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Trump is a once-in-a-240-year phenomenon that wants to last another 4 years

The first US president, who lacked political and military experience before taking office, promoted the populist "America First" policy while dramatically changing Washington's traditional policies.

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Tuesday, 03 November 2020, 09:04 Updated: 19:03

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In the video: Trump at a rally in Michigan (Photo: Reuters, Editing: Amit Simcha)

Donald Trump, a businessman who became a politician, promoted the nationalist policies of "America First", survived a deportation process and Corona disease and adopted a controversial immigration and race policy during his tumultuous tenure, which his critics challenged democratic norms in the United States.

After decades of fame as a real estate mogul from New York and then a reality star, the belligerent Trump detailed the feelings of frustration among Americans to become a unique political phenomenon in the 244 years of the United States' existence.

Trump, who hopes to defeat his Democratic opponent Joe Biden In the beginning, he met with fierce opposition within the Republican Party. Others he appointed.

"If I do not sound like a routine politician from Washington, it's because I'm not a politician," Trump said at a rally in Pennsylvania last month.

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Trump's ID

Trump, 74, entered the White House in January 2017 after a surprise victory over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

He lost by a margin of about three million votes in the national vote, but won by a number of electors.

His victory in 2016 made him the first president with no previous political or military background, and his rise was part of a right-wing populist wave that swept the world, from the Brexit in Britain to the far-right victory of Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian presidential election.

Trump attacked globalization and focused American foreign policy on his "America First" approach.

His presidency came at a time of deep polarization in the United States and political paralysis in Washington.

At home, Trump reduced legal and illegal immigration, cutting quotas for refugees and asylum seekers;

He passed extensive tax cuts, dramatically tilted the justice system to the right and repealed regulations to protect the environment that he said were a burden on businesses.

Overseas, Trump has helped mediate agreements between Israel and three Arab states, withdrew from international agreements he claimed were unfair to the United States, alienated traditional allies and praised foreign dictators.

One of them is Russian President Vladimir Putin, although US intelligence services have concluded that Russia hacked into Democratic Party computers and ran a social media propaganda campaign to help it in 2016.

They also warned that Moscow would try to intervene again against Biden.

1/6 Donald Trump in his New York apartment, May 1976

His critics, including senior Democrats and former members of the administration, said Trump is a danger to democracy because of his authoritarian leanings.

"I believe the president is an existential danger to America," Biden said last year.

"It's a person who does everything to separate and scare people. It's fear and disgust."

Four-star General James Matisse, who was the first Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, said in June that he was "the first president in my life not to try to unite the American nation - he does not even pretend he is trying.

Yet despite countless scandals, the enthusiastic support of many Americans — especially white men, Christian conservatives, rural residents, and people without an academic education — remained.

"I joined the political arena so that those in power could not beat those who could not defend themselves," Trump said in his 2016 Republican nomination speech.

"No one knows the system better than I do, so I can fix it on my own."

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"A very stable genius"

Democrats accuse Trump of placing himself above the law and ignoring constitutional restrictions such as congressional summonses, allegations of a "fake" voting system, refusal to pledge power if he loses to Biden and an attack on senior FBI and intelligence officials.

His critics noted his multiple lies, and documented thousands of them throughout his tenure as part of a fact-checking in each of his speeches or statements.

To the cheers of his supporters, many of whom in his political rallies wore hats with his slogan "Return America to its greatness," he called the media "Pike News" and "Enemies of the People."

The crowd, in turn, called for imprisoning his political rivals to the president's satisfaction.

Trump dismissed questions about his mental state, and in 2018 described himself as a "very stable genius."

The corona plague posed a major challenge to Trump.

He questioned the effectiveness of masks, promoted the use of unproven drugs and estimated that the virus would "disappear like a miracle."

Many health experts said these measures led to loss of life and contributed to the economic crisis.

More than 230,000 people have already died from the virus in the United States, and nine million people have been infected - more than in any other country in the world.

