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Born and raised in a neighborhood in the New York borough of Queens called " Jamaica, " Donald earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. In 1971, he took over the family-owned real estate business and construction Elizabeth Trump & Son, which would later be renamed the Trump Organization. During his business career, Trump has built, renovated and managed numerous office towers, hotels, casinos and golf courses. She owned the Miss USA beauty pageants and, Miss Universe, from 1996 to 2015 and has lent the use of her name in the branding of various products. From 2004 to 2015, he participated in The Apprentice a reality show on NBC. In 2016, Forbes listed him as the 324th richest person in the world (113th in the United States), with a net worth of $ 4.5 billion. According to Forbes estimates in February 2018, he is among the richest people in the world at 766th place, with a net worth of $ 3.1 billion.
Trump sought the Reform Party's presidential nomination in 2000 but withdrew before voting began. He considered running for office as a Republican in the 2012 election, but ultimately decided against it. In June 2015, he officially announced his candidacy for the 2016 election, quickly becoming the front-runner among the seventeen candidates in the Republican primaries. His rivals towards the end suspended their campaigns in May 2016, and in July he was nominated at the Republican Convention along with Mike Pence. like his running mate. His campaign received unprecedented media coverage and great international attention. Many of his statements in interviews, on social media and at campaign rallies were controversial or considered false.
He won the general election on November 8, 2016, against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, and became president on January 20, 2017 at the age of 70, making him the oldest president to assume this position in his country; Likewise, he is the president with the greatest wealth, the first without military service or previous political office and the fifth to have won the election, despite having lost the election by popular votes, like JQ Adams in 1824, RB Hayes in 1876, B. Harrison in 1888 and GW Bush in 2000 .
In domestic politics, Trump ordered a travel ban for citizens of several Muslim-majority countries, citing security concerns; a revised version of the ban was implemented after legal challenges. Signed tax reform legislation that lowers rates for the benefit of the wealthy, rescinded the individual insurance mandate provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and opened the Arctic Refuge for extraction of oil. He also enacted a partial repeal of the Dodd-Frank Act that he had imposed stricter restrictions on banks after the 2008 financial crisis. He made dozens of judicial appointments, including Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
After Trump removed FBI Director James Comey, the Justice Department appointed Robert Mueller as a special adviser to investigate the coordination or links between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in their election interference. Trump has repeatedly denied the allegations.
In foreign policy, Trump has pursued his America First agenda, a populist policy that emphasizes American nationalism. retired US trade negotiations of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris Agreement on climate change, partially reversed the Cuban thaw, he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and withdrew the United States from the agreement on Iran's nuclear program. imposed import duties on various products from China, Canada, Mexico, and the European Union . On February 1, 2019, the United States announced that it was abandoning the Treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, a bilateral treaty with Russia, agreed in 1987 with the USSR . In addition, it has publicly rejected the governance of the presidential administration of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela.
Donald Trump: Early years and education
Trump was born on June 14, 1946, in the New York borough of Queens. He was one of the five children of Mary Anne MacLeod and Fred Trump, who married in 1936. His older brother, Fred, died in 1981 at the age of 43. His mother was a Scottish immigrant born on the Isle of Lewis in the northern Outer Hebrides, and his paternal grandparents were German immigrants . His grandfather, Frederick Trump (born Friedrich Drumpf), came from Germany came to the United States in 1885, and acquired citizenship in 1892. He married Donald's grandmother, Elisabeth Christ in Kallstadt, with whom he had three children. One of these was inventor, physicist, and electrical engineer John G. Trump.
While living in Jamaica Estates, he attended the Kew-Forest School in Forest Hills, Queens, alongside some of his siblings. At age 13, after having behavioral problems that led to his dropping out of school, his parents sent him to the New York Military Academy (NYMA).
Trump went to Fordham University in the Bronx for two years, continuing his studies at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, because Wharton had one of the few study programs dedicated to real estate, where he graduated from 1968 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics.
Donald Trump: Career in Business
He stared at his father's real estate company, Elizabeth Trump and Son, focused on middle-class housing for rent in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. One of his first projects, still in college, was the revitalization of the Swifton Village apartment complex in Cincinnati, Ohio, which his father had bought for $ 5.7 million in 1962.
The Trumps participated in the project with an investment of $ 500,000. In two years, the 1,200-unit complex with 66% vacancy became full. In 1972, he sold it for $ 6.7 million.
In 1971, he settled in Manhattan, where he participated in large real estate projects and used colorful architecture to gain recognition from the public. Made plans to acquire and develop Penn Central for $ 60 million. Then, with the help of a 40-year tax deduction from the New York government, he pulled the Commodore Hotel at the Grand Hyatt out of bankruptcy and created the Trump Organization.
New York City planned to build the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on a property for which Trump had a purchase option. He estimated that his company could have completed the project for $ 110 million, but the city rejected his offer.
In 1988, it acquired the Taj Mahal Casino in a transaction with Merv Griffin and Resorts International. That expansion, both personal and commercial, increased its debt considerably.
Around 1989, some bad business decisions led him to default. Trump financed the construction of a third casino, also called the Taj Mahal, mostly with junk bonds. Although he bolstered his businesses with additional loans and postponed interest payments, by 1991 mounting debt led to business bankruptcy, and close to personal.
Banks and bond owners lost millions of dollars but chose to restructure debt to avoid losing more money in lawsuits. The Taj Mahal emerged from bankruptcy on October 5, 1991, with Trump ceding 50 percent of the equity ownership to the original bondholders, in exchange for lowering loan interest rates and granting more time. to cancel the debt.
In the late 1990s, his financial situation improved. Among his first actions was the construction of a series of properties, diversifying into clubs and building numerous hotels and casinos. It also bought shares in the Miss Universe Organization, the organization that conducts the Miss Universe, Miss United States and Miss United States Adolescent contests, with the television network NBC owning the rest of the shares. In 2001, he completed the Trump World Tower, a 72-story residential building near the United Nations Headquarters. Also, began to build Trump Place, a multi-unit real estate development along the Hudson River. Trump owns properties in the Trump International Hotel and Tower, a 44-story mixed-use (hotel and condo ) building on Columbus Circle. It also has several hundred thousand square meters in Manhattan.
Trump has developed several real estate projects, such as the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Honolulu , Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago , Trump International Hotel and Tower in Toronto , and Trump Tower in Tampa . Meanwhile, the Trump Towers Atlanta One was developed in a housing market that has the second-largest inventory of such unsold properties.
Later, he divorced Marla. That divorce was much less expensive and had much less coverage than the previous one in the media, given that he only had to pay his ex-wife two million dollars. After divorcing, he married fellow model Melania, who is his current wife.
By the turn of the new millennium, Trump had rebuilt his empire, now he owned a number of properties such as the Trump World Tower, Trump Hotel Las Vegas, Trump Ocean Club International Hotel & Tower, the Trump International Tower & Hotel series of hotels, in several cities, plus old casinos and a new hotel on one of Dubai's Palm islands.
