208 Facts About Trump Donald

Donald John Trump was born on June 14,1946 and is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

Trump Donald became president of his father Fred Trump's real estate business in 1971 and renamed it The Trump Organization.

Trump Donald later started side ventures, mostly by licensing his name.

Trump Donald won the 2016 United States presidential election as the Republican nominee against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, but lost the popular vote.

Trump Donald became the first US president with no prior military or government service.

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Trump Donald promoted conspiracy theories and made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics.

Trump Donald ordered a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, diverted military funding towards building a wall on the US –Mexico border, and implemented a policy of family separations for apprehended migrants.

Trump Donald signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 which cut taxes for individuals and businesses and rescinded the individual health insurance mandate penalty of the Affordable Care Act.

Trump Donald appointed 54 federal appellate judges and three United States Supreme Court justices.

In foreign policy, Trump Donald initiated a trade war with China and withdrew the US from the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Iran nuclear deal.

Trump Donald met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un three times, but made no progress on denuclearization.

Trump Donald 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.

On January 6,2021, Trump Donald urged his supporters to march to the Capitol, which many of them then attacked, resulting in multiple deaths and interrupting the electoral vote count.

Trump Donald is the only American president to have been impeached twice.

Donald John Trump was born on June 14,1946, at Jamaica Hospital in the borough of Queens in New York City, the fourth child of Fred Trump, a Bronx-born real estate developer whose parents were German immigrants, and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, an immigrant from Scotland.

Trump Donald went to Sunday school and was confirmed in 1959 at the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens.

Trump Donald has called golfing his "primary form of exercise" but usually does not walk the course.

Trump Donald has often said he began his career with "a small loan of one million dollars" from his father, and that he had to pay it back with interest.

Trump Donald's investments underperformed the stock and New York property markets.

Trump Donald'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.

Trump Donald attracted public attention in 1978 with the launch of his family's first Manhattan venture, the renovation of the derelict Commodore Hotel, adjacent to Grand Central Terminal.

In 1995, Trump Donald sold the Plaza Hotel along with most of his properties to pay down his debts, including personally guaranteed loans, allowing him to avoid personal insolvency.

In 1985, Trump Donald acquired the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.

Trump Donald continued to use a wing of the house as a private residence.

In 1984, Trump Donald opened Harrah's at Trump Donald Plaza, a hotel and casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, with financing and management help from the Holiday Corporation.

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Trump Donald bought a third Atlantic City venue in 1988, the Trump Donald Taj Mahal.

Trump Donald Organization began building and buying golf courses in 1999.

Trump Donald visited a Trump Donald Organization property on 428 of the 1,461 days of his presidency and is estimated to have played 261 rounds of golf, one every 5.

Trump Donald name has been licensed for various consumer products and services, including foodstuffs, apparel, adult learning courses, and home furnishings.

In September 1983, Trump Donald purchased the New Jersey Generals, a team in the United States Football League.

Trump Donald's businesses have hosted several boxing matches at the Atlantic City Convention Hall adjacent to and promoted as taking place at the Trump Donald Plaza in Atlantic City.

In 1989 and 1990, Trump Donald lent his name to the Tour de Trump Donald cycling stage race, which was an attempt to create an American equivalent of European races such as the Tour de France or the Giro d'Italia.

From 1986 to 1988, Trump Donald purchased significant blocks of shares in various public companies while suggesting that he intended to take over the company and then sold his shares for a profit, leading some observers to think he was engaged in greenmail.

The New York Times found that Trump Donald initially made millions of dollars in such stock transactions, but later "lost most, if not all, of those gains after investors stopped taking his takeover talk seriously".

Trump Donald failed to earn a profit with the airline and sold it to USAir.

From 1996 to 2015, Trump Donald owned all or part of the Miss Universe pageants, including Miss USA and Miss Teen USA.

In 2007, Trump Donald received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work as producer of Miss Universe.

