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Jan 19, 2021 · Broadly speaking: Donald Trump, and his enablers in the Republican Party and conservative media, have put American democracy to the test in an unprecedented way.
Jan 19, 2021 · While many argue that America supported democracy for decades before Trump was elected in 2016, the U.S. frequently backed authoritarian governments and overthrew elected ones, partly to counter...
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The statistics for the entirety of Donald Trump’s time in office are nearly all compiled. As we did for his predecessor four years ago, we present a final look at the numbers. 1. The economy lost 2.9 million jobs. The unemployment rate increased by 1.6 percentage points to 6.3%. 2. Paychecks grew faster than inflation. Average weekly earnings for a...
In the fall of 2020, we published a preelection update to our quarterly “Trump’s Numbers” series, and on President Joe Biden’s inauguration, we examined several statistical indicators on what he inherited. But as we noted then, the books weren’t yet closed on the Trump presidency. It takes several months for some of the data to be finalized. While ...
As a candidate, Trump proclaimed: “I am going to be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.” As president, Trump saw 100 months of continuous U.S. monthly job gains end in February 2019 as the economy slowed. In 2020, job growth collapsed entirely when COVID-19 went from being a localized problem in Wuhan, China, to a global pandemic. Em...
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. economy began slowing down. Thereal (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product went up in Trump’s first two years, peaking at an estimated 2.9% in 2018 — the highest since 2005. But the economy grew only 2.3% in 2019and the bottom fell out in 2020. The real GDP declined 3.4% in 2020 from the previous yea...
Household Income— Household income rose briskly under Trump before declining last year due to the pandemic. The Census Bureau’s latest report on “Income and Poverty in the United States,” which was released Sept. 14, showed that median household income reached$67,521 in 2020— a 2.9% decrease from2019 but an increase of $3,838 from 2016 when adjuste...
The growth of federal regulation slowed to a crawl under Trump. The number of restrictive words and phrases (such as “shall,” “prohibited” or “may not”) contained in theCode of Federal Regulationsstayed below 1.08 million for most of 2019— a little below where it was when Trump took office. But as of the day he left office,the count had crept up to...
Murders and aggravated assaults shot up dramatically under Trump, while most other types of crime declined. In his inaugural address, Trump darklyportrayed America as a country mired in poverty, drugs and crime. “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,” he promised. But quite the contrary, the FBI’s annualCrime in the United Sta...
Sales and production of guns slowed during Trump’s presidency — until COVID-19 concerns and protestsagainst policing triggered huge spikes last year. Handgun Production — In 2020, the annual production of pistols and revolvers in the U.S. set a new record of 6.3 million, according to interim figures from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and...
Illegal border crossings, as measured by apprehensions at the Southwest border, were 14.7% higher in Trump’s final year in office compared with the last full year before he was sworn in. That’s how we’ve been calculating this statistic going back to our “Numbers” articles for Obama. Although Trump boastedduring a speech in Alamo, Texas, just a week...
After-taxcorporate profitsset new records in the first two years of Trump’s presidency — but declined slightly in 2019 and fell further still in 2020, when the pandemic forced businesses to close, some permanently. Still, after-tax corporate profits were higher when Trump left office than when he arrived. Corporate profits hita record $1.98 trillio...
Jan 19, 2021 · Broadly speaking: Donald Trump, and his enablers in the Republican Party and conservative media, have put American democracy to the test in an unprecedented way.
1 day ago · And the fact that, four years later, Trump is within a coin flip of returning to the Oval Office has created some dissonance in liberal America. Trump has, in his third campaign, been more ...
Jan 29, 2021 · In his final days in office, Trump became the first president ever to be impeached twice – the second time for inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol during the certification of the election he lost – and the nation’s first chief executive in more than 150 years to refuse to attend his successor’s inauguration.
1 day ago · The Peculiarly American Roots of Trumpism (Audio) 13:02. Donald Trump feels threatened, all the time. “I think everything’s a threat,” he said at the Economic Club of Chicago recently ...
