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{{Infobox politician|image=Trump image.png|name=Donald John Trump|political_line=[[Capitalism]]<br>[[Conservatism]]<br>[[Populism]]|birth_date=14 June 1946|nationality=[[Statesian]]|birth_place=[[Queens]], [[New York City]], [[State of New York]], [[United States of America]]}}
{{Infobox politician|image=Trump image.png|name=Donald John Trump|political_line=[[Imperialism]]<br>[[Conservatism]]<br>Right-wing [[populism]]|birth_date=14 June 1946|nationality=[[Statesian]]|political_party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]|birth_place=[[Queens]], [[New York City]], [[State of New York]], [[United States of America]]}}'''Donald John Trump''' (born 14 June 1946) is a [[United States of America|Statesian]] [[Bourgeoisie|billionaire]] and serial rapist who is currently serving as President of the United States since January 20, 2025. He also served as the 45th [[President of the United States]] from 2017 to 2021. Trump is the only U.S. president to serve two non-consecutive terms since [[Grover Cleveland]].


'''Donald Trump''' is a [[United States of America|Statesian]] politician and [[Bourgeoisie|billionaire]] who served as the 45th [[president of the United States]] from 2017 to 2021. He claims to be a pro-[[Proletariat|worker]] politician despite cutting taxes on billionaires and corporations.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]|title=PSL Statement – Workers shouldn’t be fooled: Trump is a tool of the ultra-rich|date=2022-11-15|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-workers-shouldnt-be-fooled-trump-is-a-tool-of-the-ultra-rich/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118034739/https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-workers-shouldnt-be-fooled-trump-is-a-tool-of-the-ultra-rich/|archive-date=2022-11-18|retrieved=2022-11-19}}</ref>
Trump claims to be a pro-[[Proletariat|worker]] politician despite cutting taxes on billionaires and corporations.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]|title=PSL Statement – Workers shouldn’t be fooled: Trump is a tool of the ultra-rich|date=2022-11-15|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-workers-shouldnt-be-fooled-trump-is-a-tool-of-the-ultra-rich/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118034739/https://www.liberationnews.org/psl-statement-workers-shouldnt-be-fooled-trump-is-a-tool-of-the-ultra-rich/|archive-date=2022-11-18|retrieved=2022-11-19}}</ref> Trump is a member of the [[America First]] movement, which believes the USA should be able to act unilaterally without limits from international law and treaties. Contrary to popular belief, the movement is not isolationist.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Bill Fletcher Jr.|newspaper=[[Monthly Review]]|title=Race Is About More Than Discrimination|date=2020-07-01|url=https://monthlyreview.org/2020/07/01/race-is-about-more-than-discrimination/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323205358/https://monthlyreview.org/2020/07/01/race-is-about-more-than-discrimination/|archive-date=2023-03-23}}</ref>


== Pre-presidency ==
== Pre-presidency ==
In 1968, while still in college, Donald Trump started getting involved in his father's New York City real estate business.<ref name="ArtOfDeal">{{Citation|author=Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz|year=2004|title=Trump: The Art of the Deal|publisher=Ballantine Books|lg=https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=B3CD9D3C47EC1F58C3833D050C888B38}}</ref><sup>:78, 93</sup> In 1971, Donald Trump inherited control over the business,<ref name="ArtOfDeal"/><sup>:93–94</sup> and in 1973, he renamed it to the "Trump Organization."<ref name="ArtOfDeal"/><sup>:104–105</sup>


In, November 2015, Donald Trump mocked [[Serge Kovaleski]]'s [[disability]], arthrogryposis, in response to Serge stating that they never claimed many Muslims support the [[September 11 attacks]].<ref>{{Web citation|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-criticized-after-he-appears-mock-reporter-serge-kovaleski-n470016|title=Donald Trump Criticized After He Appears to Mock Reporter Serge Kovaleski}}</ref>
Also in 1973, the Trump Organization was charged by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) with discrimination against [[Black (race)|black people]]. Trump and the DOJ battled in court until the DOJ agreed to drop the discrimination charges and Trump agreed to make some concessions.<ref name="ArtOfDeal"/><sup>:98–99</sup><ref>{{Web citation|author=Wayne Barrett and Jon Campbell|newspaper=Village Voice|title=How a Young Donald Trump Forced His Way From Avenue Z to Manhattan|date=2015-07-20|url=https://www.villagevoice.com/news/how-a-young-donald-trump-forced-his-way-from-avenue-z-to-manhattan-7380462|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905212408/http://www.villagevoice.com/news/how-a-young-donald-trump-forced-his-way-from-avenue-z-to-manhattan-7380462|archive-date=2015-09-05}}</ref>


