Biography:Trump gained fame as a real estate developer and a reality television host. He was previously chairman of The Trump Organization and the host of The Apprentice. Long expressing an interest in national politics, he announced his run for President of the United States in 2015. Despite a campaign that courted numerous controversies, he was selected as the Republican presidential candidate in July 2016. After an exceptionally bitter and divisive election campaign, he then went on to beat Hillary Clinton in a huge upset.
In doing so he became one of five presidents to lose the popular vote but to win a majority of the electoral college. He is also the oldest person to be elected president, at 70 years. In his first term Trump issued executive orders to ban travel from certain areas of the world, controversially dismissed FBI director James Comey and withdrew the United States from both the Paris Agreement on climate change and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He also unsuccessfully attempted to repeal Obamacare.
Trump's presidency has been involved in numerous controversies including investigations by a special prosecutor into allegations that his campaign colluded with Russian officials.
1977-04-07 American real estate tycoon Donald Trump (30) weds Czech fashion model Ivana Zelníčková (28) (his 1st marriage, her 2nd)at Marble Collegiate Church, NYC; we dding officiated by Norman Vincent Peale; divorce 1992
1993-12-20 Businessman Donald Trump (47) weds former model Marla Maples (30) at Trump Plaza Hotel
2005-01-22 Businessman and "The Apprentice" host Donald Trump (58) weds former model Melania Knauss (34) at the Bethesda by the Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach, Florida
Historical Events
1987-09-02 Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
1988-10-26 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 months' advisory service
1989-03-31 Donald Trump purchases Eastern's Northeast Shuttle
2015-06-16 TV personality and real estate mogul Donald Trump launches his campaign for the Republican nomination for US President at Trump Towers
2015-08-07 US Presidential candidate Donald Trump says in a CNN interview that news anchor Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”
2015-09-16 Second Republican presidential candidates debate, hosted by CNN, Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump face off at the Reagan Presidential Library
2015-12-07 US Presidential candidate Donald Trump proposes banning all Muslims from entering the US
2016-01-19 Sarah Palin officially endorses Donald Trump's presidential bid at a Trump rally in Ames, Iowa
2016-02-09 US primary elections: New Hampshire Primary, In Republican race Donald Trump wins (35%), John Kasich 2nd (16%), and Bernie Sanders (60%) defeats Hillary Clinton (38%) in Democratic race
2016-02-18Pope Francis questions US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump's Christianity over his call to build a wall on the Mexican border
2016-02-20 US primary elections: South Carolina Republican Primary - Donald Trump wins with 32.5%
2016-02-23 US primary elections: Nevada Republican Primary - Donald Trump wins with 45.9.5%
2016-03-01 US primary elections: Super Tuesday - both Republican Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton win seven state races each
2016-07-16 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump announces Indiana governor Mike Pence as his Vice Presidential running mate
2016-09-26 First US Presidential debate: Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton vs Republican Donald Trump at Hofstra University
2016-10-07 Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent
2016-10-09 Second US Presidential debate: Hostile confrontation between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at Washington University, St. Louis
2016-10-19 Third US Presidential debate: Donald Trump notably refuses to say if he will accept the result of election during debate with Hillary Clinton at Nevada University, Las Vegas
2016-11-08 Republican Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States of America, defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton, with an Electoral College victory of 304- 227; Clinton received just under 2.9 million more popular votes
2016-12-02 Donald Trump takes a call with Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen, in a break from America's long standing "One China" policy
2016-12-19 US electoral collage votes 304 to 227 to nominate Donald Trump for President over the objections of seven faithless electors
2016-12-21Carl Icahn is announced as Special Advisor to the President on Regulatory Reform, under President Donald Trump
2017-01-20 Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America and Mike Pence as the 48th Vice President
2017-01-21 More than 2 million people protest worldwide in the 'Women's March' against Donald Trump, with 500,000 marching in Washington, D.C.