Currently, the Trump Organization manages a series of properties located in various countries, such as Panama, Brazil, the Caribbean, and in different areas of the United States, and the Trump Entertainment has expanded the number of its casinos. Trump also published the book The Art of Negotiation (although it was written by a manager), in which he recounts his experiences during the debacle he suffered in the 1990s and how he managed to overcome it.
Trump also owns a soccer team in New Jersey and sponsors boxing matches, as well as a bike race called the Trump Tour. Its business conglomerate includes golf courses and reputable companies such as Trump Enterprises Incorporation, The Trump Corporation, Trump Development, Wembley Realty, Park South, and Land Corp. of California.
In 2005, he released the reality show The Apprentice (The Apprentice), which aired on NBC. It is a stellar show in which 16 to 18 entrepreneurs compete for a prize of $ 250,000 and a contract to run one of their companies. In 2007, he announced that he would take his show to another network, but later NBC announced that it would return to its screens. He is the co-author of a book called Why We Want You to be Rich, which he wrote in partnership with his friend Robert Kiyosaki, a financial aid book writer. At the end of 2007, he published Think Big and Kick Butt in Business and Life.
According to Forbes estimates in February 2018, he is ranked 766th among the richest people in the world, with a net worth of 3.1 billion dollars.
Legal matters and bankruptcies
As of July 2018, Trump and his businesses had participated in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions. As of 2016, he or one of his companies had been the plaintiff in 1,900 cases and the defendant in 1,450. With Trump or his company as plaintiff, more than half of the cases have been against players in their casinos that had not been able to pay their debts. With Trump or his company as a defendant, the most common type of case involved personal injury cases at their hotels. In cases where there was a clear resolution, Trump's side won 451 times and lost 38.
Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy, but his hotel and casino businesses have filed for bankruptcy six times between 1991 and 2009 to renegotiate debt with banks and owners of stocks and bonds Because companies used the bankruptcy Chapter 11, they were allowed to operate while carrying out negotiations. Trump was quoted by Newsweek in 2011 as saying, "I play with bankruptcy laws, they are very good for me" as a tool to reduce debt.
A 2016 analysis of Trump's business career by The Economist concluded that his "... performance [from 1985 to 2016] has been lackluster compared to the stock market and property in New York," taking into account both his successes like their bankruptcies. A subsequent analysis by The Washington Post concluded that "Trump is a mixture of swagger, business failures, and true success," calling his casino bankruptcies the "most infamous failure" of his business career.
Stormy Daniels scandal
Pornographic film actress Stormy Daniels has alleged that she and Trump had an affair in 2006, which Trump denied. Just before the 2016 presidential election, Daniels received $ 130,000 from Trump attorney Michael Cohen as part of a confidentiality agreement (NDA); Cohen said she paid her with her own money. In February 2018, Daniels sued Cohen's company asking to be released from the NDA and allowed to tell her story. Cohen obtained a restraining order to prevent him from arguing the case, and claimed that Daniels could owe $ 20 million in damages for breaching the agreement.In March 2018, Daniels claimed in court that the NDA never went into effect because Trump did not personally sign it. In May 2018, Trump's annual financial disclosure revealed that he reimbursed Cohen in 2017 for payments related to Daniels.
Donald Trump: Political activities until 2015
In 2011, a report by the Center for Responsive Politics showed that during two decades of elections in the United States, Trump contributed to the nominations of both Republican and Democratic candidates. In the 2012 presidential election, he supported Mitt Romney. In the 1980s he supported Ronald Reagan. Trump played a major role in the conspiracy theories about the birth of Obama that had been circulating since the presidential campaign of 2008.
He referred to his own presidential candidacies in 1988, 2004, and 2012 and for governor of the state of New York in 2006 and 2014, without any of them materializing. In 2000, he participated in the presidential nomination of the Reform Party, and won the party primaries in California.
While there was speculation a Republican candidacy to his election in 2012, a survey by the Wall Street Journal and NBC News March 2011 put it as a leader, and one point even above the former governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney. A Newsweek magazine poll in February 2011 showed him within a few points of Barack Obama, with many voters undecided in the 2012 presidential election. A Public Policy Polling poll published in April 2011 gave him nine points of advantage in an eventual Republican candidacy. Some media understood these projects as a promotional strategy for their show The Apprentice.
On May 16, 2011, he announced that it would not launch his candidacy for the 2012 elections Public Policy Polling described the events of May 2011 as "one of the fastest rises and falls of the presidential elections." In December 2011, he was one of the ten most admired men and women alive, according to a USA Today and Gallup poll. In January 2013, Trump posted a video endorsing Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during that year's parliamentary elections, saying that "A strong prime minister is a strong Israel."
In 2013, he was a keynote speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference. The audience was small. He spent more than a million dollars to explore an eventual presidential candidacy. In October 2013, New York Republicans circulated a document suggesting that he would run for governor of the state in 2014 against Andrew Cuomo. He said that although New York was in trouble and taxes were too high, he was not interested in running for governor. In February 2015, he decided not to renew his The Apprentice contract, sparking speculation about a possible presidential candidacy.
Donald Trump: 2016 presidential campaign
In the US city of New York, Trump announced his candidacy for the elections of 2016, by the Republican Party, under the slogan "We are going to make our country great again" (Come to make our country great again). In his presentation, Trump criticized China's progress in the world economy and also the presence of Mexican immigrants in the United States.
His speech generated controversy, as he made derogatory comments towards Mexico, cataloging illegal Mexican immigrants as "corrupt, criminals and rapists", also indicating his desire to build a wall on the border between the United States and Mexico, which would have to be paid. for Mexico. These statements caused the anger of the Latino community in the United States and caused several companies (such as NBC, Macy's, and Univisión ) to cut off commercial relations with Trump.
In the first debate of the Republican candidates for the presidency of the United States organized and broadcast by the US network FOX News on December 7, 2015, the candidate Donald Trump maintained a position that was the subject of great controversy. He stressed that the political system of his country is allegedly "broken" and that he and the United States "do not have time to be politically correct," an argument based on the fact that the country has lost prominence and competitiveness on the global stage. according to statements by the employer himself. also stressed that he would not rule out the possibility of being an independent candidate for the presidency of that country if he were not formally nominated as a "Presidential Candidate for the Republican Party", which was the subject of criticism within the ranks of said party. .
The presidential campaign of Trump was marked by protests and hostility of their adversaries. Several of the acts of the Trump campaign were accompanied by incidents of violence, the most important being that which occurred in Chicago, where supporters and detractors clashed violently after the meeting was canceled due to security measures.
Trump managed to win the primary election following the withdrawal of all its adversaries and officially became a candidate for president in the National Convention Republican-held between 18 and 21 July 2016.
Election to the presidency
On November 8, 2016, Donald Trump received 306 promised electoral votes versus 232 for Hillary Clinton. Official counts were 304 and 227 respectively, after desertions on both sides. Trump received a smaller share of the popular vote than Clinton, making him the fifth person to be elected president while losing the popular vote. Clinton led nationally by 2.1 percentage points, with 65,853,514 votes (48.18%) to 62,984,828 votes (46.09%); none of the candidates reached a majority.