In 2004, Trump Donald co-founded Trump Donald University, a company that sold real estate training courses priced from $1,500 to $35,000.

Donald J Trump Foundation was a private foundation established in 1988.

Trump Donald's team announced in December 2016 that the foundation would be dissolved.

Cohn introduced political consultant Roger Stone to Trump Donald, who enlisted Stone's services to deal with the federal government.

Trump Donald's attorneys appealed the rulings, arguing that Congress was attempting to usurp the "exercise of law-enforcement authority that the Constitution reserves to the executive branch".

Trump Donald's first book, The Art of the Deal, was a New York Times Best Seller.

Trump Donald made cameo appearances in many films and television shows from 1985 to 2001.

Trump Donald had a sporadic relationship with the professional wrestling promotion WWE since the late 1980s.

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Trump Donald appeared at WrestleMania 23 in 2007 and was inducted into the celebrity wing of the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013.

From 2004 to 2015, Trump Donald was co-producer and host of reality shows The Apprentice and The Celebrity Apprentice.

Trump Donald 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.

In 1987, Trump Donald placed full-page advertisements in three major newspapers, expressing his views on foreign policy and on how to eliminate the federal budget deficit.

Trump Donald ruled out running for local office but not for the presidency.

In 2000, Trump Donald ran in the California and Michigan primaries for nomination as the Reform Party candidate for the 2000 United States presidential election but withdrew from the race in February 2000.

In 2011, Trump Donald speculated about running against President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, making his first speaking appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2011 and giving speeches in early primary states.

Trump Donald adopted the phrase "truthful hyperbole", coined by his ghostwriter Tony Schwartz, to describe his public speaking style.

Trump Donald's campaign was initially not taken seriously by political analysts, but he quickly rose to the top of opinion polls.

In mid-July Trump Donald selected Indiana governor Mike Pence as his vice presidential running mate, and the two were officially nominated at the 2016 Republican National Convention.

Trump Donald twice refused to say whether he would accept the result of the election.

Trump Donald 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.

Trump Donald helped bring far-right fringe ideas, beliefs, and organizations into the mainstream.

Trump Donald was slow to disavow an endorsement from David Duke after he was questioned about it during a CNN interview on February 28,2016.

Duke enthusiastically supported Trump Donald and said he and like-minded people voted for Trump Donald because of his promises to "take our country back".

Trump Donald did not release his tax returns, contrary to the practice of every major candidate since 1976 and his promises in 2014 and 2015 to do so if he ran for office.

Trump Donald said his tax returns were being audited, and his lawyers had advised him against releasing them.

On November 8,2016, Trump Donald received 306 pledged electoral votes versus 232 for Clinton.

Trump Donald is the only president who neither served in the military nor held any government office prior to becoming president.

Trump Donald's support had been modestly underestimated, while Clinton's had been overestimated.

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Trump Donald won 30 states; included were Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, which had been part of what was considered a blue wall of Democratic strongholds since the 1990s.

Trump Donald's victory marked the return of an undivided Republican government—a Republican White House combined with Republican control of both chambers of Congress.

Trump Donald continued to profit from his businesses and to know how his administration's policies affected his businesses.

Trump Donald was sued for violating the Domestic and Foreign Emoluments Clauses of the US Constitution, marking the first time that the clauses had been substantively litigated.

Trump Donald took office at the height of the longest economic expansion in American history, which began in June 2009 and continued until February 2020, when the COVID-19 recession began.

The Trump Donald administration claimed that the act would either increase tax revenues or pay for itself by prompting economic growth.

Trump Donald is the only modern US president to leave office with a smaller workforce, by 3 million, than when he took office.

In June 2017, Trump Donald announced the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement, making the US the only nation in the world to not ratify the agreement.

Trump Donald rolled back more than 100 federal environmental regulations, including those that curbed greenhouse gas emissions, air and water pollution, and the use of toxic substances.

Trump Donald 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.