2017-01-24 President Trump withdraws the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)
2017-01-27 Donald Trump issues executive order banning travel to the US for 7 mostly Muslim countries and suspending admission for refugees
2017-01-28 US President Donald Trump and Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull have a contentious phone call over deal for US to take 1,250 refugees
2017-01-31 US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Sally Yates after she instructs Justice Department officials not to defend Trump's travel ban
2017-01-31 US President Donald Trump announces he is nominating 49-year-old Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court
2017-02-13 US President Donald Trump accepts the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn over his dealings with Russia
2017-02-22 US President Donald Trump overturns Obama directive on Transgender rights to use toilets
2017-03-05 US President Donald Trump in a tweet accuses former President Obama without offering any evidence of wiretapping Trump Towers during the presidential campaign
2017-03-06 US President Donald Trump signs his second executive order barring travelers from 6 mostly-Muslim countries for 90 days but leaves out Iraq
2017-03-16 US President Donald Trump's second travel ban is blocked by 2 federal courts
2017-03-24 US President Donald Trump and Republican party forced to pull their attempt to repeal Affordable Care Act ('Obamacare') after internal opposition
2017-03-28 US President Donald Trump signs Energy Independence executive order undoing Obama climate-control measures
2017-03-29Ivanka Trump (35) assumes an unpaid position as Senior Advisor to the President, Donald Trump (her father)
2017-04-06 Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Florida for talks with US President Donald Trump
2017-04-07 US President Donald Trump orders missile strike on Syrian airfield after chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun
2017-05-10 US President Donald Trump shares classified information about ISIS plot with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office
2017-05-20 US President Donald Trump begins his 1st foreign trip arriving in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
2017-05-31 Comedienne Kathy Griffin fired from CNN after photo of her holding bloody head resembling Donald Trump by Tyler Shields posted
2017-06-01 US President Donald Trump announces the US is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement
2017-06-08 Ex-FBI chief James Comey testifies to a US Senate committee that US President Donald Trump told "lies plain and simple"
2017-06-16 US President Donald Trump reinstates Cuban travel and business restrictions after they were loosened by President Obama
2017-07-02 US President Donald Trump tweets edited wrestling video of himself attacking news network 'CNN'
2017-07-13 US President Donald Trump arrives in Paris for a 2-day visit with French President Emmanuel Macron
2017-07-24 Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner says he did not collude with Russia after meeting with Senate investigators
2017-07-26 US President Donald Trump announces policy to ban transgender people from the military, overturning Obama era changes
2017-07-27 Boy Scouts of American Chief Scout Executive Michael Surbaugh issues an apology for politically motivated remarks made by President Donald Trump at rally attended by 30,000 scouts
2017-07-27 Reince Priebus resigns as Chief of Staff to US President Donald Trump, after just over 6 months - shortest non-interim tenure ever
2017-07-28 General John Kelly appointed new Chief of Staff by US President Donald Trump
2017-08-02 US President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them
2017-08-09 Giant inflatable chicken resembling US President Donald Trump placed outside US White House as a political protest
2017-08-10 US President Donald Trump declares opioid addiction a national emergency
2017-08-12 US President Donald Trump at a press conference at Trump Tower says “there is blame on both sides” in reference to violence in Charlottesville, provoking widespread condemnation
2017-08-14 US President Donald Trump condemns racist violence at the White House after criticism of his earlier response to Charlottesville violence
2017-08-18 White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is fired by US President Donald Trump
2017-08-25 President Donald Trump grants presidential pardon to Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of contempt of court for racial profiling
2017-08-29 US President Donald Trump visits flood affected Texas
2017-09-04 US President Donald Trump announces Dreamers program, The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), will be stopped
2017-09-19 US President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations vowing to “totally destroy North Korea” if threatens the US
2017-09-19 President Hassan Rouhani of Iran in his UN speech criticizes US President Donald Trump for his comments about Iran in his own UN speech
2017-09-23 US President Donald Trump withdraws invitation to the White House for NBA champions Golden State Warriors after Stephen Curry says he doesn't want to attend
2017-09-24 NFL players kneal, lock arms or stay in their dressing room during the anthem in protests against comments made by President Donald Trump
2017-10-03 US President Donald Trump visits Puerto Rico after it was devastated by hurricane Maria
2017-10-18 US congresswoman Frederica Wilson says President Donald Trump said to bereaved army family of Sgt. La David Johnson "He knew what he was signing up for, but I guess it hurts anyway"
2017-10-26 US President Donald Trump declares the opioid crisis a public health emergency
2017-10-30 President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort and associate Rick Gates are indicted on fraud charges, advisor George Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to the FBI
2017-10-30 US federal judge blocks President Trump's ban on transgender people in the military
2017-11-02 Jerome Powell nominated by US President Donald Trump to be next Chair of the Federal Reserve
2017-11-05 US President Donald Trump begins a 12-day trip to Asia in Toyko, Japan
2017-11-15 3 UCLA basketball players suspended after admitting shoplifting in China, only released at President Trump's request
2017-12-01 President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I.