Most observers viewed Trump's victory as a stunning political surprise, as polls had consistently shown Hillary Clinton with a national advantage, albeit declining, and a favorable advantage in most competitive states. Trump's support had been underestimated during his campaign, and many observers blamed errors in the polls, partially attributed to pollsters who overestimated Clinton's support among well-educated and non-white voters, while underestimating Trump's support among white voters. working class. However, the surveys were relatively accurate, the media and pundits showed overconfidence in Clinton's victory despite large numbers of swing voters and a favorable concentration of Trump's top voters in competitive states.
Trump won 30 states, including Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which had been Democratic strongholds since the 1990s. Clinton won 20 states and the District of Columbia. Trump's victory marked the return of a Republican White House with control of both houses of Congress.
Trump is the richest president in the history of the United States, even after adjusting for inflation. He is also the first president without prior government or military service. Of the previous 43 presidents, 38 had held previous elected office, two had not held elected office but had served in the Cabinet, and three had never held public office but had been generals to command.
Presidential transition
On November 10, President-elect Trump had his first meeting with President Obama to discuss plans for a peaceful transition. The New York Times declared that "it was an extraordinary display of cordiality and respect between two men who have been political enemies and are stylistic opposites." The BBC claimed that "their antipathy was barely hidden" in "awkward photos" of the meeting.
The transition team was led by Chris Christie until November 11, 2016, when he was replaced by Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Since then, Trump has elected the chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), Reince Priebus, as White House Chief of Staff and businessman Steve Bannon as Counsel to the President. Additionally, it appointed Senator Jeff Sessions as Attorney General; to Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, National Security Advisor ;to activist Betsy DeVos, Secretary of Education; to Governor Nikki Haley, Ambassador to the United Nations; to the former Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, Secretary of Transportation; to Representative Tom Price, Secretary of Health; to former presidential candidate Ben Carson, Secretary of Housing; to financier Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury ;to billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce; former Marine Commander James Mattis, Secretary of Defense; former Marine Commander John F. Kelly, Secretary of Homeland Security; to businessman Andrew Puzder, Secretary of Labor; to ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State; to Governor Rick Perry, Secretary of Energy And Representative Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Interior.
On November 22, in a video posted on YouTube, Trump outlined his plan for his first 100 days in office. The plan included the departure of the Trans-Pacific Partnership ( TPP ) and asked the Department of Defense to develop a plan to protect the United States from cyber-attacks.
On December 7, Time named Trump "Person of the Year." In an interview on The Today Show, he said that he was honored by the award but opposed the magazine for referring to him as the "President of the Divided States of America." On December 13, he was named Person of the Year by Financial Times. In December 2016, Forbes ranked Trump as the second most powerful person in the world, after Vladimir Putin and before Angela Merkel.
In January 2017, China's state media warned of the danger of a "devastating confrontation" if the United States blocked access to China's artificial islands in the South China Sea. This came after statements by Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson.
Protests
Some demonstrations during the primary season were accompanied by protests or violence, including attacks on Trump supporters and vice versa, both inside and outside the venues. The Trump electoral victory sparked protests across the United States, as opposed to its policies and inflammatory statements. Trump initially said on Twitter that these were "professional protesters, incited by the media," and that they were "unfair," but later tweeted, "I love the fact that small groups of protesters last night have a passion for our great country."
In the weeks following Trump's inauguration, massive anti-Trump demonstrations, such as the Women's Marches, took place, bringing together 2,600,000 people around the world, including 500,000 in Washington alone.
Donald Trump: Presidency
Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017. During his first week in office, he signed six executive orders: Interim Procedures Ahead of Repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ( Obamacare ), the withdrawal of the Trans-Pacific Economic Cooperation Agreement, the reestablishment of the Mexico City Policy, unblocking the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipeline construction projects, reinforcing border security, and beginning the planning and design process to build a wall along the border with Mexico.
Domestic policy
Economy and trade
Trump has been described as a protectionist because their rates of steel and aluminum, reviews the NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership and its proposal to significantly increase tariffs to Chinese and Mexican exports to the United States. has also criticized the World Trade Organization and has threatened to leave unless the proposed rates are accepted. On January 23, 2017, he signed an order to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Agreement. On March 8, 2018, it signed an order imposing import tariffs of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum, with exemptions for Canada, Mexico and possibly other countries.
In December 2017, Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which lowered the corporate tax rate to 21%, lowered personal tax levels, increased the child tax credit, doubled the wealth tax threshold to $ 11.2 million and capped the status and tax deduction to $ 10,000. Lowering individual tax rates ends in 2025. While people would generally get a tax cut, those with higher incomes would see the greatest benefit. Households in the lower or middle class also would see a tax increase after-tax cuts expire, which is estimated long - term up to 53% of Americans will see their taxes increase. The bill is estimated to increase deficits by $ 1.5 trillion in 10 years.
Hours after the corporate tax cut was approved, several private sector companies reacted to the move. AT&T announced that it will pay a $ 1,000 dividend to each of its 200,000 workers in the country and laid off 7,000 workers. West Fargo raised its minimum wage by $ 1.5 an hour. Harley-Davidson closed its plant in Kansas City and increased the money given to shareholders. The reform contemplates that the corporate tax went from being 35% to 25%, the tax on profits generated outside the country went from 35% to 10.5%.
Energy and climate change
In campaigning, Trump's energy policy called for domestic support for both fossil and renewable energy sources in order to curb dependence on Middle East oil and possibly turn the United States into a net exporter of energy. However, after his election, his "America First Power Plan" made no mention of renewable energy and instead focused on fossil fuels. Environmentalists have expressed concern that he has announced plans to make large budget cuts to programs investigating renewable energy and to reverse Obama-era policies aimed at curbing climate change and limiting environmental pollution.
Trump rejects the scientific consensus on climate change and his head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, does not believe that carbon emissions are the main cause of global warming. Although he admits that the planet is warming, Pruitt believes that warming is not necessarily harmful and could be beneficial. According to numerous studies, climate experts disagree with his position. On June 1, 2017, Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement, making the United States the only nation in the world not to ratify the agreement.
Sanitary reform
Trump has called for the repeal and replacement of his predecessor's health reform, " Obamacare, " something that was manifested in his first executive order, hours after his inauguration, in which he established procedures in preparation for the achievement of that goal. However, despite months of trying, the Senate was unable to get either version passed for a repeal bill. On July 28, 2017, one of them received 51 votes against and 49 votes in favor in the Senate. The tax reform that Trump signed into law at the end of his first year in office effectively repealed the individual health insurance mandate that was an important element of the Obamacare health insurance system; this abrogation is scheduled to be implemented in 2019.
Immigration
On January 25, 2017, Trump ordered the construction of a wall on the border between the United States and Mexico to prevent the entry of undocumented immigrants from Latin America. Construction of the wall has not yet begun, as there are no funds earmarked for that project. This and other events, such as the United States' intention to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, affected relations between the two countries and triggered a diplomatic crisis.
Two days later, on January 27, Trump decreed an immigration veto that suspended the admission of refugees for 120 days and denied entry to the country to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries ( Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Iraq ) for 90 days. In March, Trump issued a new order reassessing the old one. In September, North Korea, Venezuela, and Chad received the veto. the course of several months, these modifications to the original order (which included, for example, the withdrawal of Iraq and Sudan from the veto) and litigation in the courts about the application of the decrees were developed. On December 4, 2017, the Supreme Court authorized the entry into force of the third version of the immigration veto.
DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)
While he ran for president, Trump said he intended to revoke the deferred action for childhood arrivals or DACA (in English: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) in the "first day" of his presidency. The program, introduced in 2012, allowed individuals who had entered or remained in the United States illegally as minors to receive a two-year renewable period of deferred action for deportation and to be eligible for a work permit.
In September 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the DACA program would be repealed after six months. Trump argued that "leading legal experts" believed DACA was unconstitutional and asked Congress to use the six-month delay to pass legislation that solves the "Dreamers" problem permanently. As of March 2018, when the delay expired, no DACA legislation had been agreed upon. Several states immediately challenged the termination of DACA in court. Two injunctions in January and February 2018 allowed application renewals and halted the rollback of DACA, and in April 2018 a federal judge ordered the acceptance of new applications; this would take effect in 90 days.
Social policy
Trump is conservative, describing himself as anti-abortion , except in cases of rape, incest, and circumstances that endanger the mother's health. He has said that he is committed to appointing judges who would try to overturn the ruling in Roe v. Wade. He personally supports "traditional marriage", but considers the national legality of same-sex marriage to be a "settled" issue.
Trump supports a broad interpretation of the Second Amendment and says he opposes gun control in general. Trump opposes the legalization of recreational marijuana but supports the legalization of medical marijuana. He is in favor of the death penalty as well as the use of the " submarine " and methods of torture "far worse".
Federal government closure 2018-2019
On December 22, 2018, the federal government was partially closed after Trump declared that any funding extension must include $ 5.6 billion in federal funding for the construction of the border wall between the United States and Mexico, one of its main campaign promises. The shutdown was caused by a lapse in funding for nine federal departments, affecting about a quarter of the federal government's activities. said he would not accept any bill that does not include funding for the wall, and the Democrats, who control the House, said they would not support any bill that does. Senate Republicans said they will not promote any legislation that Trump would not sign. In previous negotiations with Democratic leaders, Trump commented that he would be "proud to shut down the government for border security."
On January 25, 2019, Congress passed and Trump signed a three-week appropriation bill to fund the government while negotiations on funding for border security were underway. This ended the 31-day stop, the longest stop in United States history.
Foreign policy
Trump has been described as a nationalist and non-interventionist by some. Trump has repeatedly stated that its foreign policy supports "America First" (America First). He supports increasing US military defense spending but favors decreasing US spending in NATO and the Pacific region. He says that the United States must look inward, stop "nation-building" and redirect its resources toward domestic needs.
During his campaign and as president, Trump repeatedly said that he wants a good relationship with Russia. Trump has pledged to hold a summit with Vladimir Putin. He also praised Chinese President Xi Jinping, to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, to Egyptian President Abdelfatah El-Sisi , to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to the King Salman of Saudi Arabia, and the first Italian Minister Giuseppe Conte.
Trump has actively supported the Saudi- led military campaign against Yemen's Shiite rebels
NATO
As a candidate, Trump questioned whether he, as president, would automatically extend security guarantees to NATO and suggested that he could leave NATO unless changes are made to the alliance. As president, he reaffirmed the United States' commitment to NATO in March 2017. However, he has repeatedly accused his fellow NATO members of paying less than their fair share of alliance expenses.
European Union
Syria
In response to Jan Sheikhun's chemical attack during the Syrian civil war on April 4, 2017, in which more than 100 people were killed, the Trump administration ordered the attack with 60 Tomahawk missiles against the town of Shayrat from where the attack was supposed to be. It was the first US intervention in the war and was not previously authorized by either the United Nations Security Council or the United States Congress.
Cuba
On June 16, 2017, Trump announced that he would cancel the Cuban thaw initiated by the Obama administration while expressing hope that a new agreement between Cuba and the United States could be negotiated. On November 8, 2017, the Trump administration tightened rules on trade with Cuba, thus undoing the restrictions of the Obama administration. These changes are "destined to remove the economic activities of the Cuban military, intelligence and security services"; they limited individual visits to Cuba.
Russia
Trump's connections to Russia have been intensely scrutinized by the media. During the campaign, Trump repeatedly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin as a strong leader and called for better relations with Moscow. A few days after the inauguration of Trump, employees of the State Department were ordered to develop plans to repeal the sanctions against Russia immediately, although plans were never carried out. According to Putin and some political experts and diplomats, Russian-American relations, which were already at the lowest level since the end of the Cold War, Have deteriorated further since Trump took office in January 2017.
Afghanistan
Under the Trump administration, the number of US troops in Afghanistan increased from 8,500 to 14,000 as of January 2017. Trump announced this troop increase in August 2017; this was a change from his pre-election position that was critical of increased turnout in Afghanistan. US officials said at the time that they aimed "to force the Taliban to negotiate a political settlement"; In January 2018, however, Trump spoke out against talks with the Taliban.
On April 13, 2017, United States launched the so-called mother of all bombs ( GBU-43 / B Massive Ordnance Air Blast ) in Achin ( Bombardment of Achin ).
Israel
In 2016, Israel's Interior Minister Aryeh Dery said that Trump's inauguration as president would spell the decline and end of the Conservative Jewish movement and Reform Judaism. Trump's demonstrations about not allowing Muslims to enter his country were repudiated by the Israeli government for not respecting religious freedom. In the United States, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, the B'nai B'rith, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Rabbi Shalom Baum, President of the Rabbinical Council of America, the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative movement, the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association and the National Jewish Democratic Council repudiated the sayings of Trump as discriminatory and contrary to the spirit and values of his nation.
During the 2016 US presidential election, the Israeli media voiced concerns that Trump would win. The Israeli press described him as the worst candidate in history; undemocratic, racist, misogynistic, and xenophobic, noting that, according to the Israeli embassies, Trump lacked a coherent policy in relation to the Arab-Israeli conflict. The newspapers described his triumph as a victory for anti - Semitism.
Regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Trump has declared the importance of being a neutral party during possible negotiations, while declaring that he is "a great admirer of Israel." On May 22, 2017, Trump was the first US president to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem, during his first overseas trip, which included Israel, Italy, the Vatican and Belgium.
On December 6, 2017, the Trump administration officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Trump added that the State Department would begin the process of moving the US embassy to Jerusalem. The recognition was in fulfillment of the promise of his campaign. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson later clarified that the President's statement "did not indicate any final status for Jerusalem" and "it was very clear that the final status, including borders, would be left to the two parties to negotiate and decide.".
Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was rejected by most world leaders. Additionally, the decision sparked protests in several Muslim countries, especially in the Palestinian territories. On the contrary, Trump's announcement was well received in Israel. Minutes after Trump's speech ended, the Jerusalem municipality lit up the Old City walls with the flags of Israel and the United States, as a sign of gratitude. "This is a historic day," declared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called Trump's decision "fair and courageous". Netanyahu said that the decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel does not contradict the desire to achieve peace and promised to "work for peace" with all its neighbors, "including the Palestinians." By way of thanks, a new Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights will be named after Ramat Trump (Spanish: Trump Heights).
