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Political career of Donald Trump

November 15, 2023

From 2017 through 2021, Donald Trump was the 45th president of the United States; he is the only American president to have no political or military service prior to his presidency, as well as the first to be charged with a felony after leaving office. He is regarded by historians as one of the worst presidents in U.S. history.[1][2]

Trump has officially run as a candidate for president four times, in 2000, 2016, 2020, and 2024; he also "unofficially" campaigned in 2012 and mulled a run in 2004.[3] He won the 2016 general election through the Electoral College while losing the popular vote to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by 2.8 million votes, the greatest losing margin in the popular vote of any U.S. president;[4] he was thereby elected the 45th president of the United States on November 8, 2016, and inaugurated on January 20, 2017. He unsuccessfully sought reelection in the 2020 presidential election, losing by 7 million votes to Democratic nominee Joe Biden.[5] Trump is the only U.S. president to have been impeached twice, or to be impeached for incitement of insurrection against the United States for his role in the failed 2021 United States Capitol attack after losing the 2020 election. One representative survey of presidential experts rated Trump last in overall ability, background, integrity, intelligence, and executive appointments, and next to last in party leadership, relationship to congress, and ability to compromise.[6] Among the American public, Trump's average 41 percent approval rating was the lowest of any president since Gallup began polling, and he left office with a 34 percent approval rating and 62 percent disapproval rating in his final polls.[7]

Trump's overt political activity started with his publicly suggesting a run for president in the late 1980s. Ever since, Trump maintained a steady interest in politics, though he was not always considered a serious candidate. Trump has spoken at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) multiple times, with his first appearance in 2012; Trump gained increasing political notoriety with the public for his promotion of the racist Birtherism conspiracy theory during this period, which has been described as having had "essentially launched his current political career."[8][9] From 2013 to 2015, Trump continued to make political headlines but was still polling low and not taken seriously by analysts. Trump subsequently became the 2016 Republican nominee for president of the United States after beating sixteen other candidates during a controversial campaign that drew praise and support from foreign dictatorships, domestic white nationalists, and the global far right. The New Yorker said a key cause for Trump's victory in the GOP primary was that "Despite having demonstrated political cunning in the course of dispatching his sixteen rivals, he has managed to convince many Republican voters that he isn’t a politician at all."[10] He became president as a result of winning the 2016 presidential election's electoral college, making him the fifth person to be elected president but lose the popular vote. U.S. Intelligence officials later determined that the Government of the Russian Federation had illegally intervened in the election to aid Trump's victory.[11] Trump's presidency saw large levels of cabinet and staff turnover, to an extent unprecedented in modern American history.[12] He saw numerous allegations of misconduct that resulted in investigations by Congress and Special Council as well as two impeachments. Trump was president at the time of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On June 18, 2019, Trump announced that he would seek re-election in the 2020 presidential election. The election on November 3 was not called for either candidate for several days; on November 7, the Associated Press—along with major TV networks including CNN, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, and Fox News—called the race for Joe Biden. Trump refused to concede, despite the final election results not being close, and the administration did not begin cooperating with president-elect Biden's transition team until November 23. With one week remaining in his presidency, Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for incitement of insurrection for his actions during the January 6 coup and attack on the United States Capitol, but was acquitted in the Republican-controlled Senate because the 57–43 vote in favor of convicting him fell short of the 2/3 supermajority (67 out of 100 senators) required for conviction.[13] Trump continues to push the false idea that he is still the true president of the United States, which has led to ongoing controversy within the Republican party.

There are currently four major ongoing criminal investigations into Trump's criminal activity while in office.[14][15] The chairman of Trump's presidential campaign, Paul Manafort, his chief political strategist, Steve Bannon, and his campaign counsel, Michael Cohen, have all been since sentenced to prison for various criminal acts connected to Trump's campaign and presidency.[16][17][18] At least 8 other members of Trump's campaign have been charged with the commission of federal crimes.[19]

Political activities up to 2015

Trump's political party affiliation has changed numerous times. He registered as a Republican in Manhattan in 1987, switched to the Reform Party in 1999, the Democratic Party in 2001, and back to the Republican Party in 2009.[20]

Trump first floated the idea of running for president in 1987,[21] placing full-page advertisements in three major newspapers, proclaiming "America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves."[22] The advertisements also advocated for "reducing the budget deficit, working for peace in Central America, and speeding up nuclear disarmament negotiations with the Soviet Union".[23] DCCC chair Rep. Beryl Anthony Jr. told The New York Times that "the message Trump has been preaching is a Democratic message." Asked whether rumors of a presidential candidacy were true, Trump denied being a candidate, but said, "I believe that if I did run for President, I'd win."[23] In 1988, he approached Lee Atwater asking to be put into consideration as Republican nominee George H. W. Bush's running mate. Bush found the request "strange and unbelievable."[24] According to a Gallup poll in December 1988, Trump was the tenth most admired man in America.[25][26]

2000 presidential campaign

Main article: Donald Trump 2000 presidential campaign

In 1999, Trump formed an exploratory committee to seek the nomination of the Reform Party for the 2000 presidential election.[27][28] A July 1999 poll matching him against likely Republican nominee George W. Bush and likely Democratic nominee Al Gore showed Trump with seven percent support.[29] Trump eventually dropped out of the race, but still went on to win the Reform Party primaries in California and Michigan.[28][30] After his run, he left the party due to the involvement of David Duke, Pat Buchanan, and Lenora Fulani.[27] He also considered running for president in 2004.[31] In 2008, after endorsing Democrat Hillary Clinton in the primary, he endorsed Republican John McCain for president in the general election.[32][33]

2012 presidential speculation

 
Trump speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference, February 2011

Trump publicly speculated about running for president in the 2012 election, and made his first speaking appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February 2011. The speech is credited for helping kick-start his political career within the Republican Party.[34]

