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The White House "Presidential Walk of Fame" was updated in December 2025 with new explanatory plaques written in the voice and worldview of President Donald Trump; reporting shows the plaques range fr...
A new set of plaques—the White House’s so‑called “Presidential Walk of Fame”—was installed beneath portraits outside the West Wing and contains short, partisan character sketches that in many cases di...
President Donald Trump ordered bronze plaques —what his White House calls the “Presidential Walk of Fame”—installed beneath portraits of past U.S. presidents along the West Wing colonnade, and those p...
Contemporary reviews of the evidence show credible disagreement: objective linguistic and diary analyses detect , while doctors, aides, and contemporaneous medical exams found at the time; a formal Al...
Ronald Reagan used an explicitly racist slur in a 1971 taped phone call with President Richard Nixon—calling African U.N. delegates “monkeys”—a passage restored to public release in 2019 and documente...
No president has permanently removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday; Congress created MLK Day in 1983 and it became a federal paid holiday starting 1986 . Presidents have altered how ...
Since 2000 the largest absolute increases in the U.S. national debt were recorded under Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden, with roughly $6.0 trillion added to publicly held debt during Trump’s ful...
The education divide in Trump support has widened and shifted since 2016: , but the composition and intensity of those splits changed across Trump’s campaigns and into 2024–2025 . While Trump’s coalit...
The 25th Amendment sets two distinct routes for transferring presidential power when the president is incapacitated: a cooperative path where the president voluntarily yields power (Section 3) and a f...
Ronald Reagan used the line “Let’s make America great again” as a campaign pledge in his 1980 presidential run and it appeared on buttons and posters that year . Multiple retrospective accounts—academ...
Charlie Kirk grew up in the Chicago suburbs—sources variously name and as his birthplace and childhood home—and he attended before enrolling briefly at , which he left after a short time to pursue pol...
President Ronald Reagan did not unilaterally impose a blanket requirement that hospitals treat everyone; Congress enacted the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) in 1986 to stop hospita...
The Murdoch family is widely identified with conservative political causes and actors, and Rupert Murdoch’s media holdings — including Fox News and The Wall Street Journal — have a long record of supp...
Counting lies by presidents depends on methodology: fact‑check tallies and journalistic counts single out Donald Trump as having the largest recorded volume—The Washington Post’s count cited in multip...
At comparable points in their presidencies — notably around year-end points in re‑election cycles and first‑term benchmarks like the first 100 days — available sources show wide variation: Reagan and ...
Historical claims that multiple U.S. presidents showed dementia symptoms mix documented post-presidential diagnoses, contemporaneous concern, and retrospective speculation; the strongest documented ca...
Fifteen U.S. presidents are commonly listed as Freemasons if you count Lyndon B. Johnson (initiated but not raised); most reputable masonic and journalistic lists put the number at 14 or 15 and note G...
“Make America Great Again” is a political slogan with a long bipartisan history whose contemporary meaning is contested: supporters frame it as a call to restore economic strength, national sovereignt...
Most presidents since the War Powers Resolution’s passage in 1973 have resisted or tested it; Congress passed the law over President Richard Nixon’s veto in 1973 . Major modern presidents — including ...
Donald Rumsfeld was CEO of G.D. Searle (maker of NutraSweet/aspartame) in the late 1970s and joined Ronald Reagan’s transition team in 1980; reporting across multiple outlets ties him to efforts that ...