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He sued the banks, Mazars, and committee chair Elijah Cummings to prevent the disclosures. In August , a whistleblower filed a complaint with the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community about a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy , during which Trump had pressured Zelenskyy to investigate CrowdStrike and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi initiated an impeachment inquiry in September. Taylor Jr. According to Taylor and others, the goal was to coerce Zelenskyy into making a public commitment to investigate the company that employed Hunter Biden , as well as rumors about Ukrainian involvement in the U. On December 13, the House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to pass two articles of impeachment: one for abuse of power and one for obstruction of Congress.

Senator Mitt Romney was the only Republican who voted to convict him on one charge, the abuse of power. On January 11, , an article of impeachment charging Trump with incitement of insurrection against the U. On February 13, following a five-day Senate trial , Trump was acquitted when the Senate vote fell ten votes short of the two-thirds majority required to convict; seven Republicans joined every Democrat in voting to convict, the most bipartisan support in any Senate impeachment trial of a president or former president.

Breaking with precedent, Trump filed to run for a second term within a few hours of assuming the presidency. Starting in the spring of , Trump began to sow doubts about the election, claiming without evidence that the election would be rigged and that the expected widespread use of mail balloting would produce massive election fraud.

Postal Service for the expected surge in mail voting, he blocked funding, saying he wanted to prevent any increase in voting by mail, creating a crisis in the Postal Service. Supreme Court declined to hear a case from the Texas attorney general that asked the court to overturn the election results in four states won by Biden. Trump withdrew from public activities in the weeks following the election.

The Electoral College formalized Biden's victory on December Trump did not attend Biden's inauguration. In December , Newsweek reported the Pentagon was on red alert, and ranking officers had discussed what to do if Trump declared martial law. The Pentagon responded with quotes from defense leaders that the military has no role in the outcome of elections.

On January 6, , while congressional certification of the presidential election results was taking place in the U. Capitol, Trump held a noon rally at the Ellipse in Washington, D. The mob broke into the building, disrupting certification and causing the evacuation of Congress. Unlike other former presidents, Trump continued to dominate his party; a profile in The New York Times described him as a modern party boss.

Much of his focus was on party governance and installing in key posts officials loyal to him. In January , the National Archives and Records Administration retrieved 15 boxes of documents Trump had taken to Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House, some of which were classified. On December 19, , the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack recommended criminal charges against Trump for obstructing an official proceeding , conspiracy to defraud the United States, and inciting or assisting an insurrection.

In August , a federal grand jury indicted Trump for his efforts to overturn the election results. He was charged with conspiring to defraud the U. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit dropped Trump from the appeal on the classified documents case. During the election, Michael Cohen arranged payments to them in exchange for their continued silence: [ ] for this he pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws in Cohen said he arranged these at Trump's direction to influence the election.

With this, Trump became the first U. In , journalist E. Jean Carroll accused Trump of raping her in the mids and sued him for defamation "Carroll I" over his denial. The lawsuit accused Trump, three of his children and the Trump Organization of inflating the organization's net worth to gain an advantage from lenders and banks. On November 15, , Trump announced his candidacy for the presidential election and set up a fundraising account.

In March , the U. Supreme Court restored his name to the ballot in a unanimous decision, ruling that Colorado lacks the authority to enforce Section 3 of the 14th Amendment , which bars insurrectionists from holding federal office. During the campaign, Trump made increasingly violent and authoritarian statements. Trump mentioned "rigged election" and "election interference" earlier and more frequently than in the and campaigns and refused to commit to accepting the election results.

On July 13, , Trump's ear was grazed by a bullet [ ] in an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler Township, Pennsylvania. Trump won the election in November with electoral votes to incumbent vice president Kamala Harris's , [ ] making him the second president in U. Trump began his second term when he was inaugurated on January 20, Upon taking office, Trump signed a series of executive orders , described as a "shock and awe" campaign, that tested the limits of executive authority, with many drawing immediate legal challenges.