On May 16, 2011, Trump announced he would not run for president in the 2012 election, putting an end to what he described as "unofficially campaigning".[3] In February 2012, Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president.[35]

Trump's presidential ambitions were generally not taken seriously at the time.[36] Trump's moves were interpreted by some media as possible promotional tools for his reality show The Apprentice.[3][37][38] Before the 2016 election, The New York Times speculated that Trump "accelerated his ferocious efforts to gain stature within the political world" after Obama lampooned him at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in April 2011.[39]

In 2011, according to Evan Jones, the headmaster of the New York Military Academy at the time, the then-superintendent Jeffrey Coverdale had demanded Trump's academic records, to hand them over to "prominent, wealthy alumni of the school who were Mr. Trump's friends" at their request. Coverdale said he had refused to hand over Trump's records to trustees of the school, and instead sealed Trump's records on campus. Jones said: "It was the only time in my education career that I ever heard of someone's record being removed," while Coverdale further said: "It's the only time I ever moved an alumnus's records." The incident reportedly happened days after Trump demanded President Barack Obama's academic records.[40]

2013–2015

In 2013, Trump spoke at CPAC again;[41] he railed against illegal immigration, bemoaned Obama's "unprecedented media protection", advised against harming Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, and suggested that the government "take" Iraq's oil and use the proceeds to pay a million dollars each to families of dead soldiers.[42][43]

In October 2013, New York Republicans circulated a memo suggesting Trump should run for governor of the state in 2014 against Andrew Cuomo. Trump responded that while New York had problems and its taxes were too high, he was not interested in the governorship.[44] A February 2014 Quinnipiac poll had shown Trump losing to the more popular Cuomo by 37 points in a hypothetical election.[45]

2016 presidential campaign

Main article: Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign

Republican primaries

See also: 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries
 
Trump campaigning in Laconia, New Hampshire, July 2015

On June 16, 2015, Trump announced his candidacy for President of the United States at Trump Tower in Manhattan. In the speech, Trump discussed illegal immigration, offshoring of American jobs, the U.S. national debt, and Islamic terrorism, which all remained large priorities during the campaign. He also announced his campaign slogan: "Make America Great Again".[46][47] Trump said his wealth would make him immune to pressure from campaign donors.[48] He declared that he was funding his own campaign,[49] but according to The Atlantic, "Trump's claims of self-funding have always been dubious at best and actively misleading at worst."[50] Much of Trump's campaign centered on his promise that, if elected president, he would build a Border wall on the United States-Mexico Border, a campaign promise which he never fulfilled.

In the primaries, Trump was one of seventeen candidates for the 2016 Republican nomination. This was, at the time, the largest presidential field in American history.[51] Trump's campaign was initially not taken seriously by political analysts, but he quickly rose to the top of opinion polls.[52] The New Yorker attributed Trump's clinching of the Republican nomination largely to the party base's "general disgust with professional politicians" and Trump's ability to distinguish himself from traditional Republican politicians.[10]

On Super Tuesday, Trump received the most votes, and he remained the front-runner throughout the primaries. By March 2016, Trump was poised to win the Republican nomination.[53] Following a landslide win in Indiana on May 3, 2016 – which prompted the remaining candidates Ted Cruz and John Kasich to suspend their presidential campaigns – RNC chairman Reince Priebus declared Trump the presumptive Republican nominee.[54]

General election campaign

After becoming the presumptive Republican nominee, Trump shifted his focus to the general election. Trump began campaigning against Hillary Clinton, who became the presumptive Democratic nominee on June 6, 2016.

Clinton had established a significant lead over Trump in national polls throughout most of 2016. In early July, Clinton's lead narrowed in national polling averages following the FBI's re-opening of its investigation into her ongoing email controversy.[55][56]

 
Candidate Trump and running mate Mike Pence at the Republican National Convention, July 2016

On July 15, 2016, Trump announced his selection of Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate.[57] Four days later, the two were officially nominated by the Republican Party at the Republican National Convention.[58] The list of convention speakers and attendees included former presidential nominee Bob Dole, but the other prior nominees did not attend.[59][60]

On September 26, 2016, Trump and Clinton faced off in their first presidential debate, which was held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.[61] The second presidential debate was held at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The beginning of that debate was dominated by references to a recently leaked tape of Trump making sexually explicit comments, which Trump countered by referring to alleged sexual misconduct on the part of Bill Clinton. Prior to the debate, Trump had invited four women who had accused Bill Clinton of impropriety to a press conference. The final presidential debate was held on October 19 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Trump's refusal to say whether he would accept the result of the election, regardless of the outcome, drew particular attention, with some saying it undermined democracy.[62][63]

Political positions

Main article: Political positions of Donald Trump

Trump's campaign platform emphasized renegotiating U.S.–China relations and free trade agreements such as NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, strongly enforcing immigration laws, and building a new wall along the U.S.–Mexico border. His other campaign positions included pursuing energy independence while opposing climate change regulations such as the Clean Power Plan and the Paris Agreement, modernizing and expediting services for veterans, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, abolishing Common Core education standards, investing in infrastructure, simplifying the tax code while reducing taxes for all economic classes, and imposing tariffs on imports by companies that offshore jobs. During the campaign, he also advocated a largely non-interventionist approach to foreign policy while increasing military spending, extreme vetting or banning immigrants from Muslim-majority countries[64] to pre-empt domestic Islamic terrorism, and aggressive military action against the Islamic State. During the campaign Trump repeatedly called NATO "obsolete".[65][66]

His political positions have been described as populist,[67][68][69] and some of his views cross party lines. For example, his economic campaign plan calls for large reductions in income taxes and deregulation,[70] consistent with Republican Party policies, along with significant infrastructure investment,[71] usually considered a Democratic Party policy.[72][73] According to political writer Jack Shafer, Trump may be a "fairly conventional American populist when it comes to his policy views", but he attracts free media attention, sometimes by making outrageous comments.[74][75]

