Peter Baker
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and MS NOW analyst. Proud husband of @sbg1.bsky.social and equally proud father of @tab-delete.bsky.social. Co-author of "The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021."
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Peter Baker
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
· Jan 23
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
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Trump: Bush invoked Insurrection Act 22 times.
Actually 2 times.
Trump: Secured $18T in investments.
His own White House puts it at $9.6T.
Trump: Drug prices coming down 600%.
Not mathematically possible.
@qiu examines a year of falsehoods.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Actually 2 times.
Trump: Secured $18T in investments.
His own White House puts it at $9.6T.
Trump: Drug prices coming down 600%.
Not mathematically possible.
@qiu examines a year of falsehoods.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Falsehoods Fueled Trump’s First Year Back in Office
www.nytimes.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Trump: Bush invoked Insurrection Act 22 times.
Actually 2 times.
Trump: Secured $18T in investments.
His own White House puts it at $9.6T.
Trump: Drug prices coming down 600%.
Not mathematically possible.
@qiu examines a year of falsehoods.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Actually 2 times.
Trump: Secured $18T in investments.
His own White House puts it at $9.6T.
Trump: Drug prices coming down 600%.
Not mathematically possible.
@qiu examines a year of falsehoods.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
RIP Stephen Hess, who advised multiple presidents and for a time was the number one go-to authority on government for reporters. He was always a generous source and an insightful tutor in the mysterious ways of Washington. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Stephen Hess, 92, an Eminent, and Quotable, Political Scientist, Dies
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January 22, 2026 at 2:05 PM
RIP Stephen Hess, who advised multiple presidents and for a time was the number one go-to authority on government for reporters. He was always a generous source and an insightful tutor in the mysterious ways of Washington. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Just 32% of Americans think the country is better off than when Trump took office and most disapprove of how he is handling the economy, immigration, Ukraine and Venezuela, per @nytimes.com @sienaresearch.bsky.social poll. @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
Few Voters Say Trump’s Second Term Has Made the Country Better, Poll Finds
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January 22, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Just 32% of Americans think the country is better off than when Trump took office and most disapprove of how he is handling the economy, immigration, Ukraine and Venezuela, per @nytimes.com @sienaresearch.bsky.social poll. @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
House panel votes to recommend charging Bill and Hillary Clinton with criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to testify in its Epstein investigation. Nine Democrats join Republicans on bipartisan votes against him and three against her. @anniekarni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
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January 21, 2026 at 11:36 PM
House panel votes to recommend charging Bill and Hillary Clinton with criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to testify in its Epstein investigation. Nine Democrats join Republicans on bipartisan votes against him and three against her. @anniekarni.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Trump, who turns 80 this year, repeatedly mixes up Greenland and Iceland in Davos speech even as he argues that one of them should be part of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Trump Confuses Iceland and Greenland in Davos Remarks
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January 21, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Trump, who turns 80 this year, repeatedly mixes up Greenland and Iceland in Davos speech even as he argues that one of them should be part of the United States. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Trump backs down and says he won't use force or impose tariffs to seize Greenland after days of crisis that ruptured relations between the United States and its European allies. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Trump Drops Tariff Threat Over Greenland After Assailing Europe
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January 21, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Trump backs down and says he won't use force or impose tariffs to seize Greenland after days of crisis that ruptured relations between the United States and its European allies. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
The Supreme Court appears poised to reject Trump’s bid to immediately remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve board, with key justices expressing concern about undermining the longstanding independence of the central bank. @amarimow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Supreme Court Appears Poised to Reject Trump’s Attempt to Immediately Fire a Fed Governor
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January 21, 2026 at 6:01 PM
The Supreme Court appears poised to reject Trump’s bid to immediately remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve board, with key justices expressing concern about undermining the longstanding independence of the central bank. @amarimow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
Remembering back when another American president disavowed territorial conquest. "The United States of America doesn’t want an acre of territory," Nixon told a youth group back in 1971. @ffrommer.bsky.social thedispatch.com/article/nixo...
Lessons From Nixon on the Use of American Power
Throughout the Cold War, the U.S. showed force to advance interests, not take over land.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Remembering back when another American president disavowed territorial conquest. "The United States of America doesn’t want an acre of territory," Nixon told a youth group back in 1971. @ffrommer.bsky.social thedispatch.com/article/nixo...
