What Trump Has Done - May 2026 Part Three

#May 2026

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• Informed that tomato prices were soaring as the Iran war, tariffs, and weather affect the popular crop

• Noted that federal prosecutors charged operator of ship that caused Baltimore's Key Bridge collapse

• Alarmed as inflation surged to 3.8 percent in April 2026, the highest level in nearly three years

• Remained silent as Russia continued to attack American-owned businesses in Ukraine

• Annoyed that a third federal appeals court rejected ICE’s mandatory detention policy

• Witnessed substantial 21 percent drop in ACA enrollments, following failure to extend subsidies

• Saw that dormant political committees for Kari Lake and Tulsi Gabbard were still receiving donations

• Delayed plan to suspend tariffs on imported beef after cattle ranchers and some congressional Republicans objected

• Released report on most favored nation drug pricing, which revealed new details and raised new questions

• Asserted, without evidence, that Congo released inmates from its prisons and sent them to US/Mexican border

• Discovered GOP members of Congress objected to spending $1 billion for a new White House ballroom

• Nonetheless, deployed administration officials to pitch the GOP on ballroom funding

• Removed details from government website about agreements with Google, xAI, and Microsoft to ‌test AI models

• Found administration sharply split over plan to give US intelligence agencies a bigger role in evaluating AI models