Trump has supported or leaned toward varying political positions over time.[76][77][78] Politico has described his positions as "eclectic, improvisational and often contradictory",[78] while NBC News counted "141 distinct shifts on 23 major issues" during his campaign.[79]

Campaign rhetoric

See also: False or misleading statements by Donald Trump

In his campaign, Trump said he disdained political correctness; he also said the media had intentionally misinterpreted his words, and he made other claims of adverse media bias.[80][81][82] In part due to his fame, and due to his willingness to say things other candidates would not, and because a candidate who is gaining ground automatically provides a compelling news story, Trump received an unprecedented amount of free media coverage during his run for the presidency, which elevated his standing in the Republican primaries.[83]

Fact-checking organizations have denounced Trump for making a record number of false statements compared to other candidates.[84][85][86] At least four major publications – Politico, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times – have pointed out lies or falsehoods in his campaign statements, with the Los Angeles Times saying that "Never in modern presidential politics has a major candidate made false statements as routinely as Trump has".[87] NPR said Trump's campaign statements were often opaque or suggestive.[88]

Trump's penchant for hyperbole is believed to have roots in the New York real estate scene, where Trump established his wealth and where puffery abounds.[89] Trump adopted his ghostwriter's phrase "truthful hyperbole" to describe his public speaking.[89][90]

Support from the far right

According to Michael Barkun, the Trump campaign was remarkable for bringing fringe ideas, beliefs, and organizations into the mainstream.[91] During his presidential campaign, Trump was accused of pandering to white supremacists.[92][93][94] He retweeted open racists,[95][96] and repeatedly refused to condemn David Duke, the Ku Klux Klan or white supremacists, in an interview on CNN's State of the Union, saying he would first need to "do research" because he knew nothing about Duke or white supremacists.[97][98] Duke himself enthusiastically supported Trump throughout the 2016 primary and election, and has said he and like-minded people voted for Trump because of his promises to "take our country back".[99][100] Trump was later reported to have praised Adolf Hitler to his chief of staff John Kelly, opining that "Hitler did a lot of good things," and also reportedly kept a volume of Hitler's speeches on his bedside cabinet when he was younger, and was often compared to Hitler in the media during his 2016 campaign.[101][102][103][104][105]

After repeated questioning by reporters, Trump said he disavowed David Duke and the KKK.[106] Trump said on MSNBC's Morning Joe: "I disavowed him. I disavowed the KKK. Do you want me to do it again for the 12th time? I disavowed him in the past, I disavow him now."[106]

The alt-right movement coalesced around Trump's candidacy,[107] due in part to its opposition to multiculturalism and immigration.[108][109][110] Members of the alt-right enthusiastically supported Trump's campaign.[111] In August 2016, he appointed Steve Bannon – the executive chairman of Breitbart News – as his campaign CEO; Bannon described Breitbart News as "the platform for the alt-right".[112] In an interview days after the election, Trump condemned supporters who celebrated his victory with Nazi salutes.[113][114]

Financial disclosures

As a presidential candidate, Trump disclosed details of his companies, assets, and revenue sources to the extent required by the FEC. His 2015 report listed assets above $1.4 billion and outstanding debts of at least $265 million.[115][116] The 2016 form showed little change.[117]

Trump has not released his tax returns, contrary to the practice of every major candidate since 1976 and breaking his promise in 2014 to release them if he ran for office.[118] He said his tax returns were being audited, and his lawyers had advised him against releasing them.[119] Trump has told the press his tax rate was none of their business, and that he tries to pay "as little tax as possible".[120]

In October 2016, portions of Trump's state filings for 1995 were leaked to a reporter from The New York Times. They show that Trump declared a loss of $916 million that year, which could have let him avoid taxes for up to 18 years. During the second presidential debate, Trump acknowledged using the deduction, but declined to provide details such as the specific years it was applied.[121]

On March 14, 2017, the first two pages of Trump's 2005 federal income tax returns were leaked to MSNBC. The document states that Trump had a gross adjusted income of $150 million and paid $38 million in federal taxes. The White House confirmed the authenticity of the documents.[122][123]

On April 3, 2019, the House Ways and means committee made a formal request to the Internal Revenue Service for Trump's personal and business tax returns from 2013 to 2018, setting a deadline of April 10.[124] That day, Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said the deadline would not be met,[125] and the deadline was extended to April 23, which also was not honored,[126] and on May 6 Mnuchin said the request would be denied.[127] On May 10, 2019, committee chairman Richard Neal subpoenaed the Treasury Department and the IRS for the returns and seven days later the subpoenas were defied.[128][129] A fall 2018 draft IRS legal memo asserted that Trump must provide his tax returns to Congress unless he invokes executive privilege, contradicting the administration's justification for defying the earlier subpoena.[130] Mnuchin asserted the memo actually addressed a different matter.[131]

Election to the presidency

Main article: 2016 United States presidential election
 
2016 electoral vote results

On November 8, 2016, Trump received 306 pledged electoral votes versus 232 for Clinton. The official counts were 304 and 227 respectively, after defections on both sides.[132] Trump received nearly 2.9 million fewer popular votes than Clinton, which made him the fifth person to be elected president while losing the popular vote.[133][a] Clinton was ahead nationwide with 65,853,514 votes (48.18%) to 62,984,828 votes (46.09%).[136]

Trump's victory was considered a stunning political upset by most observers, as polls had consistently showed Hillary Clinton with a nationwide – though diminishing – lead, as well as a favorable advantage in most of the competitive states. Trump's support had been modestly underestimated throughout his campaign,[137] and many observers blamed errors in polls, partially attributed to pollsters overestimating Clinton's support among well-educated and nonwhite voters, while underestimating Trump's support among white working-class voters.[138] The polls were relatively accurate,[139] but media outlets and pundits alike showed overconfidence in a Clinton victory despite a large number of undecided voters and a favorable concentration of Trump's core constituencies in competitive states.[140]

Trump won 30 states, including Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which had been considered a blue wall of Democratic strongholds since the 1990s. Clinton won 20 states and the District of Columbia. Trump's victory marked the return of a Republican White House combined with control of both chambers of Congress.

