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Marine One carrying President Trump arrives on Nov. 2, 2019, at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport, to attend UFC matches at Madison Square Garden.
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President Donald Trump holds onto crib notes with prepared remarks for his listening sessions with victims of school shootings at the White House on Feb. 21, 2018. One of the points reads, "I hear you." The listening session included victims of the recent Florida high school massacre, Sandy Hook and Columbine.
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Less than a day after President Trump fired the director of the FBI, James Comey, he unexpectedly held an off-calendar meeting with former secretary of state Henry Kissinger in the Oval Office. When asked by reporters why Comey was fired, Trump answered simply: "he was not doing a good job." Kissinger was also National Security Adviser under Richard Nixon, collaborating to sabotage President Lyndon Johnson's North Vietnam peace talks in 1968 in a bid to win the election. The meeting between Trump and Kissinger ironically occurred after parallels were made between Comey's firing and Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre, in which he ordered the firing of the special prosecutor investigating Watergate.
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President Trump, accompanied by First Lady Melania Trump, speaks to the media at the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 24, 2019, in New York. World leaders are gathered for the 74th session of the U.N. amid a warning by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his address yesterday of the looming risk of a world splitting between the two largest economies - the U.S. and China. On the same day in Washington D.C., U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announces a formal impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
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President Trump visits Providence Baptist Church in Smiths Station, Ala. on March 8, 2019, as he tours areas where tornados killed 23 people in Lee County.
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Trump and Putin arrive to attend a joint press conference after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki on July 16, 2018.
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Dr. Debbie Birx (L), White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, explains new steps to test for coronavirus as President Donald Trump (R) and other members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force listen during a press conference concerning the nationwide coronavirus outbreak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on March 13, 2020. Trump declared a national emergency following the outbreak of the fast spreading virus on Friday.
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive in London for his first visit to the UK as commander-in-chief on July 12, 2018. The four-day trip, which will include talks with Prime Minister Theresa May, tea with Queen Elizabeth II and a private weekend in Scotland, is expected to set off a wave of protests in London on July 13, 2018.
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President Trump, accompanied by Labor Secretary Alex Acosta, right, speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House on July 12, 2019, in Washington D.C., before Trump boards Marine One for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. and then on to Wisconsin. President Trump says Sec. Acosta is stepping down, in the wake of handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case over a decade ago when Sec. Acosta was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
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President Trump, accompanied by National Security Adviser John Bolton, third from left; first lady Melania Trump, fourth from right; US Ambassador to Iraq Doug Silliman, third from right; and senior military leadership, speaks to members of the media at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq on Dec. 26, 2018.
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President Donald Trump touched down at the Canadian Forces Base Bagotville in Canada on June 8, 2018 for the 44th G7 summit. Trump joined Germany, France, Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Italy for the annual meeting to discuss world peace, gender equality, climate change, job markets and more, despite making the United States the outlier on many issues such as the Paris Agreement. Trump also lobbied for Russia to be let back into the G7 fold on Friday.
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President Donald Trump stands as Chief of Space Operations at U.S. Space Force Gen. John Raymond, second from left, and Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman, second from right, hold the United States Space Force flag as it is presented in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday, May 15, 2020, in Washington. Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett stands far left.
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President Trump speaks during a news conference about the coronavirus in the James Brady Briefing Room at the White House on Saturday, March 14, 2020, in Washington D.C. Trump announced he had a coronavirus test Friday night and will have the results in a day or two. He also announced that he expanded the European travel ban to include the United Kingdom and Ireland, beginning midnight on Monday. Later on Saturday, Trump's doctor said he tested negative for coronavirus and was symptom-free.
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President Trump arrives to speak at a rally in El Paso, Texas on Feb. 11, 2019. Trump is in Texas to try and turn the debate over a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border back to his political advantage.
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President Donald Trump (2-L) touched down in Paradise, California on Nov. 17, 2018 to visit the areas of the town damaged by the Camp Fire that began the previous week. Trump was joined by Paradise Mayor Jody Jones (R); California governor Jerry Brown (2-R); Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency Brock Long (C); and Lieutenant Governor of California Gavin Newsom during the tour. He is also scheduled to meet with victims of the fire who lost their homes, as well as firefighters.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order to start the Mexico border wall project at the Department of Homeland Security facility in Washington, D.C, on Jan. 25, 2017.
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President Trump and Melania Trump greet members of the military, who, in turn, take photos at a hanger rally at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq on Dec. 26, 2018.
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President Donald Trump and his wife First Lady Melania Trump kiss and dance on stage during A Salute To Our Armed Services Inaugural Ball at the National Building Museum on Jan. 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States today.
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President Donald Trump speaks on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office of the White House on Jan. 28, 2017 in Washington, DC. Also pictured, from left, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, and White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon. President Trump made several phone calls with world leaders from Japan, Germany, Russia, France and Australia.
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Being the business man that Trump is, he knows no deal is done without a handshake. Unfortanately for Shinzo Abe, who paid the White House a visit to begin new talks on trade and investment, his handshake with President Trump lasted a painful 19 seconds back in Feb. 2017. After Trump finally let go of his hand, Abe rolled his eyes after breaking the uncomfortable eye contact.