== Presidential term ==
In November 2015, Donald Trump mocked [[Serge Kovaleski]]'s [[disability]], arthrogryposis, in response to Serge stating that they never claimed many Muslims support the [[September 11 attacks]].<ref>{{Web citation|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/donald-trump-criticized-after-he-appears-mock-reporter-serge-kovaleski-n470016|title=Donald Trump Criticized After He Appears to Mock Reporter Serge Kovaleski}}</ref>
 
== First presidential term (2017–2021) ==
In 2017, Donald Trump passed a tax cut that decreased corporate taxes to only 11.3% of profits. He also made a $45 billion cut in food stamp benefits.<ref>{{News citation|author=Robert Reich|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|title=How Trump has betrayed the working class|date=2019-12-22|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/22/trump-wants-to-be-champion-of-the-working-class-but-with-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-it-doesnt-add-up|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416230953/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/22/trump-wants-to-be-champion-of-the-working-class-but-with-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-it-doesnt-add-up|archive-date=2022-04-16|retrieved=2022-05-20}}</ref>
In 2017, Donald Trump passed a tax cut that decreased corporate taxes to only 11.3% of profits. He also made a $45 billion cut in food stamp benefits.<ref>{{News citation|author=Robert Reich|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|title=How Trump has betrayed the working class|date=2019-12-22|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/22/trump-wants-to-be-champion-of-the-working-class-but-with-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-it-doesnt-add-up|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416230953/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/22/trump-wants-to-be-champion-of-the-working-class-but-with-tax-cuts-for-the-rich-it-doesnt-add-up|archive-date=2022-04-16|retrieved=2022-05-20}}</ref>
The first Trump administration's nationalist and populist rhetoric bore "no relation to its actual policies."<ref name=":2" /> In 2018, Trump attended the [[World Economic Forum]] in Davos and declared "America is open for business" before an audience of global elites, in stark contrast to his nominal protectionist, anti-"globalist" rhetoric.<ref name=":2">{{Citation|author=William I. Robinson|year=2019|title=Global capitalist crisis and twenty-first century fascism: beyond the Trump hype|publisher=Science & Society, 83(2), 155–183|doi=10.1521/siso.2019.83.2.155|quote=In the regard, the ideology of 21st-century fascism rests on irrationality — a promise to deliver security and restore stability that is emotive, not rational. It is a project that does not and need not distinguish between the truth and the lie. The Trump regime’s public discourse of populism and nationalism, for example, bears no relation to its actual policies. In its first year, Trumponomics involved deregulation — the virtual smashing of the regulatory state — slashing social spending, dismantling what remained of the welfare state, privatizations, tax breaks to corporations and the rich, and an expansion of state subsidies to capital — in short, neoliberalism on steroids.
This is a distinction lost on many commentators. German monopoly capitalists turned to the Nazis to crush the powerful trade unions, socialist and communist movements. But they also turned to the Nazi state to open up vast new opportunities for accumulation and to compete, including through territorial expansion, against capitalist groups from other countries. In sharp distinction to this fusion of German national capital with the fascist state, Trumpism has sought to open up vast new opportunities for profit-making inside the United States (and around the world) for transnational capital. The Trump White House has called for transnational investors from around the world to invest in the United States, enticed by a regressive tax reform, unprecedented deregulation, and some limited tariff walls that would benefit groups from anywhere in the world that establish operations behind them. “America is open for business,” Trump declared at the 2018 meeting of the global elite gathered for the 2018 annual conclave of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Now is the perfect time to bring your business, your jobs and your investments to the United States” (Bierman, 2018, A3).}}</ref>