Trump is the wealthiest president in U.S. history, even after adjusting for inflation,[141] and at the time of his inauguration, the oldest person to take office as president.[b][142] He is also the first president who did not serve in the military or hold elective or appointed government office prior to being elected.[143][144][145] Of the 43[c] previous presidents, 38 had held prior elective office, two had not held elective office but had served in the Cabinet, and three had never held public office but had been commanding generals.[145]

Presidency

Main article: Presidency of Donald Trump
 
President Trump receives a briefing on COVID-19 in the White House Situation Room.

Expert scholarly analysis of Trump's presidency by presidential historians has generally ranked Trump's tenure as among history's worst; for example, the first major scholarly survey on presidential rankings after he left office ranked Trump 41st out of 44, ahead of only James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Franklin Pierce.[1]

Trump was unsuccessful in his efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act but took measures to hinder its functioning and rescinded the individual mandate. Trump sought substantial spending cuts to major welfare programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. He signed the Great American Outdoors Act, reversed numerous environmental regulations, and withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change. He signed the First Step Act on job training and early release of some federal prisoners and appointed Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. In economic policy, he partially repealed the Dodd–Frank Act and signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. He enacted tariffs, triggering retaliatory tariffs from China, Canada, Mexico, and the European Union. He withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations and signed the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement, a successor agreement to NAFTA. The federal deficit increased under Trump due to spending increases and tax cuts.

He implemented a controversial family separation policy for migrants apprehended at the United States–Mexico border. Trump's demand for the federal funding of a border wall resulted in the longest US government shutdown in history. He deployed federal law enforcement forces in response to the racial unrest in 2020. Trump's "America First" foreign policy was characterized by unilateral actions, disregarding traditional allies. The administration implemented a major arms sale to Saudi Arabia; denied citizens from several Muslim-majority countries entry into the United States; recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel; and brokered the Abraham Accords, a series of normalization agreements between Israel and various Arab states. His administration withdrew United States troops from northern Syria, allowing Turkey to occupy the area. His administration also made a conditional deal with the Taliban to withdraw United States troops from Afghanistan in 2021. Trump met North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un three times. Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear agreement and later escalated tensions in the Persian Gulf by ordering the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani.

Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019) concluded that Russia interfered to favor Trump's candidacy and that while the prevailing evidence "did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government", possible obstructions of justice occurred during the course of that investigation.

Trump attempted to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations into his political rival Joe Biden, triggering his first impeachment by the House of Representatives on December18, 2019, but he was acquitted by the Senate on February5, 2020.

Trump reacted slowly to the COVID-19 pandemic, ignored or contradicted many recommendations from health officials in his messaging, and promoted misinformation about unproven treatments and the availability of testing.

Following his loss in the 2020 presidential election to Biden, Trump refused to concede and initiated an extensive campaign to overturn the results, making false claims of widespread electoral fraud. On January 6, 2021, during a rally at the Ellipse, Trump urged his supporters to "fight like hell" and march to the Capitol, where the electoral votes were being counted by Congress in order to formalize Biden's victory. A mob of Trump supporters stormed the capitol, suspending the count and causing Vice President Mike Pence and other members of Congress to be evacuated. On January 13, the House voted to impeach Trump an unprecedented second time for "incitement of insurrection", but he was later acquitted by the Senate again on February13, after he had already left office. Trump had historically low approval ratings, and scholars and historians rank his presidency as one of the worst in American history.

Donald Trump and his family received more than 100 gifts from foreign nations with net value of nearly $300,000, which they failed to explain. A House Oversight Committee report by the democrats exposed the details of numerous gifts received by the Trump family. Saudi Arabia gave 16 gift items worth $45,000, while India gave 17 precious gift items worth $47,000. The Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act mandates the US president and his family to not receive gifts of more than $415 value. Besides, the expensive gifts are supposed to be disclosed and received on behalf of the US, and must be turned over to the National Archives.[147][148]

Protests

Main article: Protests against Donald Trump
 
Women's March in Washington on January 21, 2017, a day after the inauguration

Some rallies during the primary season were accompanied by protests or violence, including attacks on Trump supporters and vice versa both inside and outside the venues.[149][150][151] Trump's election victory sparked protests across the United States, in opposition to his policies and his inflammatory statements. Trump initially said on Twitter that these were "professional protesters, incited by the media", and were "unfair", but he later tweeted, "Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country."[152][153]

In the weeks following Trump's inauguration, massive anti-Trump demonstrations took place, such as the Women Marches, which gathered 2,600,000 people worldwide,[154] including 500,000 in Washington alone.[155] Marches against his travel ban began across the country on January 29, 2017, just nine days after his inauguration.[156]

2020 presidential campaign

Main article: Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign

Trump signaled his intention to run for a second term by filing with the FEC within a few hours of assuming the presidency.[157] This transformed his 2016 election committee into a 2020 reelection one.[158] Trump marked the official start of the campaign with a rally in Melbourne, Florida, on February 18, 2017, less than a month after taking office.[159] By January 2018, Trump's reelection committee had $22 million in hand,[160] and it had raised a total amount exceeding $67 million by December 2018.[161] $23 million was spent in the fourth quarter of 2018, as Trump supported various Republican candidates for the 2018 midterm elections.[162]

2020 election defeat

Main article: 2020 United States presidential election
 
2020 electoral vote results

On November 3, 2020, Trump lost re-election to Democratic nominee and former vice president Joe Biden. Trump received 232 electoral votes to Biden's 306. Trump received 74,216,154 in the popular vote to Biden's 81,268,924.