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks to the media at the Capitol Building on Sept. 24, 2019, in Washington D.C. Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry today after allegations that President Trump sought to pressure the president of Ukraine to investigate leading Democratic presidential contender, former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, which was the subject of a reported whistle-blower complaint that the Trump administration has so far withheld from Congress.
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President Donald Trump arrives back at the White House aboard Marine One after being treated for COVID-19 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Washington, Monday, Oct. 5, 2020.
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President Trump gestures to Harold Hamm, CEO and majority owner of North Dakota's largest oil company, Continental Resources, as he arrives to speak at the 9th annual Shale Insight Conference at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019, in Pittsburgh.
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President Trump walks onstage before speaking to a crowd of construction workers prior to touring Royal Dutch Shell's petrochemical cracker plant on Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, in Monaca, Pa.
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President Donald Trump threw a ball to his wife Melania after Russian President Vladimir Putin handed it to him, saying "the ball's in your court" during their press conference in Helsinki, Finland on July 16, 2018. Trump was widely criticized for the presser, in which he seemed to accept Putin's denial of Russian involvement in the presidential election over the U.S.'s intelligence.
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In this image provided by the White House, President Donald Trump listens during a phone call with Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020, in his conference room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was also in the room, but not pictured, according to the White House.
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Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud presents U.S. President Donald Trump with the Collar of Abdulaziz Al Saud Medal at the Royal Court in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on May 20, 2017. The medal is the nation's highest civilian honor and was awarded for Trump's efforts to strengthen the United States' ties with the nation.
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President Donald Trump passes out food and meets people impacted by Hurricane Harvey during a visit to the NRG Center in Houston, Texas on Sept. 2, 2017. It's the President and First Lady's second trip to the state this week, following a visit on August 29, 2017, when they visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The Trumps will also be visiting Louisiana, which was also effected by Harvey's flooding.
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Melania was all smiles for the visit on June 6, 2018. After reports speculated her whereabots, a tweet from her official account read "I see the media is working overtime speculating where I am & what I'm doing. Rest assured, I'm here at the @WhiteHouse w my family, feeling great, & working hard on behalf of children & the American people!"
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump give candy to children during a Halloween trick-or-treat event on the South Lawn of the White House which is decorated for Halloween on Oct. 28, 2019 in Washington, DC.
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President Trump stands with Attorney General William Barr during the 38th Annual National Peace Officers' Memorial Service at the U.S. Capitol on May 15, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
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President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are in the East Room of the White House during President Trump's celebratory speech on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington D.C., following his Senate acquittal on Wednesday on two impeachment articles.
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump hand out bottles of water as they tour ravaged areas from Hurricane Michael in Lynn Haven, Florida on Oct. 15, 2018.
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Donald Trump tours an area affected by protests in Kenosha, Wis. on Sept. 1, 2020. Trump visited Kenosha, the Wisconsin city at the center of a public debate over racism, on Tuesday, despite pleas to stay away and claims he is dangerously fanning tensions.
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President Trump speaks to members of the military in a dining facility during a surprise Thanksgiving Day visi on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019, at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.
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Donald Trump seemed to have his own agenda at the opening ceremony of the 2018 NATO Summit, as he looked in the opposite direction of every other leader, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel and British Prime Minister Theresa May, on July 11, 2018. The image soon made its rounds on Twitter.
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President Trump shows off a Red Sox jersey presented to him during a ceremony welcoming the Boston Red Sox, the 2018 World Series baseball champions, to the White House, on May 9, 2019, in Washington, D.C
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President Trump, right, meets with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in the Oval Office of the White House on Oct. 2, 2019, in Washington D.C. The two leaders will reportedly discuss 5G wireless technology and European and Arctic security during bilateral meetings and later hold a joint news conference in the East Room.
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President Trump applauds a flyover while seated with Navy midshipman during halftime of the Army-Navy NCAA college football game on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, in Philadelphia.
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump watch as the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly over as they host the 2020 "Salute to America" event in honor of Independence Day on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. on July 4, 2020.
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President Trump hosted the annual Governor's Ball alongside wife, First Lady Melania Trump, and the nation's governors on Feb. 25, 2018, where he delivered discussed the making school shootings "first on our list" in the wake of Parkland. "The governors, we're gonna have a lot of meetings tomorrow. We're gonna have some very important meetings. We're gonna be talking about Parkland and the horrible event that took place last week," he said. "We have to end our country of what's happening with respect to that subject, so we'll be talking about that and many other things."
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President Donald Trump was joined by First Lady Melania Trump, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner while visiting the Western Wal in Jerusalem, one of the holiest sites in Judaism on May 22, 2017.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin shake hands during their first meeting face to face on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany on July 7, 2017.
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President Trump interacts with the gathered crowd, while standing next to First Lady Melania Trump, after speaking in the East Room of the White House one day after the Senate acquitted him on two articles of impeachment, on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington D.C. After five months of congressional hearings and investigations about President Trump's dealings with Ukraine, the Senate formally acquitted the president on Wednesday of charges that he abused his power and obstructed Congress.
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President Trump signs a new North American trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, during an event at the White House, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020, in Washington D.C. The president is joined by, from left, senior advisers, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif., and others.
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From left are Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II, President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos as they watch a flypast at the end of an event to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 5, 2019, in Portsmouth, England. World leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump, are gathering Wednesday on the south coast of England to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings that happened on June 6, 1944.