In 2020, the United States withdrew from the [[Paris Climate Agreement]].<ref>{{News citation|author=Tyler Clevenger, Dan Lashof|newspaper=World Resources Institute|title=7 Ways the Biden Administration Can Reverse Climate Rollbacks|date=2021-01-19|url=https://www.wri.org/insights/7-ways-biden-administration-can-reverse-climate-rollbacks|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309070958/https://www.wri.org/insights/7-ways-biden-administration-can-reverse-climate-rollbacks|archive-date=2022-03-09|retrieved=2022-05-20}}</ref>
In 2020, the United States withdrew from the [[Paris Climate Agreement]].<ref>{{News citation|author=Tyler Clevenger, Dan Lashof|newspaper=World Resources Institute|title=7 Ways the Biden Administration Can Reverse Climate Rollbacks|date=2021-01-19|url=https://www.wri.org/insights/7-ways-biden-administration-can-reverse-climate-rollbacks|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309070958/https://www.wri.org/insights/7-ways-biden-administration-can-reverse-climate-rollbacks|archive-date=2022-03-09|retrieved=2022-05-20}}</ref>


Under Trump's presidency, civilian deaths caused by the U.S. military increased greatly.<ref>{{News citation|author=Murtaza Hussain|newspaper=The Intercept|title=Civilian Deaths in U.S. Wars Are Skyrocketing Under Trump. It May Not Be Impeachable, but It’s a Crime.|date=2019-10-02|url=https://theintercept.com/2019/10/02/trump-impeachment-civilian-casualties-war/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220507031915/https://theintercept.com/2019/10/02/trump-impeachment-civilian-casualties-war/|archive-date=2022-05-07|retrieved=2022-05-20}}</ref>
Under Trump's presidency, civilian deaths caused by the U.S. military increased greatly.<ref>{{News citation|author=Murtaza Hussain|newspaper=The Intercept|title=Civilian Deaths in U.S. Wars Are Skyrocketing Under Trump. It May Not Be Impeachable, but It’s a Crime.|date=2019-10-02|url=https://theintercept.com/2019/10/02/trump-impeachment-civilian-casualties-war/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220507031915/https://theintercept.com/2019/10/02/trump-impeachment-civilian-casualties-war/|archive-date=2022-05-07|retrieved=2022-05-20}}</ref>
Trump also vastly expanded concentration camps at the US-Mexico border, where asylum-seeking immigrants are kept in inhumane conditions.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Andi Zeisler|newspaper=NBC|title=AOC was right to compare Trump's border internment camps to concentration camps|date=2019-06-19|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/aoc-was-right-compare-trump-s-border-internment-camps-concentration-ncna1019381|retrieved=30/06/2024}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Ben Norton|newspaper=Geopolitical Economy Report|title=Weaponization of immigration policy: Ukrainians welcomed, refugees of US wars abused|date=2022-04-08|url=https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/04/08/immigration-policy-ukrainians-victims-us-wars/|retrieved=30/06/2024}}</ref> During his presidential term, nearly half a million children were separated from their families and kept in cages for extended periods of time.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Anna Flagg and Andrew Rodriguez Calderón|newspaper=The Marshall Project|title=500,000 Kids, 30 Million Hours: Trump’s Vast Expansion of Child Detention|date=2020-10-30|url=https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/10/30/500-000-kids-30-million-hours-trump-s-vast-expansion-of-child-detention|retrieved=30/06/2024}}</ref>


=== Involvement in the Capitol insurrection ===
=== Involvement in the Capitol insurrection ===
{{Main article|2021 United States Capitol insurrection}}
{{Main article|2021 United States Capitol insurrection}}
On 6 January 2021 - near the end of his presidential term - Trump rallied his supporters to [[2021 United States Capitol insurrection|storm the United States capital]] in an attempt to reconsolidate his power. The attack ultimately failed and Trump's term came to a close.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWJVMoe7OY0&t Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol | Visual Investigations]</ref>
On 6 January 2021, near the end of his presidential term, Trump rallied his supporters to [[2021 United States Capitol insurrection|storm the United States Capitol]] in an attempt to reconsolidate his power. The attack ultimately failed and Trump's term came to a close.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWJVMoe7OY0&t Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol | Visual Investigations]</ref>


