2020
2020
2020-01-01 Leaders of the “Stop the Steal” movement promoted false claims of fraud in the 2020 elections and organized protests leading up to the J6 insurrection.
2020-01-01 In the book “Hatemonger” by Jean Guerrero interviewees accounted Stephen Miller bullying Hispanic students, and saying, “it doesn’t matter what the truth is, but how it makes people feel”.
The TradWife movement took off on social media - predominantly among white, conservative women with money.
2020 January
2020-01-03 Religious leaders held a prayer circle during a rally in 2020.
2020-01-06 Trump ordered the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
2020-01-08 In 2016, 2020, and 2024 Trump campaigned against any wars in the Middle East and bashed his predecessors for it. He even claimed Kamala Harris would start a war in Iran if she had won the presidency.
2020-01-17 Politico released hours of Facebook videos in which Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly ranted about Muslims, Black people, George Soros, Jews, and other stuff.
2020-01-22 The Attorney General alleged that Trump misused inaugural funds.
2020 February
2020-02-27 Trump sued the New York Times for defamation in an opinion piece.
2020 March
2020-03-06 From 2020 to current Trump has made several comments about the genetics of migrants. In 2020 the Trump administration required Homeland Security to collect DNA from immigration detainees. In October 2024, Trump blamed migrants for having “bad genes”, adding there are “a lot of bad genes in our country right now” and immigrants entering the US illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country”. In 2026 Trump was interviewed on Fox by Brian Kilmeade. Allegedly he stated, “They shouldn’t have been let in. They’re just bad. Their genetics – They are not exactly your genetics”.
2020-03-16 The stock market crashed.
2020-03-18 Trump received media attention for referring to COVID as the “China virus” which he said was “because it comes from China”.
2020-03-20 Trump clashed with NBC reporters.
2020-03-24 Trump falsely claimed that COVID would “disappear” by Easter.
2020-03-27 Trump signed a $2.2T stimulus bill called the CARES Act.
2020-03-27 Apple released a dedicated COVID-19 app with screening tools, symptom checkers, and CDC guidelines.
2020-03-29 Trump clashed with PBS reporters.
2020 April
2020-04-01 Karoline Leavitt leveraged “blue-collar roots,” though reports said her family business received $250,635 in two Paycheck Protection Program loans in February and April 2020, as well as two Economic Injury Disaster (EIDL) Loans totaling $160,000, also in April 2020.
2020-04-20 Trump threatened to send law enforcement officials to polling locations.
2020-04-22 Trump clashed with CNN reporters.
2020-04-23 During a COVID press conference, Trump mused over injecting disinfectant as treatment. When a reporter told Trump to stop spreading dangerous misinformation Trump lashed out.
2020 May
2020-05-26 Trump made accusations on a Twitter post of alleged 2020 election interference. Josh Hawley reposted the tweet and added that Twitter was getting subsidized by the federal government for that interference in the form of “special immunity”.
2020-05-26 America invested $15M to prevent screwworm and saved farmers an estimated $796M in damages.
2020-05-27 Trump wrote, “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that…happen again. Just like we can’t let large scale Mail-in Ballots take root in our country. It would be a free for all on cheating, forgery, and theft of Ballots. Whoever cheated the most would win. Likewise, Social Media. Clean up your act, NOW!!!”.
2020 June
2020-06-01 Law enforcement used excessive force to remove racial justice protestors from Lafayette Square. Trump asked if he could order law enforcement to “just shoot” the protestors.
2020-06-01 Polymarket was launched and gained rapid traction during both of Trump’s terms.
2020-06-01 Workers filed a class action lawsuit against the Trump campaign over a non-disclosure agreement.
2020-06-02 Since 2020, Republicans have repeatedly claimed George Soros funds left-wing protests or chaos.
2020-06-28 Mark and Patricia McCloskey pointed firearms at protesters outside their Missouri home.