North Korea
In 2017, North Korea and the United States strained their diplomatic relations, to the point where Donald Trump dubbed Kim Jong-un a "rocket man" and in August 2017 Trump said there would be "fire and fury like the world has never seen "after North Korea's nuclear tests. However, in 2018, North and South Korea participated with a joint team in the 2018 Pieonchang Olympic Games, an event that achieved an important rapprochement between the two Koreas, which led to the inter-Korean summit in 2018. A few months later the Singapore summit took place in which Trump and Kim met for the first time and agreed on certain points, including the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
On June 30, 2019, Trump and Kim Jong-un met in the Korean Demilitarized Zone, on the border between North and South Korea. For a few seconds, Donald Trump crossed the border on foot into North Korea, in the company of Kim Jong-un, immediately returning to South Korea, becoming the first president to set foot on North Korean soil. There is no text or agreement signed public with some concrete results of the negotiations.
Iran
Trump has repeatedly criticized the Comprehensive Joint Plan of Action (or JCPOA or "Iran nuclear deal"), which was negotiated with the United States, Iran and five other world powers in 2015, calling it "terrible", saying that the Obama administration negotiated the agreement "out of desperation." At one time, Trump said that despite opposition to the content of the agreement, rather than try to impose abrogate it.
After testing ballistic missiles Iran on January 29, 2017, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on 25 Iranian individuals and entities in February 2017. It was reported that Trump pressured "dozens" of European officials against doing business with Iran during the Brussels summit in May 2017; this likely violated the terms of the JCPOA, according to which the United States cannot pursue "any policy specifically designed to directly and adversely affect the normalization of trade and economic relations with Iran." The Trump administration certified in July 2017 that Iran had confirmed its completion of the deal. On May 18, 2018, Trump announced the unilateral withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA.
Venezuela
On August 11, 2017, Trump said that "he is not going to rule out a military option" to confront the government of Nicolás Maduro. In September 2018, Trump called for "the restoration of democracy in Venezuela" and said that "socialism has bankrupted the oil-rich nation and led its people into extreme poverty." On January 23, 2019, Maduro announced that Venezuela was severing ties with the United States following Trump's announcement to recognize Juan Guaidó, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, as interim president of Venezuela.
The trade war between China and the United States (2018-present)
The trade war between China and the United States is a trade conflict that began in March 2018, after an announcement by Donald Trump, consisting of the intention to impose tariffs of 50 billion dollars on Chinese products under Article 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, citing a history of "unfair trade practices" and theft of intellectual property. In retaliation, the government of the People's Republic of China imposed tariffs on more than 128 US products, including in particular soybeans, major US exports to China.
Outer space
In 2018, Trump rescued the idea of creating a new military branch, known as the United States Space Force, separate and independent from other military branches that until then dealt with defense in outer space. Later, Vice President Mike Pence officially announced its implementation for 2020.
Cabinet and staff
White House Staff
The Trump administration has been characterized by high turnover, particularly among White House staff . By the end of Trump's first year in office, 34% of his original staff had resigned, been laid off, or had been reassigned. As of early March 2018, 43% of senior White House officials had changed. Both figures set a record for recent presidents: more changes in the first 13 months than their four immediate predecessors in their first two years. Notable early departures included National Security Advisor Mike Flynn (after just 25 days in office), Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, replaced by Retired Marine General John F. Kelly on July 28, 2017, and Press Secretary Sean Spicer . Personal advisers close to Trump, such as Steve Bannon , Hope Hicks , John McEntee and Keith Schiller, have resigned or been ousted.
Cabinet
The nominations for cabinet Trump included Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as Attorney General , to the banker Steve Mnuchin as secretary of the Treasury , to retired Gen. James Mattis as Secretary of Defense , and CEO of ExxonMobil , Rex Tillerson , as Secretary of State . Trump also brought in politicians who had opposed him during the presidential campaign, such as neurosurgeon Ben Carson as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development,and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as Ambassador to the United Nations.
While the majority of Trump's nominees were approved by the Republican majority in the Senate, the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education required Vice President Pence to cast a rare tiebreaker vote, the first in the Senate confirmation of a cabinet candidate.
The majority of cabinet members were unable to take office on inauguration day due to delays in the formal confirmation process. Part of the delay was attributed to delays in submitting background check documents, and in part to resistance from Senate Democrats. The last member of the Cabinet, Robert Lighthizer , assumed the position of United States Trade Representative on May 11, 2017, more than four months after his appointment.
Two of Trump's original 15 cabinet members left within 15 months: Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was forced to resign in September 2017 due to overuse of private jets and military jets, and Trump replaced Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with Mike Pompeo in March 2018 over foreign policy disagreements.
Second level officers
Trump has been slow to appoint second-level officials to the executive branch, saying many of the positions are unnecessary. As of October 2017, there were hundreds of vacant sub-cabinet positions. At the end of his first year in office, "Of the roughly 600 key executive branch positions, only 241 have been filled, 135 nominees await confirmation, while 244 positions have no candidates."
Political image
Presidential approval polls taken during the first ten months of Trump's term have shown him to be the least popular American president in the history of modern opinion polls. A Global Survey of the Pew Research Center conducted in July 2017 found that "an average of only 22% have confidence in Trump to do the right thing in international affairs." This compares with an average 64% confidence rating for his predecessor Barack Obama. Trump received a higher rating in just two countries: Russia and Israel. A POLITICO / Morning Consult poll of August 2017 found in some measures "that the majority of voters have low opinions about their character and competence." Trump is the only president-elect who did not rank first in Gallup's poll of the most admired American men in his first year in office, coming in second behind Barack Obama.
Donald Trump: Controversial
sexual harassment
Donald Trump has been accused of sexual assault and sexual harassment, including kissing and sexual touching without consent, by at least fifteen women since the 1980s. Those accusations have led to three cases that reached court: His then-wife Ivana filed a Rape lawsuit during his 1989 divorce litigation, but later retracted that claim; businesswoman Jill Harth sued Trump in 1997 alleging breach of contract while also suing for non-violent sexual harassment, but dropped the last lawsuit when the first was settled; And, in 2017, former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos filed a defamation lawsuit after Trump called her a liar.
Two of the allegations (by Ivana Trump and Jill Harth) were made public prior to Trump's run for president, but the rest emerged after a 2005 audio recording was leaked during the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump boasting a celebrity as he "can do anything" with women, even "just starts to kiss ... I do not even hope" and "grabbed her pussy" ( grab 'em by the pussy in English) . Trump later characterized the comments as "locker room conversations" and denied actually behaving like this around women, also apologizing for the crude language he used. Many of the women who reported him claimed that these refusals from Trump led them to go public with their accusations.
Another type of accusation was made, mainly after the audio recording surfaced, by several former Miss USA and Miss Teen USA contestants, who accused Trump of entering the locker rooms of beauty pageant contestants. Trump, owner of the Miss Universe franchise, which includes both pageants, was accused of entering dressing rooms in 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2006, while the contestants were in various stages of undressing. During a 2005 interview on The Howard Stern Show , Trump said he could "get away with things like that," at least backstage at adult pageants.
At the end of 2017, he was accused by a total of 19 women of harassment and unwanted physical contact, in addition to entering the locker room while dressing by various participants of his beauty pageants.