2017-12-04 US Supreme Court allows President Trump's travel ban to come into effect for 6 mostly Muslim countries
2017-12-04 US President Donald Trump scales back Utah National Parks - Bears Ears National Monument (85%), Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (50%)
2017-12-06 US President Donald Trump officially recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital, announcing plans to move US embassy there
2017-12-11 US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand calls for the resignation of President Donald Trump given 16 women have accused him of sexual harassment
2018-01-03 Lawyers of US President Donald Trump try to stop the publication of book on Trump's administration "Fire and Fury" by Michael Wolff
2018-01-09 US President Trump cancels program allowing 200,000 Salvadorans 17-year temporary protected status to live in the US
2018-01-11 US President Donald Trump causes worldwide controversy when it is reported he called African countries "shitholes" during immigration meeting
2018-03-01 US President Donald Trump says he will impose 25% steel, 10% aluminium import tariffs, raising fears of a trade war
2018-03-08 US President Donald Trump authorizes tariffs on steel and aluminium, excluding Canada and Mexico
2018-03-13 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is fired via a tweet from President Donald Trump
2018-03-22 US President Donald Trump imposes $60 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese imports
2018-03-26 Porn star Stormy Daniels claims she had an affair with Donald Trump in an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes and was later threatened to keep quiet
2018-04-24 US President Donald Trump hosts his first state dinner for visiting French President Emmanuel Macron
2018-04-27 German leader Angela Merkel has a 1-day trip to Washington, DC, meeting US President Donald Trump
2018-05-08 President Trump pulls the US out of the multilateral Iran nuclear deal
2018-05-09 President of Iran Hassan Rouhani and some Iranians react angrily to President Trump pulling the US out of the Iran Nuclear deal
2018-05-21 US Justice Department says it is expanding its internal investigation into whether FBI infiltrated Donald Trump's 2016 campaign
2018-05-24 US President Donald Trump cancels summit with North and South Korea because of hostile statements from North Korea
2018-05-24 US President Donald Trump posthumously pardons boxer Jack Johnson for racially orientated criminal conviction - transporting a white woman across state lines
2018-05-24 US President Donald Trump signs into law the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act easing financial regulations and reducing oversight for banks
2018-05-31Kim Kardashian West meets US President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss prison reform
2018-06-04 US President Donald Trump tweets "I have the absolute right to PARDON myself"
2018-06-05 US President Donald Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their families violates international law according to the UN
2018-06-06 Convicted drug trafficker, Alice Johnson, granted clemency by US President Donald Trump after Kim Kardashian highlights case
2018-06-12 Singapore Summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump - first time a North Korean leader and an incumbent US President have ever met
2018-06-18 US President Trump orders US military to set up sixth branch of the military - a space force
2018-06-20 US President Donald Trump signs Executive Order ending family separation at the border for illegal immigrants
2018-06-22 President Trump spokesperson Sarah Sanders is asked to leave Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, Virginia over her support of Trump's policies, igniting debate
2018-06-26 US Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban against mostly Muslim countries
2018-07-12 US President Donald Trump arrives in the UK for a four-day visit amid protests
2018-07-13 Large protests in London against US President Donald Trump featuring Trump-like baby blimp as President Trump meets Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle
2018-07-14 US President Donald Trump calls the EU a "trade foe" in interview with CBS ahead of meeting with Russian President Putin
2018-07-16 US President Donald Trump appears to accept the word of Russian President Vladimir Putin over US intelligence services about Russian meddling in the 2016 US election, in an interview after the two leader's Helsinki Summit
