Presidency of Donald Trump and Related Topics

Donald Trump

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American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

Trump at the New York Military Academy in 1964

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

Entrance of the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City

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

Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Trump at a New York Mets baseball game in 2009

Trump and President Bill Clinton in June 2000

Trump campaigning in Arizona, March 2016.

2016 electoral vote results. Trump won 304–227

Women's March in Washington on January 21, 2017

Trump is sworn in as president by Chief Justice John Roberts

Trump speaks to automobile workers in Michigan, March 2017

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

Trump examines border wall prototypes in Otay Mesa, California.

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

Trump and Xi Jinping at 2018 G20 Summit.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trump at a 2020 campaign rally in Arizona

2020 Electoral College results, Trump lost 232–306

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

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

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

Efforts by U.S. President Donald Trump to coerce Ukraine and other countries into providing damaging narratives about 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Joe Biden as well as misinformation relating to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections caused a political scandal in the United States.

Former Secretary of Energy Rick Perry with Zelenskyy at Zelenskyy's inauguration, May 2019

Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense Kash Patel poses for his official portrait at the Pentagon on November 17, 2020

Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine was removed from her post because of her anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine, and because she disagreed with the shadow diplomacy taking place under Giuliani and President Trump.

Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. delegation meet with President Zelenskyy in Warsaw on September 1, 2019

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy with Kurt Volker and Rick Perry, May 2019

George Stephanopoulos described the details of the CrowdStrike conspiracy theory as "both convoluted and false".

Trump enlisted surrogates within and outside his official administration, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr, to pressure Ukraine and other foreign governments to cooperate in supporting conspiracy theories concerning American politics.

Jeff Sessions

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American politician and attorney who served as the 84th United States Attorney General from 2017 to 2018.

Senators Sessions and Richard Shelby with FEMA Director James Lee Witt, 1998

Senators Sessions and Richard Shelby meet with President George W. Bush, 2004

Official photo of Sessions as Senator, 2004

Senators Sessions and Saxby Chambliss talk to sailors, NAS Sigonella, Italy, 2004

Sessions speaking at a campaign event for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on August 31, 2016

Sessions arriving at Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2017

Sessions being sworn in at his confirmation hearing on January 10, 2017

Sessions is sworn in as Attorney General by Vice President Mike Pence.

Sessions meets with Department of Justice and DHS personnel in El Paso, Texas, April 2017

Sessions at a press event in Birmingham, Alabama on June 24, 2020

U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions addressing voters in 2011

Senator Sessions speaks during Army Aviation Association of America (AAAA) 2012 in Nashville, TN

Senator Sessions and Indiana Governor, and Republican vice presidential nominee, Mike Pence at an immigration policy speech in Phoenix, Arizona in August 2016

Sessions speaking at the 2017 Police Week Candlelight Vigil

Jeff Sessions speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C.

Sessions speaks at the Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference in London in 2018

A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as United States Senator from Alabama from 1997 to 2017 before resigning that position to serve as attorney general in the administration of President Donald Trump.

US airmen board a C-17 at Al Udeid Air Base during the withdrawal, 27 April 2021

Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2020–2021)

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The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war.

US President Donald Trump and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the United Nations General Assembly, 2 October 2017

General Austin S. Miller became commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan in September 2018 and oversaw the withdrawal until July 2021.

General Austin Miller, US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meet with Taliban representatives Abdul Ghani Baradar, Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai and Suhail Shaheen in Doha, Qatar, on 12 September 2020

General Austin S. Miller alongside Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in Afghanistan, March 2021

Aerial porters load a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter unto a C-17 Globemaster III for departure from Bagram Airfield, June 16, 2021

A map of Afghanistan showing the 2021 Taliban offensive.

US Marines of the 24th MEU evacuating US embassy staff at Kabul Airport, 15 August 2021

82nd Airborne Division soldiers guarding Kabul Airport on 17 August 2021

Marines guarding an evacuation checkpoint at Kabul Airport on 20 August

A C-RAM intercepts a rocket attack on Kabul Airport, 30 August

Army Major General Christopher T. Donahue boards a C-17 at the Kabul Airport as the final American soldier to depart Afghanistan, 30 August

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark A. Milley, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and CENTCOM commander General Frank McKenzie testify before Congress on the withdrawal from Afghanistan on 29 September 2021

On 8 July 2021, US President Joe Biden stated that, "The likelihood there's going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely."

Joint Task Force-Crisis Response personnel carry the remains of fellow service members killed in the 26 August Kabul Airport attack, 27 August 2021

President Joe Biden meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chairman Abdullah Abdullah, 25 June 2021

In February 2020, the Trump administration and the Taliban, without the participation of the then Afghan government, signed the US–Taliban deal in Doha, Qatar, which stipulated fighting restrictions for both the US and the Taliban, and provided for the withdrawal of all NATO forces from Afghanistan in return for the Taliban's counter-terrorism commitments.

Mike Pence

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American politician, broadcaster, and lawyer who served as the 48th vice president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

Pence with President Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1988

Congressman Pence visits U.S. soldiers in Mosul, Iraq, in 2006.

Results of the 2012 Indiana gubernatorial election; Pence won the counties in red.

Pence was sworn in as governor of Indiana on January 14, 2013.

Governor Pence speaks at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on February 27, 2015.

Governor Pence (right) with President Barack Obama (left) and Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, February 25, 2013

Governor Pence at the dedication of a new veterans' clinic, March 30, 2016

Pence addresses supporters at a church service, September 2016.

