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A look back at Donald Trump’s apocalyptic presidency in numbers

2023-03-31 09:25:08

Donald Trump published an average of 997 messages per month in 2020 on Twitter. After the events on Capitol Hill in January 2021, Twitter permanently closed its account... before reactivating it in 2023 under the leadership of Elon Musk.

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According to the Brookings Institution, 91 percent of the senior staff in President Trump's executive office have left their positions, whether they resigned or were terminated.

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Donald Trump will have his fingerprints on the United States for a long time to come. He has appointed more federal judges (234) in one term than any president since Jimmy Carter (1977-1981).

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President Trump has signed 288 orders of all kinds during his four years in the White House. In eight years, Barack Obama signed 226, while George W. Bush signed 189.

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The coronavirus has marked the last year of the Trump presidency. Although the United States accounts for 4% of the world's population, the country accounted for 23% of global cases and 19% of deaths.

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Donald Trump is a golf fan. He has played 418 rounds in four years. By comparison, Barack Obama played 333 games in eight years.

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Executions under Donald Trump of prisoners have reached new heights. In 2020 alone, ten people have been executed, more than any president since Franklin D. Roosevelt more than 75 years ago.

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Donald Trump's entourage, appointed by him, has been convicted of crimes at least nine times. In history, only Ronald Reagan (1981-89) and Richard Nixon (1969-74) have done worse.

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Donald Trump has pardoned (29) or commuted sentences (16) of at least as many people since President Nixon (1969-74). Of those, he has pardoned five of his former employees convicted of various misdeeds.

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Two times in his tenure, Democratic elected officials tried to get President Trump impeached. It was a first in U.S. history.

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In 2023, Donald Trump is formally indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. According to CNN, more than 30 charges will be brought against the former president, another first in history.