2018-07-22 US President Donald Trump threatens Iran in an all-caps tweet of "consequences" in response to speech by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
2018-08-10 Turkish lira falls dramatically after US President Donald Trump announces tariff increases on Turkish steel and aluminum
2018-08-10 Omarosa Manigault Newman, former aide to US President Donald Trump, releases taped recordings of her firing from The White House
2018-08-15 US President Donald Trump revokes security clearance of former CIA Director and Trump critic John Brennan
2018-08-19Rudy Giuliani, US President Donald Trump's lawyer claims in interview with NBC Chuck Todd that "truth isn't truth"
2018-08-21Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer, pleads guilty to charges including illegal payment at direction of Trump to women Trump had affairs with
2018-08-24 Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler sends cease-and-desist letter to US President Trump demanding he stop using the band's songs at rallies
2018-09-25 US President Donald Trump criticizes Globalism and Iran speaking at the UN General Assembly
2018-10-20 President Trump threatens to pull the US out of an arms control agreement with Russia because Russia has violated its terms
2018-11-07 US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appoints Matthew Whitaker in his place as acting Attorney General
2018-11-08 CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's White House clearance revoked after continuing to question President Donald Trump while an intern tried to wrestle the microphone off him
2018-11-09 Amid Californian forest fires US President Donald Trump accuses state forest management of "gross mismanagement", threatens to withhold funding
2018-12-02 Trade war truce agreed between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at G-20 meeting in Argentina
2018-12-07 Court filings by US federal prosecutors and Special Counsel Robert Mueller against Michael Cohen appear to implicate President Donald Trump on campaign fraud and Russian dealings
2018-12-08 US President Donald Trump announces John Kelly will be stepping down as White House Chief of Staff at the end of the year
2018-12-11 US President Donald Trump says he would be "proud" to shut down the government in contentious meeting at The White House with Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer
2018-12-12Michael Cohen, former lawyer for US President Donald Trump sentenced to three years in prison for campaign-finance violations and tax fraud
2018-12-12 American Media Inc. publisher of "National Enquirer" admits paying hush money to mistresses of US President Donald Trump
2018-12-19 US President Donald Trump announces victory over the Islamic State and planned withdrawal of US troops from Syria
2018-12-20 US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announces his resignation after disagreements with President Donald Trump
2019-01-09 US President Donald Trump makes Oval Office address live on TV over government shutdown and border wall
2019-01-14 US President Donald Trump denies he is a Russian agent after NY Times article states the FBI started an investigation and the Washington Post raised issues over a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin
2019-01-23 US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi disinvites President Donald Trump from making a State of the Union address in Congress citing government shutdown
2019-01-25 Longest-ever US government shutdown ends after 35 days when President Donald Trump agrees to three week of negotiations on border security by a House-Senate conference committee
2019-01-25 Roger Stone, political lobbyist for Donald Trump, is arrested as part of Mueller investigation for obstruction of justice, witness tampering and making false statements
2019-02-01 US President Donald Trump confirms US withdrawal from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty because of Russia's violation of the treaty
2019-02-06 US President Donald Trump makes presidential State of Union address to Congress a week later than usual due to government shutdown
2019-02-15 US President Donald Trump declares a national emergency to divert funds to build a border wall, after signing bipartisan spending agreement to avoid another government shutdown
2019-02-18 16 US states, including California and New York, band together to sue President Donald Trump over his use of emergency powers to build a border wall.
