Ethan More September 14, 2023

The United States 45th President

ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS OF THE WHITE HOUSE

The White House Historical Association provided the biographies of President Trump and previous leaders.

On June 14, 1946, Donald John Trump was born in Queens, New York. Real estate developer Fred Trump, the boy’s father, had success. Trump received his education at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania as well as the New York Military Academy.

He acquired his father’s real estate business in 1971 and changed its name to the Trump Organization. The company quickly got involved in a wide range of projects, including hotels, resorts, homes and businesses, casinos, and golf courses. The Art of the Deal, his first of many books, was released in 1987. He debuted the reality television program The Apprentice in 2004.

Donald Trump wed Melania Knauss in 2005. Barron is their lone son. Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric, and Tiffany are the other four adult children via previous marriages of Donald Trump.

In order to secure the Republican nominee in the 2016 primary, Trump had to defeat more than a dozen opponents. Trump defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election despite losing the popular vote by capturing the majority of Electoral College votes. The theme of his campaign was “Make America Great Again.”

Trump, who had no prior experience being elected to office, communicated his priorities using nontraditional means. Most notably, he mostly communicated with the American people, other politicians, and the press via the social media network Twitter.

He supervised the lowering of federal regulations while president and signed a significant tax reform bill into law. His protectionism in trade included duties on imports of steel, aluminum, and other goods. Additionally, trade pacts with Mexico, Canada, China, Japan, and South Korea were renegotiated by the Trump administration. Other domestic priorities were the appointment of justices to the Supreme Court and to the federal bench, higher military spending, aggressive border and immigration enforcement, criminal justice reform, and lower prescription drug costs.

The Trump administration changed the location of the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and mediated a number of normalization deals between Israel and various nations. The first meeting between a sitting president and a North Korean leader took place in 2018 when President Trump participated in a summit with Kim Jong Un.

As a result of Trump and Congress’s disagreement over funding for a border wall between the United States and Mexico, there was a partial government shutdown in 2018. Before it was fixed, the funding lapse had lasted 35 days.

In 2019, a federal whistleblower said that Trump had allegedly pushed Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, to open an investigation into Joe Biden’s son Hunter, who had previously sat on the board of Bursima Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas business. Later that year, on the grounds of alleged power abuse and obstruction of Congress, the House of Representatives impeached President Trump. The Senate cleared Trump on both articles of impeachment in 2020.

On January 20, 2020, the first verified COVID-19 case was reported in the US. The coronavirus epidemic occupied the final months of Trump’s administration. Trump’s response to the epidemic was criticized for being slow to act and for not doing more to promote public health measures to slow the virus’ spread. However, the “Operation Warp Speed” program of the Trump administration helped the private sector create two licensed vaccinations. Nevertheless, more than 400,000 Americans had passed away from COVID-19 by the time Trump left office.

Despite losing to Democratic nominee Joe Biden for reelection, Trump loudly asserted that rampant voter fraud had influenced the result. On January 6, 2021, supporters of President Trump traveled to Washington, D.C. for a “Save America” rally. On the Ellipse near the White House, Trump addressed the sizable audience and urged those present to demonstrate against the counting of the Electoral College votes in Congress. When the president’s supporters surrounded law enforcement, broke into the US Capitol, and interfered with the vote count, the protest descended into violence. The violence claimed the lives of five people and cost the Capitol complex millions of dollars in damage.

The House of Representatives approved the inciting of insurrection article of impeachment on January 13, 2021, as a result of Trump’s conduct. He is the first president in American history to have twice faced congressional impeachment.