2024 presidential campaign

Main article: Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign

On November 15, 2022, at his Mar-a-Lago residence, one week after the 2022 midterm elections, Trump became the first major candidate to declare a campaign for the 2024 presidential election.[163]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Records on this matter date from the year 1824. The number "five" includes the elections of 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016. Despite their similarities, some of these five elections had peculiar results; e.g. John Quincy Adams trailed in both the national popular vote and the electoral college in 1824 (since no one had a majority in the electoral college, Adams was chosen by the House of Representatives), and Samuel Tilden in 1876 remains the only losing candidate to win an actual majority of the popular vote (rather than just a plurality).[134][135]
  2. ^ Joe Biden became the oldest president to take office in 2021.
  3. ^ Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president.[146]

Cited works

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  • Kranish, Michael; Fisher, Marc (2017) [First published 2016]. Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-5011-5652-6.
  • Trump, Donald J.; Schwartz, Tony (2009) [First published 1987]. Trump: The Art of the Deal. Random House. ISBN 978-0-446-35325-0.

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This article needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information June 2023 From 2017 through 2021 Donald Trump was the 45th president of the United States he is the only American president to have no political or military service prior to his presidency as well as the first to be charged with a felony after leaving office He is regarded by historians as one of the worst presidents in U S history 1 2 Trump has officially run as a candidate for president four times in 2000 2016 2020 and 2024 he also unofficially campaigned in 2012 and mulled a run in 2004 3 He won the 2016 general election through the Electoral College while losing the popular vote to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by 2 8 million votes the greatest losing margin in the popular vote of any U S president 4 he was thereby elected the 45th president of the United States on November 8 2016 and inaugurated on January 20 2017 He unsuccessfully sought reelection in the 2020 presidential election losing by 7 million votes to Democratic nominee Joe Biden 5 Trump is the only U S president to have been impeached twice or to be impeached for incitement of insurrection against the United States for his role in the failed 2021 United States Capitol attack after losing the 2020 election One representative survey of presidential experts rated Trump last in overall ability background integrity intelligence and executive appointments and next to last in party leadership relationship to congress and ability to compromise 6 Among the American public Trump s average 41 percent approval rating was the lowest of any president since Gallup began polling and he left office with a 34 percent approval rating and 62 percent disapproval rating in his final polls 7 Trump s overt political activity started with his publicly suggesting a run for president in the late 1980s Ever since Trump maintained a steady interest in politics though he was not always considered a serious candidate Trump has spoken at the Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC multiple times with his first appearance in 2012 Trump gained increasing political notoriety with the public for his promotion of the racist Birtherism conspiracy theory during this period which has been described as having had essentially launched his current political career 8 9 From 2013 to 2015 Trump continued to make political headlines but was still polling low and not taken seriously by analysts Trump subsequently became the 2016 Republican nominee for president of the United States after beating sixteen other candidates during a controversial campaign that drew praise and support from foreign dictatorships domestic white nationalists and the global far right The New Yorker said a key cause for Trump s victory in the GOP primary was that Despite having demonstrated political cunning in the course of dispatching his sixteen rivals he has managed to convince many Republican voters that he isn t a politician at all 10 He became president as a result of winning the 2016 presidential election s electoral college making him the fifth person to be elected president but lose the popular vote U S Intelligence officials later determined that the Government of the Russian Federation had illegally intervened in the election to aid Trump s victory 11 Trump s presidency saw large levels of cabinet and staff turnover to an extent unprecedented in modern American history 12 He saw numerous allegations of misconduct that resulted in investigations by Congress and Special Council as well as two impeachments Trump was president at the time of the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic On June 18 2019 Trump announced that he would seek re election in the 2020 presidential election The election on November 3 was not called for either candidate for several days on November 7 the Associated Press along with major TV networks including CNN ABC News CBS News NBC News and Fox News called the race for Joe Biden Trump refused to concede despite the final election results not being close and the administration did not begin cooperating with president elect Biden s transition team until November 23 With one week remaining in his presidency Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for incitement of insurrection for his actions during the January 6 coup and attack on the United States Capitol but was acquitted in the Republican controlled Senate because the 57 43 vote in favor of convicting him fell short of the 2 3 supermajority 67 out of 100 senators required for conviction 13 Trump continues to push the false idea that he is still the true president of the United States which has led to ongoing controversy within the Republican party There are currently four major ongoing criminal investigations into Trump s criminal activity while in office 14 15 The chairman of Trump s presidential campaign Paul Manafort his chief political strategist Steve Bannon and his campaign counsel Michael Cohen have all been since sentenced to prison for various criminal acts connected to Trump s campaign and presidency 16 17 18 At least 8 other members of Trump s campaign have been charged with the commission of federal crimes 19 Contents 1 Political activities up to 2015 1 1 2000 presidential campaign 1 2 2012 presidential speculation 1 3 2013 2015 2 2016 presidential campaign 2 1 Republican primaries 2 2 General election campaign 2 3 Political positions 2 4 Campaign rhetoric 2 5 Support from the far right 2 6 Financial disclosures 3 Election to the presidency 4 Presidency 5 Protests 6 2020 presidential campaign 6 1 2020 election defeat 7 2024 presidential campaign 8 See also 9 Notes 10 Cited works 11 References 12 External linksPolitical activities up to 2015Trump s political party affiliation has changed numerous times He registered as a Republican in Manhattan in 1987 switched to the Reform Party in 1999 the Democratic Party in 2001 and back to the Republican Party in 2009 20 Trump first floated the idea of running for president in 1987 21 placing full page advertisements in three major newspapers proclaiming America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves 22 The advertisements also advocated for reducing the budget deficit working for peace in Central America and speeding up nuclear disarmament negotiations with the Soviet Union 23 DCCC chair Rep Beryl Anthony Jr told The New York Times