2019-02-27 Second summit begins between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam
2019-02-27Michael Cohen, former lawyer to Donald Trump testifies before the House Oversight Committee saying Trump is "racist", a "con man" and "a cheat"
2019-02-28 Summit between North Korea's Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump collapses without agreement
2019-03-04 US Democrats announce a wide-ranging corruption investigation into President Donald Trump
2019-03-13 President Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort sentenced to a further 43 months in jail, to add to his previous 47 months
2019-03-13 Home of civil rights activists Medgar and Myrlie Evers established as a national monument in Jackson, Mississippi, by President Donald Trump
2019-03-14 US Senate passes resolution overturning President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration
2019-03-17 Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro arrives in the US for face-to-face meetings with Donald Trump
2019-03-21 US President Donald Trump says US should recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights on Twitter
2019-03-24 US Attorney William Barr summarizes report submitted by Special Council Robert S. Mueller (The Mueller Report) in a letter to Congress stating "investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities" and "Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and I have concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense"
2019-04-07 US President Donald Trump announces Kirstjen Nielsen, Secretary of Homeland Security is leaving her position
2019-04-14 Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at center of controversy over comments about 9/11 at speech to Council on American-Islamic Relations after tweet by Donald Trump, defended by Nancy Pelosi
2019-05-16 US President Donald Trump declares a national emergency over IT threats, banning US companies from using foreign technology without a license
2019-05-29 US Special Counsel Robert Mueller says charging President Donald Trump with a crime was never an option as no legal means to charge a sitting president; and that his report does not exonerate the president
2019-05-31 US President Donald Trump threatens to impose extra 5% tax on Mexican goods if country does not increase its efforts to curb immigration
2019-06-03 US President Donald Trump begins a three-day visit to the UK by calling London Mayor Sadiq Khan "a stone cold loser" after Khan called Trump's language that of a 20th century fascist
2019-06-13 President Donald Trump announces Sarah Sanders will be leaving her position as White House Press Secretary
2019-06-18 US President Donald Trump announces his campaign for re-election
2019-06-24 US President Donald Trump imposes sanctions on Iran, targeted at Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in response to the shooting down of a US drone
2019-06-30 President Donald Trump becomes first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea in the Korean Demilitarized Zone meeting Kim Jong Un
2019-07-04 US President Donald Trump holds a “Salute to America” Fourth of July celebration in Washington, D.C., controversial for its emphasis on the military and presence of tanks
2019-07-14 US President Donald Trump ignites racial controversy by tweeting four Democrat women of color "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came"
2019-07-22 Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan meets with US President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C.
2019-07-22 US President Donald Trump says US could win war in Afghanistan in a week "I just don't want to kill 10 million people. If I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the earth"
2019-07-24 Special counsel Robert Mueller reports to the US Senate that President Trump was not exonerated of obstruction of justice and that Russia interfered in US election to benefit Trump
2019-07-27 US President Trump, calls Baltimore a "disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess," calls Congress Rep Elijah Cummings responsible
2019-08-18 US President Donald Trump confirms he is interested in buying Greenland for the US
2019-08-21 US President Donald Trump says Danish PM Mette Frederiksen was "nasty" to him over his interest in buying Greenland and cancels his trip to Denmark
2019-09-07 US President Donald Trump says he has cancelled a secret meeting with the Taliban for peace talks at Camp David
2019-09-09John Legend and wife Chrissy Teigen fire back at Donald Trump on social media after he calls them "boring" and "filthymouthed" in tweets over Criminal Justice Reform
2019-09-10 US President Donald Trump fires his third national security adviser John Bolton
2019-09-20 Australian PM Scott Morrison welcomed for week-long visit at the White House by US President Donald Trump
2019-09-22 US President Donald Trump admits he spoke to Ukrainian President about Joe Biden's son, after news a US intelligence officer made an official complaint about the call
2019-09-22 "Howdy, Modi!" US President Donald Trump holds a mass rally for Indian PM Narendra Modi in Houston, Texas
2019-09-24Nancy Pelosi announces formal impeachment inquiry into US President Donald Trump, arguing that he tried to enlist a foreign power for his own political gain
2019-10-09 Turkey launches airstrikes on Kurdish forces in Northern Syria after US President Donald Trump announces decision to pull back US forces
2019-10-13 Kurdish forces make a deal with Syrian army for them to patrol border areas in north east Syria to combat Turkish offensive after US President Donald Trump pulls out US forces
2019-10-17 Mick Mulvaney, President Trump's acting chief of staff says the White House withheld nearly $400 million in military aid from Ukraine to further Trump's own political interests
2019-10-22 Top US diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, testifies President Donald Trump tied aid to Ukraine to demands the country open an investigation into the Biden family
2019-10-31 US House of Representatives votes to formalize impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump
2019-11-13 First day of public testimony in Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry held in Washington, D.C.