Trump rapidly began overhauling the federal bureaucracy from the start of his term. He rescinded Executive Order , which mandated affirmative action and nondiscrimination practices for federal contractors. In his first days in office, Trump enacted far-reaching measures targeting illegal immigration. He instructed border patrol agents to summarily deport migrants crossing the border illegally, disabled the CBP One app that was being used to schedule border crossings, resumed remain in Mexico , labeled cartels as terrorist groups, deployed troops to the southern border, and renewed construction of a southern border wall.

Trump enacted a mass deportation operation , with Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE reaching over daily arrests one week into his presidency, and a goal of reaching 1, to 1, daily arrests. Trump initially focused deportation operations in sanctuary cities and against individuals on "target lists" of criminals formed prior to the Trump administration.

Removals were also expedited for asylum applicants who failed to meet requirements. Trump declared a national energy emergency, allowing for the suspension of some environmental regulations and faster approvals of energy projects. Trump ordered federal departments and agencies to explore the usage of federal lands or eminent domain to facilitate the "identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation" of domestic energy sources.

He also ordered a review of all regulations that pose an "undue burden" on energy sources and methods to "suspend, revise, or rescind" them within 30 days. Trump ordered Biden's ban on new LNG export terminals to be lifted while freezing permitting and leasing for new wind power projects. Other renewable energy projects on public land, including solar energy, were frozen for 60 days.

Trump initiated a review of the "legality and continued applicability" of the EPA endangerment finding , which is the basis of most federal regulations on greenhouse gases. Trump ordered the U. Government to stop funding and working with the WHO and announced the U. Trump and his incoming administration helped broker a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas alongside the Biden administration, enacted a day prior to Trump's inauguration.

During his campaign , Trump repeatedly talked about imposing tariffs and made controversial remarks about making Canada the 51st state. Beginning with his campaign, Trump's politics and rhetoric led to the creation of a political movement known as Trumpism. Trump's rhetoric and actions inflame anger and exacerbate distrust through an "us" versus "them" narrative.

Many of Trump's comments and actions have been described as racist. In , the men sued Trump for defamation after he said in a televised debate that they had committed the crime and killed the woman. In , when he was reportedly considering a presidential run, Trump became the leading proponent of the racist "birther" conspiracy theory , alleging that Barack Obama, the first black U.

Trump has a history of belittling women when speaking to the media and on social media. He has denied the allegations. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. Trump has been identified as a key figure in increasing political violence in America, both for and against him. Research suggests Trump's rhetoric is associated with an increased incidence of hate crimes, [ ] [ ] and that he has an emboldening effect on expressing prejudicial attitudes due to his normalization of explicit racial rhetoric.

Capitol, cited his rhetoric in arguing that they were not culpable or should receive leniency. Before and throughout his presidency, Trump promoted numerous conspiracy theories, including Obama birtherism , the Clinton body count conspiracy theory , the conspiracy theory movement QAnon , the Global warming hoax theory, Trump Tower wiretapping allegations , that Osama bin Laden was alive and Obama and Biden had members of Navy SEAL Team 6 killed, and alleged Ukrainian interference in U.

As a candidate and as president, Trump frequently makes false statements in public remarks [ ] [ ] to an extent unprecedented in American politics. Some of Trump's falsehoods were inconsequential, such as his repeated claim of the " biggest inaugural crowd ever ". Trump's social media presence attracted worldwide attention after he joined Twitter in He tweeted frequently during his campaign and as president until Twitter banned him after the January 6 attack.

After years of criticism for allowing Trump to post misinformation and falsehoods, Twitter began to tag some of his tweets with fact-checks in May Trump sought media attention throughout his career, sustaining a "love-hate" relationship with the press. The first Trump presidency reduced formal press briefings from about a hundred in to about half that in and to two in ; they also revoked the press passes of two White House reporters, which were restored by the courts.

