration was deporting people to countries they’d never lived in, with as little as six hours’ notice, with no meaningful chance to say “I’ll be killed if you send me there.” A federal judge ruled it unlawful. An appeals court expressed unease. The administration kept pushing anyway. This isn’t about whether someone should be deported. It’s about whether the government has to follow basic legal procedure before shipping a human being to a country where they might face persecution, torture, or death. Six hours. That’s what they were offering. Six hours to somehow prove you’ll be murdered if they put you on that plane. ...

He threw himself a military parade. And then threatened anyone who showed up to protest it. Trump warned that demonstrations around his parade would be met with “very big force.” Not “we’ll handle any disturbances appropriately.” Not “law enforcement will maintain order.” Very big force. Said out loud, in public, about American citizens exercising their constitutional right to protest. This is a president using the language of military intimidation against his own people for disagreeing with him in public. ...