2019-11-27 US President Donald Trump signs two bills backing Hong Kong protesters, which check the territories autonomy and ban the sale of munitions to Hong Kong police, angering China
2019-12-03 World leaders discussing US President Donald Trump in unflattering terms at NATO reception caught on camera and goes viral
2019-12-05 Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, announces articles of impeachment against US President Donald Trump will be drawn up for abuse of power
2019-12-18 US House of Representatives votes to impeach President Donald Trump for abuse of power (230-197) and obstruction of Congress (229-198)
2020-01-16 Impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump begins in the Senate
2020-01-28 US President Donald Trump releases his Middle East peace plan alongside Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House
2020-02-04 Radio personality Rush Limbaugh is presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump during the State Of The Union Address
2020-02-05 US Senate votes to acquit President Donald Trump 52-48 on charges of abuse of power and 53-47 on obstruction of Congress
2020-02-18 President Donald Trump commutes the 14-year sentence of former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich's corruption conviction
2020-02-24 US President Donald Trump begins a 2 day trip to India meeting Indian PM Narendra Modi
2020-03-12 US President Trump bans travel with 26 European countries, though not the UK, due to COVID-19 (UK and Ireland added a day later)
2020-03-13 US President Donald Trump declares a national emergency, freeing up $50 billion to fight COVID-19
2020-03-18 US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agree to close the US-Canada border, the world's longest, to non-essential travel to curb COVID-19
2020-03-27 $2.2 trillion stimulus package, largest in US history, signed into law by President Donald Trump saying "I never signed anything with a 'T' on it"
2020-03-28 US President Donald Trump makes grim projection that 240,000 American could die from COVID-19, even with restrictions in place
2020-04-01 US President Donald Trump says the US Strategic National Stockpile is almost depleted amid widespread shortages of medical equipment to fight COVID-19
2020-04-14 US President Donald Trump freezes funding for the World Health Organization pending a review, for mistakes in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and for being "China-centric", prompting international criticism
2020-04-21 US President Donald Trump announces new 60-day ban on most green cards for the US
2020-04-23 US President Donald Trump suggests studying if COVID-19 could be treated by introducing disinfectant or UV lights into a human body, during a White House press briefing; government officials and disinfectant companies quickly state doing so is not only extremely dangerous but potentially deadly
2020-04-30 US President Donald Trump claims COVID-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, while the Office of the Director of National Intelligence saying the virus is not manmade
2020-05-18 US President Donald Trump confirms he is taking controversial drug hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19
2020-05-26 Twitter adds warning labels to warn about inaccuracies in US President Donald Trump's tweets for the first time
2020-06-01 US President Trump threatens to employ the military to quell protests across the country sparked by the death of George Floyd then walks with staff to St. John’s Church
2020-06-03 Former Defense Secretary James Mattis says in The Atlantic: "Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us."
2020-06-20 Donald Trump controversially holds his first re-election rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, only 6,200 people attend despite the campaign stating 1 million had registered. Social media campaign organised by teens on TikTok, K-Pop fans and others, claims responsibility for wildly inflating the expected attendance.
2020-07-23 US President Trump says he could send 75,000 federal agents to deal with violence in American cities like Portland, drawing backlash
2020-08-20 Former adviser to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the Mexican border
2020-08-23 US Republican party convention begins by formally renominating Donald Trump for a second presidential term
2020-09-01 President Trump visits the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, where Jacob Blake was shot, to offer support to law enforcement
2020-09-09 Donald Trump purposely downplayed the pandemic in early 2020 to avoid panic according to Bob Woodward's new book "Rage"
2020-09-19 US President Donald Trump vows to swear in a new Supreme Court judge, despite the election being only 45 days away
2020-09-23 President Donald Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the US November election at a White House press conference
2020-09-26 President Donald Trump nominates Judge Amy Coney Barrett for the US Supreme Court to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg
2020-09-27 Details of President Donald Trump's tax returns released by the New York Times showing he paid $750 in income tax (2016 & 2017) revealing "chronic losses and years of tax avoidance"
2020-09-29 First debate between US Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden held, widely criticized as chaotic and ill-tempered
2020-10-02 US President Donald Trump announces via twitter that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19, President hospitalized later that day