All the suits were dismissed. The Atlantic characterized the suits as an intimidation tactic. Jean Carroll. The couple divorced in , following his affair with model and actress Marla Maples. They have one daughter, Tiffany b. Trump says he has never drunk alcohol, smoked cigarettes, or used drugs. Donald Trump declared that he was a Presbyterian and a Protestant in , [ ] [ ] though in , he began to identify as a nondenominational Christian.

A Gallup poll in countries comparing the approval ratings of U. During his first presidency, research from found that Trump had a stronger impact on popular assessments towards American political parties and partisan opinions than any president since the Truman administration. In Gallup's annual poll asking Americans to name the man they admire the most, he placed second to Obama in and , tied with Obama for first in , and placed first in Trump began his second term with positive approval ratings.

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Ultimately, the Trump Organization exited the casino business. Football League; and numerous licensing deals of the Trump name. For all his successes, Trump has also experienced his share of failures. He has declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy to reorganize his business debt six times between and Four of the filings covered casinos the Trump Organization owned.

The New York Times No. In total, The Apprentice franchise garnered nine Emmy nods, though it never won. The series launched a spinoff, Celebrity Apprentice , in early that featured singer Meat Loaf , actor George Takei , and boxer Laila Ali among its many contestants who raised money for charity. Trump left the show in , shortly after announcing his first presidential campaign, though he remained a producer for a follow-up season hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

In October , the federal government filed a complaint against Trump, his father, and their rental management company alleging that they had discriminated against tenants and potential tenants based on their race, a violation of the Fair Housing Act , which is part of the Civil Rights Act. The Trumps denied the claims and, after a lengthy legal battle, settled the case in June without admitting fault.

As part of the settlement, the company had to train employees about the Fair Housing Act, inform the community about its fair housing practices, and devote some advertising of its rental vacancies to Black and Puerto Rican communities for a period of two years. It was also required to share race-based data of its renters and applicants in 16 buildings for a two-year period.

In , Trump launched his for-profit Trump University, offering classes in real estate and acquiring and managing wealth. The venture had been under scrutiny almost since its inception and at the time of his presidential bid, it remained the subject of multiple lawsuits. In the cases, claimants accused Trump of fraud, false advertising and breach of contract.

Controversy about the suits made headlines when Trump suggested that U. District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel could not be impartial in overseeing two class action cases because of his Mexican heritage. Later, in a separate incident related to Trump University, it was reported that Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi decided not to join the existing New York fraud lawsuit.

This came just days after she had received a sizable campaign donation from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which was founded in as a private charity organization designed to make donations to nonprofit groups. In November , it was reported that Bondi's name was on Trump's list as a possible U. Attorney General contender. As a result of the improper donation to Bondi's campaign, Trump was required to pay the IRS a penalty and his foundation came under scrutiny about the use of its funds for non-charitable activities.

According to tax records, The Trump Foundation itself was found to have received no charitable gifts from Trump since , and that all donations since that time had come from outside contributors. At the time, the real estate market was in decline, reducing the value of and income from Trump's empire. The Trump Organization required a massive infusion of loans to keep it from collapsing, a situation that raised questions as to whether the corporation could survive bankruptcy.

Some observers saw Trump's decline as symbolic of many of the business, economic and social excesses that had arisen in the s. Donald Trump has been married to Melania Trump , his third wife, for nearly 20 years. His ex-wives include the late Ivana Trump and Marla Maples. Both marriages ended in divorce. The entrepreneur and politician is a father to three sons and two daughters.

She was named vice president in charge of design in the Trump Organization and played a major role in supervising the renovation of the Commodore and the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The couple had three children together: Donald Trump Jr. Ivana and Donald Sr. In , Trump married his second wife, Marla Maples, an actor with whom he had been involved for some time and already had a daughter, Tiffany.

Trump ultimately filed for divorce from Maples in Widely covered by media outlets, their split was finalized in June Trump is currently married to former Slovenian model Melania Trump, who is more than 23 years his junior. In January , the couple wed in a highly publicized and lavish wedding. Among the many celebrity guests at the wedding were Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton.