2020 July
2020-07-02 The ACLU and a Catholic priest filed separate lawsuits challenging the federal government’s expedited execution of Wesley Purkey.
2020-07-07 Julie Kelly published “Disloyal Opposition: How the NeverTrump Right Tried—and Failed—to Take Down the President”.
2020-07-24 The ACLU sued Trump over a new census order.
2020 August
2020-08-01 Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkhman continued their robocall campaign in Detroit to suppress Black voters. Both plead no contest to voter intimidation August 2025.
2020-08-17 Trump claimed publicly that “the only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged”.
2020-08-25 Kyle Rittenhouse shot three protesters during unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was acquitted on all charges including first-degree intentional homicide and later received support from many conservatives. Reports later stated Kash Patel assisted in efforts to pursue lawsuits on Rittenhouse’s behalf.
2020 September
2020-09-04 Trump called fallen soldiers, “suckers” and “losers”.
2020-09-11 The first Trump administration withheld healthcare funds for FDNY’s 9/11 responders. GOP members frequently post “Never Forget”, but then they turn around and forget our heroes.
2020-09-15 The Abraham Accords were officially signed as an agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. It was sponsored by Trump.
2020-09-17 Trump posted, “No one has been more wrong, more often than Biden. He voted FOR the Iraq War, he supported the defense sequester that gutted our military, he opposed the mission to take out Osama bin Laden, he opposed killing Soleimani, he oversaw the rise of ISIS, and he cheered the rise of…China as a “positive development” for America and the world. If it were up to Joe, bin Laden and Soleimani would still be alive, ISIS would be still on the rampage, and China would now be the dominant power in the world – not America.”.
2020-09-19 Trump backed a TikTok deal where Oracle and Walmart partnered with ByteDance; Walmart would hold 7.5% and ByteDance 80%.
2020 October
2020-10-13 After Trump boosted a QAnon-linked Bin Laden conspiracy, a Navy SEAL from the raid publicly refuted the claim.
2020-10-28 Trump handed farmers bailouts after his first trade war.
2020 November
2020-11-06 Trump supporters made a spectacle of themselves outside Clark County Election Department in Nevada.
2020-11-07 Trump made threats to prosecute over the Biden victory.
2020-11-07 As news outlets reported a Biden victory, Trump tweeted out “I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!” and stated, “this election is far from over”.
2020-11-09 Trump’s former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany repeatedly pushed false claims of election fraud and told Fox she wanted all Pennsylvanian ballots thrown out. After a financial disclosure statement was released showing she funds from both Trump and TPUSA the Fox broadcast system put out a statement saying that she “is not currently an employee or contributor at FOX News”.
2020-11-16 Trump sued a Wisconsin television station over a political advertisement funded by a liberal super PAC.
2020-11-20 Jay Bhattacharya authored the Great Barrington Declaration in 2020 which argued against COVID lockdowns even before vaccines were developed. In 2026 he was the acting CDC director who blocked COVID vaccination reports.
2020-11-24 Vance said on The Chris Buskirk Show, “There’s just these basic cadences of life that I think are really powerful and really valuable when you have kids in your life. And the fact that so many people, especially in America’s leadership class, just don’t have that in their lives, you know, I worry that it makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less…less mentally stable”.
2020 December
2020-12-01 Jeanine Pirro contributed to voting system misinformation during the 2020 elections, as she was the center of a $1.6B defamation suit against Fox by Dominion over false claims. Allegedly a Fox News producer called her a “reckless maniac” in an internal company email, and Conservative legal experts wrote a report in 2022 saying Trump and his allies never provided any actual evidence of fraud.
2020-12-15 After Biden won Trump posted, “This Fake election can no longer stand. Get moving Republicans”.
2020-12-19 Trump posted, “Big protest in D.C on january 6th Be there, will be wild!”
2020-12-21 The NAACP sued Trump over allegations that the administration is deliberately trying to disenfranchise Black voters in Michigan.
2020-12-22 Dominion employees sued Trump for defamation.