that the message Trump has been preaching is a Democratic message Asked whether rumors of a presidential candidacy were true Trump denied being a candidate but said I believe that if I did run for President I d win 23 In 1988 he approached Lee Atwater asking to be put into consideration as Republican nominee George H W Bush s running mate Bush found the request strange and unbelievable 24 According to a Gallup poll in December 1988 Trump was the tenth most admired man in America 25 26 2000 presidential campaign Main article Donald Trump 2000 presidential campaign In 1999 Trump formed an exploratory committee to seek the nomination of the Reform Party for the 2000 presidential election 27 28 A July 1999 poll matching him against likely Republican nominee George W Bush and likely Democratic nominee Al Gore showed Trump with seven percent support 29 Trump eventually dropped out of the race but still went on to win the Reform Party primaries in California and Michigan 28 30 After his run he left the party due to the involvement of David Duke Pat Buchanan and Lenora Fulani 27 He also considered running for president in 2004 31 In 2008 after endorsing Democrat Hillary Clinton in the primary he endorsed Republican John McCain for president in the general election 32 33 2012 presidential speculation nbsp Trump speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference February 2011Trump publicly speculated about running for president in the 2012 election and made his first speaking appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference CPAC in February 2011 The speech is credited for helping kick start his political career within the Republican Party 34 On May 16 2011 Trump announced he would not run for president in the 2012 election putting an end to what he described as unofficially campaigning 3 In February 2012 Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president 35 Trump s presidential ambitions were generally not taken seriously at the time 36 Trump s moves were interpreted by some media as possible promotional tools for his reality show The Apprentice 3 37 38 Before the 2016 election The New York Times speculated that Trump accelerated his ferocious efforts to gain stature within the political world after Obama lampooned him at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner in April 2011 39 In 2011 according to Evan Jones the headmaster of the New York Military Academy at the time the then superintendent Jeffrey Coverdale had demanded Trump s academic records to hand them over to prominent wealthy alumni of the school who were Mr Trump s friends at their request Coverdale said he had refused to hand over Trump s records to trustees of the school and instead sealed Trump s records on campus Jones said It was the only time in my education career that I ever heard of someone s record being removed while Coverdale further said It s the only time I ever moved an alumnus s records The incident reportedly happened days after Trump demanded President Barack Obama s academic records 40 2013 2015 In 2013 Trump spoke at CPAC again 41 he railed against illegal immigration bemoaned Obama s unprecedented media protection advised against harming Medicare Medicaid and Social Security and suggested that the government take Iraq s oil and use the proceeds to pay a million dollars each to families of dead soldiers 42 43 In October 2013 New York Republicans circulated a memo suggesting Trump should run for governor of the state in 2014 against Andrew Cuomo Trump responded that while New York had problems and its taxes were too high he was not interested in the governorship 44 A February 2014 Quinnipiac poll had shown Trump losing to the more popular Cuomo by 37 points in a hypothetical election 45 2016 presidential campaignMain article Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign Republican primaries See also 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries nbsp Trump campaigning in Laconia New Hampshire July 2015On June 16 2015 Trump announced his candidacy for President of the United States at Trump Tower in Manhattan In the speech Trump discussed illegal immigration offshoring of American jobs the U S national debt and Islamic terrorism which all remained large priorities during the campaign He also announced his campaign slogan Make America Great Again 46 47 Trump said his wealth would make him immune to pressure from campaign donors 48 He declared that he was funding his own campaign 49 but according to The Atlantic Trump s claims of self funding have always been dubious at best and actively misleading at worst 50 Much of Trump s campaign centered on his promise that if elected president he would build a Border wall on the United States Mexico Border a campaign promise which he never fulfilled In the primaries Trump was one of seventeen candidates for the 2016 Republican nomination This was at the time the largest presidential field in American history 51 Trump s campaign was initially not taken seriously by political analysts but he quickly rose to the top of opinion polls 52 The New Yorker attributed Trump s clinching of the Republican nomination largely to the party base s general disgust with professional politicians and Trump s ability to distinguish himself from traditional Republican politicians 10 On Super Tuesday Trump received the most votes and he remained the front runner throughout the primaries By March 2016 Trump was poised to win the Republican nomination 53 Following a landslide win in Indiana on May 3 2016 which prompted the remaining candidates Ted Cruz and John Kasich to suspend their presidential campaigns RNC chairman Reince Priebus declared Trump the presumptive Republican nominee 54 General election campaign After becoming the presumptive Republican nominee Trump shifted his focus to the general election Trump began campaigning against Hillary Clinton who became the presumptive Democratic nominee on June 6 2016 Clinton had established a significant lead over Trump in national polls throughout most of 2016 In early July Clinton s lead narrowed in national polling averages following the FBI s re opening of its investigation into her ongoing email controversy 55 56 nbsp Candidate Trump and running mate Mike Pence at the Republican National Convention July 2016On July 15 2016 Trump announced his selection of Indiana governor Mike Pence as his running mate 57 Four days later the two were officially nominated by the Republican Party at the Republican National Convention 58 The list of convention speakers and attendees included former presidential nominee Bob Dole but the other prior nominees did not attend 59 60 On September 26 2016 Trump and Clinton faced off in their first presidential debate which was held at Hofstra University in Hempstead New York 61 The second presidential debate was held at Washington University in St Louis Missouri The beginning of that debate was dominated by references to a recently leaked tape of Trump making sexually explicit comments which Trump countered by referring to alleged sexual misconduct on the part of Bill Clinton Prior to the debate Trump had invited four women who had accused Bill Clinton of impropriety to a press conference The final presidential debate was held on October 19 at the University of Nevada Las Vegas Trump s refusal to say whether he would accept the result of the election regardless of the outcome drew particular attention with some saying it undermined democracy 62 63 Political positions Main article Political positions of Donald Trump Trump s campaign platform emphasized renegotiating U S China relations and free trade agreements such as NAFTA and the Trans Pacific Partnership strongly enforcing immigration laws and building a new wall along the U S Mexico border His other campaign positions included pursuing energy independence while