Trump Donald aimed to boost the production and exports of fossil fuels; under Trump Donald, natural gas expanded, but coal continued to decline.

On January 30,2017, Trump Donald signed Executive Order 13771, which directed that for every new regulation administrative agencies issue "at least two prior regulations be identified for elimination".

Agency defenders expressed opposition to Trump Donald's criticisms, saying the bureaucracy exists to protect people against well-organized, well-funded interest groups.

Trump Donald dismantled many federal regulations on health, labor, and the environment, among other topics.

Trump Donald signed 14 Congressional Review Act resolutions repealing federal regulations, among them a bill that made it easier for severely mentally ill persons to buy guns.

Trump Donald scaled back the implementation of the ACA through executive orders 13765 and 13813.

Trump Donald expressed a desire to "let Obamacare fail"; his administration cut the ACA enrollment period in half and drastically reduced funding for advertising and other ways to encourage enrollment.

Trump Donald falsely claimed he saved the coverage of pre-existing conditions provided by the ACA.

In June 2018, the Trump Donald administration joined 18 Republican-led states in arguing before the Supreme Court that the elimination of the individual mandate had rendered the ACA unconstitutional.

Trump Donald 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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Trump Donald said he is opposed to gun control in general, although his views have shifted over time.

Trump Donald's administration took an anti-marijuana position, revoking Obama-era policies that provided protections for states that legalized marijuana.

In 2016, Trump Donald said he supported the use of interrogation torture methods such as waterboarding but later appeared to recant this due to the opposition of Defense Secretary James Mattis.

Trump Donald pardoned or reversed the sentences of three American servicemen convicted or accused of committing war crimes in Afghanistan or Iraq.

In November and December 2020, Trump Donald pardoned four Blackwater private security contractors convicted of killing Iraqi civilians in the 2007 Nisour Square massacre; white-collar criminals Michael Milken and Bernard Kerik; and daughter Ivanka's father-in-law Charles Kushner.

Trump Donald 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.

Trump Donald then walked to St John's Episcopal Church, where protesters had set a small fire the night before; he posed for photographs holding a Bible, with senior administration officials later joining him in photos.

Trump Donald's proposed immigration policies were a topic of bitter and contentious debate during the campaign.

Trump Donald promised to build a wall on the Mexico–United States border to restrict illegal movement and vowed Mexico would pay for it.

Trump Donald pledged to deport millions of illegal immigrants residing in the United States, and criticized birthright citizenship for incentivizing "anchor babies".

Trump Donald attempted to drastically escalate immigration enforcement, including implementing harsher immigration enforcement policies against asylum seekers from Central America than any modern US president.

From 2018 onward, Trump Donald deployed nearly 6,000 troops to the US –Mexico border, to stop most Central American migrants from seeking US asylum, and from 2020 used the public charge rule to restrict immigrants using government benefits from getting permanent residency via green cards.

Trump Donald has reduced the number of refugees admitted into the US to record lows.

When Trump Donald took office, the annual limit was 110,000; Trump Donald set a limit of 18,000 in the 2020 fiscal year and 15,000 in the 2021 fiscal year.

Additional restrictions implemented by the Trump Donald administration caused significant bottlenecks in processing refugee applications, resulting in fewer refugees accepted compared to the allowed limits.

Trump Donald later reframed the proposed ban to apply to countries with a "proven history of terrorism".

On January 27,2017, Trump Donald signed Executive Order 13769, which suspended admission of refugees for 120 days and denied entry to citizens of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen for 90 days, citing security concerns.

Trump Donald falsely asserted that his administration was merely following the law, blaming Democrats, despite the separations being his administration's policy.

On June 26,2018, a federal judge concluded that the Trump Donald administration had "no system in place to keep track of" the separated children, nor any effective measures for family communication and reunification; the judge ordered for the families to be reunited, and family separations stopped, except where the parent are judged unfit to take care of the child, or if there is parental approval.

In 2018, Trump Donald refused to extend government funding unless Congress allocated $5.