Trump says he “won’t use force” to take Greenland, but insists that it be turned over to the United States. “Or,” he adds menacingly, “you can say no and we will remember.”https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/21/us/trump-davos-greenland-news
January 21, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Trump says he “won’t use force” to take Greenland, but insists that it be turned over to the United States. “Or,” he adds menacingly, “you can say no and we will remember.”https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01/21/us/trump-davos-greenland-news
Does it feel like Trump is talking even more this time around? You're not wrong. Jonah Smith did the count and Trump spoke more than twice as many words in public in the first year of his second term as he did in the first year of his first term. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Trump Is Talking Differently in His Second Term
He’s speaking far more words in public than in 2017, but much less about Obamacare and much more about foreign countries.
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January 21, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Does it feel like Trump is talking even more this time around? You're not wrong. Jonah Smith did the count and Trump spoke more than twice as many words in public in the first year of his second term as he did in the first year of his first term. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The stock market did well in the first year of Trump's second term, up 15.7%, but not as well as it did in the same period in his first term and not as well as it did under Biden or Obama. @danprimack.bsky.social www.axios.com/2026/01/21/t...
Trump 2.0 stock market underperforms Trump 1.0
The S&P 500 also performed worse than during Biden or Obama's first years in office.
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January 21, 2026 at 11:42 AM
The stock market did well in the first year of Trump's second term, up 15.7%, but not as well as it did in the same period in his first term and not as well as it did under Biden or Obama. @danprimack.bsky.social www.axios.com/2026/01/21/t...
Lindsey Halligan, tapped by Trump to prosecute his enemies, is out as U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia after a judge called her bid to remain in office a “charade.” By Devlin Barrett and @glennthrush.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Halligan Leaves as U.S. Attorney After Mounting Pressure From Judges
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January 21, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Lindsey Halligan, tapped by Trump to prosecute his enemies, is out as U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia after a judge called her bid to remain in office a “charade.” By Devlin Barrett and @glennthrush.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
US stocks, the dollar and government bonds all fall amid Trump’s intensifying standoff with European leaders over the fate of Greenland. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/b...
Stocks Post Biggest Drop in Months as Tensions Over Greenland Mount
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January 21, 2026 at 1:31 AM
US stocks, the dollar and government bonds all fall amid Trump’s intensifying standoff with European leaders over the fate of Greenland. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/b...
Federal prosecutors subpoena at least five Democratic officials in Minnesota, ramping up the Trump administration’s investigation into their response to the aggressive immigration crackdown in the state. @alanfeuer.bsky.social @glennthrush.bsky.social Devlin Barrett www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Prosecutors Subpoena Minnesota Democrats as Part of Federal Inquiry
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January 20, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Federal prosecutors subpoena at least five Democratic officials in Minnesota, ramping up the Trump administration’s investigation into their response to the aggressive immigration crackdown in the state. @alanfeuer.bsky.social @glennthrush.bsky.social Devlin Barrett www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
Josh Shapiro wasn’t the only finalist to be Kamala Harris’ running mate who was asked if he had ever been an agent of a foreign government, @isaacdovere.bsky.social reports. Tim Walz was asked if he was an agent for China. www.cnn.com/2026/01/19/p...
Walz was also asked about foreign ties during Harris vetting, sources tell CNN | CNN Politics
Josh Shapiro wasn’t the only finalist to be Kamala Harris’ running mate who was asked if he had ever been an agent of a foreign government, four sources familiar with the matter told CNN on Monday. Ti...
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January 20, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Josh Shapiro wasn’t the only finalist to be Kamala Harris’ running mate who was asked if he had ever been an agent of a foreign government, @isaacdovere.bsky.social reports. Tim Walz was asked if he was an agent for China. www.cnn.com/2026/01/19/p...
"You asked us to go. We went": Danish soldiers died in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting America's wars. Now Trump's America is threatening to go to war against Denmark. Danes feel betrayed and bewildered. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/w...
Bleak Times in Copenhagen: Danes Feel Betrayed and Bewildered by Trump
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January 20, 2026 at 3:32 PM
"You asked us to go. We went": Danish soldiers died in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting America's wars. Now Trump's America is threatening to go to war against Denmark. Danes feel betrayed and bewildered. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/w...
