Press kit and free-use license
DumpTrump.win is a free, source-dated record of what the Trump administration has cost the public, built by one editor and funded personally. Newsrooms, newsletters, blogs, campus papers and community pages may reuse the material below at no cost. This page is the whole deal: what you may take, under what license, and who to call.
The license, in one paragraph
Everything DumpTrump.win produces itself (the receipt cards, number cards, the cost table, the story summaries, charts, the carousel PDF and the 15-second video) is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). You may copy, publish, broadcast, crop, translate and adapt it, including for commercial use, provided you credit "DumpTrump.win" and link to the source page when the format allows. Third-party material quoted on this site (news reports, court filings, government data, memes submitted by readers) stays under its original owners' rights; use the citation on each story to go to the original.
Suggested credit line: Source: DumpTrump.win, which cites the underlying AP, AAA, KFF, USDA, CBO and court records on each page.
What you can take right now
| Asset | Files | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Whole kit in one download | dumptrump-press-kit.zip | All cards, the CSV, the 9:16 video and the license text. |
| The eight cost numbers with sources (data) | cost.csv · cost.json | Number, what it measures, one-line context, source, story link, stated uncertainty. |
| Every published story with its citations (data) | stories.json | 39 stories, each with title, summary, evidence label and up to 12 cited sources with URLs and dates. |
| 15-second vertical video | cost-numbers-story.mp4 | 1080×1920, four numbers, no music, captions burned in. |
| Carousel of the eight numbers | /cost/ (Save buttons under each number) | Portrait and Story sizes, generated from the same data as the page. |
Receipt cards, one per number
| Number | Cards | Source |
|---|---|---|
| $4.48 a gallon of regular gas, May 5, 2026 | 4:5 · 9:16 | source page |
| $6.50 a gallon of diesel, Oct. 20, 2026 | 4:5 · 9:16 | source page |
| $1,000+ a year more for the same marketplace health plan | 4:5 · 9:16 | source page |
| 2.6 million fewer people paying for marketplace coverage in 2026 | 4:5 · 9:16 | source page |
| 5.5 million fewer people getting food assistance in one year | 4:5 · 9:16 | source page |
| $1.99 trillion federal deficit, fiscal year 2026 | 4:5 · 9:16 | source page |
| $45.1 billion reported cost of the Iran war through Sept. 3, 2026 | 4:5 · 9:16 | source page |
| $750 in federal income tax the president paid in each of 2016 and 2017 | 4:5 · 9:16 | source page |
Story angles with numbers
- $4.48 a gallon of regular gas, May 5, 2026. Gas was under $3 a gallon at the start of 2026. Ten weeks into the Iran war it reached $4.48, and 2026 passed the previous record for days at $4 or more. Source: AAA national averages, reported by the AP and CNN. Full record.
- $6.50 a gallon of diesel, Oct. 20, 2026. Diesel was about 70 percent above its February price. Diesel is 70 percent of the fuel used in freight, construction and farming, so it is priced into groceries, building materials and every delivered package. Source: J.P. Morgan, October 2026 analysis. Full record.
- $1,000+ a year more for the same marketplace health plan. The enhanced premium tax credits expired on December 31, 2025. KFF found that keeping the same marketplace plan in 2026 would have cost 114 percent more, over $1,000 a year. Many people switched to cheaper plans; actual payments still rose 58 percent on average and deductibles 37 percent. Source: KFF analysis of 2026 rate filings and enrollment data. Full record.
- 2.6 million fewer people paying for marketplace coverage in 2026. Effectuated marketplace enrollment fell from 21.8 million to 19.2 million between 2025 and 2026. The Congressional Budget Office projects the 2025 tax-and-spending law will leave 10 million more people uninsured by 2034, 7.5 million of them through Medicaid changes. Source: KFF compilation of federal enrollment data; CBO estimate for Public Law 119-21. Full record.
- 5.5 million fewer people getting food assistance in one year. SNAP participation fell from 41.6 million in July 2025 to 36.1 million in July 2026, a 13 percent drop. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimates about 2 million of those are children. Source: USDA monthly participation table (data as of Oct. 9, 2026); CBPP tracker. Full record.
- $1.99 trillion federal deficit, fiscal year 2026. Treasury's year-end statement shows a $1,992 billion deficit, $217 billion more than fiscal 2025. Net interest on the debt rose $115 billion, or 11 percent, in one year. CBO estimates the 2025 tax law adds $4.1 trillion to deficits over ten years once interest is counted. Source: Treasury Monthly Treasury Statement; CBO Monthly Budget Review; Reuters. Full record.
- $45.1 billion reported cost of the Iran war through Sept. 3, 2026. The Pentagon's figure reported to Congress, with an $87.6 billion supplemental requested on top. Twenty-one US service members have died. Congress has held zero votes authorizing the war and four directing it to end. Source: Pentagon figure reported to Congress; CENTCOM; Congressional Research Service; J.P. Morgan (reserve level). Full record.
- $750 in federal income tax the president paid in each of 2016 and 2017. According to returns released by Congress. In 2025 he disclosed $1.4 billion in pre-tax crypto income, and Forbes estimates his net worth at $7 billion. Source: Tax returns released by the House Ways and Means Committee; 2025 federal financial disclosure; Forbes. Full record.
Also on the record: a Supreme Court ruling that the President's tariffs were unlawful and about $100 billion already refunded (tariffs); about 600 Weather Service staff gone, balloon launches cut and the billion-dollar disaster database stopped (Weather Service); and the fact-check ledger of specific claims against specific sources.
The site itself is a story: one engineer, no staff, no donations, every page sourced, built in three weeks and now reaching several thousand voters a day through small ads that disclose who paid for them. The editor will talk on the record.
How the numbers are built
Every number traces to a source page that was opened and dated; each citation carries a paragraph or page locator; unlike kinds of money are never added together; estimates are labeled as estimates with their assumptions; the subject's response is included when one exists. The full rules are on the Methods page and every correction is logged on the Corrections page. Reporters are welcome to check any figure against its source and tell us if we got it wrong; corrections run within hours.
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Contact
For interviews, data questions, higher-resolution files or a custom card for your market, use the contact form and mark it "press"; it reaches the editor directly and press inquiries are answered the same day, with a phone number by return. The editor is an engineer and company founder who built the site in October 2026 and is on the record under his own name on every ad the site runs.