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With the White House in the foreground, protesters unfurl a banner atop a crane at the construction site of the former Washington Post office building on Jan. 25, 2017 in Washington, D.C. The protestors are with the Greenpeace organization.
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President Trump, right, presents the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal to actor Jon Voight during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, in Washington D.C.
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President Trump and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud co-signed a $110 billion deal that allowed the US to accept Saudi Arabia's help in buying arms to combat Iran. The US will also have additional options for "as much as $350 billion over 10 years," according to Reuters.
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Trump, seen here with Queen Elizabeth II on the dais in the Quadrangle of Windsor Castle, is the eleventh president Her Majesty has been during her reign. The trio had tea following photo opps of their meeting.
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Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway received public backlash when a photo of her sitting on a sofa seemingly on her phone during a meeting with leaders from historically black colleges and universities went viral on Feb. 27, 2017. Conway defended herself, stating that she was taking a picture of the group.
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President-elect Donald Trump waves to spectators look on at the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. In today's inauguration ceremony Donald J. Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States.
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President Trump, center, with boxing legend Roberto Duran, speaks to UFC president Dana White, at Madison Square Garden during the UFC 244 mixed martial arts fights on Nov. 2, 2019, in New York.
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President Donald Trump drives past supporters gathered outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020. Trump was admitted to the hospital after contracting COVID-19.
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President Trump and first lady Melania Trump paid a surprise visit to U.S. Army troops stationed at the at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq Dec. 26, 2018. The visit comes during the fifth day of the government shutdown Trump signed off on the previous week amidst disagreements for who will fund Trump's proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
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President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had their first face-to-face meeting on March 17, 2017 and things didn't go as smoothly as planned. Video footage shows reporters asking Trump and Merkel to shake hands several times, however neither makes a move. Merkel then asks Trump if he'd like to shake hands, which provokes no response from Trump and an awkward smirk from the German Chancellor.
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President Trump holds up a newspaper that displays a headline "Acquitted" while speaking about his Senate impeachment trial in the East Room of the White House on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington D.C.
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Trump and Queen Elizabeth II inspect a Guard of Honour, formed of the Coldstream Guards at Windsor Castle, during their meeting in Windsor, England on July 13, 2018.
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Trump hands out food to those affected by Hurricane Florence at Temple Baptist Church in New Bern, N.C. during recovery efforts on Sept. 19, 2018. "We're really just going to say hello to all the folks from the military and the (Federal Emergency Management Agency) and people who are working so hard," he said of the purpose of the trip before leaving the White House.
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President Donald Trump waves with outgoing White House Communications Director Hope Hicks at the White House before boarding Marine One on March 29, 2018, her last official day. Hicks announced her resignation in late February 2018.
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President Donald Trump addresses a campaign rally on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019, in Minneapolis, Minn.
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President Donald Trump greets Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at the White House in Washington on Wednesday, July 8, 2020. Trump hosted Mexico's President to talk trade and immigration.
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President Donald Trump congratulated Pilot Tammie Jo Shults, who has been hailed a hero for landing Southwest Airlines Flight 1380 after it experienced engine failure, during a meeting with crew members and passengers of the flight in the Oval Office on May 1, 2018.
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Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th President of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump looks on during the 58th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2017.
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Marine One lifts off from the White House to carry President Donald Trump to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, in Washington. The White House says Trump will spend a "few days" at the military hospital after contracting COVID-19.
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U.S. President Donald Trump (C) gathers with Congressional Republicans in the Rose Garden of the White House after the House of Representatives approved the American Healthcare Act, to repeal major parts of Obamacare and replace it with the Republican healthcare plan, in Washington, U.S., May 4, 2017.
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From left, Jared Kushner, a senior advisor to the president, looks on as President Trump speaks before signing the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA) during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on Jan. 29, 2020, in Washington D.C. The new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will replace the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with provisions aimed at strengthening the U.S. auto manufacturing industry, improving labor standards enforcement and increasing market access for American dairy farmers.
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Kim Kardashian speaks alongside President Trump during a second chance hiring and criminal justice reform event in the East Room of the White House on June 13, 2019, in Washington D.C.
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President Donald Trump watches riders from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House during a "Rolling to Remember Ceremony" to honor the nation's veterans and POW/MIA on Friday, May 22, 2020, in Washington.
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President Trump (C), here joined by members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, declaring a national emergency will allow billions of dollars in emergency funds to be used towards federal aid.
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From left, President Donald Trump, joined by Shameka Whaley Green of Toyota, Jim Lentz, CEO of Toyota North America and his daughter Ivanka Trump, speaks during a "Pledge to America's Workers" ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House on Thursday, July 25, 2019, in Washington D.C.
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President Donald Trump applauds as Army helicopters fly over and West Point cadets toss their caps into the air at the end of commencement ceremonies on the parade field at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. on Saturday, June 13, 2020.
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Protests, like this one in Los Angeles, erupted Thursday in opposition to Trump's proposed Obamacare replacement.
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President Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the widening novel coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis on March 11, 2020, in Washington D.C. Trump announced the United States would ban all travel from Europe for 30 days beginning Friday, March 13, to stop the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. "To keep new cases from entering our shores, we will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days. The new rules will go into effect Friday at midnight," Trump said in an address to the nation.
