One year on from Donald Trump’s election victory

Nov 8, 2016: Donald Trump wins one of most unpredictable U.S. elections ever seen

Jan 20, 2017 – Day 1: President Trump signs his first executive order, towards dismantling of Affordable Care Act or ObamaCare

Day 4: Trump signs executive order to scrap President Obama’s flagship Trans-Pacific Partnership with 11 countries

Day 8 – Travel ban: Executive order imposing 90-day ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries is blocked in court. Modified orders in March and October are also blocked by courts

240 Executive orders, memoranda and proclamations signed (as of November 1)

Day 28: Trump repeals Obama environmental rule to protect waterways from coal mining waste

Day 49 – FBI chief sacked: Trump abruptly fires FBI director James Comey (above) who is leading investigation into possible collusion with Russia by Trump campaign during election

Move backfires – Justice Department appoints powerful, independent counsel, Robert Mueller (above), to head probe

Day 65 – Obamacare: President’s signature health-care bill to replace Affordable Care Act fails to win enough support in Congress

Day 68: Executive order scraps Obama-era Clean Power Plan which limits carbon emissions from power plants

Day 77: Launches 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles against Syrian airfield
while hosting Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) at Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club

Day 79: U.S. Senate confirms Neil Gorsuch (right) to Supreme Court – Trump’s most significant victory to date

Day 96: Federal court blocks executive order to cut federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities that oppose president’s aggressive deportation agenda

60 Number of bills President Trump has signed (as of November 6)

Day 133 – Climate change: Trump announces he is pulling U.S. out of 195-nation Paris climate change accord. Trump says accord is bad for U.S. economy

Day 135: Trump is criticised for tweet about London Mayor Sadiq Khan in wake of London Bridge terror attack which kills 11 people

Day 179 – Obamacare: Senate Republicans defect from Trump’s repeal and replace Obamacare bill, leaving plan effectively dead

Day 183: President appoints brash, fast-talking Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci (above) as his media chief. Scaramucci is fired after just 10 days, following an expletive-filled rant about fellow White House officials

58 Visits to Mar-a-Lago and Trump’s Bedminster Golf Club $22.8m Cost to U.S. taxpayer of flights to Mar-a-Lago and Bedminster

Day 243 – “Rocket Man”: In his maiden speech to UN General Assembly, Trump boasts of America’s military strength and belittles Kim Yong-un as a Rocket Man on a suicide mission, fuelling an escalating war of words with North Korean leader

Day 246 – Obamacare: Republican Senator John McCain (below) delivers blow to Trump, voting against Graham-Cassidy bill – third attempt by Republicans to repeal Affordable Care Act 

Day 284: Mueller-led probe yields indictments against Trump’s former campaign manager
Paul Manafort (below), and his close associate Rick Gates, for money laundering, conspiracy and other alleged crimes

37% Trump’s approval rating is lower than any U.S. president in 70 years (as of November 6)


Sources: Gallup, Politico, Washington Post, White House Briefing Room 
Pictures: Associated Press, Getty Images                               © GRAPHIC NEWS