A year later, Donald and Melania welcomed their son, Barron. Trump has five children. He and his first wife, Ivana , had three kids together: Donald Trump Jr. Donald and his second wife, Marla , had daughter Tiffany Trump in October Donald Jr. In early , the brothers took on their current leadership positions in The Trump Organization as their father began serving as president.

Elsewhere, she worked with her dad on The Apprentice and became an entrepreneur with the creation of her eponymous fashion label. Her husband, Jared Kushner , similarly served as a senior adviser to President Trump. However, Donald Jr. She has served as co-chair of the Republican National Committee since March but announced in December she is stepping down.

Tiffany Trump largely grew up with her mother in southern California but maintained ties to her half-siblings and father. She is expecting her first child with husband Michael Boulos. He was 10 years old when his dad became president and moved to Washington D. Now an adult, Barron is a student at New York University. In addition to his five children, the former president is also a grandfather.

He has 10 grandchildren with another one on the way. However, the business leader had shown an interest in politics decades earlier and even explored running for president on the Reform Party ticket in A decade and a half later, Trump became one of the most recognizable politicians in the world. Trump, a registered Republican, has done more to reshape his political party than anyone else in the past decade.

In , Trump registered as a Republican before becoming an Independent two years later. In , Trump registered as a Democrat. Since his first ascension to the presidency in , Trump has ushered in a more populist, more conservative identity to the Republican Party. In mid-June , Trump announced he was running to be president of the United States as a Republican in the election.

In an unorthodox move, the candidate repeatedly refused to release his tax returns while they were being audited by the Internal Revenue Service. Initially considered a long-shot candidate in a crowded field that included experienced politicians like Jeb Bush , Ted Cruz , and Chris Christie, the famous businessman became the Republican nominee a little more than a year into his campaign.

He faced Democrat Hillary Clinton in the general election, and defying polls and media projections, Trump pulled off a stunning victory on November 8, Despite losing the popular vote to Clinton by almost 2. After one of the most contentious presidential races in U. Trump soon became the leader of the United States having never before held public office.

Grant , and Dwight D. Eisenhower were similarly inexperienced at the time of their elections, though all had extensive military backgrounds. He did not release his tax returns during the election, and he has not to date. It was the first time a major party candidate had not released such information to the public before a presidential election since Richard Nixon in After Democrats regained control of the House with the elections, Trump again faced calls to release his tax returns.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin rejected the request, as well as Neal's follow-up subpoena for the documents. In May the New York State Assembly passed legislation that authorized tax officials to release the president's state returns to the chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee and the Joint Committee on Taxation for any "specified and legitimate legislative purpose.

A Manhattan federal district judge dismissed Trump's lawsuit in October, though the U. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit agreed to temporarily delay enforcement of the subpoena while considering arguments in the case. A few days later, that same appeals court rejected Trump's bid to block another subpoena issued to Mazars USA, this one from the House Committee on Oversight and Reform.

After the U. Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments over whether the president could block the disclosure of his financial information to congressional committees and the Manhattan district attorney in December , the cases were presented to the Court the following May. A lawyer for the Trump Organization replied that "most, if not all, of the facts appear to be inaccurate" in the Times report.

In his inaugural speech, Trump shared a populist, and at times bleak, message. In his term as president, Trump issued executive orders to make good on some of his campaign promises as well as several orders aimed at deregulation. The president proposed a budget with increased spending for the military, veterans affairs, and national security, including building a wall on the border with Mexico, as well as major cuts to government agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Endowment for the Arts.

One of his most significant monetary accomplishments was signing a tax bill into law that lowered taxes for individuals and corporations. At various points during the Trump administration, the president and some members of his staff were embroiled in controversy or the subject of federal investigations. Trump was impeached twice: for abuse of power and obstructing Congress in related to a campaign scandal involving Ukraine, then for incitement of insurrection in related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

The newest appointees have conservative-leaning ideologies, cementing the current conservative majority of the Supreme Court. Less than two weeks after assuming office, the president nominated Neil Gorsuch to replace Antonin Scalia. After Gorsuch testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in March , Democrats blocked his appointment in the first successful partisan filibuster of a Supreme Court nominee.

