Donald Trump and Related Topics

Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign

Trump at an early campaign event in New Hampshire on July 16, 2015

Trump signs the Republican loyalty pledge promising to support the candidate nominated by the party and to not run as a third-party candidate, if he failed to clinch the nomination.

Trump and supporters attend a rally in Muscatine, Iowa, in January 2016

Anti-Trump protesters outside arena as Chicago rally is shut down on March 11, 2016

Kellyanne Conway at the Conservative Political Action Conference 2016

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

Trump became the first Republican since the 1980s to win the states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

Director Peter Navarro addresses President Donald Trump's promises to American people, workers, and domestic manufacturers (Declaring American Economic Independence on June 28, 2016) in the Oval Office with Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross before President Trump signs Executive Orders regarding trade in March 2017

Make America Great Again slogan worn by a Trump supporter

Trump speaks at an Arizona rally in March 2016.

Trump delivering a speech in August 2016

Donald Trump speaking at a rally in Phoenix, Arizona

Speaker Paul Ryan meets with Donald Trump and Mike Pence on Capitol Hill after their election victory

Trump, his wife Melania, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and Eric Trump, February 1, 2016

Supporters and protesters outside the August 9, 2016, campaign event at UNC-Wilmington's Trask Coliseum in Wilmington, North Carolina

A protester holding a sign toward Trump supporters asking for Trump to publicly release his tax returns, at an August 9, 2016, campaign event in Wilmington, North Carolina

Donald Trump's tweet activity from his first tweet in May 2009. His tweet activity pattern has changed from 2013.

Shinzō Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, held informal talks with the President-elect on November 17, 2016.

The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump was formally launched on June 16, 2015, at Trump Tower in New York City.

Joseph Wharton, the school's founder and namesake

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Huntsman Hall is the Wharton School's main building

Wharton undergraduate students with cohort banners

Quadrangle at the University of Pennsylvania

Cohen Hall, formerly named Logan Hall, served as the previous home of the Wharton School

Wharton School alumni include former U.S. President Donald Trump, SpaceX founder Elon Musk, and billionaire investor Warren Buffett.

American intelligence agencies concluded that Russian president Vladimir Putin personally ordered the covert operation, code named Project Lakhta, while Putin denied the allegations. At the 2018 Helsinki summit, Putin said that he wanted Trump to win because he talked about normalizing the U.S.–Russia relationship.

Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections

The Russian Institute for Strategic Studies began working for the Russian presidency after 2009.

Initially in 2016 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, "I think the idea that fake news on Facebook influenced the election in any way, I think is a pretty crazy idea."

Former site of the Internet Research Agency in Saint Petersburg, Russia

Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned her position as chairperson of the DNC.

John O. Brennan, Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, in the Oval Office, January 4, 2010

President Obama ordered the United States Intelligence Community to investigate election hacking attempts since 2008.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized the CAATSA sanctions against Russia, targeting EU–Russia energy projects.

Special counsel Robert Mueller directed the FBI from 2001 to 2013.

Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak met with a number of U.S. officials.

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions talked with the Russian ambassador during the Trump campaign and recused himself from the investigation.

Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior advisor, failed to disclose meetings with Russian officials.

Hillary Clinton said Vladimir Putin held a grudge against her due to her criticism of the 2011 Russian legislative election.

Trump's transition team dismissed the U.S. Intelligence community conclusions.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called American accusations "nonsense".

The Russian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election with the goals of harming the campaign of Hillary Clinton, boosting the candidacy of Donald Trump, and increasing political and social discord in the United States.

Presidency of Donald Trump

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

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.

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 2017 Trump rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Official portrait of Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator

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.

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

Trump at the 15th Annual Opioid Takeback Day

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

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

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

Chad Wolf, acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Hillary Clinton

American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of President Bill Clinton.

Mementos of Hillary Rodham's early life, shown at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center

Rodham in Maine South High School's 1965 yearbook

Rodham (center) campaigning for Wellesley College Government President in 1968, an election which she later won

Hillary and Bill lived in this house in Little Rock's Hillcrest neighborhood while he was Arkansas Attorney General (1977–1979).

Bill and Hillary Clinton with President Ronald and First Lady Nancy Reagan

Clinton presenting her health care plan, September 1993

Hillary Clinton speaks about the 1993 health care plan at GWU Hospital.

Read Across America Day in Maryland, 1998

Inauguration Day walk down Pennsylvania Avenue to start Bill's second term as president, January 20, 1997

Results of the 2000 United States Senate election in New York. Clinton won the counties in blue.