Conflict of interests
Before being named president, Trump moved his businesses into a revocable trust managed by his older children and a business partner. According to ethicists, while Trump continue taking advantage of its business, the measures taken by Trump does not help to avoid conflicts of interest. Because Trump would be aware of how his administration's policies would affect his businesses, ethics experts recommend that Trump sell his businesses. lawsuits have been filed alleging that Trump is violating the emoluments clause of the United States Constitution because of his business interests; They argue that these interests allow foreign governments to influence him. previous presidents in the modern era have been stripped of their property or have put in trust blindly and he is the first president to be sued by the emoluments clause.
False statements
As president, Trump has frequently made false statements in speeches and public comments. Trump delivered "to the false or misleading least one day in 91 of his first 99 days claim" in office according to The New York Times and 1,318 in total in his first 263 days in office of According to The Washington Post's "Fact Checker" political analysis column , which also wrote: "President Trump is the most questionable politician The Fact Checker has encountered ... the pace and volume of the misstatements of the president means we can't keep up " . After 466 days in office, the count was 3,001 false or misleading claims, and it had risen to an average of 6.5 per day from 4.9 during Trump's first 100 days in office.
Racism
Trump has a history of making racially controversial comments and taking actions that are perceived as racially motivated. In 1975, he settled a lawsuit from the Justice Department 1973 alleging housing discrimination against blacks tenants. He was accused of racism for insisting that a group of black and Latino teens were guilty of raping a white woman in the attack on the broker's Central Park in 1989, even after they were exonerated by testing 2002. DNA continued to maintain this position also in 2016.
Trump played a major role in the conspiracy theories about the birth of Obama , who had been circulating since the presidential campaign of 2008. As of March 2011, publicly questioned the citizenship and eligibility to serve as Obama President. Although the Obama campaign had posted a copy of the birth certificate of shorthand in 2008 Trump demanded to see the original certificate of "full form" . He also repeated a discredited accusation that Obama's grandmother said she witnessed his birth in Kenya. When the White House later released Obama's full birth certificate, Trump took credit for obtaining the document, saying, "I hope it gets verified." When asked in 2015 if he thought Obama was born in the United States, said he did not want to discuss the matter. At the end of 2017, he continued to question the authenticity of the birth certificate in talks behind closed doors with advisers.
Trump launched his 2016 presidential campaign with a speech in which he stated: "When Mexico sends its people, they are not sending the best of themselves ... They are bringing drugs and crime; they are rapists and some, I suppose, are good people. ". Later, his attacks against a judge Mexican-American were labeled racists. His comments after a 2017 far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, were seen as implying a moral equivalence between white supremacist protesters and those who protested them. After widespread condemnation of his response, Trump declared in prepared remarks that "racism is bad." At a meeting in the Oval Office January 2018 to discuss immigration legislation with the leaders of Congress, it is reported that Trump referred to El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras and African countries as "shitholes" ( pigsty). His comments were condemned as racist around the world, as well as by many members of Congress. Some world leaders responded to comments such as the president of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo, Who said he "can not accept such insults, even a leader of a friendly country, no matter how powerful , " the president of Uganda , Yoweri Kaguta Museveni told the respect that "he speaks frankly to the Africans" and Macky Sall said he was "in shock".
Trump's remarks have been called racist by many observers in the United States and around the world. According to a survey POLITICO / Morning Consult conducted in October 2017, 45% of American voters consider Trump as racist and 40% no.
Illegal immigrants
Trump was criticized in 2015 so several sources consider disparaging comments toward Mexico and corruption.
Trump classified illegal Mexican immigrants as "corrupt, criminals and rapists" in a speech he made to present his candidacy as future president of the United States, also indicating his desire to build a wall between the borders of the United States and Mexico, that would have to be paid by Mexico.
These statements caused anger on the part of the Latino community in the United States, causing the Univision channel , which had a contract with Trump, to cancel the television broadcasting contract with Miss Universe , Miss United States and everything that had to do with the Trump franchise . Colombian singer J Balvin canceled the presentation of Miss United States because of his words.
On June 2, 2015, the Costa Rican television network Teletica decided to break relations with Trump and announced that it would not send the country's representative to the Miss Universe pageant. On June 29 of that same year, the NBC network ended its business relationship with Trump, following the statements that the businessman made against Mexican immigrants. NBC announced that it will not broadcast the annual Miss USA or Miss Universe pageants, so both pageants do not have a defined official transmitter. For its part, the Mexican broadcaster Televisa announced the breaking of commercial ties with the American businessman, from whom he demanded respect for fellow citizens residing in that country.
On June 30, Cheryl Burke and Thomas Roberts resigned as presenters of the Miss United States 2015 pageant, due to Trump's statements that generated great discomfort in the Mexican and Latin American community, in general; therefore, the contest does not have presenters defined at the moment. On the same day, she announced that she would sue the Univisión network for 500 million dollars.
Notably, several Latin expressed support for the candidate, as the case of the group Latinos for Trump, and that a third of the Latino vote was aimed at the Republican Party. After the white vote, this group was the second that most supported the tycoon.
In the first presidential debate on August 6, 2015, Trump reaffirmed that his crusade is specifically against illegal immigration . Journalist Chris Wallace asked the Republican "You say that the Mexican government is sending criminals from across the border ... Why not use this first Republican presidential debate to share your evidence with the American people?"
Trump responded, "If it weren't for me, you wouldn't even be talking about illegal immigration, Chris. You wouldn't even be talking about it.
This was not a topic that was on anyone's mind until I mentioned it in my ad. And I said, Mexico is shipping. Except for the reporters, because they are a very dishonest bunch, generally speaking, in the world of politics, they didn't cover my statement the way I said it. The fact is that, since then, many homicides, murders, crimes and the entry of drugs across the border, there is money that leaves and drugs enter. And I said that we have to build a wall, and it has to be built quickly.
And I don't mind having a big, beautiful door in that wall so people can legally enter this country. But we need, Jeb, build a wall, we have to keep out illegal ".
Mark Zuckerberg , founder of Facebook , declared that he did not agree with the thinking of Donald Trump, because after the magnate's comments, Zuckerberg alluded to the figure of undocumented immigrants through his Twitter account with a speech in which he affirmed that the United States was founded as a nation of immigrants.
Alicia Machado , winner of the 1996 Miss Universe pageant , said: "I had the unpleasant experience of working for him for a year and I know perfectly his levels of racism, he did many terrible things to me, I suffered countless things with that man." Other celebrities who have rejected Trump's statements are Rob Schneider , Shirin Ebadi , Angelina Jolie , Eugenio Derbez , Antonio Banderas , the band Maná , Ricky Martin , Cher , Jacqueline Bracamontes , among others.
White supremacist support
The far-right movement rallied around Trump's candidacy, due in part to his opposition to multiculturalism and legal and illegal immigration. During the campaign, Trump was accused to please the white supremacists . retweeted accounts racists, and repeatedly refused to condemn David Duke , the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacist in an interview in the State of the Union of CNN, saying that he would first have to "investigate" because he knew nothing about Duke or white supremacists. In August 2016, appointed Steve Bannon , CEO of Breitbart News , as its CEO campaign; the website was described by Bannon as "the platform for the far right".