2020-10-05 US President Donald Trump leaves Walter Reed National Military Medical Center while still infectious with COVID-19 and returns to the White House
2020-11-07 Former Vice-President Joe Biden declared the winner of the US Presidential race, four days after the US election, defeating sitting President Donald Trump
2020-11-15 US President Donald Trump tweets [Biden] "won because the election was rigged,” while still refusing to concede the election
2020-11-24 US General Services Administration officially begins Joe Biden's transition, declaring him the "apparent winner" although Donald Trump vows to continue challenging the result
2020-11-25 US President Donald Trump pardons former security advisor Michael Flynn, who had pled guilty of lying to the FBI
2020-12-02 US Attorney General William Barr says there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, despite claims by President Donald Trump
2020-12-06 US President Donald Trump orders about 700 troops withdrawn from Somalia
2020-12-08 Former Israeli space security chief Haim Eshed says Aliens and a Galactic Federation exist and Donald Trump knows about it, in article published in the Jerusalem Post
2021-01-02 US President Donald Trump says to Georgia's secretary of state Brad Raffensperger "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” in recording released by the Washington Post
2021-01-06 Supporters of US President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in Washington during congressional certification of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's win, resulting in five deaths and prompting evacuation of lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence
2021-01-07 Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg blocks President Donald Trump from Facebook and Instagram till January 20, following suspension of his other social media accounts the previous day
2021-01-08 Twitter bans US President Donald Trump permanently "due to the risk of further incitement of violence"
2021-01-08 US Speaker Nancy Pelosi demands President Donald Trump's resignation or he will face a second impeachment, while also calling for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him in the wake of the January 6 attack of the Capitol
2021-01-10 PGA of America pulls 2022 PGA Championship from Trump National GC at Bedminster, NJ, days after supporters of President Donald Trump attacked the US Capitol
2021-01-11 US House Democrats introduce one article of impeachment against President Donald Trump for "incitement of insurrection" for encouraging his supporters to riot at the Capitol
2021-01-13 President Donald Trump is impeached by the US House of Representatives voting 232-197, for “incitement of insurrection”, first time in history a US President is impeached twice
2021-01-20Joe Biden is inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America and Kamala Harris as the 49th Vice President, the first female, black or south Asian Vice President. Amanda Gorman recites "The Hill We Climb"; previous office holder Donald Trump is first outgoing president to refuse to attend the inauguration of his successor since 1869 P
2021-02-09 US Senate Impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump begins in Washington D.C.
2021-02-11 US President Joe Biden rescinds the national emergency order used by Donald Trump to fund the border wall with Mexico
2021-02-13 Former US President Donald Trump acquitted in second Senate impeachment trial on charge of incitement of insurrection after senators vote 57 to 43 in favor of conviction, less than the two thirds majority required for impeachment
2021-03-16 Declassified US intelligence report says Russian President Vladimir Putin authorized efforts to aid re-election of Donald Trump
2021-05-05 Donald Trump's ban from Facebook upheld by the company's Oversight Board for a further six months
2021-05-12 US Republicans vote to demote their number three Liz Cheney from party leadership after she publicly rebuked Donald Trump for lies about the election
2021-06-01 US President Joe Biden's administration suspends oil and gas leases in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, reversing Donald Trump's decision
2022-04-19 US Biden administration restores climate impacts and community say to the National Environmental Policy Act, previously removed by Donald Trump
2022-05-16 US President Joe Biden approves redeployment of several hundred US ground troops to Somalia, reversing a decision by President Donald Trump
2022-08-08 FBI conduct a search of former US President Donald Trump's Florida home, Mar-a-Largo, over his handling of classified government documents
2022-08-10 Former US President Donald Trump invokes the fifth amendment against self-incrimination at a disposition into his organization's business by NY attorney's office
2022-09-21 New York Attorney General Letitia James files lawsuit against Donald Trump and three of his children, alleging widespread fraud through inflating his personal net worth by billions of dollars
2022-11-15 Former US President Donald Trump announces he is running for President in 2024, despite many candidates he promoted failing to win election in US midterms
2022-12-03 Former US President Donald Trump calls in a Truth Social post for the "termination" of all rules, including the US Constitution, to overturn the 2020 election, which he again falsely claims that he won.
