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Trump has officially run as a candidate for president four times, in 2000, 2016, 2020, and 2024; he also unofficially campaigned in 2012 and mulled a run in 2004. [1] He won the 2016 general election through the Electoral College while losing the popular vote to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by 2.8 million votes, the largest margin ever to ...
Donald Trump (left) and Barack Obama (right) together on Trump's inauguration day, January 20, 2017. In the United States, Obama–Trump voters, sometimes referred to as Trump Democrats or Obama Republicans, are people who voted for Democratic Party nominee Barack Obama in the 2008 and/or 2012 presidential elections, but later voted for Republican Party nominee Donald Trump in 2016, 2020, and ...
RELATED: See Trump elected president As it turns out, though, the lines have been proven fake . According to fact-checking site Snopes, they found no record of Trump saying this in 1998 or any ...
In a 2014 interview, Trump questioned whether Obama had produced his long-form birth certificate. [131] When asked in December 2015 if he still questioned Obama's legitimacy, Trump said that "I don't talk about that anymore." [135] On September 14, 2016, Trump declined to acknowledge whether he believed Obama was born in the United States. [136]
The chant was later used at many Trump campaign rallies and even against other politicians critical of Trump, such as Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer [345] [346] and (as "lock him up") against President Joe Biden. [347] The phrase would also see use in the 2024 United States presidential election by opponents of Trump in reference to his ...
On May 10, 2020—one day after former president Barack Obama criticized the Trump administration's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic [50] —Trump posted a one-word tweet: "OBAMAGATE!" [51] On May 11, Philip Rucker of The Washington Post asked Trump what crime former president Barack Obama committed. Trump's reply was: "Obamagate.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 4, 2008. The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Marla Maples, Trump's second ex-wife, threatened to reveal what Trump "is really like" if he chose to run for president in the general election. In response, Trump withheld $1.5 million in alimony he owed Maples, claiming she was in violation of the confidentiality agreement in the couple's divorce decree.