opposing climate change regulations such as the Clean Power Plan and the Paris Agreement modernizing and expediting services for veterans repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act abolishing Common Core education standards investing in infrastructure simplifying the tax code while reducing taxes for all economic classes and imposing tariffs on imports by companies that offshore jobs During the campaign he also advocated a largely non interventionist approach to foreign policy while increasing military spending extreme vetting or banning immigrants from Muslim majority countries 64 to pre empt domestic Islamic terrorism and aggressive military action against the Islamic State During the campaign Trump repeatedly called NATO obsolete 65 66 His political positions have been described as populist 67 68 69 and some of his views cross party lines For example his economic campaign plan calls for large reductions in income taxes and deregulation 70 consistent with Republican Party policies along with significant infrastructure investment 71 usually considered a Democratic Party policy 72 73 According to political writer Jack Shafer Trump may be a fairly conventional American populist when it comes to his policy views but he attracts free media attention sometimes by making outrageous comments 74 75 Trump has supported or leaned toward varying political positions over time 76 77 78 Politico has described his positions as eclectic improvisational and often contradictory 78 while NBC News counted 141 distinct shifts on 23 major issues during his campaign 79 Campaign rhetoric See also False or misleading statements by Donald Trump In his campaign Trump said he disdained political correctness he also said the media had intentionally misinterpreted his words and he made other claims of adverse media bias 80 81 82 In part due to his fame and due to his willingness to say things other candidates would not and because a candidate who is gaining ground automatically provides a compelling news story Trump received an unprecedented amount of free media coverage during his run for the presidency which elevated his standing in the Republican primaries 83 Fact checking organizations have denounced Trump for making a record number of false statements compared to other candidates 84 85 86 At least four major publications Politico The Washington Post The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times have pointed out lies or falsehoods in his campaign statements with the Los Angeles Times saying that Never in modern presidential politics has a major candidate made false statements as routinely as Trump has 87 NPR said Trump s campaign statements were often opaque or suggestive 88 Trump s penchant for hyperbole is believed to have roots in the New York real estate scene where Trump established his wealth and where puffery abounds 89 Trump adopted his ghostwriter s phrase truthful hyperbole to describe his public speaking 89 90 Support from the far right According to Michael Barkun the Trump campaign was remarkable for bringing fringe ideas beliefs and organizations into the mainstream 91 During his presidential campaign Trump was accused of pandering to white supremacists 92 93 94 He retweeted open racists 95 96 and repeatedly refused to condemn David Duke the Ku Klux Klan or white supremacists in an interview on CNN s State of the Union saying he would first need to do research because he knew nothing about Duke or white supremacists 97 98 Duke himself enthusiastically supported Trump throughout the 2016 primary and election and has said he and like minded people voted for Trump because of his promises to take our country back 99 100 Trump was later reported to have praised Adolf Hitler to his chief of staff John Kelly opining that Hitler did a lot of good things and also reportedly kept a volume of Hitler s speeches on his bedside cabinet when he was younger and was often compared to Hitler in the media during his 2016 campaign 101 102 103 104 105 After repeated questioning by reporters Trump said he disavowed David Duke and the KKK 106 Trump said on MSNBC s Morning Joe I disavowed him I disavowed the KKK Do you want me to do it again for the 12th time I disavowed him in the past I disavow him now 106 The alt right movement coalesced around Trump s candidacy 107 due in part to its opposition to multiculturalism and immigration 108 109 110 Members of the alt right enthusiastically supported Trump s campaign 111 In August 2016 he appointed Steve Bannon the executive chairman of Breitbart News as his campaign CEO Bannon described Breitbart News as the platform for the alt right 112 In an interview days after the election Trump condemned supporters who celebrated his victory with Nazi salutes 113 114 Financial disclosures As a presidential candidate Trump disclosed details of his companies assets and revenue sources to the extent required by the FEC His 2015 report listed assets above 1 4 billion and outstanding debts of at least 265 million 115 116 The 2016 form showed little change 117 Trump has not released his tax returns contrary to the practice of every major candidate since 1976 and breaking his promise in 2014 to release them if he ran for office 118 He said his tax returns were being audited and his lawyers had advised him against releasing them 119 Trump has told the press his tax rate was none of their business and that he tries to pay as little tax as possible 120 In October 2016 portions of Trump s state filings for 1995 were leaked to a reporter from The New York Times They show that Trump declared a loss of 916 million that year which could have let him avoid taxes for up to 18 years During the second presidential debate Trump acknowledged using the deduction but declined to provide details such as the specific years it was applied 121 On March 14 2017 the first two pages of Trump s 2005 federal income tax returns were leaked to MSNBC The document states that Trump had a gross adjusted income of 150 million and paid 38 million in federal taxes The White House confirmed the authenticity of the documents 122 123 On April 3 2019 the House Ways and means committee made a formal request to the Internal Revenue Service for Trump s personal and business tax returns from 2013 to 2018 setting a deadline of April 10 124 That day Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin said the deadline would not be met 125 and the deadline was extended to April 23 which also was not honored 126 and on May 6 Mnuchin said the request would be denied 127 On May 10 2019 committee chairman Richard Neal subpoenaed the Treasury Department and the IRS for the returns and seven days later the subpoenas were defied 128 129 A fall 2018 draft IRS legal memo asserted that Trump must provide his tax returns to Congress unless he invokes executive privilege contradicting the administration s justification for defying the earlier subpoena 130 Mnuchin asserted the memo actually addressed a different matter 131 Election to the presidencyMain article 2016 United States presidential election nbsp 2016 electoral vote resultsOn November 8 2016 Trump received 306 pledged electoral votes versus 232 for Clinton The official counts were 304 and 227 respectively after defections on both sides 132 Trump received nearly 2 9 million fewer popular votes than Clinton which made him the fifth person to be elected president while losing the popular vote 133 a Clinton was ahead nationwide with 65 853 514 votes 48 18 to 62 984 828 votes 46 09 136 Trump s victory was considered a stunning political upset by most observers as polls had consistently showed Hillary Clinton with a nationwide though diminishing lead as well as a favorable advantage in most of the competitive states Trump s support had been modestly underestimated throughout his campaign 137 and many observers blamed errors