Zero tolerance policy and family separation on the border with Mexico
The Trump administration's family separation policy is one aspect of President Trump's immigration policy, implemented around April 2018, which involves prosecuting all adults detained at the United States-Mexico border, whether detained during an illegal crossing or applying for asylum legally. Under the policy, called " zero tolerance ," federal authorities separate children from their parents, relatives, or other adults who accompanied them across the border, send the parents to federal jails, and place the infants under the supervision of the Department. Health and Human Services.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, this policy led to the separation of around 2,000 children from their parents in their first six weeks, although others said the figure could have been much higher. In April and May 2018, an average of 45 children were taken from their parents by day, with a total of 30 000 children waiting to be arrested in August 2018. According to internal documents Patrol Borderline, 91% of parents whose children had been forcibly abducted were being charged only with minor offenses.
In June 2018, US Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington's 7th Congressional District spoke with women detained at the Federal Detention Center, SeaTac facility. Jayapal said the women spoke of "fleeing threats of rape, gang violence and political persecution." She said that more than half of the women were mothers who had been forcibly separated from their children, some as young as 12 months old, and said many did not know where their children were being held. Jayapal said: "Some of them heard their children yelling for them in the next room. None of them had been able to say goodbye or explain what was happening."
This policy has drawn significant criticism and protests since its public announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on May 7, 2018. In June, dozens of protest rallies were held, attracting thousands of people. In Washington DC, Democratic members of Congress marched in protest. religious groups have expressed their opposition to the policy, including the US Conference of Catholic Bishops EE.., The National Association of Evangelicals, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints , and Southern Baptist Convention. policy has been condemned by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Physicians, and the American Psychiatric Association. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called for Trump administration "immediately stop" its policy of separating children from their parents, and human rights activists have criticized the Policy, to the extent that it also applies to asylum seekers, challenges Article 31 of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees .
Vaccinations
Trump has repeatedly stated (contrary to scientific consensus ) that vaccination is linked to the development of autism . These statements were criticized in various media by the scientific community.
Climate change denial
Trump has promoted arguments denying the existence of man-made climate change , saying that global warming is a "hoax", and that it is a concept "created by and for the Chinese to make the US manufacturing sector lose competitiveness." He has been criticized for these statements, which are at odds with the opinion of the scientific community. A political feud has since Trump and his administration reversely blamed alleged (though not cited) Democrat-led policy legislation.
Donald J. Trump Foundation
On December 18, 2018, the attorney generalof New York, Barbara Underwood, announced the dissolution of the Donald J. Trump Foundation, after being under suspicion for a "pattern of illegality" during the 2016 presidential campaign and in which Trump and his children would be involved. The prosecutor filed a lawsuit on this issue in June of the same year. Among the accusations is the use of the foundation to pay contractors linked to the decoration of Trump golf clubs, as well as to divert donations collected at rallies for the aforementioned campaign. The lawsuit was the result of a two-year investigation by Underwood's predecessor, Eric Schneiderman, who had to resign after being accused of abusing several women, including his girlfriend, when they had sex. The lawsuit, which will run its course in court.
International repercussions
The figure of Donald Trump has had a wide international repercussion, as a few criticize him, but throughout the world, there are also those who defend and support him. As a satirist and original, it is worth highlighting in particular the audiovisual piece created by the Uruguayan production apparatus that combines science fiction and black humor. But the above is certainly not the only satirical document released through the media and Internet in relation to the Republican candidate for the White House. After Donald Trump confirmed as elected US president, continued the different opinions internationally regarding the impact this would have worldwide.
Donald Trump: Research
Russian interference
In January 2017, US intelligence agencies - the CIA, FBI, and NSA, represented by the Director of National Intelligence - jointly declared with "high confidence" that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 presidential elections to favor the election. of Trump. In March 2017, the Director of the FBI James Comey told the Congressthat "the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government's efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. That includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and if there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts. " Later, in testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, he stated that he has no doubt that Russia interfered in the 2016 elections, adding "they did so with purpose and sophistication."
One of Trump's campaign managers, Paul Manafort, had worked for several years to help pro-Russian politician Viktor Yanukovych win the Ukrainian presidency. Other Trump associates, including former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn and political adviser Roger Stone, have contacted Russian officials. He heard the Russian agents during the campaign saying they could use Manafort and Flynn to influence Trump. Members of the Trump campaign and later his White House staff, particularly Flynn, were in contact with Russian officials before and after the November elections. On December 29, 2016, Flynn spoke with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak about the sanctions that had been imposed on the same day; Trump later fired Flynn for falsely claiming that he had not discussed the sanctions.
Dismissal of James Comey
On May 9, 2017, Trump fired the director of the FBI, James Comey. He attributed the action to the recommendations of the Attorney General (Jeff Sessions) and Deputy Attorney General (Rod Rosenstein), who criticized Comey's conduct in the investigation into the Hillary Clinton emails. On May 11, Trump stated that he was concerned about the ongoing "Russia question" and that he intended to fire Comey sooner.
According to a Comey memo from a private conversation on February 14, 2017, Trump said he "hoped" that Comey would drop the Michael Flynn investigation. In March and April, Trump had told Comey that the constant suspicions formed a "cloud" damaging his presidency and asked him to publicly state that he had not been personally investigated. He also asked intelligence chiefs Dan Coats and Michael Rogers to issue statements indicating that there was no evidence that his campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 elections. Both refused, considering that this was an inappropriate request, although not illegal. eventually testified on June 8 that while he was director, the FBI's investigations did not target Trump himself. In a statement on Twitter, Trump hinted he had "tapes" of talks with Comey, before declaring that actually had no such tapes.
2017 United States Special Counsel Investigation
On May 17, 2017, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Robert Mueller, former Director of the FBI, as special counsel to the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). In this capacity, Mueller oversees the investigation into "any link and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with President Donald Trump's campaign, and any matter that has arisen or may arise directly from the investigation." Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Mueller is also investigating possible Trump campaign ties to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Qatar, Israel, and China.
The Washington Post reported that days after Comey's firing, the special counsel began investigating whether Trump had obstructed justice. Trump's attorney, Jay Sekulow, stated that he had not been notified of any such investigation. Later, ABC News reported that the special counsel was seeking preliminary to possible obstruction of justice information, but had not begun a large - scale investigation.
In January 2018, The New York Times reported that Trump had ordered Mueller's dismissal in June, after learning that Mueller was investigating possible obstruction of justice, but backed down after the White House attorney, Don McGahn, said he would resign; Trump referred to the report only as " fake news ." The New York Times reported in April 2018 that Trump had wanted again that the investigation was closed in early December 2017, but stopped after learning of the news in which based its decision were incorrect. In April 2018, following an FBI raid on the office and home of Trump's private attorney, Michael Cohen, Trump mused aloud about firing Mueller.
In January 2018, The Washington Post reported that Mueller wants to interview Trump about the impeachment of Michael Flynn and James Comey. Trump has expressed his willingness to do the interview; according to The New York Times, some of his lawyers have warned against doing so. Mueller can subpoena Trump to testify if Trump refuses. As of March 2018, Trump is reported to be a "subject" of the investigation, meaning that his conduct is being considered, but not as a "target" indicating the likelihood of criminal charges.