According to an analysis on [[Medium]], the Capitol insurrection was a coup attempt by Trump. They argue that "6 January was an attempted coup, in the sense it was designed to trigger martial law and the suspension of the transition."<ref>[https://medium.com/mosquito-ridge/the-trump-insurrection-a-marxist-analysis-dc229c34cdc1 The Trump Insurrection: a Marxist analysis]</ref>
According to an analysis on [[Medium]], the Capitol insurrection was a coup attempt by Trump. They argue that "6 January was an attempted coup, in the sense it was designed to trigger martial law and the suspension of the transition."<ref>[https://medium.com/mosquito-ridge/the-trump-insurrection-a-marxist-analysis-dc229c34cdc1 The Trump Insurrection: a Marxist analysis]</ref>


== Post-presidency ==
== Post-first presidency ==
On 8 August 2022, the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] organized a [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) raid on Trump's home in the [[State of Florida]].<ref>[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/09/guda-a09.html FBI raids Trump estate at Mar-a-Lago]</ref> The Democrats then attempted to cover up their reasoning for the attack.<ref>[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/10/dubw-a10.html Democrats cover up reasons for FBI raid on Trump estate]</ref> In November 2022, Trump announced he would run for president again in 2024.<ref name=":0" />
On 8 August 2022, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] raided Trump's home in the [[State of Florida]].<ref>[https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/08/09/guda-a09.html FBI raids Trump estate at Mar-a-Lago]</ref> In November 2022, Trump announced he would run for president again in 2024.<ref name=":0" />
 
During a rally in Butler, [[Commonwealth of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] on July 13, 2024, Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt by the 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was shot dead by Secret Service members just moments after. Having been grazed at his ear by one of the bullets, Trump bumped his fist in the air while being rushed off the stage as the crowd chanted U.S.A.<ref name=":1" /> One attendee of the rally died and two others were critically injured because of this attempted assassination.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Democracy Now!|title=Long Legacy of U.S. Political Violence: RNC Begins in Milwaukee in Wake of Trump Assassination Attempt|date=2024-07-15|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/15/trump_shot_john_nichols|retrieved=July 15, 2024}}</ref> [[President of the United States|President]] [[Joe Biden]] denounced the attack during an address to the nation on the following day.<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|newspaper=Democracy Now!|title=FBI Seeks Motive in Trump Assassination Attempt; President Biden Calls for “Cooling Down” Rhetoric|date=2024-07-15|url=https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/15/headlines/fbi_seeks_motive_in_trump_assassination_attempt_president_biden_calls_for_cooling_down_rhetoric|retrieved=15.07.2024}}</ref>
 
