Donald Trump’s Presidential Legacy: The Numbers Speak Loud

Words matter.

But the numbers also tell stories.

Presidential historians and others will probe them as they assess the legacy of the outgoing President of the United States, Donald Trump,

Trump’s presidency is reflected in a wide range of numbers that represent everything from the death toll in the United States during the coronavirus pandemic to the miles of his “great and beautiful wall” along the border with Mexico and the tens of thousands of tweets he sent over four years in the office.

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Some of the numbers that are part of Trump’s legacy:

• 325,000 and counting: Number of deaths in the US attributed to COVID-19.
• 6: Coronavirus vaccines are being developed or distributed under Trump’s Operation Warp Speed ​​program.
• 2: Coronavirus vaccines, from Pfizer and BioNTech, and a separate one from Moderna, which were approved by US regulators in 2020 for emergency use.

• 0: Comprehensive Healthcare Review Plans Introduced by Trump Despite Repeated Promises to Replace the Obama-era Affordable Care Act with a plan that would cover everyone at a lower cost.
• 3: Justices added to the Supreme Court, establishing a solid 6-3 conservative majority.

• 221: Federal judges of first instance and courts of appeals were added to the judiciary.
• US $ 3.1 trillion: 2020 budget deficit, largest in dollar terms in US history. Trump had pledged during the 2016 campaign to close the gap between federal spending and revenue. The tax cuts Trump enacted in 2017 contributed to the imbalance, and it skyrocketed further after Congress passed a $ 2.4 trillion economic relief earlier this year to help unemployed workers, business owners and others to cope with the financial consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.

• 3: Face-to-face meetings with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (in Singapore, Vietnam and the Korean DMZ).
• US $ 21 billion: United States federal debt in December, when it exceeded the size of the economy for the first time in history outside of World War II.
• 82: Number of environmental and public health setbacks from the Trump administration recorded on the Harvard University Rollback Tracker.
• 4: Men who served as acting secretaries of defense, most in any administration.

• 203: Days the Pentagon operated without a Senate-confirmed Secretary of Defense, the longest period in the office’s history.
• 450Miles de Trump’s “big and beautiful” steel wall along the US-Mexico border is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
• 39 percent: Trump’s average approval rating among American adults in AP-NORC polls over the course of his presidency. Trump’s performance evaluations were remarkably stable compared to his recent predecessors, ranging from a low of 32 percent to a high of 43 percent in AP-NORC polls.

• One billion: Barrels of oil and gas extracted from federally managed land in 2019 when the administration accelerated permitting and opened wilderness and other areas to industry.
• $ 135 billion: Expected growth in defense budget under Trump. The final defense budget of former US President Barack Obama for 2017 amounted to 605,000 million dollars; Trump’s final defense budget for 2021, approved by Congress in December, amounted to $ 740 billion. Trump vetoed the bill citing various reasons, but Congress had enough votes to pass the bill despite his objections.
• 4: International Agreements Trump Got The United States From: Iran Nuclear Deal, Paris Climate Agreement, Open Skies Treaty, And Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
• 13: Federal executions scheduled since July, when the administration resumed executing inmates after a 17-year hiatus, making Trump the most prolific executing president in more than 130 years. Federal executions will run until shortly before the January 20 inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden.

• 315: Days Trump has visited a golf course as president, according to Factba.se, a data analytics company.
• 418: Days Trump has visited a property he owns, according to Factba.se.
• 1: New branch of the US military: the Space Force.
• 15 percent: Fall in the trade deficit with China between January-September 2020 and a year earlier. This followed a 19% drop in 2019 to $ 308 billion, the lowest since 2013.
• 25,000 and counting: Tweets, including original messages and retweets, sent by Trump since taking office on January 20, 2017, according to Factba.se.

Associated Press writers Martin Crutsinger, Paul Wiseman, Andrew Taylor, Ellen Knickmeyer, Deb Riechmann, Ben Fox, Robert Burns, Hannah Fingerhut, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, and Jessica Gresko contributed to this report.