A report on Donald Trump, Presidency of Donald Trump and Breitbart News

Trump at the New York Military Academy in 1964

The 2016 presidential electoral vote. Five individuals besides Trump and Clinton received electoral votes from faithless electors.

Trump (far right) and wife Ivana in the receiving line of a state dinner for King Fahd of Saudi Arabia in 1985, with U.S. president Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan

Outgoing President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office on November 10, 2016

Donald Trump's official portrait before his swearing in ceremony.

Joel Pollak, the senior editor-at-large of Breitbart News since 2012

Entrance of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City

Alex Marlow, editor-in-chief of Breitbart News

Trump and New Jersey Generals quarterback Doug Flutie at a 1985 press conference in the lobby of Trump Tower

Steve Bannon at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference

Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and her family with Trump on September 26, 2020

Trump at a New York Mets baseball game in 2009

Fact-checkers from The Washington Post, (orange) the Toronto Star, and CNN (blue) compiled data on "false or misleading claims" and "false claims," respectively. The peaks in late 2018 correspond to the midterm elections, in late 2019 to his impeachment inquiry, and in late 2020 to the presidential election. The Post reported 30,573 false or misleading claims in 4 years, an average of more than 20.9 per day.

Trump and President Bill Clinton in June 2000

Trump talks to the press in the Oval Office on March 21, 2017, before signing S.422 (the NASA Transition Authorization Act)

Trump speaks to reporters on the White House South Lawn in June 2019

Trump campaigning in Arizona, March 2016.

During a joint news conference, Trump said he was "very proud" to hear Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro use the term "fake news."

2016 electoral vote results. Trump won 304–227

Twitter activity of Donald Trump from his first tweet in May 2009 to September 2017. Retweets are not included.

Women's March in Washington on January 21, 2017

Trump signed new anti-sex-trafficking legislation on April 16, 2018.

Trump is sworn in as president by Chief Justice John Roberts

Trump pays tribute to fallen police officers on May 15, 2017

Trump speaks to automobile workers in Michigan, March 2017

Trump signs the Hurricane Harvey relief bill at Camp David, September8, 2017

Trump and group of officials and advisors on the way from White House complex to St. John's Church

Trump and Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg at the 787-10 Dreamliner rollout ceremony

Trump examines border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa, California.

Trump signs the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) alongside Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 30, 2018

Trump with the other G7 leaders at the 45th summit in France, 2019

Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visit Saint Andrew's Catholic School in Orlando, Florida, March3, 2017

Trump and Xi Jinping at 2018 G20 Summit.

April 2017 Trump rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Trump, King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the 2017 Riyadh summit in Saudi Arabia

Official portrait of Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meeting with Taliban delegation in Qatar in September 2020

Trump meets Kim Jong-un at the Singapore summit, June 2018

The CBO estimated in May 2017 that the Republican AHCA would reduce the number of people with health insurance by 23 million during 2026, relative to current law.

Putin and Trump shaking hands at the G20 Osaka summit, June 2019

Drug overdoses killed 70,200 in the United States in 2017.

Trump and his third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett.

Trump at the 15th Annual Opioid Takeback Day

Trump conducts a COVID-19 press briefing with members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force on March 15, 2020

Trump receives a briefing on COVID-19 in the White House Situation Room

Poland's president Andrzej Duda visited the White House on June 24, 2020, the first foreign leader to do so since the start of the pandemic.

Trump was hospitalized at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center following his COVID-19 diagnosis on October 3, 2020.

Trump boards helicopter for COVID-19 treatment on October 2, 2020

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, first day on the job

Trump discharged on October 5, 2020, from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Chad Wolf, acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security

Members of House of Representatives vote on two articles of impeachment, December 18, 2019

June 2018 protest against the Trump administration family separation policy, in Chicago, Illinois

Trump displaying the front page of The Washington Post reporting his acquittal by the Senate

Trump signs Executive Order 13769 at the Pentagon. Vice President Mike Pence (left) and Secretary of Defense James Mattis look on, January 27, 2017.

Trump at a 2020 campaign rally in Arizona

Trump returns to the White House after posing for a photo op at St. John's Episcopal Church, June 2020

2020 Electoral College results, Trump lost 232–306

Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence and President Donald Trump watch the Crew Dragon Demo-2 Falcon 9 rocket launch from Kennedy Space Center

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi signing the second impeachment of Trump

Anti-Trump protest in Greensboro by the anti-fascist groups Democratic Socialists of America and Industrial Workers of the World

Trump speaks at the "Rally to Protect Our Elections" in Phoenix, Arizona, July 2021.