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President Donald Trump took to the stage to address the crowd at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland on Feb. 23, 2018. In addition to discussing his intention to arm the nation's teachers with guns following the Parkland high school shooting on Feb. 14, Trump also discussed his stance on immigration, building his long-proposed wall along the Mexican border, general school safety, ending Obamacare, tax cuts, and how he sees the Democratic response to DACA, among a laundry list of other topics.
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Trump and Putin shake hands before holding a joint press conference after a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki on July 16, 2018.
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Vice President Mike Pence (l.) and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (r.) applaud as U.S. President Donald J. Trump arrives to deliver his first address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Feb. 28, 2017 in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. Trump's first address to Congress is expected to focus on national security, tax and regulatory reform, the economy, and healthcare.
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visit the U.S. Coast Guard, at the Lake Worth Inlet Station on Thanksgiving on Nov. 23, 2017, in Riviera Beach. He praised the Coast Guard for its work in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are greeted by Queen Elizabeth II during an arrival ceremony with the Guard of Honour at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England on July 13, 2018. This meeting marked the first between the Queen and Trump. Her Majesty, following royal protocol and being the first to initiate contact, extended her hand in greeting upon seeing the two.
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President Donald Trump announced his decision to have the United States pull out of the Paris climate agreement in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 1, 2017. The agreement, which took effect in November 2016, was decided on by 195 countries to take steps towards reducing the effect of climate change on the world. Trump has previously expressed his disbelief in climate change, saying it was created by China "to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive" in 2012.
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President Trump tosses a hat before he speaks at a campaign rally on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019, in Sunrise, Fla.
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President Trump greets First Lady Melania Trump at the conclusion of a program for the First Lady's Be Best initiative, in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 7, 2019, in Washington D.C.
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President Donald Trump speaks about the food supply chain during the coronavirus pandemic, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Tuesday, May 19, 2020, in Washington. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, left, and Ivanka Trump, the daughter of President Donald Trump, listen.
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President Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the border village of Panmunjom on June 30, 2019, in the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea. Trump took 20 steps into North Korea becoming the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in North Korea.
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President Donald Trump met with school shooting survivors and their family members in the White House on Feb. 21, 2018. Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (pictured), who survived a mass shooting in their school that killed 17 people on Feb. 14, sat around Trump and Vice President Mike Pence for a discussion on school safety. The same day, a drove of students from Maryland made their way to Washington, D.C. to demand better gun control.
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President Donald Trump touched down in Carolina, Puerto Rico on Oct. 3, 2017, two weeks after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island. It is the President's first trip to the U.S. territory since the storm hit and follows widespread criticism of the government's response to the disaster.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greets outgoing President Barack Obama before Trump is inaugurated during ceremonies on the Capitol in Washington, on Jan. 20, 2017.
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North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump shake hands after their meetings at the Capella resort on Sentosa Island in Singapore on June 12, 2018. The two put out a joint statement that said they were plans to denuclearize the Korean peninsula, though U.S. troops may eventually be withdrawn from the region.
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President Trump (l.) and First Lady Melania Trump talk with residents of Beauregard, Ala. and tour the tornado-stricken lands on March 8, 2019. The couple travelled to tour areas where 23 people were killed by the natural disasters on Friday.
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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, her husband Philip May, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive at Blenheim Palace for a dinner on July 12, 2018 in Woodstock, England.
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President Donald J. Trump was pictured high fiving Frank 'FX' Giaccio (L), while Giaccio's father Greg Giaccio (r.) looks on (not pictured), as he mows the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on Sept. 15, 2017. President Trump accepted Giaccio's offer after he wrote to the president expressing admiration for Trump's business background, saying it would be an "honor to mow the White House lawn."
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President Trump holds up an executive order on energy and infrastructure after signing it at the International Union of Operating Engineers International Training and Education Center, on April 10, 2019, in Crosby, Texas.
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President Donald Trump officially pulled the U.S. out the Iran nuclear deal on May 8, 2018, reinstating sanctions against the country. The deal, drafted in 2015, did away with most sanctions against Iran in return for the country restricting their nuclear program allowing for the production of bombs; also included in the deal was Russia, China, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. Trump has repeatedly condemned the deal as "the worst ever." "The Iran deal is defective at its core," he also stated in his White House address prior to signing off on the document reinstating sanctions. "If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen."
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President Donald Trump signed a proclamation honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Jan. 12, 2018, in front of a room of reporters and political officials. The move came one day after Trump referred to immigrants looking to come to the U.S. from countries like Haiti and El Salvador as residents of "sh-thole countries", according to media outlets including the Associated Press and the Washington Post. The President reportedly went on to say he would prefer immigrants from Norway entering the U.S. As a result, while shaking hands with officials following the signing, White House reporter April Ryan asked out loud "Mr. President, are you a racist?", a question Trump ignored.
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President Donald Trump, right, and first lady Melania Trump, second from left, pose for a photo with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, second from right, and his wife Jenny Morrison, left, during a state visit at the White House on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019, in Washington D.C.
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President Donald Trump talks to Paradise Mayor Jody Jones in front of a fire-ravaged home and singed American flag as he visits a neighborhood impacted by the Camp Fire on Nov. 17, 2018, in Paradise, California.