Reenactment of Hillary Rodham Clinton's swearing-in as a U.S. senator by Vice President Al Gore in the Old Senate Chamber, as Bill and Chelsea look on

Clinton listens as the chief of naval operations, Admiral Michael Mullen, responds to a question during his 2007 confirmation hearing with the Senate Armed Services Committee

Clinton at the 2007 CDA National Convention

Clinton campaigning at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, two days before Super Tuesday, 2008

State-by-state popular votes in the Democratic primaries and caucuses, shaded by percentage won: Obama in purple, Clinton in green. (Popular vote winners and delegate winners differed in New Hampshire, Nevada, Missouri, Texas and Guam.)

Clinton speaks on behalf of her former rival, Barack Obama, during the second night of the 2008 Democratic National Convention

Official secretary of state portrait, 2009

Associate Judge Kathryn Oberly of the D.C. Court of Appeals administers the oath of office of secretary of state to Hillary Rodham Clinton as her husband Bill Clinton holds the Bible

Clinton and Obama at the 21st NATO summit, April 2009

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Clinton hold a "reset button", March 2009

Greeting service members at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, October 2010

The London meeting to discuss NATO military intervention in Libya, March 29, 2011

Clinton with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi during her December 2011 visit to Myanmar

Clinton, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on Operation Neptune Spear in the White House Situation Room on May 1, 2011. Everyone in the room is watching a live feed from drones operating over the Osama bin Laden complex.

Obama and Clinton honor the Benghazi attack victims at the Transfer of Remains Ceremony, held at Andrews Air Force Base on September 14, 2012

Clinton addressing email controversy with the media at the UN Headquarters on March 10, 2015

Clinton campaigning for president in Manchester, New Hampshire, in October 2016, with Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren (seated)

Clinton, accepting Senator Bernie Sanders' endorsement in New Hampshire, July 2016

Clinton delivering her concession speech

The Clintons at Donald Trump's inauguration

Clinton and her husband attend a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery after the inauguration of Joe Biden

Copies of What Happened at an event on Clinton's book tour promoting the memoir

Clinton worked at Rose Law Firm for fifteen years. Her professional career and political involvement set the stage for public reaction to her as the first lady.

A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee for president in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party; Clinton won the popular vote, but lost the Electoral College vote, thereby losing the election to Donald Trump.

With its rhetoric of "the 99%" (the people) against "the 1%" (the elite), the international Occupy movement is an example of a (left-wing) populist social movement.

Populism

Populism refers to a range of political stances that emphasize the idea of the people and often juxtapose this group against the elite.

The Bolivian government of left-wing populist Evo Morales and his Movement for Socialism has been described as the "prototypical case" of ethnopopulism.

Protesters from the Tea Party movement, a right-wing populist formation in the United States

The Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau developed his own definition of populism. He regarded it as a positive force for emancipatory change in society.

A 2012 rally by members of the left-wing populist United Socialist Party of Venezuela in Maracaibo

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been cited as a populist leader who has undermined liberal democracy upon taking power.

Ilya Repin's painting, Arrest of a Propagandist (1892), which depicts the arrest of a narodnik

Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder and leader of the French National Front, the "prototypical radical right party" which used populism to advance its cause

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro with US President Donald Trump

Rodrigo Duterte of Philippines and Narendra Modi of India. They are both considered populist leaders.

Following 2016, the year which saw the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union—both events linked to populism—the word populism became one of the most widely used terms by international political commentators.

Business career of Donald Trump

The Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower (center) in Panama City, Panama

The Trump Tower, on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan

Central Park's Wollman Rink after the Trump renovation

Trump posing with a conceptual model for the Television City, later coined Trump City, proposal in 1985

Trump Taj Mahal, at 1000 Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey

Turnberry Hotel in South Ayrshire, Scotland

Trump delivers remarks at a press conference for the New Jersey Generals in 1982

Donald Trump is an American businessman and television personality who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

United States trade deficits from 1997 to 2021. Deficits are over 50 billion dollars as of 2021 with the countries shown. Data from the US Census Bureau.

China–United States trade war

Ongoing economic conflict between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America.

