Presidency of Donald Trump facts for kids
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Presidency of Donald Trump
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Cabinet | See list |
| Party | Republican |
| Election | 2016 |
| Seat | White House |
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← Barack Obama • Joe Biden →
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The presidency of Donald Trump began at noon EST on January 20, 2017. Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States. He succeeded Barack Obama. Trump is a member of the Republican Party.
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2016 presidential election
On November 9, 2016, Republicans Donald Trump of New York and Governor Mike Pence of Indiana won the 2016 election, defeating Democratic former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of New York and Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia. Trump won 304 electoral votes compared to Clinton's 227, though Clinton won a plurality of the popular vote, receiving nearly 2.9 million more votes than Trump. Trump then became the fifth person to win the presidency while losing the popular vote. In the congressional elections, Republicans maintained majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Personnel
The Trump administration has had record turnover, particularly among White House staff. By the end of his first year in office, 34 percent of Trump's original staff had resigned, been fired, or been reassigned. As of March 2018[update], 43 percent of senior White House positions had turned over.
On September 5, 2018, The New York Times published an article entitled "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration", written by an anonymous senior official in the Trump administration. The author asserted that "many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations."
Elections during the Trump presidency
| Congress | Senate | House |
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| 115th | 52 | 241 |
| 116th | 53 | 200 |
2018 mid-term elections
In the 2018 mid-term elections, Democrats won control of the House of Representatives, while Republicans expanded their majority in the Senate.
2020 presidential elections
In the 2020 presidential elections, Republicans Donald Trump and vice-president Mike Pence ran against Democratic former vice-president Joe Biden and senator Kamala Harris of California. The president lost by 59 votes with his 214 electoral college votes and the opposition's 273 votes.
Historical evaluations and public opinion
By the end of Trump's first year in office, opinion polls showed him as the least popular president in United States history. He has said many false and misleading things in his campaign and presidency. Those things were documented by fact-checkers.
Early in his presidency, the Trump administration developed a controversial relationship with mass media. He repeatedly said it was the "fake news media" and "the enemy of the people".
As of 2019, Trump's most repeated false statements were each repeated over 100 times during his presidency. They included that the "Trump wall" was already being built, that a U.S. trade deficit would be a "loss" for the country, and that the American economy was the strongest ever during his administration.
Images for kids
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Outgoing President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office on November 10, 2016
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Donald Trump's official portrait before his swearing in ceremony.
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Inauguration swearing-in ceremony
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Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett and her family with Trump on September 26, 2020
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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.
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Trump talks to the press in the Oval Office on March 21, 2017, before signing S.422 (the NASA Transition Authorization Act)
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Trump speaks to reporters on the White House South Lawn in June 2019
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During a joint news conference, Trump said he was "very proud" to hear Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro use the term "fake news."
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Twitter activity of Donald Trump from his first tweet in May 2009 to September 2017. Retweets are not included.
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Trump signs an Executive Order promoting Agriculture and Rural Prosperity in America on April 25, 2017
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Trump signs the Hurricane Harvey relief bill at Camp David, September 8, 2017
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Trump and Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg at the 787-10 Dreamliner rollout ceremony
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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
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Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visit Saint Andrew's Catholic School in Orlando, Florida, March 3, 2017
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April 2017 Trump rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Official portrait of Scott Pruitt as EPA Administrator
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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, first day on the job
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June 2018 protest against the Trump administration family separation policy, in Chicago, Illinois
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Trump signs Executive Order 13769 at the Pentagon. Vice President Mike Pence (left) and Secretary of Defense James Mattis look on, January 27, 2017.
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Trump returns to the White House after posing for a photo op at St. John's Episcopal Church, June 2020
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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
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Anti-Trump protest in Greensboro by the anti-fascist groups Democratic Socialists of America and Industrial Workers of the World
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Trump and North Korea's Communist Party leader Kim Jong-un shake hands at the Korean Demilitarized Zone, June 30, 2019
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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.
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Trump with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the Oval Office, November 13, 2019
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Trump with Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2017
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Robert Mueller in the Oval Office c. 2012
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Tayyip Erdoğan, then the prime minister of Turkey, attended the opening of the Trump Towers Istanbul AVM in 2012.
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Open hearing testimony of Fiona Hill and David Holmes on November 21, 2019
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See also
In Spanish: Presidencia de Donald Trump para niños
