"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."
a “very stable genius,” with “a very good brain”) and a “very high IQ”
“my great and unmatched wisdom”
“the chosen one” and “so great looking and smart”
Donald J. Trump
Francis Fukuyama is best known for his book "The End of History and the Last Man," where he argues that liberal democracy and free-market capitalism are the final point of society's evolution. He noted 09 June 2023 "If Donald Trump makes a comeback in 2024, that solves all of Russia's problems because he's apparently committed to pulling the US out of NATO. Russia will have achieved its major objectives simply by this change in American politics."
Donald Trump was the first president since 1869 to have no pets. Donald Trump was the first president in the history of the USA to be impeached for inviting foreign influence into US elections, and the first to be impeached in his first elected term of office. The US House of Representatives late on 18 December 2019 impeached Donald Trump on two counts: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump denied wrongdoing and called the impeachment inquiry, launched by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in September, a "witch hunt". The president has called the impeachment proceeding a “witch hunt,” repeatedly asserting that his call with the Ukrainian president was "perfect."
Specifically, Trump was accused of a shakedown using taxpery dollars to pressure Ukraine to publicly announce an investigation into Joe Biden, a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, as well as into a discredited theory peddled by Moscow that it was Ukraine rather than Russia that had subverted in the 2016 election. Trump held back $391 million (€351m) in security aid intended to combat Russian aggression and a coveted White House meeting for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as leverage to blackmail Kiev into interfering in the 2020 election by smearing Biden. Article Two accuses Trump of obstruction of Congress by directing administration officials and agencies not to comply with lawful House subpoenas for testimony and documents related to impeachment.
In late December, the U.S. House of Representatives voted nearly along party lines to impeach President Donald Trump on abuse of office and obstruction of Congress, making him only the third president in American history to face the threat of removal from office. The historic vote followed a months-long inquiry into allegations that Trump used the power of his office to solicit Ukrainian interference in the 2020 U.S. presidential election and then obstructed Congressional efforts to investigate him.
The inquiry started in response to an intelligence community whistleblower complaint that Trump had halted military aid to Ukraine and then asked his Ukrainian counterpart during a July 25 phone call to investigate his likely Democratic opponent, former president Joe Biden, and a debunked theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 U.S. election to help Democrat Hillary Clinton against Trump. The intelligence community’s watchdog found the complaint “credible” and subsequent testimony by more than a dozen officials largely corroborated the allegations.
Trump was impeached on two charges in connection with the Ukraine pressure campaign: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The first charge stems from Trump’s alleged effort to “solicit” Ukrainian help with his reelection campaign in in 2020 while holding up military aid. The second charge was related to Trump’s subsequent effort to “stonewall” the Congressional inquiry by ordering his administration to defy subpoenas for documents and testimony.
The U.S. Senate acquitted President Donald Trump of two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — concluding a nearly four-month effort by congressional Democrats to remove Trump from office. During a roll-call vote in the Senate chambers 05 February 2020 with Chief Justice John Roberts presiding, the senators found Trump not guilty of abuse of power by a vote of 52 to 48, and not guilty of obstruction of Congress 53 to 47. The vote to acquit Trump of both charges brought by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives was strictly along party lines. The sole Republican dissension was Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, who voted guilty on the abuse of power charge, but not guilty on obstructing Congress. The White House put out a statement saying Trump has been fully vindicated and exonerated. The statement called for "retribution" against House Democratic leaders for lying and what it says was a manufactured case against the president.
Trump was the carnival barker who introduced the phrase "grab ’em by the pussy" into the national lexicon. Trump was the 45th President of the United States. His campaign slogan was Make America Great Again. Ta-Nehisi Coates noted that "It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true — his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power. Trump inaugurated his campaign by casting himself as the defender of white maidenhood against Mexican “rapists,” only to be later alleged by multiple accusers, and by his own proud words, to be a sexual violator himself.
White supremacy has always had a perverse sexual tint. Trump’s rise was shepherded by Steve Bannon, a man who mocks his white male critics as “cucks.” The word, derived from cuckold, was specifically meant to debase by fear and fantasy—the target was so weak that he would submit to the humiliation of having his white wife lie with black men.... essential to the construct of a “white race” is the idea of not being a nigger... Trump arrived in the wake of ... an entire nigger presidency with nigger health care, nigger climate accords, and nigger justice reform..."
