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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, a Republican originally from New York, who during his first presidency moved his principal residency to Florida, was elected president of the United States in 2016. He was inaugurated on January 20, 2017, as the nation's 45th president, and his presidency ended on January 20, 2021, with the inauguration of Joe Biden .
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]
During that time, Trump was spreading the ugly “birther” lie that Obama was not born in the United States as he flirted with running for president as a way to promote The Apprentice.
Obama served his second term as president, while Biden also served his second term as vice president and initially retired from politics but was later elected president in 2020, defeating Obama's successor, then-incumbent Donald Trump. This is the most recent election in which two major party nominees would go on to become president.
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.
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 ...
[160] [161] Trump scrapped a proposed rule from the Obama administration that airlines disclose baggage fees. [162] Trump reduced enforcement of regulations against airlines; fines levied by the administration in 2017 were less than half of what the Obama administration did the year before. [163]