Corruption Calendar

Welcome!
We’re excited to introduce the Corruption Calendar, our latest newsletter project.
Our goal is simple: to chronicle the Trump favor machine by highlighting examples of corporate corruption shaping the Trump administration’s agenda and their material impact on everyday people. The Corruption Calendar will trace the lines of money and influence between corporations, billionaires, and executive branch decision making.
We want to underscore the felt impacts of this corruption in our everyday lives. Shady dealings between the wealthy and powerful and members of the federal government range from brazen to more secretive, but they influence the air we breathe, the water we drink, the price of housing and other necessities, and far more. We believe it is critical to provide the public with the knowledge to make direct connections between Trumpworld corruption and their daily lives. The Calendar’s installments will serve as a record of the myriad ways Trumpworld abuses of government power are designed to enrich the few at the expense of many.
Every other week or so, we’ll send out a Friday morning Corruption Calendar installment, with relevant themes and examples. We encourage our collaborators and followers to send salient examples our way and to be in dialogue about relevant instances of corruption you’re tracking, as we expect they’ll be numerous. Reach us via email at oversight@therevolvingdoorproject.org with the subject “CORRUPTION CALENDAR,” or on X or Bluesky.
Newsletter Editions
- 1/24/2025: Week One: Amidst A Flurry Of EOs, A First Round of CEOs Cashes In
- 1/31/2025: Week Two: Trump Moves To Gut Exec Branch And Make Way For Loyalists
- 2/07/2025: Week Three: Musk’s Engineers Take Over
- 2/14/2025: Week Four: Messrs. Trump And Musk Want You To Know The Presidency Is For Sale
- 2/21/2025: Week Five: Musk, Crypto, Tax Fraudsters, Fossil Fuel Cash In While Workers Lose Out
- 2/28/2025: Week Six: A dying CFPB, Musk’s business boom, conflicts of interest, and blatant favoritism
- 3/07/2025: Week Seven: One Nation Under God, Indivisible With Liberty For Rich Criminals Above All
- 3/14/2025: Week Eight: The White House Clown Car Dealership
- 3/21/2025: Week Nine: Trump’s Crypto Business Beats Keeping Contaminants Out Of Our Drinking Water
- 3/28/2025: Week 10: Bad Signals All Around
- 4/4/2025: Week 11: Incomprehensible AI Number-Crunching Slop Sets The Scene Of Trump’s Global Tariff Shakedown
- 4/11/2025: Week 12: Ethics Be Damned
- 4/18/2025: Week 13: No Need To Rely On Luck When Cash Dictates Outcomes In MAGA World
- 4/25/2025: Week 14: The All-American Meme Coin Oligarchy Wants To Extract Oil and Gas At National Monuments
- 5/2/2025: Week 15: Trump, Binance and MGX—A Crooked Match Made In Dubai
- 5/9/2025: Week 16: The Grift That Keeps On Giving
- 5/16/2025: Week 17: A Great Gesture Of Corruption
- 5/23/2025: Week 18: Trump’s Independent Agency Power Grab
- 5/30/2025: Week 19: “We Reject Regulators.” Pardon Me?
- 6/6/2025: Week 20: Trump Partners With Palantir To Build A Real World Panopticon
- 6/13/2025: Week 21: Trump Cuts the Corruption Cops
- 6/20/2025: Week 22: Another Week In The Circus Of Destruction
- 6/27/2025: Week 23: Appointees Trade Power for Perks as Trump’s Financial Regulators Refuse to Do Their Jobs
- 7/3/2025: Week 24: Want a Big Tent? Use Congressional Oversight
- 7/11/2025: Week 25: President Trump Notches Another Mysterious Benefactor
- 7/18/2025: Week 26: Crypto Week Marks Washington’s Insatiable Appetite For Grift
- 7/25/2025: Week 27: Media Merger Madness
- 8/1/2025: Week 28: Less Enforcement, More Problems
- 8/8/2025: Week 29: Corporate Donors Lavish Trump’s Non-Existent Re-Election Campaign
- 8/15/2025: Week 30: The Value of Trump’s Grifts
- 8/22/205: Week 31: The Crises Continue
- 9/5/2025: Weeks 32-33: An Administration Full of Grifters and Grim Reapers
- 9/19/2025: Weeks 34-35: Free Speech For Sale
- 10/03/2025: Weeks 36-37: Put an End to the Vought Show
- 10/17/2025: Weeks 38-39: Your Wish, My Command
- 10/31/2025: Weeks 40-41: Belle of the Ballroom
- 11/14/2025: Weeks 42-43: Our Scourge of Elite Impunity