{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "The Donald Files", "home_page_url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/", "feed_url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/feed.json", "description": "The Donald Files — Brutal. Factual. Documented. Sourced reporting and snark on Trump, with every receipt in the file.", "icon": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/default.png?v2", "language": "en-US", "items": [ { "id": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/wh-youtube-trump-tv/", "slug": "wh-youtube-trump-tv", "url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/wh-youtube-trump-tv/", "title": "He banned the pool, then launched Trump TV on YouTube", "summary": "Kick the cameras out, flip on Channel 47, call it “unfiltered.” Same week. Same White House. Same taxpayer YouTube account.", "image": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/wh-youtube-trump-tv.png?v2", "date_published": "2026-09-24T16:00:00Z", "tags": [ "REPORTS" ] }, { "id": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/trump-un-blunders/", "slug": "trump-un-blunders", "url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/trump-un-blunders/", "title": "UNGA’s greatest hits: the laugh track, the broken teleprompter, and seven wars that weren’t", "summary": "From the chamber laughing at his 2018 boast to a 2025 speech that opened with “whoever’s operating this teleprompter is in big trouble,” Trump’s UN podium still delivers — and the fact-checkers bring receipts.", "image": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/trump-un-blunders.png?v2", "date_published": "2026-09-24T16:00:00Z", "tags": [ "REPORTS" ] }, { "id": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/truth-social-save-america-act-photo-id/", "slug": "truth-social-save-america-act-photo-id", "url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/truth-social-save-america-act-photo-id/", "title": "Two lines, one midterm choke: photo ID + proof of citizenship", "summary": "Labor Day morning, Trump boiled the SAVE America Act down to an all-caps checklist — every voter shows photo ID, every voter shows proof of citizenship — while the Senate still won’t give him the bill and midterms loom.", "image": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/truth-social-save-america-act-photo-id.png?v2", "date_published": "2026-09-14T16:00:00Z", "tags": [ "REPORTS" ] }, { "id": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/truth-social-white-house-dump-ballroom/", "slug": "truth-social-white-house-dump-ballroom", "url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/truth-social-white-house-dump-ballroom/", "title": "He called the White House a “dump,” then sold the ballroom as a free gift again", "summary": "One Sunday: the people’s house is a dump, the ballroom is a gift, and the taxpayer is apparently imaginary.", "image": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/truth-social-white-house-dump-ballroom.png?v2", "date_published": "2026-09-14T16:00:00Z", "tags": [ "REPORTS" ] }, { "id": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/truth-social-caracas-maduro-fafo/", "slug": "truth-social-caracas-maduro-fafo", "url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/truth-social-caracas-maduro-fafo/", "title": "On 9/11 night he dropped a Caracas flex reel: “effed around, and he found out”", "summary": "Months after U.S. forces yanked Nicolás Maduro out of Venezuela, Trump posted a highlight reel calling the raid one of the “most stunning… displays of American military might” in U.S. history — and framed it as a warning to everyone else.", "image": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/truth-social-caracas-maduro-fafo.png?v2", "date_published": "2026-09-14T16:00:00Z", "tags": [ "REPORTS" ] }, { "id": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/truth-social-dallas-beat-nfl/", "slug": "truth-social-dallas-beat-nfl", "url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/truth-social-dallas-beat-nfl/", "title": "He declared Dallas “beat the NFL” before the ratings even existed", "summary": "Morning-after Truth Social: Trump called the midterm convention a “sold out hit” that “beat the NFL” — while reporters noted empty upper-deck seats and no Nielsen numbers out yet.", "image": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/truth-social-dallas-beat-nfl.png?v2", "date_published": "2026-09-14T16:00:00Z", "tags": [ "REPORTS" ] }, { "id": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/truth-social-reflecting-pool-vandalism-primer/", "slug": "truth-social-reflecting-pool-vandalism-primer", "url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/truth-social-reflecting-pool-vandalism-primer/", "title": "On 9/11 weekend he boosted a vandalism yarn while the contractor paperwork points at botched primer", "summary": "Trump RTed Interior Press on Truth Social blaming “342 feet of razor blade slashes” and “8647” graffiti for the drained Reflecting Pool — as reporting on contractor docs says the liner failed from bad primer and incompatible chemistry.", "image": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/truth-social-reflecting-pool-vandalism-primer.png?v2", "date_published": "2026-09-14T16:00:00Z", "tags": [ "REPORTS" ] }, { "id": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/truth-social-colossus-smithsonian-washington/", "slug": "truth-social-colossus-smithsonian-washington", "url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/truth-social-colossus-smithsonian-washington/", "title": "He wants a 30-foot Washington “Colossus” and a culture war at the Smithsonian", "summary": "On 9/11 night, Trump posted a taxpayer-museum manifesto: dump the “Infinity” sculpture, build a giant George Washington statue, and replace “restorative history” with a “Center for American Heroes.” Here’s the post.", "image": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/truth-social-colossus-smithsonian-washington.png?v2", "date_published": "2026-09-14T16:00:00Z", "tags": [ "REPORTS" ] }, { "id": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/truth-social-trump-dividend-5000-double-down/", "slug": "truth-social-trump-dividend-5000-double-down", "url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/truth-social-trump-dividend-5000-double-down/", "title": "He doubled down on the $5,000 midterm bribe on his own app", "summary": "Two days after Dallas, Trump posted that the “Trump Dividend” will happen — and told America to VOTE REPUBLICAN. Here’s the post. Full stop.", "image": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/truth-social-trump-dividend-5000-double-down.png?v2", "date_published": "2026-09-14T16:00:00Z", "tags": [ "REPORTS" ] }, { "id": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/iran-war-midterms-pickaxe-mountain/", "slug": "iran-war-midterms-pickaxe-mountain", "url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/iran-war-midterms-pickaxe-mountain/", "title": "Trump ties endless Iran war to the midterms, threatens Pickaxe Mountain again", "summary": "Six months in, Trump says the Iran war ends after November — and threatens Pickaxe Mountain again.", "image": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/iran-war-midterms-pickaxe-mountain.png?v2", "date_published": "2026-09-10T16:00:00Z", "tags": [ "REPORTS" ] }, { "id": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/trump-dividend-5000-gop-congress/", "slug": "trump-dividend-5000-gop-congress", "url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/trump-dividend-5000-gop-congress/", "title": "Trump’s midterm bribe cosplay: $5,000 “Trump dividend” if the GOP keeps Congress", "summary": "At Dallas’s “Trumpapalooza,” Trump floated $5,000 to every adult citizen — only if Republicans keep the House and Senate.", "image": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/trump-dividend-5000-gop-congress.png?v2", "date_published": "2026-09-10T16:00:00Z", "tags": [ "REPORTS" ] }, { "id": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/doj-scotus-nevada-us-attorney-chattah/", "slug": "doj-scotus-nevada-us-attorney-chattah", "url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/doj-scotus-nevada-us-attorney-chattah/", "title": "DOJ asks SCOTUS to keep Nevada’s unlawfully parked U.S. attorney", "summary": "The Trump DOJ asks SCOTUS to bless parking political allies as U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation — starting with Nevada’s Sigal Chattah.", "image": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/doj-scotus-nevada-us-attorney-chattah.png?v2", "date_published": "2026-09-09T16:00:00Z", "tags": [ "REPORTS" ] }, { "id": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/trump-west-wing-holiday-cash-gifts/", "slug": "trump-west-wing-holiday-cash-gifts", "url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/trump-west-wing-holiday-cash-gifts/", "title": "Trump gave $45k cash “holiday” gifts to West Wing favorites", "summary": "Disclosures show Trump handed $45,000 cash “holiday gifts” to three close aides — and $20,000 to a fourth — on top of federal salaries.", "image": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/trump-west-wing-holiday-cash-gifts.png?v2", "date_published": "2026-09-09T16:00:00Z", "tags": [ "REPORTS" ] }, { "id": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/doj-scotus-save-voter-verification/", "slug": "doj-scotus-save-voter-verification", "url": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/reports/doj-scotus-save-voter-verification/", "title": "DOJ begs the Supreme Court to revive its blocked voter-purge database", "summary": "Two months out from midterms, the Trump DOJ asks SCOTUS to unfreeze a citizenship-check system a federal judge already called a mess.", "image": "https://thedonaldfiles.com/og/doj-scotus-save-voter-verification.png?v2", "date_published": "2026-09-08T16:00:00Z", "tags": [ "REPORTS" ] } ] }