Trump and North Korea's Communist Party leader Kim Jong-un shake hands at the Korean Demilitarized Zone, June 30, 2019

Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at the welcoming ceremony for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley (left) on September 30, 2019. Outgoing chairman General Joseph Dunford (right) and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (center-right) are present.

Fact-checkers from The Washington Post, the Toronto Star, and CNN compiled data on "false or misleading claims" (orange background), and "false claims" (violet foreground), respectively.

Trump with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Oval Office, November 13, 2019

Trump with Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2017

Robert Mueller in the Oval Office c. 2012

Tayyip Erdoğan, then the prime minister of Turkey, attended the opening of the Trump Towers Istanbul AVM in 2012.

Open hearing testimony of Fiona Hill and David Holmes on November 21, 2019

Democrat Joe Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump signs an Executive Order promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America on April 25, 2017

Gallup approval polling, covering February 2017 – December 2020
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Donald Trump's tenure as the 45th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 2017, and ended on January 20, 2021.

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Trump promoted conspiracy theories and made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics.

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Breitbart News strongly supported Donald Trump in the 2016 United States presidential election.

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Bannon was appointed White House Chief Strategist in the administration of US President Donald Trump and served in that role for seven months; he was dismissed from the White House on August 17, 2017.

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Many tweets appear to be based on stories Trump has seen in the media, including far-right news websites such as Breitbart and television shows such as Fox & Friends.

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In August 2016, he appointed Steve Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News—described by Bannon as "the platform for the alt-right"—as his campaign CEO.

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Steve Bannon

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American media executive, political strategist, and former investment banker.

A placard criticizing Bannon at an anti-Trump protest

Bannon during the April 2017 Syrian missile strike operation

Bannon and other advisors watching Trump sign an executive order

White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon shakes hands with WH Chief of Staff Reince Priebus at 2017 CPAC

He served as the White House's chief strategist in the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump during the first seven months of Trump's term.

He is a former executive chairman of Breitbart News, and previously served on the board of the now-defunct data-analytics firm Cambridge Analytica.

Alt-right

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Abbreviation of alternative right, is a loosely connected far-right white nationalist movement.

Richard B. Spencer claimed to have coined the term "alternative right" in 2008.

The Daily Stormer is named for the Nazi tabloid Der Stürmer, known for its antisemitic caricatures. This 1934 billboard for Der Stürmer reads "With Der Stürmer against Judea. The Jews are our misfortune".

The alt-right largely rallied behind the presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, although he distanced himself from the movement.

Hillary Clinton's August 2016 speech denouncing the alt-right helped bring the movement to mainstream attention

The Russian far-right theorist Aleksandr Dugin was popular with the alt-right

A placard criticizing the alt-right displayed at the 2017 Women's March.

The Pepe the Frog meme, originally created in 2005, was adopted by the alt-right and became a "mascot" for the movement.

A young man displaying the flag of Kekistan at a pro-Trump rally; the flag is an alt-right symbol.

An attendee at the Unite the Right rally carrying a firearm and wearing a Confederate battle flag T-shirt.

"Trump is Alt-Right with Us". Anti-Trump protesters highlight what they regard as his links to the alt-right and to historical fascism by dressing as Hitler and Mussolini.

Counter-protesters at the 2017 Unite the Right rally.

In 2015, it attracted broader attention—particularly through coverage on Steve Bannon's Breitbart News—due to alt-right support for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

However, press sources alleged that several appointments within the Trump administration were linked to the alt-right, including Senior Advisor to the President Stephen Miller, National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka, Special Assistant to the President Julia Hahn, and speechwriter Darren Beattie.

Donald Trump Jr.

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American political activist, businessman, author, and former television presenter.

Trump Jr. campaigning for his father in Iowa, November 2016

Trump Jr. with Kimberly Guilfoyle in July 2019

Trump Jr. speaks at the 2019 Teen Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA, 2019

He is the eldest child of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021, and his first wife Ivana Trump.

During their father's presidency, the brothers continued to do deals and investments in foreign countries, as well as collect payments in their U.S. properties from foreign governments, despite a pledge that they would not do so.

In the same tweet, Trump Jr. included a link to a Breitbart News article claiming that CNN's ratings had dropped by 41%, and proposed a conspiracy theory that CNN was "lying to try to make [his father, President Trump] look bad".