== Second presidential term (2025–present) ==
Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election with 312 electoral votes against [[Kamala Harris]]' 226 electoral votes, making him the first president since Grover Cleveland to be re-elected non-consecutively.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=People|title=Donald Trump Is the Second President in History Elected to 2 Non-Consecutive Terms — Here's the Other|date=2025-1-20|url=https://people.com/donald-trump-second-president-nonconsecutive-terms-after-grover-cleveland-8735726|quote=More than a century before Donald Trump was reelected in 2024, a similarly embattled Grover Cleveland became the first ex-president to be restored to the office}}</ref> On his first day of his second term, Trump signed 26 executive orders. He rewithdrew the US from [[Paris Agreement]],<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Office of the Press Secretary|title=Putting America First In International Environmental Agreements|date=2025-1-20|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/putting-america-first-in-international-environmental-agreements}}</ref> then withdrew the US from [[World Health Organization|WHO]],<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Office of the Press Secretary|title=Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization|date=2025-1-20|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-the-worldhealth-organization}}</ref> and pardoned about 1,500 insurrectionists of the [[2021 United States Capitol insurrection|January 6th coup d'etat attempt]]<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=NBC News|title=Trump pardons roughly 1,500 criminal defendants charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack|date=2025-1-21|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna187735}}</ref> (many of whom had prior convictions for sex crimes<ref>{{Web citation|author=Tom Dreisbach|newspaper=NPR|title=Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence|date=2025-1-30|url=https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/nx-s1-5276336/donald-trump-jan-6-rape-assault-pardons-rioters}}</ref>). He granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who operated a dark web market website Silk Road,<ref>{{Web citation|author=Brian Doherty|newspaper=Reason.com|title=President Donald Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht|date=2025-1-21|url=https://reason.com/2025/01/21/president-donald-trump-pardons-silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht/}}</ref> and reversed an executive order issued by [[Joe Biden]] to reduce the cost of medicine.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Alexandra Gerlach|newspaper=Pharmacy Times|title=Reversal of Executive Order 14087 Raises Questions About Future Drug Pricing Reforms|date=2025-1-22|url=https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/reversal-of-executive-order-14087-raises-questions-about-future-drug-pricing-reforms}}</ref> Trump also threatened to impose 25% tariffs on [[Mexican United States|Mexico]] and [[Canada]] on February 1st, 2025.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=CNN|title=Trump threatens 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada on Feb. 1, punting Day 1 pledge|date=2025-1-20|url=https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/20/economy/tariffs-trump-executive-order/index.html}}</ref>
 
Starting in January 2025, Trump began a campaign of mass deportations, which saw (among other things) [[United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement|ICE]] agents detaining legal immigrants who broke no US law,<ref>{{Web citation|author=Billal Rahman|newspaper=Newsweek|title=Multiple Legal Migrants Detained by ICE Amid Trump Blitz|date=2025-01-31|url=https://www.newsweek.com/immigration-legal-migrant-detained-ice-raids-trump-2024014}}</ref><ref>{{Web citation|author=Alex Woodward|newspaper=Independent|title=New Jersey officials condemn ‘egregious’ ICE raid that detained U.S. citizens and military veteran|date=2025-01-24|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-raid-newark-new-jersey-trump-b2685888.html}}</ref> indigenous people of the [[Navajo Nation|Navajo]] and other nations facing ICE raids,<ref>{{Web citation|author=Erin Alberty and Russell Contreras|newspaper=Axios|title=Native American tribes say ICE harassing members amid raids|date=2025-01-29|url=https://www.axios.com/2025/01/29/native-american-immigration-raids-navajo-nation}}</ref> and public schools being raided by US agents.<ref>{{Web citation|author= Adam Edelman and Daniella Silva|newspaper=NBC News|title=Public schools try to protect undocumented students from Trump immigration raids|date=2025-01-28|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/public-schools-undocumented-students-trump-immigration-raids-rcna189466}}</ref>


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Latest revision as of 20:16, 31 January 2025

Donald John Trump
Born14 June 1946
Queens, New York City, State of New York, United States of America
NationalityStatesian
Political orientationImperialism
Conservatism
Right-wing populism
Political partyRepublican Party

Donald John Trump (born 14 June 1946) is a Statesian billionaire and serial rapist who is currently serving as President of the United States since January 20, 2025. He also served as the 45th President of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump is the only U.S. president to serve two non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland.

Trump claims to be a pro-worker politician despite cutting taxes on billionaires and corporations.[1] Trump is a member of the America First movement, which believes the USA should be able to act unilaterally without limits from international law and treaties. Contrary to popular belief, the movement is not isolationist.[2]

Pre-presidency[edit | edit source]

In 1968, while still in college, Donald Trump started getting involved in his father's New York City real estate business.[3]:78, 93 In 1971, Donald Trump inherited control over the business,[3]:93–94 and in 1973, he renamed it to the "Trump Organization."[3]:104–105

Also in 1973, the Trump Organization was charged by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) with discrimination against black people. Trump and the DOJ battled in court until the DOJ agreed to drop the discrimination charges and Trump agreed to make some concessions.[3]:98–99[4]