US president Bill Clinton and Chinese leader Jiang Zemin holding a joint press conference at the White House, October 29, 1997

US president George W. Bush and Chinese leader Hu Jintao at the White House, April 20, 2006

US president Barack Obama and Chinese leader Xi Jinping raising a toast during a state dinner at the White House, September 25, 2015

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross meets with Chinese Minister of Industry and Information Technology Miao Wei, Beijing, September 2017

White House National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro speaks on trade with Vice President Mike Pence and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross before the President signs Executive Orders regarding trade.

Chinese vice premier Liu He meeting with U.S. president Donald Trump in May 2018.

Trump and Liu sign the Phase One Trade Deal in January 2020

In January 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump began setting tariffs and other trade barriers on China with the goal of forcing it to make changes to what the U.S. says are unfair trade practices and intellectual property theft.

Robert Mueller was appointed in May 2017 as special counsel.

Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019)

Investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections, links between associates of Donald Trump and Russian officials, and possible obstruction of justice by Trump and his associates.

Matthew Whitaker, who served as the Acting Attorney General from November 2018 to February 2019

Manafort speaking to media at the 2016 Republican National Convention

In January 2017, an assessment was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, then headed by Obama appointee James Clapper, which asserted that Russian leadership had favored presidential candidate Donald Trump over rival candidate Hillary Clinton, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin had personally ordered an "influence campaign" to harm Clinton's electoral chances and "undermine public faith in the US democratic process".

US Federal marginal income tax rates: comparison of 2018, 2017, 2016 rates for individual and married filers

Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017

Congressional revenue act of the United States originally introduced in Congress as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act , that amended the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

Tax Policy Center estimate of the annual changes in GDP and budget deficit over the 2018–2027 period under the Senate version of the bill. The cumulative GDP increase of $961billion is less than the deficit increase of $1,233billion, including macroeconomic feedback effects.

Comparison of U.S. federal revenues for two CBO forecasts, one from January 2017 (based on laws at the end of the Obama Administration) and the other from April 2018, which reflects Trump's policy changes. Key insights include: 1) Tax cuts reduce revenue collections relative to a baseline without them; 2) Tax revenues rise each year under both forecasts as the economy grows; and 3) The gap is larger initially, indicating larger stimulus effects in the earlier years.

CBO forecasts that the 2017 Tax Act will increase the budget deficit by $2.289 trillion over the 2018–2027 decade, or $1.891 trillion after macro-economic feedback.

Average tax rate changes for various income groups, by year, under the Conference Agreement, as of December 15, 2017. The slope of each line down to the right indicates larger benefits for higher incomes, while the upward shift of the lines over time indicates fading benefits (or increasing costs) across all income levels.

CBO and JCT estimate of the distribution of impact by income group (average dollars per taxpayer) under the Act. On average, taxpayers in the income groups highlighted in yellow will incur a net cost (shown as a positive figure as this reduces the budget deficit), due in part to reduced healthcare subsidies. Higher income taxpayers receive a benefit via tax cuts (shown as a negative number as this increases the budget deficit). The percent of taxpayers in each income group is also shown for the 2023 period.

Distribution of benefits during 2018 by income percentile under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (Conf. Cmte. version) based on data from the Tax Policy Center. The top 10% of taxpayers (incomes over $216,800) receive 52% of the benefit, while the bottom 60% (incomes under $86,100) receive 17% of the benefit. This excludes the impact of reduced ACA subsidies.

U.S. uninsured number (millions) and rate (%), including historical data through 2016 and two CBO forecasts (2016/Obama policy and 2018/Trump policy) through 2026. Two key reasons for more uninsured under President Trump include: 1) Eliminating the individual mandate to have health insurance (part of the Tax Act); and 2) Stopping cost sharing reduction payments.

Corporate after-tax profits (real or adjusted for inflation) have increased about 150% since 2000, yet real median household incomes are flat. The starting point is represented by 100.

U.S. corporate profits after-tax from 1970 to Q2 2017. The dollars are near record level (blue line, left axis), while the % GDP is high relative to historical levels (red line, right axis).

CBO data on share of U.S. federal revenues collected by tax type from 1967 to 2016. Payroll taxes, paid by all wage earners, have increased as a share of total federal tax revenues, while corporate taxes have fallen. Income taxes have moved in a range, with Presidents Reagan and G.W. Bush lowering income tax rates, and Clinton and Obama raising them for the top incomes.

President Trump and Vice President Pence celebrate the passage of the Tax Cuts Acts with Republican lawmakers at a press conference outside the White House.

Senator Tammy Duckworth and then House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi press conference opposing the bill in 2017.

The bill was signed into law by President Donald Trump on December 22, 2017.