Since the days of World War I, America was the country that resisted conquest, standing up to Hitler’s Germany, Tojo’s Japan and Stalin’s Soviet Union when they seized foreign terrain. Now Trump aspires to put America into the category of conquerors. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
With Threats to Greenland, Trump Sets America on the Road to Conquest
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January 20, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Since the days of World War I, America was the country that resisted conquest, standing up to Hitler’s Germany, Tojo’s Japan and Stalin’s Soviet Union when they seized foreign terrain. Now Trump aspires to put America into the category of conquerors. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
The three highest-ranking Roman Catholic clerics who lead archdioceses in the U.S. say that America’s “moral role in confronting evil around the world” is in question for the first time in decades. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
Top Catholic Clerics Denounce U.S. Foreign Policy
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January 20, 2026 at 2:10 AM
The three highest-ranking Roman Catholic clerics who lead archdioceses in the U.S. say that America’s “moral role in confronting evil around the world” is in question for the first time in decades. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
FBI opened probe on Minneapolis shooting; none exists now, Justice Dept. says
After the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights probe into the shooting. The Justice Department says no such case now exists.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:59 PM
An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Shapiro says Kamala Harris's vetting team asked him whether he had ever been a double agent for Israel or communicated with an undercover agent for Israel. "If they were undercover, I responded, how the hell would I know?" @katieglueck.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
Josh Shapiro Writes That Harris Team Asked if He Had Ever Been an Israeli Agent
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January 19, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Shapiro says Kamala Harris's vetting team asked him whether he had ever been a double agent for Israel or communicated with an undercover agent for Israel. "If they were undercover, I responded, how the hell would I know?" @katieglueck.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...
"It is a cat-and-mouse game with a global audience, high stakes and a looming element of danger. Activists are pressing against a gray zone of legality as they try to confront heavily armed federal agents they accuse of doing far worse." Vivian Yee www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/u...
The People of Minneapolis vs. ICE: A Street-Level View
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January 19, 2026 at 6:26 PM
"It is a cat-and-mouse game with a global audience, high stakes and a looming element of danger. Activists are pressing against a gray zone of legality as they try to confront heavily armed federal agents they accuse of doing far worse." Vivian Yee www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/u...
Why is Trump trying to take over Greenland? He tells Norway's prime minister that one reason is his grievance over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...
Trump Links His Push for Greenland to Not Winning Nobel Peace Prize
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January 19, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Why is Trump trying to take over Greenland? He tells Norway's prime minister that one reason is his grievance over not winning the Nobel Peace Prize. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...
Trump has deported 540,000 people, fewer than in either of Biden's last 2 years. But Biden deportations focused on the border, now mainly shut. Trump has targeted those in the country and has removed 230,000 of them, more than Biden in 4 years. @albertsun.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Many Immigrants Has Trump Deported?
In the first year of the Trump administration, it was the nature of the deportations, rather than their number, that changed the most, an analysis of government data reveals.
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January 18, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Trump has deported 540,000 people, fewer than in either of Biden's last 2 years. But Biden deportations focused on the border, now mainly shut. Trump has targeted those in the country and has removed 230,000 of them, more than Biden in 4 years. @albertsun.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Americans sour on Trump's economy and at least some of his foreign adventurism, per @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy poll. 86% oppose using military force to seize Greenland while 44% say they are worse off economically under Trump compared to just 18% who feel better off. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...
CBS News poll finds more Americans say ICE being too tough; Republicans feel protesters have gone too far
Looking overseas, there is wide opposition to the idea of taking Greenland by force.
www.cbsnews.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Americans sour on Trump's economy and at least some of his foreign adventurism, per @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy poll. 86% oppose using military force to seize Greenland while 44% say they are worse off economically under Trump compared to just 18% who feel better off. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...
Trump slaps tariffs on European allies in an effort to strongarm them into letting him seize the territory of a NATO member whose population does not want to be part of the United States. @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social @anaswanson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/u...
Trump Announces 10 Percent Tariff on European Countries in Standoff Over Greenland
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January 17, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Trump slaps tariffs on European allies in an effort to strongarm them into letting him seize the territory of a NATO member whose population does not want to be part of the United States. @shawnmccreesh.bsky.social @anaswanson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/u...