As the race to the White House reaches its climax, supporters and opponents of Donald Trump can surely agree on one thing — America has never had a leader quite like this one.
2017
The newly inaugurated president and the first lady, Melania Trump, take to the dancefloor to celebrate at the Freedom Ball in Washington on January 20, 2017
January 2017, @realDonaldTrump: Wow, TV ratings just out: 31m people watched the Inauguration, 11m more than the very good ratings 4 years ago!
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Holding hands with Theresa May on January 27, 2017
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The Women’s March in Washington one day after Trump’s inauguration
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Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s disdain seems clear on February 13, 2017
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Staring directly at a solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 — not the last time he will flout medical advice
CARLOS BARRIA/GETTY Regaling Frank Giaccio, 11, while he mows the Rose Garden lawn on September 15, 2017 SHAWN THEW/GETTY A comforting hand for the US vice-president, Mike Pence, at a ceremony in the Capitol to mark the death of the Reverend Billy Graham on February 28, 2018. Graham, who died at the age of 99, was America’s best-known Christian evangelist. Karen Pence, far left, and Melania Trump look on GETTY The porn star Stormy Daniels spills the beans on their alleged affair on March 25, 2018 Advertisement October 2018, @realDonaldTrump: Now I can go after Horseface and her 3rd rate lawyer in the Great State of Texas. She knows nothing about me, a total con! Kim Kardashian West visits the White House to lobby for prison reform on May 30, 2018 KEVIN LIM/EYEVINE With North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12, 2018. The summit had been cancelled after a round of name-calling but was rearranged after what Trump described in a tweet as a “warm and productive statement from North Korea” RICHARD POHLE/TIMES NEWSPAPERS LTD Leaving the Queen in his slipstream at Windsor Castle on July 13, 2018, while the 20ft “Trump Baby” blimp hovers over Parliament Square on the same day TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/GETTY VALERY SHARIFULIN/ALAMY With Russian president Vladimir Putin on July 16, 2018, shortly after Trump blamed poor US-Russian relations on “the Rigged Witch Hunt!” — aka the FBI’s Russia investigation Advertisement ANDREW HARRER/GETTY Welcoming the rapper Kanye West to the White House on October 11, 2018 LEON NEAL/GETTY According to trumpgolfcount.com, his frequent golf rounds as president have cost US taxpayers $142 million to date Welcoming the Clemson University American football team to the White House on January 14, 2019. “We have some very large people that like eating,” he explained January 2019, @realDonaldTrump: I served massive amounts of Fast Food (I paid), over 1000 hamberders etc. Within one hour, it was all gone TASOS KATOPODIS/GETTY A patriotic photo opportunity at the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 2, 2019 Advertisement Melania celebrates her 49th birthday alone on April 26, 2019 CHRISTIAN HARTMANN/REUTERS Leaning in to greet Angela Merkel at the G7 summit on August 25, 2019 SAUL LOEB/GETTY Meeting “Britain Trump” Boris Johnson in New York on September 24, 2019 September 2019, @realDonaldTrump: I had nothing to do with the decision of our great VP Mike Pence to stay overnight at one of the Trump resorts in Ireland ANDREW HOFSTETTER/REUTERS The Swedish environmentalist Greta Thunberg, centre, glares at Trump at the UN headquarters on September 23, 2019. The president gave her speech at the climate summit a miss Advertisement SHEALAH CRAIGHEAD/THE WHITE HOUSE/GETTY As special forces close in on the Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria, Trump and his national security team watch from the Situation Room. Or did they? Many believe the perfectly posed photograph on October 26, 2019, was staged ANNA MONEYMAKER/EYEVINE The impeachment verdict on February 5 February 2020, @realDonaldTrump: THE WHOLE SCAM INVESTIGATION, THE MUELLER REPORT AND EVERYTHING ELSE, WAS A FIXED HOAX... Terrible! Chief medical adviser Dr Anthony Fauci’s “facepalm” during a coronavirus press briefing on March 20 JULIO CORTEZ/AP Protests in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd turn ugly for a third successive night on May 28 DOUG MILLS/EVEYVINE Outside a Washington church on June 1 after Black Lives Matter protesters had been dispersed with tear gas JABIN BOTSFORD/GETTY This Republican supporter need not worry about social distancing as seats go empty at the president’s first rally in months, in Tulsa on June 20 June 2020, @realDonaldTrump: Almost One Million people request tickets for the Saturday Night Rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma! ALEX EDELMAN/AFP/GETTY After defying medical advice during the pandemic, Trump is admitted to hospital in Maryland with Covid-19. Just two days later, on October 4, he emerges in a motorcade to thank well-wishers. The stunt is widely criticised for putting lives at risk JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS On October 12, at a campaign rally in Florida, he throws his facemask into the crowd, declaring: “I feel so powerful!”
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