2017
2017 January
2017-01-01 Trump proposed a 16% cut to NOAA and deeper cuts to the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. Congress rejected both.
2017-01-01 Trump proposed major budget cuts to the U.S. Forest Service.
2017-01-01 Oracle CEO Larry Ellison donated $16.6M to the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, a non-profit that operates fifteen regional offices in the U.S. and Panama. A separate post on X suggested he also donated as early as 2009.
2017-01-02 Trump started a social-media attack campaign on North Korean leaders.
2017-01-03 News stories circulated around, “Make America Mate Again”.
2017-01-11 Scientific American published a story about how RFK distorted vaccine science.
2017-01-20 Trump ordered 238 pardons and commutations in his first term. In his second year of his first term he ordered 2000.
2017-01-20 The Trump administration used child separation as a deterrent to asylum seekers.
2017-01-20 In his inaugural address, Trump said the political establishment protected itself rather than ordinary citizens.
2017-01-20 Trump proposed budget cuts to the Minority Business Development Agency during his first term.
2017-01-20 During his first term, Trump repeatedly proposed budget cuts to the CDC, OSHA and the NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health).
2017-01-20 Though it originated in 1990, the Deep State conspiracy gained a lot of traction during Trump’s first presidency. The theory alleges a shadow government of unelected officials and corporate elites manipulate and run the country.
2017-01-25 Allegedly Steve Bannon, Tiffany Trump and Steven Mnuchin were all registered to vote in more than one state.
2017-01-26 National Parks social media accounts protested Trump’s climate policies after he advanced two major oil pipelines, archived climate
2017-01-28 Trump placed a travel ban on six Muslim majority countries.
2017 February
2017-02-12 During a Face the Nation interview, Stephen Miller denounced Judiciary power, talked about immigration, and announced “a great rebuilding of the armed forces” with “unquestioned military strength”.
2017-02-13 During his first term, Trump ramped up ICE enforcement as the first “surge”.
2017-02-13 The USCIS raised the threshold for credible fear during asylum interviews, resulting in a high rate of denials.
2017-02-22 Conservative writer Rod Dreher wrote, “LGBT activism is the tip of the spear at our throats in the culture war”.
2017 April
2017-04-01 Project Maven, run by Palantir, helped the Pentagon identify bomb targets.
2017-04-05 John Kelly acknowledged that illegal drugs from Mexico “mostly come through the ports of entry”, further confirming that building a wall would do nothing to stop drugs from entering the US.
2017-04-29 Snake Poem
2017 May
2017-05-01 Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, who oversaw the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
2017-05-01 The Criminal Consequence Initiative in Yuma, Arizona prosecuted first-time border crossers and enabled family separations involving children as young as 10 months old.
2017-05-11 Trump signed executive order “Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity”. Trump tweeted out in July, calling the board of this executive order his “VOTER FRAUD PANEL”.
2017-05-19 NATO allies needed reassurance that Trump had their backs after Trump accused NATO of not “paying their fair share” during his campaign trail. An article quoted Thomas Wright of Brooking Institution as saying, “the problem in the plan is that President Trump is the only president who has not yet explicitly endorsed Article 5. I understand that is not an accident”.
2017-05-21 The alt-right developed social platform GAB where white nationalists can freely express their opinions and views.
2017 June
2017-06-01 Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Climate Accord.
2017-06-05 Trump proposed firing 30,000 FAA workers from the federal payroll and privatizing the entire air traffic control system.
2017-06-07 Nikki Haley was a key figure in the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on North Korea.
2017-06-14 A gunman opened fire at a congressional baseball practice in Virginia, targeting Republican lawmakers.
2017 July
2017-07-06 Trump complained that the US had been pouring too much money into NATO, even claiming that “massive amounts of money is owed” back to the US. Context: The US receives global presence, economics (a higher GDP than all allies combined), technological investment, and essential capabilities like satellites.
2017 August
2017-08-11 During a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville a white supremacist drove into counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
2017-08-15 Trump called Unite the Right activists “very fine people”. David Duke submitted a social media post thanking Trump for his kind words about the protesters at the Unite the Right rally. Duke wrote, “Thank you President Trump for your honesty and courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa”.
2017-08-25 Trump pardoned Sheriff Joe Arpaio after Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt for defying a federal court order to stop racially profiling Latino motorists.
2017-08-25 Trump signed a memo to ban transgender people from serving in the U.S. military.
2017 October
2017-10-01 QAnon began on 4chan when an anonymous user claimed ‘Q clearance’ and posted cryptic pro-Trump messages and the slogan “Where we go one, we go all.”
2017-10-01 Larry Elder said on Fox & Friends, “Harvey Weinstein has had now – I think it’s over 30 accusations of sexual assault, including five accusations of rape. Whatever Donald Trump has done is child’s play compared to this”.
2017-10-01 Andrew Tate was banned from Twitter for saying women needed to “bear responsibility” for being sexually assaulted. Several videos have been taken down about comments made by Andrew Tate, such as 18-year-old women are more attractive than women in their 20s because “they’ve been through less dick”, that women should not be allowed to drive, and female self-defense is “bullshit”.
2017 November
2017-11-01 The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 reduced corporate tax from 35% to 21%. As a result, the richest people took their own tax breaks while inflating their own wealth, it was the largest stock buyback in history, it caused a 120% billionaire boom, and it widened the deficit.
2017-11-24 Trump attempted to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
2017 December
2017-12-06 Trump moved the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.