4 years in the balance … decisions that Americans will not forget Trump



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The term of outgoing US President Donald Trump witnessed an economic boom overshadowed by the emerging Corona virus crisis, and also witnessed a split in American society over various files, from masks through to the police to the “black life issues” movement and other files and issues.

The following are the most prominent milestones during the Donald Trump administration:

Crazy campaign
June 16, 2015: Businessman and former prominent host of a reality TV show announces his candidacy for the US presidency from New York’s “Trump Tower”, surrounded by his family.

And on November 8, 2016: Trump is elected at the age of 70 to become the 45th president of the United States.

And on January 20, 2017: the day he assumed power he witnessed large demonstrations, some of them violent.

First decisions

– January 22: Announcement of the beginning of the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico.

January 25, 2017: Launch of a project to build a wall on the border with Mexico to prevent immigrants from entering the United States.

– January 27: A decree is issued prohibiting the entry of citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, namely Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, to the United States. The text was reworked after a court battle and approved by the Supreme Court in the summer of 2018.

– January 31: Conservative Justice Neil Gorsach is appointed to the Supreme Court, the first of three new justices who have deepened conservatism in the country’s most important judicial body.

June 1: Announcement of the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement.

Economy
December 20, 2017 – Congress passes the biggest tax cut in 31 years.

May 31, 2018: Taxes on steel and aluminum imports from Mexico, Canada and the European Union.

– June 15, 2018: Donald Trump declares a trade war with China by imposing 25 percent customs duties on $ 50 billion in imports.

September 2019: The lowest unemployment rate in 50 years was recorded, at 3.5%.

Diplomacy
January 6, 2017: Recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

– May 8, 2018: Announcement of the withdrawal of the United States from the international agreement on the Iranian nuclear file and reimposition of US sanctions on Tehran.

– June 30, 2019: Donald Trump becomes the first US president to set foot in North Korea, and Kim Jong Un met a year after his first summit in Singapore to negotiate the denuclearization of the peninsula of Korea.

October 27, 2019: The death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was announced during a US military operation in Syria.

– January 3, 2020: The influential Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad.

Defeats
July 28, 2017: The Senate does not cancel ObamaCare, the health reform of the Democrats.

November 6, 2018: Democrats regain a majority in the House of Representatives during the midterm elections. The Republicans remained in the Senate.

– June 20, 2018: Under protests, Trump ends a “zero tolerance” policy on illegal immigration and separates children from their parents after crossing the border into the United States.

Neckline
– August 12, 2017: During a far-right rally in Charlotteville, Virginia, a neo-Nazi sympathizer rammed anti-racist protesters with his car, leaving one person dead. The president was severely criticized after his statement that “there are good people on both sides.”

February 14, 2018: A 19-year-old attacked his school in Parkland, Florida, killing 17. The tragedy sparked an unprecedented mobilization of youth to reduce gun ownership, while Trump unreservedly supported the right of Americans to own a gun.

– May 25, 2020: An African American man, George Floyd, 46, was killed in Minneapolis by suffocation below the knee of a white police officer. This led to the largest protest movement against racism and security violence since the 1960s, and it spread throughout the United States and from there to the world. Trump condemned the actions of the rioters who want to destroy America.

An investigation on Russia
– May 17, 2017: Former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed special investigator on suspicions of collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia. The then president condemned the investigation.

April 18, 2019: The Mueller report is published, which does not prove complicity.

new coronavirus
– January 31, 2020: The United States announced that it would prevent the entry of headlines of various nationalities who had recently visited China, in an effort to stop the spread of the new Corona virus. The measure included Europeans on March 14, with the introduction of a stone in some parts of the country.

March 25: The Senate passes a “historic” $ 2 billion subsidy plan to stimulate the economy, which is in the worst crisis since 1929.

– June 20: Donald Trump, who defies the virus by refraining from wearing a mask, relaunches his electoral campaign with a large rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

– October 2: Trump was diagnosed with Covid-19 and admitted to a military hospital for three nights before returning to the White House, where he spent a few days after which he resumed his campaign activities.

Many important stops and decisions made by the White House master, preparing in January with the president-elect taking office under US law, some of them may continue with Joe Biden, and some of them may fly!

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