Trump Action Tracker

Documenting the actions, statements, and plans of President Trump.

Tracking Trump’s administration actions that echo authoritarian regimes and may pose a threat to American democracy.

https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/

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. She started the project in February 2025, at first to help herself make sense of the actions of the Trump administration and then later to share with others. Her German parents were born in 1937 and 1941 and grew up in a post-war Germany coming to terms with what it had done. Understanding how quickly democratic norms can be lost – to devastating effect – motivated Christina to start this work.

Prof Pagel writes about the Trump administration on her Substack and Bluesky. She first introduced five broad domains of authoritarianism in her analysis of the first three weeks of the presidency, which she later expanded into ten domains. She has further written about the attacks of the administration on DEI, science, universities and democratic norms.

The glossary explains in more detail what sorts of actions are included within each of the ten domains.

She is supported by a small team of brilliant volunteers who help make this work!

Sandy Laping is a science communicator and is helping to track the actions and maintain the underlying spreadsheet.

Pete Duncanson is a software developer and built the original version of this website in his spare time to help him sleep a little more soundly at night with the knowledge that he was at least doing “something” in this moment of democratic danger.

Sheila Brookes, PhD, has vast experience in the field of child and family sciences having taught at the university level, provided training and technical assistance to many local, state, regional, and national organizations; and led numerous research and policy projects as a Senior Research and Policy Analyst. She carefully went over entries for the first few months of the administration and updated their descriptions to be more informative.