In another historic move, Republicans lowered the threshold for advancing Supreme Court nominations from 60 votes to a simple majority of A textualist and originalist in the mold of Scalia, the nomination continued the rightward push of the Supreme Court. However, he earned confirmation in a close vote that October. One month later, the Senate voted to confirm Barrett, who became the fifth woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

Just before the end of his first days, in late April , Trump announced his tax plan in a one-page outline that would dramatically change tax codes. The plan called for streamlining seven personal income tax brackets to three—10, 25, and 35 percent—lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 to 15 percent, eliminating the alternative minimum tax and estate tax, and simplifying the process for filing tax returns.

On December 2, , Trump achieved the first major legislative victory of his administration when the Senate passed a sweeping tax reform bill. Approved along party lines by a vote, the bill drew criticism for extensive last-minute rewrites, with frustrated Democrats posting photos of pages filled with crossed-out text and handwriting crammed into the margins.

Among other measures, the Senate bill called for the slashing of the corporate tax rate from 35 to 20 percent, doubling personal deductions, and ending the Obamacare mandate. Now, these great Republicans will be going for final passage. Thank you to House and Senate Republicans for your hard work and commitment! Reportedly angry that the bill did not fully fund his long-promised Mexican border wall, he nevertheless signed the bill into law on March 23, hours before another government shutdown would have gone into effect.

Trump told reporters, "I don't believe it. In June , Trump met with then- Prince Charles and reportedly discussed climate change at length. It used to be called global warming, that wasn't working, then it was called climate change and now actually it is called extreme weather. On June 1, , Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement, which President Obama had joined along with the leaders of other countries.

The accord requires all participating nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to curb climate change over the ensuing century and also to allocate resources for the research and development of alternative energy sources. However, Nicaragua eventually joined the Paris Climate Agreement months later. The pipelines had been halted by President Obama following protests from environmental and Native American groups.

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Trump owned shares of Energy Transfer Partners, the company in charge of construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, but sold his stake in the company in December On March 28, , the president, surrounded by American coal miners, signed the "Energy Independence" executive order, calling for the Environmental Protection Agency to roll back Obama's Clean Power Plan, curb climate and carbon emissions regulations and to rescind a moratorium on coal mining on U.

This included changes to legislation that gave the government increased discretion over matters of climate change and economic cost when determining whether a species should be protected. However, the controversial bill ultimately didn't have enough Republican votes and was withdrawn a few weeks later, representing a major legislative setback for Speaker Ryan and Trump.

After intense negotiations among party factions, a new Republican health care plan was brought to a vote in the House of Representatives on May 4, , and passed by a slim margin of to That passed the buck to the Senate. Almost immediately after a draft was unveiled on June 22, conservative senators such as Ted Cruz declared they could not support the bill's failure to significantly lower premiums, while moderates like Susan Collins voiced concerns over its steep cuts to Medicaid.

However, on September 26, Senate Republicans announced they would not move forward with the current plan, as they were short of the required votes. He also announced that he would get rid of health insurance subsidies. For years, the mandate was threatened by lawsuits from conservative and religious groups. He has supported bans on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy and has cited his appointments of conservative Supreme Court judges Gorsuch and Kavanaugh as helping to make abortion laws in some states more restrictive.

Trump changed his beliefs on abortion from pro-choice to anti-abortion in In January , after his administration threatened to cut federal funds to California over a mandate that the state's health insurance plans cover abortion, Trump became the first sitting president to address the annual March for Life rally in Washington, D. On February 22, , the Trump administration rolled back federal protection for transgender students to use bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity, allowing states and school districts to interpret federal anti-discrimination law.

On March 27, , Trump signed several measures under the Congressional Review Act to reverse regulations related to education, land use and a "blacklisting rule" requiring federal contractors to disclose violations of federal labor, wage and workplace safety laws. Later that year, the president tweeted that he would enact a ban on transgender people from serving in the military.