According to Edison Research, Trump won whites making less than $50,000 by 20 points, whites making $50,000 to $99,999 by 28 points, and whites making $100,000 or more by 14 points. Trump won white women (+9) and white men (+31). According to preelection polling in 2016, in a tally of white voters only, Trump would have defeated Clinton 389 to 81 in the Electoral College, with the remaining 68 votes either a toss-up or unknown. The racial and ethnic isolation of whites at the zip code level was one of the strongest predictors of Trump support.
Trump never made it to the Oval office before noon and left between 5 and 6. He did not read the President's daily briefing book and insisted someone else read it and fill him in. He broke for lunch at 2PM in the dining room where he watched TV. Trump fell asleep in the middle of the day during his own trial - not once, but many times.
When Donald Trump was sworn in on January 20 as the 47th president of the United States, social media users noted that he didn’t put his hand on the Bible while taking the oath of office, contrary to tradition. His wife, Melania, stands next to him holding two Bibles but Trump doesn’t place his hand on either. Some have claimed that his failure to do so invalidates his oath. However, the United States Constitution doesn’t require a president-to-be to put his hand on the Bible during his swearing in.
A 13-year-old with a history of trouble at school, his father Fred Trump sent him to a military academy to be straightened out. New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson boasted of its record whipping rebellious boys into shape.
Trump often points to his five years at the New York Military Academy , about 60 miles from his home town of New York City, as a formative period in his life that helped qualify him to be commander in chief. He has said that the school provided him “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”
After his 18th birthday in June 1964, Donald J. Trump registered with the Selective Service, as did all men his age. Trump received the first of four education deferments as he worked his way through his undergraduate studies. After graduating from the Wharton School of Finance in the spring of 1968, making him eligible to be drafted and sent to Vietnam, he received a diagnosis that would change his path: bone spurs in his heels. The diagnosis resulted in a coveted 1-Y medical deferment. The draft lottery began in December 1969. Because of his medical exemption, his lottery number would have been irrelevant. Trump remained 1-Y until 1972, when his status changed to 4-F, permanently disqualifying him.
Trump followed in his father’s footsteps as a real estate developer. In the 1970s, the Justice Department accused the Trump organization of violating the Fair Housing Act, by preventing minorities from renting in his buildings. Donald Trump settled the case out of court.
The younger Trump had cultivated business contacts through his father. With that support, Trump has said he set up his own company with a $1 million investment. He entered the world of real estate development in New York. The Trump signature soon became synonymous with the most prestigious of addresses in Manhattan and subsequently throughout the world.
Trump was known for building casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey. First, Trump Plaza. Then Trump Castle. Then the Taj Mahal, costing nearly $1 billion. But it eventually went bankrupt. When the real estate market crashed in 1990, the value of his empire dropped from $1.7 billion to $500 million. He borrowed money and found new investors to avoid bankruptcy.
An accomplished author, Trump co-authored over fourteen bestsellers and his first book, The Art of the Deal, in addition to being the #1 book of the year, was considered a business classic.
"The Donald," as he would come to be known in the media, divorced his first wife, Ivana, with whom he had three children. He married and later divorced Marla Maples. Trump married his current wife, Slovenian model Melania, in 2005. His reality TV show The Apprentice made Trump a star. Contestants competed to be managers in Trump's empire. Those who failed were targeted with Trump's signature line: "You're fired." The show earned Trump more than $200 million.
David Rothkopf wrote: "Donald Trump is undoubtedly America’s worst president, the only president to be impeached twice, the only person to lead a coup against the United States government, the president who presided over and was personally responsible for the greatest one year loss of life in American history, the only president since Herbert Hoover to actually leave office with fewer people employed than when he was sworn in, the only world leader to have been summarily banned from virtually all major social media sites because his words were so inflammatory, the most prolific liar if not conspiracy theorist in U.S. political history (which is saying something), a man who managed to be at once the most corrupt, the most odious, the most ignorant, the most ineffective and the most evil political leader in U.S. history."
By July 2022 Trump had uniquely ghastly numbers that seemed to be getting worse. Amid the Jan. 6 hearings, most voters (52%) now think “Trump committed a crime by trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election”; even more (54%) think the U.S. Department of Justice should prosecute him. And nearly 6 in 10 Americans (59%) say that Trump shouldn’t run for president again either. Only 28% say he should. If anything, the defeated, disgraced, twice impeached president, in pouting exile, has become more vicious, unhinged, narcissistic, dishonest, reckless, and demagogic than he was as Mad King.
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