Much ink has been spilled over Donald Trump’s record-shattering fundraising for his second inauguration. The president-elect has collected a reported $170 million for the smattering of ceremonies and festivities in Washington,

Donald Trump is beginning his second term with a lower approval rating than Joe Biden in his first two weeks in office.

President Donald Trump has the lowest initial approval ratings of any president since 1953 — except for himself in 2017.

Andrew Johnson (1865-1869), who opposed Black suffrage, supported the Black Codes, and tried to undo Reconstruction efforts. Andrew Jackson (1829-1837), who championed the Indian Removal Act and upheld slavery at all costs.

They’re poisoning the blood of our country.” The stage for Trump’s particularly bloody equation of the border with the fentanyl crisis was set long ago. When he had first tried out the language three months earlier,

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His writings, which stretched across eight decades, helped Americans understand a president who transformed the office and shaped the postwar years.

2015 me would have gazed around at the first nine days of Trump’s term, taking each policy in isolation, and concluded that the individual trees look pretty good. 2025 me stares around at the forest Trump is planting and shudders.

Yet no opening presidential bid for power compares to President Donald Trump’s out-of-the-blue freeze of federal funds across the government. Much about the initial memo from Matthew Vaeth, the acting director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget,

There is no other Cabinet position that has to engage with lawmakers in Congress across so many disparate technical issues, committees and stakeholders.

Is Donald J. Trump cool? And, relatedly, can he be considered, at last, a full-fledged, fully accepted, member of the American president’s club?

One of Long Island’s most significant presidential landmarks is Sagamore Hill National Historic Site in Oyster Bay, the childhood home of PresidentTheodore Roosevelt, which served as his home from 1885 until his death in 1919.