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President Donald Trump talks about recovery efforts for Puerto Rico as Governor Ricardo Rossello and First Lady Melania Trump sit next to him on Oct. 3, 2017. In addition to the meeting, Trump also has plans to survey the damage caused by the hurricane.
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President Donald Trump holds up a Bible outside of St John's Episcopal church across Lafayette Park in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020.
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Hicks walks away from Trump, leaving the White House officially hope-less.
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President Trump holds a piece of paper he said is a trade agreement with Mexico, while speaking to the media before departing from the White House on June 11, 2019, in Washington, DC. President Trump is traveling to Iowa to attend a campaign rally.
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump hand out candy to children at a Halloween celebration at the White House in Washington, DC on Oct. 28, 2019.
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Marine One lifts off from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. as supporters cheer on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020.
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President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Sunday, June 14, 2020, after stepping off Marine One as he returns from his golf club in New Jersey.
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President Donald Trump arrives at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, on Marine One helicopter after he tested positive for COVID-19. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is at left.
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Donald Trump sits during a break in an NBC News Town Hall at the Perez Art Museum Miami on Oct. 15, 2020, in Miami.
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President Donald Trump speaks with Lauren Matney, a member of Girl Scout Troop 744, during a presidential recognition ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House on Friday, May 15, 2020, in Washington.
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Aides in the crowd could be heard shouting "Don't look," right as President Trump looked directly at the eclipse. He appeared to acknowledge their commands as he put his protective glasses.
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President Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Washington D.C., as Vice President Mike Pence listens.
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President Donald Trump speaks during a "Rolling to Remember Ceremony" to honor the nation's veterans and POW/MIA from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House on Friday, May 22, 2020, in Washington.
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The two presidents took part in a tree planting ceremony on the South Lawn during the visit. The tree reportedly comes from Belleau Woods, where around 9,000 US Marines died in the Belleau Wood battle during World War I in 1918. The Macrons were expected to present the Trumps with a tree.
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania visited Florida on Oct. 15, 2018, nearly a week after Hurricane Michael slammed the southern US state.
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A member of the cleaning staff sprays The James Brady Briefing Room of the White House on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Washington.
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President Trump, right, speaks as he meets with Paraguayan President Mario Abdo Benitez at the White House on Dec. 13, 2019, in Washington D.C.
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President Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, places a candy bar on the head of child dressed as Minion during a Halloween trick-or-treat event on the South Lawn of the White House which is decorated for Halloween, on Oct. 28, 2019, in Washington.
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The pair also took the time to visit the row of crosses honoring the 23 victims set up outside Providence Baptist Church in Opelika, Alabama.
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Protesters gather across the Chicago River from Trump Tower to rally against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act Friday, March 24, 2017, in Chicago.
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walked hand-in-hand alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron on the South Lawn at the White House on April 23, 2018. Macron arrived on a state visit to the United States, the first visit of its kind for the Trump administration.
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President Donald Trump meets with senior military leaders and members of his national security team in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Saturday, May 9, 2020, in Washington. Clockwise from top left, Chief of Space Operations at US Space Force Gen. John Raymond, Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. James McConville, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley, Trump, Air Force Gen. John Hyten, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Ret. Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President.
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Donald Trump speaks to the media as he makes his way to board Air Force One before departing from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Sept. 1, 2020, heading to Kenosha, Wisconsin. He is meeting with law enforcement officials and to survey the city following protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake.
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Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani look on as President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the White House on Sunday, Sept. 27, 2020, in Washington.
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Attorney General William Barr, left, and President Trump turn to leave after speaking about the 2020 census in the Rose Garden of the White House on July 11, 2019, in Washington D.C.
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Parents of victims of the Sandy Hook shootings and the Columbine shootings were also present for the discussion, as well as a pastor from Las Vegas and the mayor of Parkland, Fla., according to the Associated Press.
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President Donald Trump and Melania Trump meet people impacted by Hurricane Harvey during a visit to the NRG Center in Houston, Texas on Sept. 2, 2017.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan's much-touted vote was a no-go.
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Donald Trump speaks with audience members after participating in an NBC News town hall event at the Perez Art Museum in Miami on Oct. 15, 2020.
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President Donald Trump paid a visit to the Temple Baptist Church in New Bern, North Carolina on Sept. 19, 2018 to assist in Hurricane Florence recovery efforts; specifically, meeting with those distributing food and other supplies. Trump also visited the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point to stay informed on how rescue efforts have been progressing since the storm.
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After a busy inaugural weekend, Donald Trump got to work on Monday signing not one but three executive orders. First he withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after signing it in the Oval Office of the White House, seen here on Jan. 23, 2017. The other two Executive Orders concerned a US Government hiring freeze for all departments but the military, and he reinstated the "Mexico City Policy" which bans federal funding of abortions overseas.
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President Trump turns after handing copies of his speech to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Vice President Mike Pence as he delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, in Washington D.C. President Trump refused the customary handshake House Speaker Pelosi's outstretched hand.
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump step from Air Force One as they arrive in Las Vegas, Nevada to visit victims of Sunday's attack that left at least 59 people dead and more than 500 injured.
