BACKGROUND

POTUS Tracker is a web app that reports, in real-time, the U.S. President’s schedule, location, legislative actions, executive orders, and social media activity. The project aims to provide transparent, unbiased, and timely updates to keep the public informed about presidential activities.

Data sources include official White House communications, Congress.gov, Truth Social, and trusted news outlets such as Roll Call, with thorough verification processes in place.

Users can customize the events they care about most, such as legislation, new executive actions, or location changes, and receive instant web push notifications when those events occur, keeping them informed the moment news breaks.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Presidential actions are often written in dense, legalistic language that most people don't have the time, or patience, to read and understand.

POTUS Tracker uses OpenAl's language models to break down complex government documents into short, plain-English explanations. The model only has access to the original text of the document. It's not pulling in information from outside sources or attempting to guess context, it's summarizing exactly what's written.

For journalists, researchers, and analysts, this is a time-saving layer that helps them prioritize which policies to dive deeper into. For everyone else, it's a way to stay informed without needing to read 2,000 words of government-speak every time a new document drops.

PURPOSE

I built POTUS Tracker to provide journalists, researchers, and the public with reliable, real-time updates about presidential activities and official actions.

Traditional sources, although accurate and important, are often slow to report, and in that gap, misinformation spreads fast.

On platforms like TikTok and X, unverified claims can gain millions of views before the truth ever surfaces.

When no one knows where the President has been, what actions they've taken, or what the legislation they've signed actually does, speculation fills the void.

HOW IT WORKS

POTUS Tracker automatically collects and parses data from official sources, including the White House RSS feed, the Congress.gov API, and Roll Call. President Trump's Truth Social posts are also scraped as part of this process, since many newsworthy announcements are made through the platform.

Once gathered, this information is processed through a series of automated pipelines:

• Location and Schedule Data are geocoded, timestamped, and visualized on an interactive map to track the President’s movements in near real-time.

• Legislation and Executive Actions are parsed, stored, and summarized using AI, making dense policy documents easier to understand at a glance.

• Truth Social Posts are cleaned and ranked for relevance using a proprietary algorithm that prioritizes meaningful newsworthy content.