Timeline of the Donald Trump presidency (2017 Q4)
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Week 37[edit]
- The deadline passes unfulfilled for President Trump to identify for punishment Kremlin-linked targets of sanctions signed on August 2.[3][4]
Week 38[edit]
- President Trump addresses the nation in regards to the mass shooting in Las Vegas, offering his condolences to the victims and their families while praising the first responders at the scene.[5]
- President Trump meets with the governors of Maine, Mississippi, Kentucky and New Hampshire at the White House to discuss cutting federal regulations.[6]
- President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha at the White House to discuss improving trade relations.[7]
- President Trump has dinner with Republican members of Congress at the White House to discuss immigration reform and improving border security.[8]
- President Trump meets with U.S. Virgin Islands Governor Kenneth Mapp on board the USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) to discuss the territory’s immediate funding needs in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.[9]
- President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attend a briefing in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with senior military personnel and government officials, including Governor Ricardo Rosselló, on hurricane recovery efforts.[10]
- Vice President Pence meets with representative of local businesses, community leaders and families, with Arizona Governor Doug Ducey in Phoenix, Arizona, to discuss efforts for tax reform.[11]
President Trump greets soldiers stationed on board the USS Kearsarge (LHD-3)
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump meet Las Vegas shooting victim Tiffany Huizar
- President Trump celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month at the White House, and speaks of recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and of the people suffering under the governments of Cuba and Venezuela.[19]
- President Trump signs a proclamation honoring October 6 as the National day of Manufacturing, stating that jobs are coming back to the United States with the creation of thousands of new manufacturing jobs.[20][21]
- President Trump approves an emergency declaration that will allow federal resources to supplement local efforts and allow FEMA to coordinate disaster relief efforts in Louisiana in preparation for Hurricane Nate.[22]
President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump commemorate Hispanic Heritage Month
Vice President Pence and the Second Lady lay flowers at a memorial in Las Vegas
Vice President Pence stands for the national anthem prior to leaving an NFL game
Week 39[edit]
- Vice President Pence holds a fundraiser at Newport Beach, California, to raise funds for Republican Congressmen and to promote the administration’s tax-cut initiative.[29]
President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
President Trump signs an executive order on healthcare
- President Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign files its quarterly finance report with the FEC. The filing discloses a legal bill of $1.1m paid from campaign funds in connection with the Russia investigations.[43]
Week 40[edit]
- President Trump attends a rally in Greenville, South Carolina, in support of Governor Henry McMaster to raise funds for his gubernatorial campaign.[44]
- President Trump has a working lunch with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Vice President Pence to discuss legislative issues such as the budget, tax reform and immigration.[45]
- Responding to questions at the White House, President Trump makes his first public comments on the four Special Forces soldiers killed in a suspected ISIS ambush on October 4 and further comments on former presidents calls and letters to the families of slain American troops during their time in office.[46][47]
President Trump and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
- President Trump holds a meeting at the White House with the Senate Finance Committee to discuss tax reform.[54]
- President Trump holds a phone conversation with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds to discuss concerns about the administration’s biofuels policy.[55]
- The latest version of President Trump’s travel ban is blocked by U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson shortly before it comes into effect.[56]
- President Trump meets with Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló at the White House to discuss the island’s recovery efforts after Hurricane Maria.[57]
- President Trump attends a gala dinner at the Kuwaiti Embassy, where the Kuwait–American Foundation is trying to raise money for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and to honor First Lady Melania Trump for her dedication to causes affecting women and children in the U.S. and abroad.[58][59]
- President Trump nominates Joseph J. Simons, an anti-trust lawyer to head the Federal Trade Commission, including Noah Phillips, chief counsel for Senator John Cornyn and Rohit Chopra, a consumer advocate to fill the remaining two seats at the Commission.[60]
- President Trump holds a conference call with Republican Congressman calling on them to pass the Senate budget and work on tax reform.[64]
- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attends a co-operation council in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, attended by Saudi Arabia and Iraq, where he calls on Iran to remove its paramilitary forces from Iraqi territory.[65]
- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson holds meetings with Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha, Qatar to find ways to resolve the diplomatic crisis between Qatar and other Gulf states.[66]
Secretary Tillerson greets Saudi King Salman following the Saudi Arabia–Iraq Coordination Committee Meeting
Week 41[edit]
- President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the White House to discuss the North Korean nuclear threat, defence and economic relationship between both countries, whilst overseeing the signing ceremony between Singapore Airlines and Boeing for $13.8 billion worth of new planes.[67][68]
- President Trump holds a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House for Captain Gary Michael Rose who was wounded in combat during Operation Tailwind in the Vietnam War.[69]
- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson holds meetings in Kabul, Afghanistan with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and his officials on discussing strategies on ending the conflict in the country.[70]
President Trump and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong
- President Trump holds an awards ceremony at the White House as part of National Minority Enterprise Development Week.[71]
- President Trump holds a swearing-in ceremony at the Oval Office for the next Ambassador to the Vatican Callista Gingrich.[72]
- President Trump meets with Republican Senators at the Capitol to call for unity within the party and to discuss tax reform.[73]
- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson holds meetings in Islamabad, Pakistan, with Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, concerning the combating of extremist fighters.[74]
- President Trump attends a briefing in Dallas, Texas on the recovery efforts by Hurricane Harvey and addressing the long-term flood mitigation plans in the state.[75]
- President Trump holds a fundraiser to raise funds for his re-election campaign and the Republican National Committee, while holding a discussion round-table with his supporters at the Belo Mansion in Dallas.[76]
- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson holds meetings with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi to discuss bilateral trade and defense.[77]
- U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley in a meeting with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit in Juba, South Sudan, calls on the president to find ways to end the conflict in the country.[78]
- President Trump signs a presidential memorandum declaring a nationwide public health emergency and ordering all federal agencies to take measures to reduce the number of opioid deaths in the country.[79] No funds are allocated from the public health emergency fund.[80]
Week 42[edit]
- Shortly following the surrender of former Trump campaign officials Paul Manafort and Rick Gates to the FBI on twelve charges of conspiracy and money laundering between 2006 and 2015, President Trump states on Twitter that the charges refer to events from “years ago” and that “there is NO COLLUSION!”[81][82][83]
- Following the announcement of a guilty plea from George Papadopolous concerning lying to the FBI about meetings with Russians in 2016, Press Secretary Sanders describes Papadopoulos having held a ‘limited’, ‘volunteer’ position in the Trump campaign. Sanders contradicts Mueller’s indictment which details that Papadopoulos was encouraged to meet with Russian officials by a high-ranking Trump campaign official, named as Sam Clovis by The Washington Post.[84][85]
- The enforcement of President Trump’s ban on transgender soldiers is blocked by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, stating that the President’s given reasons “do not appear to be supported by any facts”.[86][87]
President Trump’s official presidential portrait
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