2022-12-06 Donald Trump's real estate company Trump Organization convicted of tax fraud in New York
2022-12-19 US House Jan. 6 committee votes to refer criminal charges to the Justice Department for Donald Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and encourage a mob to attack the Capitol
2023-03-30 Former US President Donald Trump is indicted by a Manhattan Grand Jury on charges over hush payments paid to porn star Stormy Daniels - 1st US President to face criminal charges
2023-04-04 Former US president Donald Trump pleads not guilty in a NY court to 34 felony counts of falsifying documents related to 2016 hush money payments to a woman alleging they had an extramarital affair
2023-04-26 Writer E. Jean Carroll testifies in a NY court that Donald Trump raped her in a department store in the 1990s
2023-04-27 Former Vice President Mike Pence appears before the federal grand jury investigating President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss
2023-05-09 Former US President Donald Trump is found guilty of sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in a New York court and ordered to pay $5 million for battery and defamation
2023-06-08 US federal prosecutors file 37 count indictment against former US President Donald Trump, for unlawful retention of defense information, for storing dozens of classified documents at his Florida resort, and obstruction of justice
2023-06-09 Former US President Donald Trump indicted by a federal grand jury on 37 counts on seven charges, including false statements, conspiracy to obstruct and willful retention of national defense information
2023-06-13 Former US President Donald Trump and his aide Walt Nauta plead not guilty to federal charges of intentionally holding on to classified documents at a court in Miami
2023-08-01 Former US President Donald Trump is indicted on charges of conspiring to defraud the country and prevent the peaceful transfer of power by special counsel Jack Smith
2023-08-03 Former US President Donald Trump pleads not guilty to criminal conspiracy charges aimed at subverting the 2020 presidential election at an arraignment in Washington D.C.
2023-08-14 Former US President Donald Trump and 18 others, including Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, indicted by a grand jury in Atlanta on felony charges for attempting to overturn 2020 election in Georgia
2023-08-24 Former US President Donald Trump surrenders at Fulton County Jail, to be arrested on charges stemming from his attempts to alter 2020 Georgia election, and gets a mug shot
2023-09-26 Donald Trump found guilty of fraud by inflating his assets in a civil case was brought by New York attorney general Letitia James
2023-10-24 Former lawyer to Donald Trump Jenna Ellis is the fourth person to plead guilty and accept a plea deal in the Georgia election interference case
2023-12-16 Donald Trump says immigrants coming to the US are “poisoning the blood of our country,” at a campaign rally in New Hampshire, refuted by Joe Biden's campaign as words Hitler would say
2023-12-19 Colorado’s Supreme Court rules Donald Trump is ineligible to run for President after participating in an insurrection, under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment
2024-01-15 Donald Trump overwhelmingly wins the Iowa Republican Caucuses, first voting in US Presidential primaries, with Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, second and third
2024-01-26 US Federal jury says Donald Trump must pay $83 million in damages to E. Jean Carroll after he denied raping her
2024-02-10 Donald Trump says he threatened a NATO ally over their defense spending "No, I would not protect you. I would encourage them (Russia) to do whatever the hell they want" at South Carolina rally
2024-02-16 Donald Trump and Trump Organization ordered to pay $354 million in fines in NY civil fraud case - one of the largest corporate sanctions in NY history
2024-02-17 Donald Trump launches his “Never Surrender High-Tops” footwear (US$399) at Sneaker Con in Philadelphia
2024-02-18 Poll by historians' ranks Joe Biden as the 14th best US president, with Donald Trump ranked last
2024-03-04 US Supreme Court rules states can't bar federal candidates, including Donald Trump, from a ballot under 14th Amendment clause prohibiting those who “engaged in insurrection”
2024-03-06Nikki Haley ends her US presidential campaign after Super Tuesday, ceding the GOP nomination to Donald Trump
2024-03-15 Former US VP Mike Pence says "he cannot in good conscience” endorse Donald Trump for President in an interview on Fox News
2024-04-15 Donald Trump becomes the first former US President to stand trial on criminal charges as his hush money case begins in New York
2024-05-07 Stormy Daniels testifies in court to a 2006 sexual encounter with Donald Trump as part of a hush money trial against Trump
2024-05-30 Jury in New York City find former US President Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide payments made to prevent damaging personal information from being released prior to the 2016 election
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