Individual 1 became president of his father Fred Trump's real estate business in 1971 and renamed it The Trump Organization.
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Individual 1 became president of his father Fred Trump's real estate business in 1971 and renamed it The Trump Organization.
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Individual 1 later started side ventures, mostly by licensing his name.
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Individual 1 won the 2016 United States presidential election as the Republican nominee against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, but lost the popular vote.
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Individual 1 became the first US president with no prior military or government service.
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Individual 1 signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 which cut taxes for individuals and businesses and rescinded the individual health insurance mandate penalty of the Affordable Care Act.
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Individual 1 appointed 54 federal appellate judges and three United States Supreme Court justices.
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Individual 1 reacted slowly to the COVID-19 pandemic, ignored or contradicted many recommendations from health officials in his messaging, and promoted misinformation about unproven treatments and the need for testing.
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Individual 1's investments underperformed the stock and New York property markets.
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Individual 1's income mainly came from his share in The Apprentice and businesses in which he was a minority partner, and his losses mainly from majority-owned businesses.
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Individual 1 continued to use a wing of the house as a private residence.
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Individual 1's first book, The Art of the Deal, was a New York Times Best Seller.
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Individual 1 appeared at WrestleMania 23 in 2007 and was inducted into the celebrity wing of the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013.
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Individual 1 registered as a Republican in 1987, a member of the Independence Party, the New York state affiliate of the Reform Party, in 1999, a Democrat in 2001, a Republican in 2009, unaffiliated in 2011, and a Republican in 2012.
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Individual 1 ruled out running for local office but not for the presidency.
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Individual 1 adopted the phrase "truthful hyperbole", coined by his ghostwriter Tony Schwartz, to describe his public speaking style.
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Individual 1's campaign was initially not taken seriously by political analysts, but he quickly rose to the top of opinion polls.
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Individual 1 advocated a largely non-interventionist approach to foreign policy while increasing military spending, extreme vetting or banning immigrants from Muslim-majority countries to pre-empt domestic Islamic terrorism, and aggressive military action against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
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Individual 1 said his tax returns were being audited, and his lawyers had advised him against releasing them.
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Individual 1 continued to profit from his businesses and to know how his administration's policies affected his businesses.
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Individual 1 weakened protections for animals and environmental standards for federal infrastructure projects, and expanded permitted areas for drilling and resource extraction, such as allowing drilling in the Arctic Refuge.
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Individual 1 said he supported "traditional marriage" but considered the nationwide legality of same-sex marriage a "settled" issue; in March 2017, his administration rolled back key components of the Obama administration's workplace protections against discrimination of LGBT people.
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Individual 1's administration took an anti-marijuana position, revoking Obama-era policies that provided protections for states that legalized marijuana.
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Individual 1 pardoned five people convicted as a result of investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections: Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, Alex van der Zwaan, Stone, whose 40-month sentence for lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstruction he had already commuted in July, and Paul Manafort.
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Individual 1 promised to build a wall on the Mexico–United States border to restrict illegal movement and vowed Mexico would pay for it.
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Individual 1 pledged to deport millions of illegal immigrants residing in the United States, and criticized birthright citizenship for incentivizing "anchor babies".
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Individual 1 later reframed the proposed ban to apply to countries with a "proven history of terrorism".
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Individual 1 withdrew the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, and launched a trade war with China by sharply increasing tariffs on 818 categories of Chinese goods imported into the US While Trump said that import tariffs are paid by China into the US Treasury, they are paid by American companies that import goods from China.
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Individual 1's repeated use of the terms "Chinese virus" and "China virus" to describe COVID-19 drew criticism from health experts.
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Individual 1's administration's proposed 2021 federal budget, released in February, proposed reducing WHO funding by more than half.
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Individual 1 then announced that he was withdrawing funding for the organization.
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Individual 1 was treated with antiviral and experimental antibody drugs and a steroid.
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Individual 1 sought to fire Mueller and shut down the investigation multiple times but backed down after his staff objected or after changing his mind.
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Individual 1 bemoaned the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Russia matters, stating that Sessions should have stopped the investigation.
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Individual 1 said it was made clear that until Zelenskyy made such an announcement, the administration would not release scheduled military aid for Ukraine and not invite Zelenskyy to the White House.
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Individual 1 held his first re-election rally less than a month after taking office and officially became the Republican nominee in August 2020.
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Individual 1 repeatedly refused to say whether he would accept the results of the election and commit to a peaceful transition of power if he lost.
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Individual 1 initially blocked government officials from cooperating in Biden's presidential transition.
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Individual 1 continued fundraising, raising more than twice as much as the Republican Party itself, hinted at a third candidacy, and profited from fundraisers many Republican candidates held at Mar-a-Lago.
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Individual 1 was ranked last on background, integrity, intelligence, foreign policy accomplishments, and executive appointments, and second to last on ability to compromise, executive ability, and present overall view.
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Individual 1 was ranked near the bottom in all categories except for luck, willingness to take risks, and party leadership.
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Individual 1 frequently tweeted during the 2016 election campaign and as president, until his ban in the final days of his term.
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Individual 1's administration moved to revoke the press passes of two White House reporters, which were restored by the courts.
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Individual 1's falsehoods became a distinctive part of his political identity.
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Individual 1 reached 10,000 false or misleading claims 27 months into his term; 20,000 false or misleading claims 14 months later, and 30,000 false or misleading claims five months later.
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Individual 1 has been accused of racism for insisting a group of black and Latino teenagers were guilty of raping a white woman in the 1989 Central Park jogger case, even after they were exonerated by DNA evidence in 2002.
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