Site that tracked the Trump administration?
November 8, 2024 3:56 AM   Subscribe

Does anyone remember the site during the first Trump administration that posted simple factual statements each day about what the administration did that day? No judgemental phrasing, just "X said Y. Department of Z decided A."

The inspiration was the way fascist governments gaslight and warp reality and the way the media allows it and the truth gets lost in a memory hole.
posted by kokaku to Law & Government (4 answers total) 26 users marked this as a favorite
 
Response by poster: If I'm remembering right, this was maintained by an individual or small group of people, not an official media site.
posted by kokaku at 3:59 AM on November 8, 2024


Best answer: What The Fuck Just Happened Today?
posted by pickles_have_souls at 4:35 AM on November 8, 2024 [14 favorites]


Best answer: Amy Siskind kept The Weekly List during Trump's first term and she plans to start again during his second. I'm not sure about completely neutral but yes, it's pretty straightforwardly factual with very little opinion conveyed. It's usually just a list of bullet points of what happened that week. It may be what you're thinking of.

Because you asked about this, I wonder if you would also be interested in reading Heather Cox Richardson's "Letters From An American". This does present opinions, but not *just* opinions. The point of the column is to contextualize the Trump administration's actions by locating parallels or contrasts in history and current global affairs. It's very well written.
posted by MiraK at 4:46 AM on November 8, 2024 [7 favorites]


Linked at the top of WTFJHT is another site I like for this purpose, Current Status. It's more politics-focused than Trump-focused, but now that Trump is on his way back into the White House, there's little difference.
posted by emelenjr at 9:52 AM on November 9, 2024


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