Donald Trump’s disruptive presidency
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Jan 28, 2020: U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveil Israeli-Palestinian peace plan which excludes Palestinians from discussions
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Feb 5: President acquitted by Republican- controlled Senate in impeachment trial over abuse of power and obstruction of Congress
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Feb 24: First person in U.S. dies from novel coronavirus. Trump tweets “coronavirus is very much under control.” Trump refuses to use Defense Production Act (DPA) to fast-track distribution of medical supplies
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Mar 16: President stokes xenophobia – and draws widespread criticism – for insisting that pandemic is caused by “Chinese virus”
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Apr 2: President finally invokes DPA
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Apr 14: Trump halts U.S. funding of World Health Organization
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May 26: Trump claims that if states institute postal voting, November presidential election will be “rigged”
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May 29: President responds to protests over police brutality with threat that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”
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May 29: President is taken to bunker during unruly protests outside White House
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Jun 1: Threat to use American military to quell nationwide protests over racial
injustice
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Jun 1: Crowds in Washington’s Lafayette Square are violently dispersed so Trump can hold photo-op at St. John’s Church
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Jun 5: Trump cuts U.S. troop levels in Germany, blindsiding Pentagon officials
and European leaders
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Jun 10: Trump’s approval rating falls to 39%
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Jun 14: U.S. national debt tops $26 trillion for first time
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Jun 18: More than 45 million Americans have lost their jobs due to lockdown. Supreme Court blocks Trump’s bid to deport so-called “Dreamers” – 650,000 migrants who entered U.S. illegally as children
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Sources: Associated Press, Gallup, Stratfor, Reuters Pictures: Associated Press © GRAPHIC NEWS