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President Trump, accompanied by Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford (l.) and Acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper (r.) watch as aircraft fly overhead during an Independence Day celebration on July 4, 2019, in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
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President Donald trump met with rapper Kanye West for a lunchtime meeting about happenings around the country at the White House on Oct. 11, 2018. West and Trump discussed various topics including employment in the Black community, Chicago's crime rate, and work training programs. Musician Kid Rock and former football player Jim Brown will join the duo later.
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Following a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Feb. 13, 2017, President Trump extended his hand to the man and was met with what the internet deemed an aloof stare, though the two did engage in a hearty handshake.
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump greet trick-or-treaters on the South Lawn during a Halloween celebration at the White House on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, in Washington, DC.
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Trump and May stand on the steps in the Great Court as the bands of the Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards perform a ceremonial welcome for the dinner event with business leaders on July 12, 2018.
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President Donald Trump salutes after speaking to over 1,110 cadets in the Class of 2020 at a commencement ceremony on the parade field at the United States Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. on Saturday, June 13, 2020.
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Air Force One carrying President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump lands at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on October 4, 2017, with the Mandalay Bay resort in the background.
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Donald Trump talks to business owners in Kenosha, Wis. on Sept. 1, 2020 as he tours an area damaged during demonstrations after a police officer shot Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man, on August 23.
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President Trump did exactly the opposite of what scientists had been warning against for weeks: He looked directly into the sun without protective glasses. Trump, Melania and their son Barron stepped out onto the Truman Balcony of the White House wearing protective glasses before taking them off to stare upwards at the sun.
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President Trump speaks about Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in the Rose Garden at the White House on May 22, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Trump responded to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying he was engaged in a cover up.
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After months of remaining silent on any topic related to his alleged 2006 affair with adult film star Stormy Daniels, President Donald Trump finally acknowledged the matter while speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One on April 5, 2018. While flying back to the White House from West Virginia, Trump stated that "No", he wasn?t aware that his attorney Michael Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 to stay quiet about their supposed relationship 12 days before the 2016 election. "You'll have to ask Michael Cohen. Michael is my attorney. You'll have to ask Michael," the President continued. Daniels is currently in court battling against a non-disclosure agreement she said she signed in exchange for the money since, she says, Trump never signed it.
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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, third from left, waits with others as President Donald Trump prepares to leave the White House to go to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after he tested positive for COVID-19, Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, in Washington.
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The vote failed to materialize after the White House could not reach a compromise with key legislators.
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President Donald Trump posed with children of the White House staff and media in the Oval Office on "Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day" on April 26, 2018.
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President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron stand during the State Arrival Ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House. The two are expected to discuss several topics, including the future of the Iran nuclear deal.
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President Donald Trump gives thumbs up as he stands on the Blue Room Balcony upon returning to the White House on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Washington, after leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md. Trump announced he tested positive for COVID-19 on Oct. 2.
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Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway, second from right, and Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp, right, describe U.S. President Trump's demeanor during a meeting with Congressional Democrats from the day before during an event with farmers and ranchers in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on May 23, 2019, in Washington, DC. As the U.S.-China trade war continues to hurt American farmers with tariffs on everything from peanut butter to soybeans and orange juice, the federal government announced on May 23, 2019, it will give an additional $16 billion bailout to those most affected.
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President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order limiting regulations to support economic recovery during a Cabinet Meeting in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 19, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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President Trump talks with reporters before departing on Marine One for the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony on May 30, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Trump announced this evening on Twitter, "On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico, until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP. The Tariff will gradually increase until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied,.."
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President Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, smiles while walking as they return on Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Monday, May 25, 2020, in Washington. Trump is returning from Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine, in Baltimore, for a Memorial Day ceremony.
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First Lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump prepare to pose in a group photo ahead of a working dinner in Brussels during the NATO summit on July 11, 2018.
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President Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House on July 16, 2019, in Washington D.C. Trump is accompanied by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, and acting Defense Secretary Richard Spencer.
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President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participate in the opening ceremony of the New York City Veterans Day Parade on Monday, Nov. 11, 2019, in Madison Square Park, in Manhattan.
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French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Donald Trump attend the traditional Bastille Day military parade on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, France, July 14, 2017. France's annual Bastille Day parade turned into an event high on American patriotism this year, marked by a warm embrace between President Donald Trump and his French counterpart.
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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walk with former North Korean detainees Tony Kim, Kim Hak Song and Kim Dong Chul following their release on May 10, 2018 at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington D.C. The three had been detained for more than a year.
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President Donald Trump arrives to speak during an event on police reform in the Rose Garden of the White House on Tuesday, June 16, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
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Melania holds the soccer ball after Trump threw it at her during a press conference in Helsinki on July 16, 2018.
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President Trump arrives to speaks at a campaign rally at Williams Arena on July 17, 2019, in Greenville, N.C.
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President Trump waves to supporters after arriving at Charlotte Douglas International Airport to attend the North Carolina Opportunity Now Summit, on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, in Charlotte, N.C.
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Donald Trump, with U.S. Attorney General William Barr, steps off Air Force One upon arrival at Waukegan National Airport in Waukegan, Illinois, en route Kenosha, Wis., on Sept. 1, 2020.