In November 2015, Donald Trump mocked Serge Kovaleski's disability, arthrogryposis, in response to Serge stating that they never claimed many Muslims support the September 11 attacks.[5]

First presidential term (2017–2021)[edit | edit source]

In 2017, Donald Trump passed a tax cut that decreased corporate taxes to only 11.3% of profits. He also made a $45 billion cut in food stamp benefits.[6]

The first Trump administration's nationalist and populist rhetoric bore "no relation to its actual policies."[7] In 2018, Trump attended the World Economic Forum in Davos and declared "America is open for business" before an audience of global elites, in stark contrast to his nominal protectionist, anti-"globalist" rhetoric.[7]

In 2020, the United States withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement.[8]

Under Trump's presidency, civilian deaths caused by the U.S. military increased greatly.[9]

Trump also vastly expanded concentration camps at the US-Mexico border, where asylum-seeking immigrants are kept in inhumane conditions.[10][11] During his presidential term, nearly half a million children were separated from their families and kept in cages for extended periods of time.[12]

Involvement in the Capitol insurrection[edit | edit source]

See main article: 2021 United States Capitol insurrection

On 6 January 2021, near the end of his presidential term, Trump rallied his supporters to storm the United States Capitol in an attempt to reconsolidate his power. The attack ultimately failed and Trump's term came to a close.[13]

According to an analysis on Medium, the Capitol insurrection was a coup attempt by Trump. They argue that "6 January was an attempted coup, in the sense it was designed to trigger martial law and the suspension of the transition."[14]

Post-first presidency[edit | edit source]

On 8 August 2022, the FBI raided Trump's home in the State of Florida.[15] In November 2022, Trump announced he would run for president again in 2024.[1]

During a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt by the 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was shot dead by Secret Service members just moments after. Having been grazed at his ear by one of the bullets, Trump bumped his fist in the air while being rushed off the stage as the crowd chanted U.S.A.[16] One attendee of the rally died and two others were critically injured because of this attempted assassination.[17] President Joe Biden denounced the attack during an address to the nation on the following day.[16]

Second presidential term (2025–present)[edit | edit source]

Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election with 312 electoral votes against Kamala Harris' 226 electoral votes, making him the first president since Grover Cleveland to be re-elected non-consecutively.[18] On his first day of his second term, Trump signed 26 executive orders. He rewithdrew the US from Paris Agreement,[19] then withdrew the US from WHO,[20] and pardoned about 1,500 insurrectionists of the January 6th coup d'etat attempt[21] (many of whom had prior convictions for sex crimes[22]). He granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who operated a dark web market website Silk Road,[23] and reversed an executive order issued by Joe Biden to reduce the cost of medicine.[24] Trump also threatened to impose 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada on February 1st, 2025.[25]

Starting in January 2025, Trump began a campaign of mass deportations, which saw (among other things) ICE agents detaining legal immigrants who broke no US law,[26][27] indigenous people of the Navajo and other nations facing ICE raids,[28] and public schools being raided by US agents.[29]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "PSL Statement – Workers shouldn’t be fooled: Trump is a tool of the ultra-rich" (2022-11-15). Liberation News. Archived from the original on 2022-11-18. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
  2. ↑ Bill Fletcher Jr. (2020-07-01). "Race Is About More Than Discrimination" Monthly Review. Archived from the original on 2023-03-23.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Donald Trump and Tony Schwartz (2004). Trump: The Art of the Deal. Ballantine Books. [LG]
  4. ↑ Wayne Barrett and Jon Campbell (2015-07-20). "How a Young Donald Trump Forced His Way From Avenue Z to Manhattan" Village Voice. Archived from the original on 2015-09-05.
  5. ↑ "Donald Trump Criticized After He Appears to Mock Reporter Serge Kovaleski".
  6. ↑ Robert Reich (2019-12-22). "How Trump has betrayed the working class" The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2022-04-16. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1
    “In the regard, the ideology of 21st-century fascism rests on irrationality — a promise to deliver security and restore stability that is emotive, not rational. It is a project that does not and need not distinguish between the truth and the lie. The Trump regime’s public discourse of populism and nationalism, for example, bears no relation to its actual policies. In its first year, Trumponomics involved deregulation — the virtual smashing of the regulatory state — slashing social spending, dismantling what remained of the welfare state, privatizations, tax breaks to corporations and the rich, and an expansion of state subsidies to capital — in short, neoliberalism on steroids.