Democratic impeachment efforts
In July 2017, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) filed an impeachment article. In November 2017 six other Democratic representatives submitted five articles of impeachment for "obstruction of justice", "violation of foreign emoluments clause", "violation of domestic emoluments clause", "undermining the independence of the federal judiciary "and" undermining press freedom. "
In December 2017, an impeachment resolution was voted on. Introduced by Congressman Al Green (D-TX), it consisted of two impeachment articles titled "Associating the Presidency with White Nationalism, Neo-Nazism, and Hate" and "Inciting Hate and Hostility." was defeated 364 to 58.
Donald Trump: Personal life
Family
Trump's mother, Mary Anne, was born in 1912 in Tong on the Isle of Lewis, off the coast of Scotland. In 1930, at the age of 18, on a vacation in New York, she met Fred Trump and stayed in that city. Trump was born in Queens, New York, and has four siblings: Fred, Jr. (deceased), Robert S. Trump, Maryanne, and Elizabeth. His older sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, is a federal appeals court judge.
In 1977 Trump married Ivana Zelníčková, with whom he had three children: Donald, Jr. (December 31, 1977), Ivanka (October 30, 1981), and Eric (January 6, 1984). The marriage divorced in 1992. In 1993 he married Marla Maples, with whom he had a daughter, Tiffany (October 13, 1993). They divorced on June 8, 1999. In a February 2008 interview on the Nightline program, Trump commented on his ex-wives: "I know that competing is very difficult for them (Ivana and Marla) because I love what I do, I really do. I love him." On January 22, 2005, he married Melania Knauss (born in Slovenia ), in Palm Beach, in Florida. Melania had a son named Barron William Trump, Trump's fifth on 20 March 2006.
Trump has ten grandchildren: five from his son Donald Jr. (Kai Madison, Donald John III, Tristán Milos, Spencer Frederick, and Chloe Sophia), three from his daughter Ivanka (Arabella Rose, Joseph Frederick and Theodore James ), and two of his son Eric (Eric Luke and Dorothy Carolina).
Trump is a Presbyterian. In an April 2011 interview on the 700 Club program, he said, "I am a Protestant, I am a Presbyterian. I have had a good relationship with the Christian Church. I think religion is a wonderful thing. I think mine is a wonderful thing. religion." on the conversion of his daughter Ivanka to Judaism said he was proud: "I have only grandchildren Jews, have a Jewish daughter and am very proud of that."
Health
Trump claims that he has never ingested alcohol, cigarettes or other recreational drugs in his life. Your eating habits, high in junk food, have been rated as unhealthy.
In December 2015, Trump's personal physician, Harold Bornstein, released a superlative health letter praising Trump for his "extraordinary physical strength and endurance." Bornstein later said that Trump himself had dictated the contents. A follow-up medical report showed that Trump's blood pressure, liver, and thyroid functions are in normal ranges and that he takes a statin. In January 2018, Trump was examined by the doctor of the White House, Ronny Jackson, who said he was in good health, although their weight and cholesterol levels were higher than recommended, and his Cardiac evaluation revealed no medical problems. Several outside cardiologists commented on thatTrump'sweight, lifestyle, and LDL cholesterol should have raised serious concerns about his heart health.
Donald Trump: Awards and honors
- Gaming Hall of Fame (1995).
- New York Ride of Fame (2010).
- Trump was awarded an honorary doctorate of business administration (Hon DBA), in 2010 by Robert Gordon University. Even so, this degree was revoked on December 9, 2015, because Trump made "various statements that are completely incompatible with the ethics and values of the university."
- Honorary Doctorate of Business (Hon. DB), 2012, Liberty University.
- WWE Hall of Fame (2013).
- Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- Statesman of the year, Republican Party Sarasota, 2012, 2015.
- Freedom Award, 2015 at the Algemeiner Jewish 100 Gala honoring his positive contributions to US-Israel relations. Trump ruled: "I have too many friends in Israel."
- Keys to the City of Doral, Florida, 2015
- The United States Marine Corps Commander's Leadership Award, 2015, presented by the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation.
- New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame (including November 12, 2015).
- Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize (nominated on February 3, 2016).
Award
- Nationals
- Ellis Island Medal of Honor (1986)
- Honorary Colonel of Kentucky (2012)
- Foreigners
- National Presidential Order of Excellence (2012)
- Order of King Abdulaziz (2017)
- Gold Medal for Valor (2018)
Donald Trump: Estate
- Trump World Tower: 845 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY.
- Trump Tower: 725 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10022.
- Elite Tower.
- AXA Financial Center
- 555 California Street in San Francisco, California.
- The Trump Building.
- Riverside South / Trump Place.
- Trump Parc Stamford.
- Trump Tower Manila.
- Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico.
- Trump International Hotel and Tower Waikiki Beach Walk.
- The Palm Trump International Hotel and Tower.
- Trump International Hotel and Tower Chicago.
- Trump International Hotel and Tower New York.
- Trump Charlotte.
- Trump International Hotel and Tower Las Vegas
- Trump Park Avenue: Park Avenue & 59th Street.
- Trump Tower Ocean Club International, Panama City, Panama.
- Golf courses.
- Mar-A-Lago Palm Beach, Florida.
- Trump Tower, Punta del Este.
- Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower ( Panama )
Casinos
- Trump Taj Mahal
- Trump Plaza
- Trump Marina
- Trump World's Fair
- Golden Nugget Atlantic City
Donald Trump: Cameos and other appearances
Made cameos or brief appearances in movies and television series:
- Ghosts Can't Do It (1989)
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
- The Little Rascals (1994)
- The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1994)
- The Associate (1996)
- The Nanny (1996)
- Susan (1997)
- The Drew Carey Show (1997)
- Celebrity (1998)
- Spin City (1998)
- Sex and the City (1999)
- Zoolander (2001)
- Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Donald Trump: Books
Trump has participated in the writing of the following books:
- Trump: The Art of the Deal (1987)
- Trump: Surviving at the Top (1990)
- Trump: The Art of Survival (1991)
- Trump: The Art of the Comeback (1997)
- Trump: How to Get Rich (2004)
- The Way to the Top: The Best Business Advice I Ever Received (2004)
- Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and Life (2004)
- Trump: The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received (2005)
- Why We Want You to be Rich: Two Men - One Message (2006), co-written with Robert Kiyosaki.
- Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life (2007), co-written with Bill Zanker.
- The America We Deserve (2000).
- Trump: The Best Real Estate Advice I Ever Received: 100 Top Experts Share Their Strategies (2007)
- Trump 101: The Way to Success (2007)
- Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges into Success (2008)
- Trump Tower (2011) (a novel with Jeffrey Robinson)
- Midas Touch: Why Some Entrepreneurs Get Rich-And Why Most Don't (2011), co-written with Robert Kiyosaki.
- Time to Get Tough: Making America No. 1 Again. Regnery Publishing. December 5, 2011.
- Think Like A Champion: An Informal Education in Business and Life
