All trumped up
January 20, 2018
The election of President Donald Trump in late 2016 surprised millions of Americans and rocked the world. Through tweets and a long list of accomplishments, the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency has been turbulent yet successful, especially in the economy. Here is a list of Trump’s accomplishments by month.
January 2017:
- DOW hits 20,000 for the first time in history
- Trump signs contract with TransCanada, approves the finishing of Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines
- Trump pulls the United States out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership
February 2017:
- Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch to Supreme Court, set to fill seat previously held by Antonin Scalia
March 2017:
- DOW hits 21,000 for the first time in history
- Trump signs executive order reviving National Space Council, affirms goal to explore the Moon and send a manned mission to Mars
April 2017:
- Trump orders a U.S. Tomahawk missile strike on Syrian air base reported to have chemical weapons
- Trump orders a bombing of a terrorist tunnel in Afghanistan using MOAB
- Neil Gorsuch confirmed as next Supreme Court Justice setting a record for the youngest justice appointed in U.S. history
May 2017
- Trump demands NATO members ramp up funding to ‘do their part’
June 2017
- Trump repeals Waters of the U.S. to end controversial government control of small waterways
- Trump pulls U.S. out of Paris Climate Agreement
- Trump reverses Cuba travel policy after reports of Cuban human rights abuses and a strange illness affecting U.S. diplomats
July 2017
- Trump visits Europe and delivers Poland Speech well-praised for defending Western Civilization
August 2017
- DOW hits 22,000 for first time in history
September 2017
- Congressional Republicans fail to repeal and replace Obamacare
- Trump rescinds Obama-era campus sexual assault guidance
- Trump ends DACA but allows Congress to pass legislation to amend it
- Trump addresses United Nations over North Korea nuclear threat
October 2017
- DOW hits 23,000 for first time in history
- Trump ends Obama-era Clean Power Plan
- Trump decertifies Iran Nuclear Deal citing Iran’s noncompliance
November 2017
- DOW hits 24,000 for first time in history
- Syria fully liberated from ISIS control
- Unemployment hits lowest level since 2000 at 4.1%
December 2017
- Congressional Republicans and Trump pass largest tax reform in 30 years, $1.5 trillion cut over a decade, lowered corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%, repeals Obamacare mandate
- Iraq fully liberated from ISIS control
- Trump hits record for appointing more federal appeal court judges than any other president during first year in U.S. history
- Trump Administration touts repeal of net neutrality
- Trump fulfills campaign promise to move American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in Israel
- Congressional Republicans and Trump open National Arctic Wildlife Refuge to offshore drilling
- Trump Travel Ban is upheld by the Supreme Court after several versions were released and subsequently blocked by federal judges
- Trump cuts U.S. funding to the United Nations in light of General Assembly vote condemning embassy move
January 2018
- Several corporations invest in U.S., raise wages after sweeping tax reform
- DOW hits 26,000 for first time in history after hitting 25,000 seven days earlier
- Illegal immigration hits 45-year low
- Trump lifts restriction on offshore drilling and fracking