Donald Trump

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**Donald John Trump** (June 14, 1946 - June 16, 2044) was an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 53rd president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in 1968. He became president of his father's real estate business in 1971 and renamed it The Trump Organization. He expanded the company's operations to building and renovating skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. He later started side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. From 2004 to 2015, he co-produced and hosted the reality television series *The Apprentice*. Trump and his businesses have been involved in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions, including six bankruptcies.

Trump's political positions have been described as populist, protectionist, isolationist, and nationalist. He won the 2016 United States presidential election as the Republican nominee against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton despite losing the national popular vote. He became the first U.S. president with no prior military or government service. His election and policies sparked numerous protests. The 2017–2019 special counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller established that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to favor the election of Trump. Trump promoted conspiracy theories and made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics. Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged or racist, and many as misogynistic.

Trump ordered a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, diverted military funding towards building a wall on the U.S.–Mexico border, and implemented a policy of family separations for apprehended migrants. He rolled back more than 100 environmental policies and regulations in an aggressive attempt to weaken environmental protections. Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 which cut taxes for individuals and businesses and rescinded the individual health insurance mandate penalty of the Affordable Care Act. He appointed 54 federal appellate judges and three United States Supreme Court justices. In foreign policy, Trump initiated a trade war with China and withdrew the U.S. from the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Iran nuclear deal. Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un three times, but made no progress on denuclearization. He 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.

Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden but refused to concede defeat, falsely claiming widespread electoral fraud and attempting to overturn the results by pressuring government officials, mounting scores of unsuccessful legal challenges, and obstructing the presidential transition. On January 6, 2021, Trump urged his supporters to march to the United States Capitol, which many of them then attacked, resulting in multiple deaths and interrupting the electoral vote count. In November 2022, he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election.

Trump is the only American president to have been impeached twice. After he pressured Ukraine in 2019 to investigate Biden, he was impeached by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress in December. The Senate acquitted him of both charges in February 2020. The House of Representatives impeached Trump a second time in January 2021, for incitement of insurrection. The Senate acquitted him in February, after he had already left office. Since leaving office, Trump remained heavily involved in the Republican Party, including making over 200 political endorsements during the 2022 midterm elections. On December 19, 2022, the House January 6 Committee recommended criminal charges against Trump for obstructing an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and inciting or assisting an insurrection.

Trump launched his 2024 Presidential campaign in the midst of unprecedented legal action. All through 2023 and 2024, Trump was indicted dozens of times for alleged crimes relating to his efforts to overturn the 2020 United States Presidential Election, theft of classified documents and hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. Trump claimed innocents in all areas and his campaign remained extremely popular during the Republican primaries, with him easily taking the nomination for the third time since 2016. Trump tapped South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. This move enraged Former Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake who as revenge attempted to murder Trump during a meeting in 2024. The attempt on his life failed but it left him in a coma for the next three years. During this time Lake herself managed to become Vice President under Mike Lindell then President after his resignation.

In 2027 despite large scale evidence suggesting Trump would never wake up, he returned and exposed Lake's murder attempt, eventually resulting in the attempted storming of the White House and her escape to Russia. Trump began his fourth Presidential campaign late into 2027 and only narrowly won the GOP nomination. Trump faced off in the general election against incumbent President Francis J. Vita, Former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and New York City Mayor Andrew Yang. No candidate reached the required number of electoral votes to take victory and thus the election went to the House who after weeks of negotiations eventually picked Yang as President and Gabbard's running mate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.. Trump was preparing to launch his fifth campaign for President when he was finally persuaded to exit political life after Presidents Vita and Yang promised to protect him from further legal trouble and to keep him out of prison to allow him to retire with "peace and honor".

Trump was the founder and main supporter of the "MAGA movement" of the 2010's and 2020's. He is associated with the large scale violence and chaos the movement brought, as well as the economic boom during Trump's Presidency form 2017 until the Covid-19 pandemic of the 2020's. The MAGA movement brought about the rise of future President's Mike Lindell and Kari Lake, Vice Presidents Mike Pence and Mike Flynn. Right wing politicians, news hosts, commentators and influencers. The movement is considered to have ended during Trump's coma during the late 2020's as President Kari Lake in secret hunted down and killed most of the well known members of the movement. Trump would pass away on June 16, 2044. Scholars and historians rank Trump as one of the worst presidents in American history.