Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (1946-?) was the 45th President of the United States of America, serving from January 20, 2017, to the same date in 2021 after defeating Hillary Clinton of the Democrats in the 2016 general election.

Trump's presidency was notable for reneging on prior international commitments, upending diplomatic relationships and protocol, engaging in brinkmanship with adversaries, use of social media such as Twitter to attack and embarrass critics, and a harsh policy against immigration. There was also a concerted attempt by the president and his appointed officials to demonize and damage domestic federal agencies such as the EPA and the U.S. Geological Survey and agencies involved in financial oversight, census-taking, and weather monitoring.

Trump unsuccessfully ran for a second term in 2020, losing to the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden. Trump may have lost, at least in part, because of his failures in managing the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, in which he failed to take any substantive actions himself and then attempted to punish states for taking necessary public safety measures into their own hands. Trump vigorously contested the result, without apparent reason (as determined by numerous lost lawsuits) but had to leave office when his term expired on January 20, 2021. Trump's one-term presidency ended on a sour note with the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot, a violent assault by Trump supporters organized by high-level members of the Trump administration and incited publicly by Trump himself via Twitter and other social media. The attack is widely regarded as an insurrection or attempted coup d'etat because it was intended to prevent the historically peaceful transfer of power between presidents. Per the "January 6th Report" later issued by Congress, the riot was only one of several invalid attempts by Trump to get the election results overturned, and it was his last-ditch effort when previous attempts to intimidate, bully or command various state and federal officials into invalidating the election unlawfully failed to bear fruit.

Trump is the only president in U.S. history to have been impeached twice.