The official policy went into effect the following March with the statement that "transgender persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria — individuals who the policies state may require substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery — are disqualified from military service except under certain limited circumstances.

Following a legal challenge, the Supreme Court allowed the ban to go into effect in January , while allowing lower courts to hear additional arguments. Trump has vowed to defend the Second Amendment and gun ownership since taking office. However, Trump has also at times said he would be willing to consider a range of measures to restrict gun access.

His administration also banned bump stocks in October after a mass shooting at a Las Vegas music festival left 58 people dead. The Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, which left a total of 17 students and faculty dead, sparked a strong response from Trump. He ordered the Justice Department to issue regulations banning bump stocks and suggested he was willing to consider a range of measures, from strengthening background checks to raising the minimum age for buying rifles.

He also backed an NRA-fueled proposal for arming teachers, which drew backlash from many in the profession. The president remained invested in the issue even as the usual cycle of outrage began diminishing: In a televised February 28 meeting with lawmakers, he called for gun control legislation that would expand background checks to gun shows and internet transactions, secure schools and restrict sales for some young adults.

At one point he called out Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey for being "afraid of the NRA," and at another, he suggested that authorities should seize guns from mentally ill or other potentially dangerous people without first going to court. His stances seemingly stunned the Republican lawmakers at the meeting, as well as the NRA, which previously considered the president as a strong supporter.

Within a few days, Trump was walking back his proposal to raise the age limit and mainly pushing for arming select teachers. Two months later, after back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the president suggested tying expanded background checks to immigration reform legislation. In his first televised interview as president, Trump said the initial construction of the wall would be funded by U.

After funding for the wall failed to materialize, from either Mexico or Congress, Trump in April announced that he would reinforce security along the U. The following day, the president signed a proclamation that directed National Guard troops to the U. The Department of Homeland Security said that the deployment would be in coordination with governors, that the troops would "support federal law enforcement personnel, including [Customs and Border Protection]," and that federal immigration authorities would "direct enforcement efforts.

With Democrats refusing to give in to his demand, a partial government shutdown ensued for a record 35 days, until all sides agreed to another attempt at striking a compromise. In response, a coalition of 16 states filed a lawsuit that challenged Trump's power to circumvent Congress on this issue. After the House voted for a resolution to overturn the national emergency declaration in late February, the Senate followed suit on March 14 when 12 Republican senators joined a united Democratic side to vote for the resolution.

Trump promptly issued the first veto of his presidency the following day, calling the resolution a "vote against reality. In late July , the Supreme Court overturned an appellate decision and ruled that the Trump administration could begin using Pentagon money for construction during the ongoing litigation over the issue. As part of attempts to seal the U.

As children were legally not allowed to be detained with their parents, this meant that they were to be held separately as family cases wound through immigration courts. A furor ensued after reports surfaced that nearly 2, children had been separated from their parents over a six-week period that ended in May , compounded by photos of toddlers crying in cages.

Trump initially deflected blame for the situation, insisting it resulted from the efforts of predecessors and political opponents. The president ultimately caved to pressure from the bad PR, and on June 20 he signed an executive order that directed the Department of Homeland Security to keep families together. In the meantime, the DHS essentially revived the "catch-and-release" system that the zero-tolerance policy was meant to eradicate while dealing with the logistics of reuniting families.

President Trump signed one of his most controversial executive orders on January 27, , calling for "extreme vetting" to "keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America. The order called for a ban on immigrants from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen for at least 90 days, temporarily suspended the entry of refugees for days and barred Syrian refugees indefinitely.

In an interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, Trump also said he would give priority to Christian refugees trying to gain entry into the United States. After facing multiple legal hurdles, Trump signed a revised executive order on March 6, , calling for a day ban on travelers from six predominantly Muslim countries including Sudan, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

Iraq, which was included in the original executive order, was removed from the list. Travelers from the six listed countries, who hold green cards or have valid visas as of the signing of the order, will not be affected. Religious minorities would not get special preference, as was outlined in the original order, and an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees was reduced to days.