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Trump Donald declared a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States, intending to divert $6.

Trump Donald vetoed a joint resolution to overturn the declaration, and the Senate voted against a veto override.

Trump Donald described himself as a "nationalist" and his foreign policy as "America First".

Trump Donald is a skeptic of trade liberalization, adopting these views in the 1980s, and sharply criticized NAFTA during the Republican primary campaign in 2015.

Trump Donald 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.

Trump Donald juxtaposed verbal attacks on China with praise of Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, which was attributed to trade war negotiations with the leader.

Trump Donald said he resisted punishing China for its human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in the northwestern Xinjiang region for fear of jeopardizing trade negotiations.

In July 2020, the Trump Donald administration imposed sanctions and visa restrictions against senior Chinese officials, in response to expanded mass detention camps holding more than a million of the country's Uyghur Muslim ethnic minority.

Trump Donald supported many of the policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In February 2020, the Trump Donald administration signed a conditional peace agreement with the Taliban, which called for the withdrawal of foreign troops in 14 months "contingent on a guarantee from the Taliban that Afghan soil will not be used by terrorists with aims to attack the United States or its allies" and for the US to seek the release of 5,000 Taliban imprisoned by the Afghan government.

Trump Donald ordered missile strikes in April 2017 and in April 2018 against the Assad regime in Syria, in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun and Douma chemical attacks, respectively.

In December 2018, Trump Donald declared "we have won against ISIS, " contradicting Department of Defense assessments, and ordered the withdrawal of all troops from Syria.

One week after his announcement, Trump Donald said he would not approve any extension of the American deployment in Syria.

In October 2019, after Trump Donald spoke to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, US troops in northern Syria were withdrawn from the area and Turkey invaded northern Syria, attacking and displacing American-allied Kurds in the area.

In May 2018, Trump Donald withdrew the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the 2015 agreement between Iran, the US, and five other countries that lifted most economic sanctions against Iran in return for Iran agreeing to restrictions on its nuclear program.

In January 2020, Trump Donald ordered a US airstrike that killed Iranian general and Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and eight other people.

Trump Donald publicly threatened to attack Iranian cultural sites, or react "in a disproportionate manner" if Iran retaliated.

Trump Donald downplayed the severity of the missile strike and the brain injuries sustained by service members, denying them Purple Heart awards.

In 2017, when North Korea's nuclear weapons were increasingly seen as a serious threat, Trump Donald escalated his rhetoric, warning that North Korean aggression would be met with "fire and fury like the world has never seen".

In 2017, Trump Donald declared that he wanted North Korea's "complete denuclearization", and engaged in name-calling with leader Kim Jong-un.

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Trump Donald met Kim three times: in Singapore in 2018, in Hanoi in 2019, and in the Korean Demilitarized Zone in 2019.

Trump Donald became the first sitting US president to meet a North Korean leader or to set foot on North Korean soil.

Trump Donald administration "water[ed] down the toughest penalties the US had imposed on Russian entities" after its 2014 annexation of Crimea.

Trump Donald withdrew the US from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, citing alleged Russian non-compliance, and supported a potential return of Russia to the G7.

Trump Donald repeatedly praised and rarely criticized Russian president Vladimir Putin, but opposed some actions of the Russian government.

Trump Donald did not discuss alleged Russian bounties offered to Taliban fighters for attacking American soldiers in Afghanistan with Putin, saying both that he doubted the intelligence and that he was not briefed on it.

Trump Donald administration had a high turnover of personnel, particularly among White House staff.

Close personal aides to Trump Donald including Bannon, Hope Hicks, John McEntee, and Keith Schiller quit or were forced out.

Trump Donald publicly disparaged several of his former top officials, calling them incompetent, stupid, or crazy.

Trump Donald had four White House chiefs of staff, marginalizing or pushing out several.

Trump Donald was slow to appoint second-tier officials in the executive branch, saying many of the positions are unnecessary.

