The Trump Presidency Timeline

In a stroke of breathtaking absurdity, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins tells struggling Americans to ditch grocery stores and become backyard chicken farmers—right as egg prices hit the stratosphere! This mind-blowing suggestion, apparently born from the deep intellectual wells of the Trump administration, ignores the fact that not everyone lives in a backyard utopia, and surprisingly, not all neighborhoods welcome chickens as future egg factories. Meanwhile, the administration sees fit to blame Biden for the mess they helped create, while recommending an almost comically naive solution that only shows their utter disconnect from reality. Keep your chicken feed close; it looks like you’ll need it!

When the President of the United States snarls at paper straws, you know we've officially entered the Twilight Zone of economic absurdity. Guy Spinelli gambled his life savings on a sustainable future reality, only to be blindsided by the same man he voted for, who now champions plastic like a deranged environmental villain. Sending tremors through the fledgling paper straw industry with a hissy fit worthy of a toddler, Trump's tantrum practically screams, 'Screw the planet, I prefer single-use convenience!' While spineless bureaucrats parade around claiming this is some innovative approach, it's clear the only thing collapsing faster than Spinelli's business is the integrity of our leadership.

Ryleigh Cooper, laboring away for the U.S. Forest Service, thought she was voting for change, not for a historic axe to her livelihood. Armed with optimism and a promise from Trump about free IVF, she found herself on the chopping block instead, betrayed by the one who lured her in with a fantasy. It’s just rich irony that after painstakingly building her career, she’s now staring down the barrel of unemployment thanks to a White House hell-bent on gutting federal jobs while swaggering around making empty promises to "help families." How’s that for a reality check? She wanted a child; instead, she got a big, fat nothing wrapped in bureaucratic bullshit.

Some Trump supporters are finally realizing they bought a lemon. UFC fighter Sean Strickland, once a die-hard fan, is now clutching his pearls over Trump’s plan to take over Gaza, wondering why "America First" doesn’t seem to include America. Meanwhile, right-wing pundits like Tucker Carlson and Sohrab Ahmari are discovering that Trump’s policies don’t quite match his populist shtick—shocking. As the administration steamrolls ahead with its own agenda, former loyalists are left grappling with the fine print on the snake oil they eagerly bought. Who could have seen this coming?

Trump’s VA purge just hit Atlanta, with over 1,000 employees laid off nationwide—but don’t worry, VA Secretary Doug Collins says it’s all for efficiency. Among those fired? Veterans like Nelson Feliz, Sr., a former U.S. Army First Sergeant, who now says he and his colleagues feel “mistreated” and “betrayed.” Feliz had been a VA employee for over a decade but was terminated under the administration’s probationary cuts, which seem less about performance and more about slashing payroll to redirect funds. Meanwhile, Collins is praising Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for gutting contracts and making the VA more “efficient”—because clearly, nothing helps veteran care like mass layoffs.

Trump’s hiring freeze is wreaking havoc at the VA, blocking crisis hotline staffing, delaying health care hires, and even temporarily stopping new volunteers from onboarding—because nothing says "support the troops" like crippling their access to care. VA employees report onboarding freezes, HR system lockouts, and mass firings of probationary staff, including some fired by mistake who are now being reinstated. Meanwhile, Veterans Crisis Line (VCL) workers warn the freeze is choking support services, with hotline responders overwhelmed, unable to hire critical backup staff, and facing a forced return to office that could see 60-70% of remote crisis workers quit overnight. But don't worry—Trump’s VA says it's all part of the plan to "bring as many employees back to the office as space permits." What could possibly go wrong?

Trump is canceling union agreements made in Biden’s final month, claiming they locked in “wasteful and failing policies”—because nothing says “pro-worker” like gutting federal labor protections. The sweeping rollback means thousands of federal employees could lose recently negotiated benefits, as Trump accelerates his war on the “deep state” and moves to slash remote work and enforce in-office mandates. Federal unions are preparing legal challenges, while the White House insists that any deals made before Inauguration Day “do not reflect the will of the American people”—because elections apparently erase contracts now.

Republicans loved Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—right up until it started gutting jobs and funding in their own backyards. Now, GOP lawmakers are scrambling to shield national parks, farm subsidies, and NIH research grants from Musk and Trump’s budget axe, even as the administration barrels ahead with mass layoffs and spending freezes. Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson is worried about 1,000 fired park rangers, Sen. Jerry Moran wants to protect farmers losing USAID contracts, and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito is fighting NIH cuts that hurt universities in her state. But the White House isn’t backing down, insisting the “spending freeze” is eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse—though Republicans are suddenly realizing “waste” means their constituents’ jobs.

Ah, the classic GOP dilemma: gut federal funding while scrambling to save their own bacon. Alabama Senator Katie Britt (R) is now frantically assuring voters that she and RFK Jr. will do everything they can to protect her state’s precious NIH funding—even as her party slashes it. Why? Because, shocker, Alabama’s biggest employer—the University of Alabama at Birmingham—relies on those “big government” grants to function. Britt is desperately spinning this as a fight against “waste” and “Communist China,” but the real panic is setting in as Republicans realize their own red-state economies depend on the very funding they want to kill. Now the question is: will Trump pivot to only defunding blue-state research institutions, or just those that fail the loyalty test? Stay tuned for more self-inflicted GOP chaos.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump torpedoed a bipartisan spending bill, and 9/11 first responders are paying the price. After Musk threw a tantrum on X and Trump backed him up, House Republicans ripped funding for the World Trade Center Health Program out of the budget, leaving 130,000 first responders and survivors without critical healthcare. Firefighter unions are furious, calling it "unthinkable" that, 23 years later, they’re begging for the government to remember the heroes of 9/11. But sure, let’s talk about real patriotism.

Virginia’s Community Health Centers Are Running Out of Money—And Trump’s Chaos Is to Blame

Even though a federal judge paused Trump’s disastrous funding freeze, half of Virginia’s community health centers still can’t access their grant money. Now, some are shutting down services, and others are closing locations entirely—all because the government’s financial pipeline is in shambles.

Virginia has 31 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) that serve over 400,000 patients a year, many in rural areas with limited access to healthcare. These clinics provide:

• Primary care
• Dental services
• Behavioral health
• Substance abuse treatment