Judge Theodore D. Chuang of Maryland also blocked the ban the following day, and in subsequent months, the ban was impeded in decisions handed down by the U. Circuit Court of Appeals once again. However, on June 26, , Trump won a partial victory when the Supreme Court announced it was allowing the controversial ban to go into effect for foreign nationals who lacked a "bona fide relationship with any person or entity in the United States.

On September 24, , Trump issued a new presidential proclamation, which permanently bans travel to the United States for most citizens from seven countries. Most were on the original list, including Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, while the new order included Chad, North Korea and some citizens of Venezuela certain government officials and their families.

The tweak did little to pacify critics, who argued that the order was still heavily biased toward Islam. Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. On October 10, the Supreme Court canceled a planned hearing on an appeal of the original travel ban. Under the ruling, the administration could fully enforce its new restrictions on travel from eight nations, six of them predominantly Muslim.

Citizens of Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Chad and North Korea, along with some groups of people from Venezuela, would be unable to emigrate to the United States permanently, with many barred from also working, studying or vacationing in the country. On June 26, , the Supreme Court upheld the president's travel ban by a vote. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John Roberts said that Trump had the executive authority to make national security judgments in the realm of immigration, regardless of his previous statements about Islam.

In a sharply worded dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that the outcome was equivalent to that of Korematsu v. In August , the Trump administration unveiled a new regulation designed to weed out immigrants who would potentially require government assistance. Known as the "public charge" rule, for people who are dependent on Medicaid, food stamps and other benefits, the policy tightened requirements for legal immigrants seeking to become permanent residents by focusing on factors like education, assets, resources and financial status.

In early August , intelligence experts confirmed that North Korea successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that fits inside its missiles, putting it one step closer to becoming a nuclear power. Around the same time, the North Korean state news agency said they were "examining the operational plan" to strike areas around the U. On August 28, North Korea launched a missile over Japan.

Some foreign policy experts were concerned that war between the U. Following the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, during which North Korea made a show of unity with the host country, its officials also relayed interest in opening up communications with Washington. Trump leaped at the opportunity, announcing that he was willing to sit down with Kim.

On June 12, , Trump and Kim met at the secluded Capella resort in Singapore, marking the first such encounter between a sitting U. The two held private talks with their interpreters, before expanding the meeting to include such top staffers as Pompeo now U. Afterward, in a televised ceremony, the leaders signed a joint statement in which Trump "committed to provide security guarantees" to North Korea and Kim "reaffirmed his firm and unwavering commitment to complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.

On February 27, , the two men met for a second summit, at the Metropole hotel in Hanoi, Vietnam, to discuss the next steps in denuclearization. Said Trump to his counterpart: "I think you will have a tremendous future with your country — a great leader. And I look forward to watching it happen and helping it to happen. However, negotiations abruptly ended the second day, after North Korea reportedly asked for sanctions to be lifted in exchange for dismantling its main nuclear facility but not all elements of its weapons program.

On June 30, , Trump became the first sitting U. Trump later said that he and Kim had agreed to designate negotiators to resume denuclearization talks in the coming weeks. Throughout the presidential election, Trump vehemently denied allegations he had a relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and was tied to the hacking of the DNC emails.

In January , a U. We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump," the report said. However, in subsequent comments he again refused to condemn Russia for such activity, notably saying on multiple occasions that he believed Putin's denials. In March , the Trump administration formally acknowledged the charges by issuing sanctions on 19 Russians for interference in the presidential election and alleged cyberattacks.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin delivered the announcement, with the president remaining silent on the matter. The two men met on the heels of Trump's heavily scrutinized summit with NATO leaders, and shortly after the Justice Department announced the indictment of 12 Russian operatives for interfering in the U. Prompted to address the issue of election hacking in a joint news conference for the two leaders, Trump refused to point a finger at his counterpart.

