First Trump administration controversies

Jeffrey Edward Epstein was an American financier and child sex offender. He began his career as a math teacher at the Dalton School, before entering the banking and finance sector. Over several decades, he made much of his fortune providing tax and estate services to billionaires, and cultivated an elite social circle of prominent individuals. In 2008, he was convicted of soliciting a minor for prostitution, and was indicted in 2019 for sex trafficking minors in the 2000s. He died in custody awaiting his trial; his death was ruled a suicide.

On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., was attacked by a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump in an attempted self-coup, two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election. They sought to keep him in power by preventing a joint session of Congress from counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of then president-elect Joe Biden. The attack was unsuccessful in preventing the certification of the election results. According to the bipartisan House select committee that investigated the incident, the attack was the culmination of a plan by Trump to overturn the election. Within 36 hours, five people died: one was shot by the Capitol Police, another died of a drug overdose, and three died of natural causes, including a police officer who died of a stroke a day after being assaulted by rioters and collapsing at the Capitol. Many people were injured, including 174 police officers. Four officers who responded to the attack died by suicide within seven months. Damage caused by attackers exceeded $2.7 million. It is the only attempted coup d'état directed towards the Federal government in the history of the United States.

2020 police murder of a black man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

2020–2022 protests following the police murder of George Floyd

thumb|upright=1.35|QAnon flag featuring an American flag overlaid with the Q logo alongside the slogan "Where we go one, we go all", at a Second Amendment rally in Richmond, 2020

diplomatic crisis between several Arab League countries and Qatar

2019 Turkish military offensive in northern Syria

2020 US drone strike in Baghdad, Iraq

U.S. Army general and former U.S. National Security Advisor (born 1958)

United States Executive Order limiting refugees from Muslim-majority countries

American college student who was imprisoned in North Korea

24th national census of the United States, taken on April 1, 2020

Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2017

mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, USA

American reality television personality and political aide (born 1974)

"Pizzagate" is a conspiracy theory that went viral during the 2016 United States presidential election cycle, falsely claiming that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) had discovered a pedophile ring linked to members of the Democratic Party while searching through Anthony Weiner's emails. It has been extensively discredited by a wide range of organizations, including the Washington, D.C. police.

antisemitic mass shooting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 27, 2018

2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia

U.S. political scandal that began in 2019

military strikes by US, UK, France against government sites in Syria

first impeachment inquiry against U.S. President Donald Trump

expression associated with political misinformation established in 2017

2018 essay by Michael Wolff

The United States has discussed obtaining Greenland from Denmark since the 19th century. There were talks within the US federal government about purchasing Greenland in 1867, advocated by secretary of state William H. Seward, and again in 1910. However, in 1916, the United States proclaimed their recognition of Danish sovereignty over all Greenland as a condition for their purchase of the Virgin Islands in the Treaty of the Danish West Indies. Since World War II, the US has had at least one military base in Greenland. In 1946, the US secretly offered to buy Greenland, but it was rejected by Denmark. Since 1949, Greenland has been under the protection of NATO, of which the US and Denmark are both members. Nevertheless, the Joint Chiefs of Staff proposed acquiring the island in 1955. In the 21st century, Donald Trump proposed acquisition of Greenland during his presidency.

meeting between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump

increase in prejudice against Asians as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic

Covfefe is a word, widely presumed to be a typographical error, that Donald Trump used in a tweet during his first term as President of the United States. It quickly became an Internet meme.

oil pipeline in North America

escalating tensions between North Korea and the United States, due to the rapidly improved nuclear weapons capability of North Korea

meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on 16 July 2018

From December 22, 2018, until January 25, 2019, the United States federal government entered a shutdown. It was the second and final federal government shutdown involving furloughs during the first presidency of Donald Trump. It occurred when the 115th Congress and Trump could not agree on an appropriations bill to fund the operations of the federal government for the 2019 fiscal year, or a temporary continuing resolution that could extend the deadline for passing a bill. The Antideficiency Act prohibits federal departments or agencies from conducting non-essential operations without appropriations legislation in place. As a result, nine executive departments with around 800,000 employees had to shut down partially or in full, affecting about a quarter of government activities and causing employees to be furloughed or required to work without being paid. The Congressional Budget Office estimated the shutdown cost the American economy at least $11 billion USD, excluding indirect costs that were difficult to quantify.

October 2020 diagnosis of Donald Trump and associates

2007 mass shooting in Iraq

Israeli political activist

2017 U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital city

2018 murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Turkish soil

Military campaign against Islamist extremist militant groups in Syria led by the United States of America

tariffs imposed by Donald Trump in his first term as president of the United States

2020 memoir by Mary L. Trump

prosecution of a former US president for obstructing formal counting of ballots

scandal involving Donald Trump and pornographic actress Stormy Daniels around sexual relations and an alleged hush payment by lawyer Michael D. Cohen in 2016

United States federal law

2018 non-fiction book by Bob Woodward about Donald Trump's presidency

2020 memoir by John Bolton

efforts made by Donald Trump, allies and supporters to overturn the election results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election

2017 attack on Nigerien and US soldiers by Islamist militants in Tongo Tongo, Niger

2018 US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal

2018 NATO summit meeting in Brussels, Belgium

series of protests by American athletes

"zero tolerance" U.S. immigration strategy aimed at deterring illegal immigration by separating migrant children from their parents or guardians

January 2018 US federal government shutdown

2021 American political scandal

nationwide protests in the aftermath of the 2020 United States election

2026 federal trial of Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores

2017 executive order by U.S. President Trump placing travel restrictions on several countries

cyberbullying campaign in the United States

2020 United States Supreme Court case

defamation and sexual-assault lawsuits

2020 controversial presidential photo op

a fictitious incident of terrorism mentioned by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway in interviews with Cosmopolitan and TMZ on January 29, 2017