Trump, who rarely wore a mask and kept his distance, while mocking Baiden because he was careful, revealed on October 2 that he had been diagnosed positive for the virus.

He was hospitalized for three days and received many medications, before returning to the White House.

dismissal

Democrats in the House of Representatives tried unsuccessfully to oust him for calling on Ukraine to intervene in the presidential election when he asked her to question Biden and his son Hunter on unsubstantiated allegations of corruption.

Trump has become only the third president ousted by the House of Representatives, who voted in favor of the charges of abusing authority and disrupting congressional activities in the Ukraine-Gate affair.

The Republican Senate acquitted him in February and Trump remained in the Oval Office.

Survived the dismissal sentence in Congress.

Trump in State of the Nation speech (Photo: Reuters)

Trump was furious at the investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election.

Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, appointed by the Justice Department, documented Russian involvement in elections designed to sow chaos in the United States, harm Clinton and help Trump.

He even detailed many contacts between Trump's campaign and Russia, but said there was no basis for stating that there was a conspiracy between the parties.

Mueller, on the other hand, also did not acquit Trump on suspicion of disrupting his investigation, contrary to the president's claims that he described the investigations against him as "witch hunting."

Eventually, Attorney General William Barr cleared the president who had appointed him to the post.

Trump has refrained from condemning Russia and has publicly embraced Russian President Vladimir Putin's denials, while questioning the conclusions of his intelligence agencies.

Trump praised Putin for his power, following the admiration he expressed to dictators around the world, including North Korean Kim Jong Un and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Trump holds a Bible book while touring a church near the White House (Photo: Reuters)

Racial tensions intensified during Trump's tenure.

Demonstrations against racism and police violence have spread to many cities as they sometimes escalate into riots and looting, as happened after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white police officer.

Trump called the protesters "thugs," promised to maintain "law and order" and sent federal forces to the streets of cities under democratic rule.

Trump critics accuse him of inciting "white rage" in a country where the share of whites is declining demographically.

Even some Republicans moved uneasily in the face of Trump's unwillingness to shake off supporters of white racial superiority.

Erase Obama's legacy

The sight of children in cages screaming at their parents who were separated from them led the president to abandon the controversial idea

The 45th president, who succeeded the first black president of the United States, Barack Obama, has erased extensive parts of his predecessor's legacy.

He abandoned the nuclear deal with Iran and the climate deal, repealed regulations to protect the environment and put an end to thawing relations with Cuba.

Trump's aggressive approach to immigration was one of his administration's hallmarks.

Upon entering politics in 2015, he promised to build a wall along the border with Mexico, claiming that the neighbor to the south would pay for it, but she refused.

One of his first steps as president was the issuance of an order preventing the entry of citizens from several Muslim countries, and he implemented a policy of separation between the children of immigrants and their parents that caused a stir in the United States and around the world.

The sight of children in cages screaming at their parents who were separated from them led the president to abandon the controversial idea.

Trump has nurtured the image of a successful businessman closing deals, despite a history of financial losses, bankruptcies and business failures.

His tax returns, revealed by the New York Times in September, showed that the president paid only $ 750 in taxes on his income in 2016 and again in 2017 - and no income tax in ten of the previous 15 years - mainly because he reported more losses than profits .

He even got involved in a series of sexual affair, which he denied.

In the 2016 election, his 2005 recording was revealed, in which he bragged that he could do whatever he wanted to women, including grabbing them by the penis, because he was famous.

Former personal lawyer Michael Cohen has admitted to silence-related offenses paid to two women before the election - a porn actress and a model - who said he had sex with him years earlier.

Trump has denied their allegations.

Cohen, who has become one of Trump's most notable critics since being convicted and jailed, is one of a long line of presidential aides who stood trial during his tenure.

To some of them, led by former campaign leader Paul Manport and Counsel Roger Stone, he pardoned the displeasure of those who saw it as an improper political intervention undermining the rule of law.

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