I think we're all to blame," he said, adding that "President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. The comments drew a harsh response stateside, with several notable Republicans joining their Democratic colleagues to question why the president was siding with Putin over his intelligence agencies. Senator McCain called it "one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory," and even Trump ally Newt Gingrich weighed in with strong words, tweeting, "It is the most serious mistake of his presidency and must be corrected — immediately.

Trump sought to quiet the furor after returning to the White House, insisting that he had misspoken when saying he didn't see why Russia should be blamed and reminding that he has "on numerous occasions noted our intelligence findings that Russians attempted to interfere in our elections," though he again suggested that other parties could be responsible.

Around that time, it was revealed that Trump had instructed Bolton, his national security adviser, to invite Putin to the White House that autumn, news that caught Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats off guard. Bolton soon disclosed that he would postpone the invitation until the conclusion of the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the U.

Despite Trump's overtures to Putin, his administration in February announced the suspension of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, due to the Eastern power's repeated violations of the agreement. The announcement gave Russia days to comply with terms before U. On April 6, , Trump ordered a military strike, to which he had tweeted opposition to when Obama was in office, on a Syrian government airfield.

The strike was in response to a chemical attack by Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Syrian civilians that had led to the horrific deaths of dozens of men, women and children. Navy destroyers fired 59 Tomahawk missiles at Shayrat airfield, from where the attack was launched. It was the first direct military action by the United States against Syrian military forces during the country's ongoing civil war.

One year later, evidence surfaced of another chemical attack on Syrians, with dozens reported dead in the rebel-held city of Douma. Although Syria and its ally, Russia, referred to the situation as a "hoax" perpetrated by terrorists, Trump wasn't having it: "Russia vows to shoot down any and all missiles fired at Syria. Get ready Russia, because they will be coming," he tweeted, adding, "You shouldn't be partners with a Gas Killing Animal who kills his people and enjoys it!

The U. Larger than the previous year's operation, this one hit two chemical weapons facilities and a scientific research center. Afterward, the president took to Twitter to thank his military allies for their efforts, declaring, "Mission Accomplished! In December , Trump announced that U. However, the president reversed course again the following October by ordering U.

Again drawing a sharp response from critics, the president made his case on Twitter by arguing it was time to get out of Syria and let other nations in the region "figure the situation out," adding that he would respond forcefully if Turkey did anything "off limits. According to the president, the militant leader was chased to the end of an underground tunnel, "whimpering and crying and screaming all the way," before detonating a suicide vest.

The announcement came amid the controversy over the withdrawal of troops from the region, with critics pointing to the American military presence and intelligence contributions from Kurdish allies as factors that led to the success of the mission. On March 1, , after the conclusion of a Commerce Department investigation, Trump announced that he was imposing tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum.

He ultimately granted temporary exemptions as he sought to renegotiate deals. His actions resulted in new agreements with South Korea and multiple South American countries to restrain their metal exports. Talks with China, the E. In late May, the administration announced that it was moving forward with all tariffs. The move drew a harsh response from the E.

He ultimately left the summit early, making headlines on the way out by announcing he would not sign a communique between the seven nations and taking shots at Trudeau on Twitter. In July, Trump again had harsh words for allies at the NATO summit in Brussels, Belgium, including accusations that Germany was "captive" to Russia for its dependence on Russian natural gas, and followed with criticism of U.

Prime Minister Theresa May for her handling of Brexit. In April , the Trump administration announced it was adding a 25 percent tariff on more than 1, Chinese products to penalize the country for its trade practices. He granted temporary exemptions to negotiate a deal. The increase came as the two countries were attempting to hammer out terms for a new trade deal.

He announced a 5 percent hike in late August and threatened another 5 percent increase by October, before agreeing to delay the latter as he continued to push for an all-encompassing trade deal. In October, the president gushed about the "very substantial phase one deal" reached with China, saying a final agreement on matters related to intellectual property, financial services and agriculture would take three to five weeks to put in place.

In June , Trump announced that the U. However, U.