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Presidency of Donald Trump
January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021
President Donald Trump
Cabinet See list
Party Republican
Election 2016
Seat White House
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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.

2016 presidential election

Main article: United States presidential election, 2016
For more details, see [[{{{1}}}]], Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016, Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016, and 2016 Republican National Convention
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Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, taking 304 of the 538 electoral votes. Five other individuals received electoral votes from faithless electors.

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 Cabinet
Office Name Term
President Donald Trump 2017–present
Vice President Mike Pence 2017–present
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson 2017–2018
Mike Pompeo 2018–present
Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin 2017–present
Secretary of Defense James Mattis 2017–2018
Patrick M. Shanahan (acting) 2019–2019
Mark Esper 2019–present
Attorney General Jeff Sessions 2017–2018
Matthew Whitaker (acting) 2018–2019
William Barr 2019–present
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke 2017–2019
David Bernhardt 2019–present
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue 2017–present
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross 2017–present
Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta 2017–2019
Patrick Pizzella (acting) 2019–present
Secretary of Health and
Human Services		 Tom Price 2017–2017
Don J. Wright (acting) 2017–2017
Eric Hargan (acting) 2017–2018
Alex Azar 2018–present
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos 2017–present
Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development		 Ben Carson 2017–present
Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao 2017–present
Secretary of Energy Rick Perry 2017–present
Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin 2017–2018
Robert Wilkie 2018–present
Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly 2017–2017
Kirstjen Nielsen 2017–2019
Kevin McAleenan (acting) 2019–present
Chief of Staff Reince Priebus 2017–2017
John F. Kelly 2017–2019
Mick Mulvaney (acting) 2019–present
Administrator of the
Environmental Protection Agency		 Scott Pruitt 2017–2018
Andrew Wheeler 2019–present
Director of the Office of
Management and Budget		 Mick Mulvaney 2017–present
Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley 2017–2018
Jonathan Cohen (acting) 2019–2019
Kelly Craft 2019–present
United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer 2017–present
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats 2017–2019
Joseph Maguire (acting) 2019–present
Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency		 Mike Pompeo 2017–2018
Gina Haspel 2018–present
Administrator of the
Small Business Administration		 Linda McMahon 2017–2019
Chris Pilkerton (acting) 2019–present

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, 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

Republican seats in Congress
Congress Senate House
115th 52 241
116th 53 200

2018 mid-term elections

Main article: United States elections, 2018

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

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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.

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