Trump Donald appointed 226 Article III judges, including 54 to the courts of appeals and three to the Supreme Court: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.

In February 2020 Trump Donald publicly asserted that the outbreak in the US was less deadly than influenza, was "very much under control", and would soon be over.

In March 2020, Trump Donald privately told Woodward that he was deliberately "playing it down" in public so as not to create panic.

Trump Donald was slow to address the spread of the disease, initially dismissing the imminent threat and ignoring persistent public health warnings and calls for action from health officials within his administration and Secretary Azar.

Trump Donald falsely claimed that "anybody that wants a test can get a test, " despite the availability of tests being severely limited.

Trump Donald established the White House Coronavirus Task Force on January 29,2020.

Trump Donald was the main speaker at the briefings, where he praised his own response to the pandemic, frequently criticized rival presidential candidate Joe Biden, and denounced the press.

Trump Donald's repeated use of the terms "Chinese virus" and "China virus" to describe COVID-19 drew criticism from health experts.

Trump Donald's administration's proposed 2021 federal budget, released in February, proposed reducing WHO funding by more than half.

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Trump Donald then announced that he was withdrawing funding for the organization.

In July 2020, Trump Donald announced the formal withdrawal of the United States from the WHO effective July 2021.

Trump Donald often refused to wear a face mask at public events, contrary to his own administration's April 2020 guidance that Americans should wear masks in public and despite nearly unanimous medical consensus that masks are important to preventing the spread of the virus.

Trump Donald repeatedly pressured federal health agencies to take actions he favored, such as approving unproven treatments or speeding up the approval of vaccines.

Trump Donald alleged without evidence that FDA scientists were part of a "deep state" opposing him, and delaying approval of vaccines and treatments to hurt him politically.

Later that day Trump Donald was hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, reportedly due to labored breathing and a fever.

Trump Donald was treated with antiviral and experimental antibody drugs and a steroid.

Trump Donald denied the affairs and claimed he was not aware of Cohen's payment to Daniels, but he reimbursed him in 2017.

Federal prosecutors asserted that Trump Donald had been involved in discussions regarding non-disclosure payments as early as 2014.

Court documents showed that the FBI believed Trump Donald was directly involved in the payment to Daniels, based on calls he had with Cohen in October 2016.

Trump Donald told Kislyak and Sergei Lavrov in May 2017 he was unconcerned about Russian interference in US elections.

Crossfire Hurricane FBI investigation into possible links between Russia and the Trump Donald campaign was launched in July 2016 during the campaign season.

Trump Donald denied collusion between his campaign and the Russian government.

Trump Donald sought to fire Mueller and shut down the investigation multiple times but backed down after his staff objected or after changing his mind.

Trump Donald bemoaned the recusal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Russia matters, stating that Sessions should have stopped the investigation.

Report detailed multiple acts of potential obstruction of justice by Trump Donald, but did not make a "traditional prosecutorial judgment" on whether Trump Donald broke the law, suggesting that Congress should make such a determination.

Several Trump Donald associates pleaded guilty or were convicted in connection with Mueller's investigation and related cases.

Cohen said he had made the false statements on behalf of Trump Donald, who was identified as "Individual-1" in the court documents.

Trump Donald then confirmed that he withheld military aid from Ukraine, offering contradictory reasons for the decision.

Trump Donald 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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Trump Donald held his first re-election rally less than a month after taking office and officially became the Republican nominee in August 2020.

Trump Donald repeatedly refused to say whether he would accept the results of the election and commit to a peaceful transition of power if he lost.

Trump Donald repeatedly misrepresented Biden's positions and shifted to appeals to racism.

Trump Donald withdrew from public activities in the weeks following the election.

Trump Donald initially blocked government officials from cooperating in Biden's presidential transition.

Trump Donald still did not formally concede while claiming he recommended the GSA begin transition protocols.

Trump Donald did not attend Biden's inauguration, leaving Washington for Florida hours before.

