Trump Action Tracker – “Documenting the actions, statements, and plans of President Trump and his administration that echo those of authoritarian regimes and may pose a threat to American democracy, since January 2025…This project is led by Professor Christina Pagel, a UK-based health services researcher and science communicator. She created and maintains the dataset underlying the tracker, drawing on her background in data analysis and evidence-based policy to monitor and document how the trajectory of Trump’s presidency is aligned with the authoritarian playbook. There are a few different types of actions included in this domain:
- Any action weakening democratic checks and balances such as restricting press freedom, undermining the authority or oversight of Congress, reducing the independence of arms length bodies, violating political norms, making it harder to hold power to account, or restricting access to public information
- Any action undermining States’ rights
- Any action that undermines the Rule of Law, such as violating court orders or the Constitution, circumventing Congressional appropriated funds, attacking law firms or judges.
- Hollowing state / weakening federal institutions
- Suppressing dissent / Weaponising state power against ‘enemies’
- Controlling information including spreading misinformation and propaganda
- Control of science to align with state ideology
- Attacking universities, schools, museums, culture
- Dismantling Social Protections & Rights
- Corruption and Enrichment
- Aggressive Foreign Policy & Global Destabilisation
- Anti-immigrant or Militarised Nationalism