Pence at the 500 Festival Parade in Indianapolis, 2015

Pence speaks at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, August 2016.

The Trump–Pence ticket won the 2016 presidential election with 306 of the 538 available electoral votes, later reduced to 304
due to a faithless elector.

Vice President Mike Pence, Second Lady Karen Pence, and Major General Courtney P. Carr stand for the National Anthem.

Pence with South Korean president Moon Jae-in at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Pence (second from left) during the U.S. military raid on ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on October 26, 2019

Former Vice President and fellow Hoosier Dan Quayle and Marilyn Quayle with Pence in 2019.

Pence and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force brief the media in March 2020.

Pence and his wife Karen at the inauguration of Joe Biden

Pence speaks at the 2017 March for Life in Washington, D.C.

U.S. representative Pence (third from left) behind Governor Mitch Daniels at a 2008 press conference in Martinsville, Indiana

Pence speaks at a Tea Party rally in 2011.

Pence swears in John F. Kelly at DHS Headquarters on January 25, 2017.

Pence visits the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Pence and Trump with Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammad bin Salman on March 14, 2017

Joint press conference with the Baltic states presidents and Pence, July 31, 2017

Representative Pence with President George W. Bush

Pence speaks to police officers in Youngstown, Ohio, June 25, 2020.

Governor Pence addresses Indiana State Military at the Indiana War memorial on Veterans Day, 2014

During the transition phase of the Trump administration, Pence was reported as holding a large degree of influence in the administration due to his roles as a mediator between Trump and congressional Republicans, for reassuring conservatives about Trump's conservative credentials, and his influence in determining Donald Trump's cabinet.

Mitch McConnell

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American politician and retired attorney serving as Senate minority leader since 2021 and as the senior United States senator from Kentucky.

President Ronald Reagan in a meeting with McConnell in the Oval Office, March 1987

President George H. W. Bush with McConnell and Elaine Chao in February 1991

President George W. Bush shake hands with McConnell, January 2001

Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Paul Ryan, and McConnell celebrate the passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, December 2017

McConnell (left) with then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh (middle), the nominee to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy, 2018.

During the Trump administration, the Senate Republican majority under his leadership confirmed a record number of federal appeals court judges during a president's first two years.

President Donald Trump stands in front of a section of border wall near Yuma, Arizona, June 2020

Trump wall

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Fence between San Diego's border patrol offices in California (left) and Tijuana, Mexico

Wall prototypes being presented to President Trump in San Diego, March 2018

President Trump displaying Executive Order 13767.

Trump signed a declaration of national emergency on February 15, 2019.

New border wall near Yuma, Arizona, June 3, 2020

A plaque commemorates the completion of a section of the wall. Yuma, Arizona, 2020.

Replacement border fencing construction. California, 2019.

This is a section of the walls in San Diego, California 2021.

A Build The Wall rally in The Villages, Florida. January 2019.

The Trump wall, commonly referred to as "The Wall", is an expansion of the Mexico–United States barrier that started during the U.S. presidency of Donald Trump and was a critical part of Trump's campaign platform in the 2016 presidential election.

Michael Flynn

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General Stanley McChrystal and Flynn in Afghanistan, 2010

Flynn speaks during the change of directorship for the Defense Intelligence Agency on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C.

Flynn with Martin Dempsey and Ashton Carter, June 11, 2013

Flynn's former business associate Bijan Rafiekian was charged with illegally acting as an unregistered agent of Turkey. In 2019, a federal judge threw out the guilty verdicts against Rafiekian, citing insufficient evidence to sustain his conviction on either count.

In December 2015, Flynn attended RT's 10th anniversary gala. Flynn is sitting next to Vladimir Putin during the dinner. Jill Stein (in the foreground) and Mikhail Gorbachev (in background) also attended.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe meets with President-elect Trump, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Flynn in November 2016.

Flynn with General Joseph F. Dunford (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), General Joseph Votel and General Raymond A. Thomas at MacDill Air Force Base on February 6, 2017

Full pardon issued on behalf of Flynn by President Donald Trump, November 25, 2020

Michael Thomas Flynn (born December 24, 1958) is a retired United States Army lieutenant general who was the 24th U.S. National Security Advisor for the first 22 days of the Trump administration.

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2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria

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Cross-border military operation conducted by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and the Syrian National Army (SNA) against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and later Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in northern Syria.

U.S. and Turkish troops rendezvous for a joint patrol in the Northern Syria Buffer Zone, 4 October 2019.

Smoke rising above Qamishli on 10 October 2019

A checkpoint, abandoned by the SDF outside of Ras al-Ayn on 11 October

Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a joint press conference in Ankara on 17 October 2019

SDF-controlled territory (green) and Turkish-controlled territory (red) in October 2019

Civilians throwing rocks at a Turkish Kirpi MRAP in Kobanî, 5 November 2019

Protest against Turkey's military offensive on 10 October 2019

International reactions to Turkey's 2019 operation in northern Syria at a glance. See Reactions to the 2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria for citations or more information.

Protest in Berlin against Turkey's military offensive and European arms exports to Turkey

Letter dated 9 October from Donald Trump to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, leaked to US media on the 16th. On 18 October, Erdoğan told reporters that the language of the letter was a big insult, they weren't going to forget it, and they would have some sort of redress when the time comes.

President Donald Trump meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Oval Office of the White House, 13 November 2019

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confronts Donald Trump about U.S. withdrawal at a meeting in the White House on 16 October 2019.

On 6 October 2019, the Trump administration ordered American troops to withdraw from northeastern Syria, where the United States had been supporting its Kurdish allies.