When Trump Donald moved supporters into positions of power at the Pentagon after the November 2020 election, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and CIA director Gina Haspel became concerned about the threat of a possible coup attempt or military action against China or Iran.

Milley insisted that he should be consulted about any military orders from Trump Donald, including the use of nuclear weapons, and he instructed Haspel and NSA director Paul Nakasone to monitor developments closely.

Trump Donald resumed his campaign-style rallies with an 85-minute speech at the annual North Carolina Republican Party convention on June 6,2021.

Unlike other former presidents, Trump Donald continued to dominate his party; he has been compared to a modern-day party boss.

Trump Donald 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.

In October 2021, Trump Donald announced the planned merger of TMTG with Digital World Acquisition, a special purpose acquisition company.

Trump Donald is the subject of several probes into his business dealings and his actions both before and during the presidency.

In February 2021, the district attorney for Fulton County, Georgia, announced a criminal probe into Trump Donald's phone calls to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

When Trump Donald left the White House in January 2021, he took government documents and material with him to Mar-a-Lago.

Trump Donald finished his term with a record-low approval rating of between 29 percent and 34 percent and a record-low average of 41 percent throughout his presidency.

In Gallup's annual poll asking Americans to name the man they admire the most, Trump Donald placed second to Obama in 2017 and 2018, tied with Obama for most admired man in 2019, and was named most admired in 2020.

Since Gallup started conducting the poll in 1948, Trump Donald is the first elected president not to be named most admired in his first year in office.

Gallup poll in 134 countries comparing the approval ratings of US leadership between the years 2016 and 2017 found that Trump Donald led Obama in job approval in only 29, most of them non-democracies, with approval of US leadership plummeting among allies and G7 countries.

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Trump Donald 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.

Trump Donald was ranked near the bottom in all categories except for luck, willingness to take risks, and party leadership.

Trump Donald frequently tweeted during the 2016 election campaign and as president, until his ban in the final days of his term.

Over twelve years, Trump Donald posted around 57,000 tweets, often using Twitter as a direct means of communication with the public and sidelining the press.

Trump Donald often announced terminations of administration officials and cabinet members over Twitter.

In May 2021, an advisory group to Facebook evaluated that site's indefinite ban of Trump Donald and concluded that it had been justified at the time but should be re-evaluated in six months.

Trump Donald sought media attention throughout his career, sustaining a "love–hate" relationship with the press.

In 2018, journalist Lesley Stahl recounted Trump Donald's saying he intentionally demeaned and discredited the media "so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you".

Trump Donald's administration moved to revoke the press passes of two White House reporters, which were restored by the courts.

In early 2020, the Trump Donald campaign sued The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN for defamation in opinion pieces about Russian election interference.

Trump Donald's falsehoods became a distinctive part of his political identity.

Trump Donald's falsehoods increased in frequency over time, rising from about 6 false or misleading claims per day in his first year as president to 16 per day in his second year, 22 per day in his third year, and 39 per day in his final year.

Trump Donald 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.

Some of Trump Donald's falsehoods were inconsequential, such as his claims of a large crowd size during his inauguration.

In 2020, Trump Donald was a significant source of disinformation on mail-in voting and misinformation on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trump Donald 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.

Trump Donald relaunched his political career in 2011 as a leading proponent of "birther" conspiracy theories alleging that Barack Obama, the first black US president, was not born in the United States.

In July 2019, Trump Donald tweeted that four Democratic congresswomen—all minorities, three of whom are native-born Americans—should "go back" to the countries they "came from".

Trump Donald continued to make similar remarks during his 2020 campaign.

Trump Donald has a history of insulting and belittling women when speaking to media and on social media.

Research suggests Trump Donald's rhetoric caused an increased incidence of hate crimes.

Trump Donald has been the subject of parody, comedy, and caricature on television, in movies, and in comics.

Trump Donald was named in hundreds of hip hop songs since the 1980s, mostly positive.