    This is a distinction lost on many commentators. German monopoly capitalists turned to the Nazis to crush the powerful trade unions, socialist and communist movements. But they also turned to the Nazi state to open up vast new opportunities for accumulation and to compete, including through territorial expansion, against capitalist groups from other countries. In sharp distinction to this fusion of German national capital with the fascist state, Trumpism has sought to open up vast new opportunities for profit-making inside the United States (and around the world) for transnational capital. The Trump White House has called for transnational investors from around the world to invest in the United States, enticed by a regressive tax reform, unprecedented deregulation, and some limited tariff walls that would benefit groups from anywhere in the world that establish operations behind them. “America is open for business,” Trump declared at the 2018 meeting of the global elite gathered for the 2018 annual conclave of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “Now is the perfect time to bring your business, your jobs and your investments to the United States” (Bierman, 2018, A3).”

    William I. Robinson (2019). Global capitalist crisis and twenty-first century fascism: beyond the Trump hype. Science & Society, 83(2), 155–183. doi: 10.1521/siso.2019.83.2.155 [HUB]
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  9. ↑ Murtaza Hussain (2019-10-02). "Civilian Deaths in U.S. Wars Are Skyrocketing Under Trump. It May Not Be Impeachable, but It’s a Crime." The Intercept. Archived from the original on 2022-05-07. Retrieved 2022-05-20.
  10. ↑ Andi Zeisler (2019-06-19). "AOC was right to compare Trump's border internment camps to concentration camps" NBC. Retrieved 30/06/2024.
  11. ↑ Ben Norton (2022-04-08). "Weaponization of immigration policy: Ukrainians welcomed, refugees of US wars abused" Geopolitical Economy Report. Retrieved 30/06/2024.
  12. ↑ Anna Flagg and Andrew Rodriguez Calderón (2020-10-30). "500,000 Kids, 30 Million Hours: Trump’s Vast Expansion of Child Detention" The Marshall Project. Retrieved 30/06/2024.
  13. ↑ Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol | Visual Investigations
  14. ↑ The Trump Insurrection: a Marxist analysis
  15. ↑ FBI raids Trump estate at Mar-a-Lago
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "FBI Seeks Motive in Trump Assassination Attempt; President Biden Calls for “Cooling Down” Rhetoric" (2024-07-15). Democracy Now!. Retrieved 15.07.2024.
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    “More than a century before Donald Trump was reelected in 2024, a similarly embattled Grover Cleveland became the first ex-president to be restored to the office”

    "Donald Trump Is the Second President in History Elected to 2 Non-Consecutive Terms — Here's the Other" (2025-1-20). People.
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  20. ↑ "Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization" (2025-1-20). Office of the Press Secretary.
  21. ↑ "Trump pardons roughly 1,500 criminal defendants charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack" (2025-1-21). NBC News.
  22. ↑ Tom Dreisbach (2025-1-30). "Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence" NPR.
  23. ↑ Brian Doherty (2025-1-21). "President Donald Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht" Reason.com.
  24. ↑ Alexandra Gerlach (2025-1-22). "Reversal of Executive Order 14087 Raises Questions About Future Drug Pricing Reforms" Pharmacy Times.
  25. ↑ "Trump threatens 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada on Feb. 1, punting Day 1 pledge" (2025-1-20). CNN.
  26. ↑ Billal Rahman (2025-01-31). "Multiple Legal Migrants Detained by ICE Amid Trump Blitz" Newsweek.
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  28. ↑ Erin Alberty and Russell Contreras (2025-01-29). "Native American tribes say ICE harassing members amid raids" Axios.
  29. ↑ Adam Edelman and Daniella Silva (2025-01-28). "Public schools try to protect undocumented students from Trump immigration raids" NBC News.
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