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President Trump, center, prepares to answer questions after speaking about the coronavirus in the press briefing room at the White House on Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020, in Washington D.C., as from left, Health and Human Services Sec. Alex Azar, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dir. Dr. Anthony Fauci, Vice President Mike Pence; Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams listen. A Seattle-area man in his 50s has died from the coronavirus, the first fatality in the United States, authorities said Saturday.
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President Donald Trump arrives to speak with an altered presidential seal behind him at Turning Point USA's Teen Student Action Summit 2019 on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, in Washington D.C. The low-level audio-visual staffer of the organization that found the parodied seal that mocks the president was fired. The organization says it was not intentional. No one at the Trump administration prevented the seal from being used in advance.
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West, who made his way around Trump's desk to give the President a hug, also openly discussed his bipolar disorder diagnosis and the backlash he's received from often wearing his "Make America Great Again" hat.
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President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Florida after Hurricane Irma, marking the third hurricane ravaged-state that Trump has visited in the past three weeks. Trump participated in a briefing on the Hurricane Irma relief efforts on Sept. 14, 2017, in Ft. Myers, Florida, after arriving at Southwest Florida International airport. "When you think of the incredible power of that storm, and while people unfortunately passed, it was such a small number," Trump told reporters. "People thought thousands and thousands of people may have their lives ended and the number is a very small number, which is a great tribute to you.?"
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President Donald Trump arrives to speak with reporters about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Friday, May 22, 2020, in Washington.
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President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump arrive to host the 2020 "Salute to America" event in honor of Independence Day on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C. on July 4, 2020.
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President Trump and the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Imran Khan, speak to the media in the Oval Office at the White House on July 22, 2019, in Washington D.C. This is Khan's first visit to Washington as Pakistan's prime minister to discuss relations with the United States. President Trump also spoke about Iran and the Mueller Report.
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President Donald Trump shares a moment with First Lady Melania during a visit to the Federal Emergency Management Agency Headquarters, where they attended a 2018 Hurricane Briefing in Washington, DC on June 6, 2018. The meeting marks Melania's first public appearance in nearly a month. She underwent kidney surgery on May 10.
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In this image from video, President Donald Trump waves as he drives past supporters gathered outside Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. on Sunday, Oct. 4, 2020. Trump was admitted to the hospital after contracting COVID-19.
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President Donald Trump looks on at Madison Square Garden during the UFC 244 mixed martial arts fights on Nov. 2, 2019, in New York.
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Kim Dong Chul throws up a peace sign upon his return to America after he was freed from North Korea, along with Tony Kim and Kim Hak Song, on May 10, 2018.
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President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks during an NBC News town hall event, moderated by Savannah Guthrie, at the Perez Art Museum in Miami on Oct. 15, 2020.
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President Trump responded to the criticism of his initial statement about the Charlottesville violence on Aug. 15 but was met with further backlash. Trump said the group protesting against white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, were "also very violent." He went onto say there is "blame on both sides" after the deadly violence over the weekend. "You had some very bad people in that group. You also had some very fine people on both sides," he told the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York.
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President Donald Trump shook hands with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in following a news conference at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on Nov. 7, 2017. During his speech, Trump appeared optimistic about North Korea, saying "ultimately, it'll all work out." He also urged Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program and "come to the table" and "make a deal," the AP reported.
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President Trump signs H.R. 2476, the Securing American Nonprofit Organizations Against Terrorism Act of 2019, in the East Room of the White House during an event with U.S. mayors on Jan. 24, 2020, in Washington D.C. The legislation appropriates $75 million per year to protect houses of worship and other nonprofits from terrorist attacks through target hardening and enhanced security measures.
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President Trump gestures to the crowd before exiting a campaign rally at U.S. Bank Arena, on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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President Donald Trump and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) got together in the White House before Trump left for North Dakota on Sept. 6, 2017. The two, who have notoriously called one another out in the recent months, appeared to be getting up close and personal as they went in for what looked like a hug.
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President Trump and daughter and Senior Advisor Ivanka Trump are in the East Room of the White House during President Trump's victory speech on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington D.C., following his Senate acquittal on Wednesday on two impeachment articles.
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President Trump speaks with veterans during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American Normandy cemetery on June 6, 2019, in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France.
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Congressman Joe Crowley and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi speak at the "Kill The Bill" Rally To Demand The House GOP Vote "No."
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Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem on May 22, 2017. Wearing a yarmulke, Trump placed his right hand on the wall, swayed back and forth, while closing his eyes. He reached out to his pocket and placed a note into a crack in the wall.
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President Donald Trump participates in the NORAD Santa Tracker phone calls at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach on Dec. 24, 2017. The calls are an annual Christmas-themed entertainment program produced under the auspices of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
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President Trump speaks at his Merry Christmas Rally at the Kellogg Arena on Dec. 18, 2019, in Battle Creek, Mich. While Trump spoke at the rally the House of Representatives voted, mostly along party lines, to impeach the president for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, making him just the third president in American history to be impeached.
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President Trump, left, tours the Louis Vuitton Workshop Rochambeau on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019, in Alvarado, Texas, with Bernard Arnault, Chairman and CEO of LVMH, right; Alexandre Arnault, third from right; Ivanka Trump, second from right; and Michael Burke.
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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump greet trick-or-treaters on the South Lawn during a Halloween celebration at the White House on Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020, in Washington, DC.