in polls partially attributed to pollsters overestimating Clinton s support among well educated and nonwhite voters while underestimating Trump s support among white working class voters 138 The polls were relatively accurate 139 but media outlets and pundits alike showed overconfidence in a Clinton victory despite a large number of undecided voters and a favorable concentration of Trump s core constituencies in competitive states 140 Trump won 30 states including Michigan Pennsylvania and Wisconsin which had been considered a blue wall of Democratic strongholds since the 1990s Clinton won 20 states and the District of Columbia Trump s victory marked the return of a Republican White House combined with control of both chambers of Congress Trump is the wealthiest president in U S history even after adjusting for inflation 141 and at the time of his inauguration the oldest person to take office as president b 142 He is also the first president who did not serve in the military or hold elective or appointed government office prior to being elected 143 144 145 Of the 43 c previous presidents 38 had held prior elective office two had not held elective office but had served in the Cabinet and three had never held public office but had been commanding generals 145 PresidencyMain article Presidency of Donald Trump nbsp President Trump receives a briefing on COVID 19 in the White House Situation Room Expert scholarly analysis of Trump s presidency by presidential historians has generally ranked Trump s tenure as among history s worst for example the first major scholarly survey on presidential rankings after he left office ranked Trump 41st out of 44 ahead of only James Buchanan Andrew Johnson and Franklin Pierce 1 Trump was unsuccessful in his efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act but took measures to hinder its functioning and rescinded the individual mandate Trump sought substantial spending cuts to major welfare programs including Medicare and Medicaid He signed the Great American Outdoors Act reversed numerous environmental regulations and withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change He signed the First Step Act on job training and early release of some federal prisoners and appointed Neil Gorsuch Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court In economic policy he partially repealed the Dodd Frank Act and signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 He enacted tariffs triggering retaliatory tariffs from China Canada Mexico and the European Union He withdrew from the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations and signed the United States Mexico Canada Agreement a successor agreement to NAFTA The federal deficit increased under Trump due to spending increases and tax cuts He implemented a controversial family separation policy for migrants apprehended at the United States Mexico border Trump s demand for the federal funding of a border wall resulted in the longest US government shutdown in history He deployed federal law enforcement forces in response to the racial unrest in 2020 Trump s America First foreign policy was characterized by unilateral actions disregarding traditional allies The administration implemented a major arms sale to Saudi Arabia denied citizens from several Muslim majority countries entry into the United States recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and brokered the Abraham Accords a series of normalization agreements between Israel and various Arab states His administration withdrew United States troops from northern Syria allowing Turkey to occupy the area His administration also made a conditional deal with the Taliban to withdraw United States troops from Afghanistan in 2021 Trump met North Korea s leader Kim Jong un three times Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran nuclear agreement and later escalated tensions in the Persian Gulf by ordering the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani Robert Mueller s Special Counsel investigation 2017 2019 concluded that Russia interfered to favor Trump s candidacy and that while the prevailing evidence did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government possible obstructions of justice occurred during the course of that investigation Trump attempted to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations into his political rival Joe Biden triggering his first impeachment by the House of Representatives on December18 2019 but he was acquitted by the Senate on February5 2020 Trump reacted slowly to the COVID 19 pandemic ignored or contradicted many recommendations from health officials in his messaging and promoted misinformation about unproven treatments and the availability of testing Following his loss in the 2020 presidential election to Biden Trump refused to concede and initiated an extensive campaign to overturn the results making false claims of widespread electoral fraud On January 6 2021 during a rally at the Ellipse Trump urged his supporters to fight like hell and march to the Capitol where the electoral votes were being counted by Congress in order to formalize Biden s victory A mob of Trump supporters stormed the capitol suspending the count and causing Vice President Mike Pence and other members of Congress to be evacuated On January 13 the House voted to impeach Trump an unprecedented second time for incitement of insurrection but he was later acquitted by the Senate again on February13 after he had already left office Trump had historically low approval ratings and scholars and historians rank his presidency as one of the worst in American history Donald Trump and his family received more than 100 gifts from foreign nations with net value of nearly 300 000 which they failed to explain A House Oversight Committee report by the democrats exposed the details of numerous gifts received by the Trump family Saudi Arabia gave 16 gift items worth 45 000 while India gave 17 precious gift items worth 47 000 The Foreign Gifts and Decorations Act mandates the US president and his family to not receive gifts of more than 415 value Besides the expensive gifts are supposed to be disclosed and received on behalf of the US and must be turned over to the National Archives 147 148 ProtestsMain article Protests against Donald Trump nbsp Women s March in Washington on January 21 2017 a day after the inaugurationSome rallies during the primary season were accompanied by protests or violence including attacks on Trump supporters and vice versa both inside and outside the venues 149 150 151 Trump s election victory sparked protests across the United States in opposition to his policies and his inflammatory statements Trump initially said on Twitter that these were professional protesters incited by the media and were unfair but he later tweeted Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country 152 153 In the weeks following Trump s inauguration massive anti Trump demonstrations took place such as the Women Marches which gathered 2 600 000 people worldwide 154 including 500 000 in Washington alone 155 Marches against his travel ban began across the country on January 29 2017 just nine days after his inauguration 156 2020 presidential campaignMain article Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign Trump signaled his intention to run for a second term by filing with the FEC within a few hours of assuming the presidency 157 This transformed his 2016 election committee into a 2020 reelection one 158 Trump marked the official start of the campaign with a rally in Melbourne Florida on February 18 2017 less than a month after taking office 159 By January 2018 Trump s reelection committee had 22 million in hand 160 and it had raised a total amount exceeding 67 million by December 2018 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