The President's Wealth
Projects
Presidential Projects Tracker
Projects
Every major initiative, construction project, military operation, and legislative effort — sourced from federal records, congressional testimony, and verified journalism.
Infrastructure & Construction
Infrastructure · Ongoing
Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool
$13.1M
National Mall · Washington, D.C.
A no-bid contract awarded to a firm linked to Trump's golf club. Originally quoted at $1.8M, the cost ballooned more than sevenfold. A federal lawsuit challenges the project as violating historic preservation law.
⚠ High Controversy
Construction · Ongoing
White House East Wing Ballroom
$400M private · $1B taxpayer security
White House · Washington, D.C.
The historic East Wing demolished in October 2025. Promised as privately funded; Republicans now seeking $1 billion in taxpayer money for security. No initial congressional approval obtained.
⚠ Critical Controversy
Infrastructure · Ongoing
Kennedy Center Renovation
$257M taxpayer funded
Washington, D.C.
Trump fired the board, installed loyalists, named himself chairman, and secured $257 million — 6× the normal annual support — while proposing to eliminate the NEA. Two-year closure begins July 2026.
Moderate Controversy
Military Operations
Military · Ongoing
Iran: Operation Midnight Hammer & War
1,300+ civilian deaths · No congressional approval
Iran · Middle East
U.S. B-2 bombers struck three Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025. By February 2026, a full-scale war began including decapitation strikes. A girls' elementary school in Minab was struck, killing 165, mostly children.
⚠ Critical Controversy
Military · Completed
Venezuela: Operation Absolute Resolve
150+ aircraft · 2h 28m · No congressional auth.
Caracas, Venezuela · January 3, 2026
U.S. special forces and DEA captured President Nicolás Maduro at Venezuela's largest military complex. CIA tracked Maduro for months. Delta Force rehearsed on a compound mockup. 32 Cuban forces killed.
⚠ High Controversy
Military · Ceasefire
Yemen: Operation Rough Rider
1,000+ strikes · $1B+ · 238 civilians killed
Yemen · March–May 2025
52-day air campaign — launched after classified plans were shared in an unsecured Signal chat — killed nearly as many civilians as the previous 23 years of U.S. action in Yemen. Ceasefire declared May 6; Houthis kept firing at Israel.
⚠ High Controversy
Economic Policy
Economic Policy · Ongoing
The Tariff War
$1,500 avg household cost · GDP –0.3%
Global
"Liberation Day" tariffs on April 2, 2025 were the largest U.S. tax increase as a share of GDP since 1993. The Supreme Court struck down the core IEEPA tariffs as unconstitutional in February 2026. Agricultural exports to China collapsed.
⚠ High Controversy
Legislation · Enacted
One Big Beautiful Bill Act
$4.5T tax cuts · $3.4T deficit increase
United States · Signed July 4, 2025
The largest cuts to social safety net programs in U.S. history. $1T+ from Medicaid, $186B from SNAP — to fund tax cuts that mostly benefit the highest earners. CBO: 12 million Americans lose health coverage.
⚠ Critical Controversy
Governance & Federal Institutions
Governance · Completed (Musk phase)
DOGE: The Federal Purge
$2T promised · $215B claimed · Spending +6%
Federal Government
Elon Musk's 130-day purge of the federal government. 300,000+ employees removed — the largest peacetime workforce reduction on record. Agencies dismantled. Spending actually rose. Musk: only "somewhat successful."
⚠ High Controversy
Foreign Aid · Dismantled
USAID: Dismantled in Six Weeks
83% of programs eliminated · $30B/yr zeroed
100+ Countries
The U.S. Agency for International Development was effectively shut down without congressional authorization. Children died as aid lifelines ended. Musk: his team "spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper."
⚠ Critical Controversy
Immigration · Ongoing
Alien Enemies Act & CECOT
238 imprisoned without trial · Court orders defied
El Salvador · United States
A 1798 wartime law invoked for the first time since WWII. Planes sent while a federal judge's order was being defied. Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a man with legal status — mistakenly deported and imprisoned. Supreme Court ruled 7–2: due process violated.
⚠ Critical Controversy
Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy · Resolved (partially)
Greenland: The Annexation Threat
Military force threatened · 8 NATO allies tariffed
Greenland · Denmark · NATO
Trump threatened military force and economic coercion to seize territory from a NATO ally. Danish PM: "If the U.S. attacks another NATO country militarily, everything stops." Republican Rep. Bacon: "This is appalling." Russia welcomed the NATO division.
⚠ High Controversy
Foreign Policy · Proposed
Gaza: "The Riviera of the Middle East"
2.3M Palestinians to be relocated · UN: ethnic cleansing
Gaza Strip · Middle East
Trump proposed the U.S. "take over" and "own" Gaza, displacing its 2.3 million Palestinian inhabitants to build a Mediterranean resort. Every Arab ally rejected it. UN Secretary-General: the plan risked ethnic cleansing. Violates the Geneva Conventions.
⚠ Critical Controversy
Multiple · Various
Other Controversies
Signal leak · Zelenskyy · Hernández · Nigeria · Golden Dome
Multiple
The Signal chat that leaked classified Yemen strike plans. The televised berating of Zelenskyy. The pardon of a drug lord president. Nigeria Tomahawk strikes. Golden Dome missile defense. January 6 mass pardons. 550+ lawsuits against the administration.
⚠ High Controversy