Marine One carrying President Trump arrives on Nov. 2, 2019, at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport, to attend UFC matches at Madison Square Garden.
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A preexisting condition dealt President Trump’s oft-promised dismantling of Obamacare a stunning and fatal blow: No adequate replacement plan.
For the second time in as many days, a vote on the GOP’s alternative health care plan was scuttled by party infighting before Trump and chastened House Speaker Paul Ryan yanked the bill.
“I will not sugarcoat it: This is a disappointing day for us,” said Ryan after swallowing the bitter pill of defeat. “We will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment.
“We’re going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future.”
The new administration’s inability to pass the bill provided a humiliating political black eye for the White House, Ryan and the Republican Party — along with a major legislative failure for Trump.
The bill tanked “because of two traits that have plagued the Trump presidency since he took office: incompetence and broken promises,” snapped Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).
Trump, the self-proclaimed greatest dealmaker, failed to galvanize his GOP troops despite seven years of demonizing Republican attacks on Obamacare.
The President, who appeared calm despite the public defeat, said he would instead now concentrate on his tax cut proposals — but expressed optimism that Obamacare would disappear under its own financial weight.
The constant health care drumbeat helped the Republicans seize the White House and hold majorities in the House and the Senate in the November elections.
Trump himself vowed to demolish the Affordable Care Act on his first day in the White House — although he seemed to forget that promise while taking questions in the Oval Office.
“I never said repeal and replace it within 64 days,” he said.
Ryan, asked about the Republicans’ health care failure, said he had no answers for disappointed voters who heeded the GOP’s call for change — and found none.
“It’s a really good question,” he said quietly. “I wish I had a better answer. We were a 10-year opposition party, where being against things was easy to do. Now, in three months’ time, we tried to go to a governing party.”
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The effort was a failure.
The President said they were about 10 votes short of passing the bill. Trump said he’d done all he could do, and was disappointed and “a little surprised” by the Republicans’ inability to close ranks.
“We learned a lot about loyalty,” he said.
GOP moderates like New Jersey Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen opposed the party’s plan to avoid a likely voter backlash in a state that went for Hillary Clinton.
And Republican hard-liners in the Freedom Caucus felt the party’s proposal didn’t go far enough right to make Obamacare a mere memory.
Rep. Greg Walden, one of the people who helped write the GOP bill, said the plan to replace Obama care was beyond revival.
“We gave it our best shot,” said the Oregon Republican. “That’s it. It’s done. D-O-N-E done. This bill is dead.”
The collapse of the GOP plan came as another defeat for a White House that already suffered two legal losses in its attempt to keep travelers from certain Muslim nations out of the U.S.
The Trump administration is also facing inquiries about the campaign’s reputed ties to Russia and the President’s unfounded claim that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower.
In the midst of the health care meltdown, Trump oddly called reporters at The Washington Post and The New York Times to break the news.
“We just pulled it,” he said in one phone call to the outlets he has derided as “fake news.” He blamed Democrats for the loss for refusing to work with Republicans.
Schumer told CNN, “They never reached out to us. They never talked to us.”
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House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was quick to taunt Trump about the bill’s failure.
“Quite frankly I thought they might have accomplished something in the first few months,” she said. “They have absolutely no record of accomplishment.”
Trump, who had initially demanded a do-or-die vote on Friday after fruitless party negotiations, seemed willing to let the health care status quo play out.
“We have to let Obamacare go its own way for a while,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “It’s imploding and soon it will explode, and it’s not going to be pretty.”
Word of the decision came shortly after a scheduled 3:30 p.m. vote on the proposed Republican answer to the Obama health care plan. Rumors that the GOP couldn’t muster its votes leaked out before noon.
Ryan arrived at the White House and delivered the bad news that House Republicans were short of the needed votes. He later reflected that the GOP proved better at carping than change.
“Obamacare is the law of the land,” he acknowledged. “This is a setback, no two ways about it.”
Both Trump, via Twitter, and Vice President Pence, in person, appealed in vain to hard-line Republicans for their support of the legislation.
The words fell on deaf ears, much to the delight of Democratic New York Gov. Cuomo.
“This bill appears to be on life support,” said Cuomo. “It should be killed once and for all. This Congress tried to play the people of this nation for a fool — and they were wrong, and they lost.”
The congressional debate kicked off Friday morning, with a vote expected late in the afternoon after Trump cut off negotiations Thursday night and demanded a show of hands.
The GOP, in an unjustified show of optimism, had planned its vote to dump Obamacare for the seventh anniversary of the 2010 adoption of the health care plan.
Instead, their bill was dead on arrival after weeks of Washington wrangling, arm-twisting and haranguing.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated the GOP plan, if passed, would leave 24 million uninsured Americans by 2026.
The CBO projected that 70% of the 20 million people covered by the passage of Obamacare would be stiffed on their health care within the next year.
Trump, during his Oval Office news conference, suggested the Republicans and Democrats could come together and collaborate on the “ultimate” health care plan.
Yet not a single Democrat supported the GOP plan, and Obamacare passed without one Republican vote.
Trump predicted rising premiums and other issues with Obamacare would lead Democrats to the negotiating table.
“Both parties can get together and do great health care,” the President said. “Obamacare was rammed down everybody’s throat. I think bi-partisan would be a great thing.”
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