Audit trail

Sources & research standards

TrumpsMouth favors primary evidence: White House and agency records, executive orders, statutes, regulations, court filings, congressional records, official datasets, transcripts, original video and official foreign-government records. Independent reporting is used for chronology, outside verification and disputes.

Current Congress roster

Office of the Clerk — House MemberData XML: current House membership, districts and vacancies.
U.S. Senate — current senators XML: current Senate membership and contact fields.
Congressional Biographical Directory: stable Bioguide identity records.

The live chamber feeds are cached briefly for reliability. A static legislator dataset is used only as a fallback when an official endpoint and its last cached copy are unavailable.

Portrait standard

For U.S. administration and featured public figures, the site points to the original official biography, leadership or government gallery page and records the supplied photographer/source credit. Congressional portraits are tied to GPO/Bioguide identity. Foreign-leader profiles use official presidency, prime-ministerial or institutional sources where available. If an image cannot be retrieved safely, the site displays a neutral placeholder rather than guessing.

Claims and political material

Administration statements and partisan material can document what was said, but are not treated as independent proof. The evidence-gap thermometer measures how closely the wording of a factual claim matches the cited record; it does not attempt to diagnose intent.