The Trump Presidency Timeline

The Trump administration has discovered a bold new national security threat: affordable, renewable energy. Doug Burgum’s Department of the Interior abruptly froze construction on five major offshore wind projects — Vineyard Wind 1, Sunrise Wind, Empire Wind, Revolution Wind, and Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind — claiming the turbines might create radar "clutter" that could somehow endanger the military. This, despite Pentagon assessments under Biden that said Revolution Wind would not harm Defense Department missions, and despite the minor detail that the same administration is totally fine with oil rigs, tankers, and whatever else clutters up the ocean as long as it burns nicely.

This pause comes on the heels of a federal judge already ruling Trump’s earlier wind permit ban "arbitrary and capricious and contrary to law" — in other words, illegal cosplay masquerading as policy. So naturally, instead of complying with the law, the White House doubled down and escalated its war on wind, threatening billions in investment, thousands of jobs, and badly needed clean power just as AI-driven electricity demand spikes. Because nothing says "protecting the American people" like sabotaging cheap homegrown energy to keep a bunch of dying coal plants on taxpayer-funded life support.

Trump, who has hated wind ever since it offended the view from his Scottish golf course, summed up the intellectual rigor of the policy at a rally: "Wind is the worst… that’s a scam." In reality, wind is among the cheapest energy sources on the planet, but sure, let’s pretend the real emergency is spinning blades in the Atlantic and not the administration systematically kneecapping the country’s largest source of new renewable power. The message is clear: if it helps the climate, the grid, or consumers, this White House will find a way to call it a security risk and shut it down.

Donald Trump has once again decided that international law is more of a vibe than a rulebook, appointing Louisiana governor Jeff Landry as "special envoy to Greenland" – a semi-autonomous part of Denmark that he has repeatedly said he wants to annex, like it’s a golf course with better ice. Landry proudly announced he’ll serve in a "volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the United States", because nothing says respect for sovereignty like publicly declaring your goal is to absorb someone else’s territory.

Denmark’s government, apparently still under the illusion that borders mean something, called the move "deeply upsetting" and reminded Washington that Danish territorial integrity is not a suggestion box. Greenland’s prime minister politely responded with the diplomatic equivalent of "absolutely not", stressing that "Greenland belongs to Greenlanders" and that an American envoy doesn’t magically turn their island into Trump National Nuuk. Polls show Greenlanders overwhelmingly oppose joining the US, which makes this whole project very on-brand: an administration that can’t win consent at home now fantasizing about forced acquisitions abroad.

Trump, back in the White House and once again fixated on Greenland’s "strategic location" and mineral wealth, is now refusing to rule out using force to take control of the island – against a NATO ally, during escalating Arctic competition, in a region central to US and alliance security planning. In other words: the guy who screams about "sovereignty" every time someone criticizes him is now openly toying with threatening an ally’s sovereignty to grab resources, because . But sure, tell us again how this is all about national security and not a half-baked colonial fantasy with nuclear submarines.

The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado—one of the world’s premier climate research institutions—because nothing says “great again” like shuttering the lab that studies the thing currently cooking your country. Office of Management and Budget ghoul Russell Vought announced the execution on X, calling NCAR “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism,” which is a fun way of saying “they keep accurately describing reality and that’s bad for our donors.”

Vought, the Project 2025 architect of America’s new climate Lysenkoism, has been trying to zero out climate research across government, from NOAA to other federal labs, so that oil and gas companies—who conveniently dropped at least $75 million into Trump’s campaign—never again have to worry about pesky concepts like “evidence” or “human survival.” Meanwhile, Trump’s Department of Energy put out a propaganda report pretending greenhouse gases aren’t a problem, which was obliterated by more than 85 climate scientists and contradicted by the National Academy of Sciences, so now EPA is expected to just drop the science part altogether and go full vibes on overturning the endangerment finding.

In other words, we’ve reached the “Stalin, but for Exxon” phase of the Trump project: purge the scientists, destroy the data, and replace decades of peer-reviewed research with whatever the former Liberty Energy CEO and a handful of handpicked cranks can scribble down between industry meetings. Climate researchers are losing jobs, participation at major scientific conferences is collapsing, and the administration is proudly turning the ransacking of the library of Alexandria into a policy model. But sure, tell us more about how this is all about “energy dominance” and not just a fossil-fueled bonfire of the future.

The redacted Epstein files are out, which is Washington-speak for: "Here is a stack of black rectangles where accountability was supposed to be." The public gets a government-issued Rorschach test, and surprise, it still looks like a decades-long protection racket for powerful creeps. Because nothing says "we take this seriously" like turning key names and details into a CIA-approved blackout poem.

All this lands while Trump is already under fire for his stellar handling of the economy — you know, the one where working people get vibes and volatility while billionaires get tax cuts and bailouts. In other words, it's business as usual: the rich and connected float above the law in a sea of redactions, and everyone else gets to argue about gas prices while wondering which of their "leaders" needed that many pages blacked out.

Donald Trump, America’s most famous casino theologian, has decided the real global crisis isn’t war, famine, or climate collapse—it’s the "mass slaughter" of Christians in Nigeria, which he’s helpfully pairing with threats of a U.S. invasion. Because nothing says "religious freedom" like using the Pentagon as your missions committee.

Back home, the administration is busy turning Maga Christianity into an official state religion with better branding. Trump handed Pam Bondi a shiny new taskforce to root out "anti-Christian bias," moved to "protect prayer" in public schools (translation: government-approved performative piety), and issued a memo identifying "anti-Christianity" as a potential driver of terrorism. In other words, the state is now in the business of defining which religion gets special protection and which dissenters get quietly reclassified as security threats. But sure, tell us more about how other countries are hostile to religious liberty.

The pastors in this piece are the inconvenient Christians—the ones who actually read "love thy neighbor" and thought it wasn’t a typo. While Maga preachers bless ICE raids and anti-LGBTQ+ crusades, these folks are running immigrant-support vigils in Oklahoma, escorting undocumented people to their hearings, and organizing letter campaigns to demand basic human decency from GOP officials like Kevin Stitt and James Lankford. In Minneapolis, they’re teaming up with Moms Demand Action to push for assault-weapons bans after a church shooting killed two kids, because unlike the White House, they think "thoughts and prayers" should be followed by legislation.

From Chicago protests under National Guard occupation to Florida clergy camping outside "Alligator Alcatraz" to oppose Trump’s detention dystopia, local faith leaders are doing the radical Christian thing of… acting like Christians. Meanwhile, Trump 2.0 is busy baptizing authoritarianism in holy water and calling it "religious liberty." The good news? There’s a growing movement of pastors who’ve decided that if the choice is between state-backed Maga Christianity and the actual gospel, they’re siding with the guy who talked about immigrants and the poor—not the one who sells $399 Bible bundles on Truth Social.