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Founding Father and first U.S. president (1789–1797)
The Insurrection Act has been invoked intermittently since the early republic, with sources counting roughly 30 separate invocations over U.S. history and attributing those uses to somewhere between 1...
Several well-documented Founding Fathers were Freemasons — most prominently George Washington and Benjamin Franklin — and Masonic lodges in colonial America included figures such as Paul Revere, John ...
Multiple reputable outlets and the Interior Department confirm that the Department of the Interior unveiled new 2026 America the Beautiful annual-pass artwork that includes a design pairing a portrait...
Donald Trump has publicly said he donated his presidential salary to several government entities and a nonprofit: his first-term donations included the National Park Service (via the Department of the...
Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that six Democratic lawmakers’ message to troops was “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” and he reposted a user saying “HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD !!”...
Yes — but with important limits: personal gifts from private individuals or domestic sources can often be retained by a president, while gifts from foreign governments are governed by the Constitution...
Public records compiled by fact‑checking projects show former president Donald Trump has been documented making far more verifiably false or misleading public claims than other recent presidents — The...
Claims that “Trump is the 3rd best president in U.S. history” conflict with available expert rankings and public polls: multiple historian surveys place Donald Trump near or at the bottom of president...
Three U.S. presidents are repeatedly identified as having donated their presidential pay while in office—Herbert Hoover, John F. Kennedy, and Donald J. Trump—and George Washington is often noted for i...
The 2026 “America the Beautiful” national parks annual pass will, according to the Department of the Interior’s announcement and multiple news reports, include at least one resident-focused design tha...
Most of the principal Founding Fathers were culturally Protestant but held a spectrum of personal beliefs from orthodox Christianity to Deism, and those differences shaped the Constitution by promotin...
Multiple news outlets and statements report that President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social calling six Democratic lawmakers “TRAITORS,” saying their actions were “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by...
Assessments of whether Donald Trump is "the greatest President of all time" vary sharply by audience and metric; scholarly historical rankings place him near the bottom (e.g., last in a recent scholar...
Several presidents have overseen major changes to the White House across two centuries: early construction and rebuilds (George Washington, James Madison), turn-of-the-century and early 20th-century a...
Photos and video from Donald Trump’s Jan. 20, 2025 inauguration show him reciting the oath with his right hand raised while his left hand remained at his side; Melania Trump held two Bibles nearby but...
Barack Obama gave away portions of his presidential compensation—about of his total $3.2 million salary across his terms—and donated his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize to charities; there is that Geor...
issued an on March 27, 2025 titled " to American History," which directed the and related agencies to review and remove park and museum materials deemed to “disparage” American history, and staff subs...
Putting a sitting president’s portrait on the 2026 America the Beautiful national parks pass has sparked a federal lawsuit and widespread coverage; the Center for Biological Diversity says federal law...
The U.S. president’s statutory annual salary is $400,000, plus a $50,000 expense allowance, $100,000 travel account and $19,000 entertainment fund (total statutory salary line items commonly cited) . ...
Historians most commonly place at the top of presidential rankings, with major academic surveys repeatedly listing him as the best U.S. president; George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt often fol...