There's
no doubt President Donald Trump's first year in office has been an eventful one
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This is a look at
President Donald Trump's first year in office, from A to Z:
AFP
report continues:
AMERICA
FIRST: Trump's most sacred mantra.
BAN:
As in travel. With the stated goal of keeping out terrorists, Trump decreed
successive bans -- always challenged in court -- on arrivals of people from
half a dozen mainly Muslim countries.
CLIMATE
CHANGE: Trump shocked the world by pulling the United States out of the Paris
global warming accord, arguing it would hurt the US economy.
DREAMERS:
A term for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to America illegally as
children and until now protected from deportation under the so-called DACA
program, which Trump is phasing out.
EXCLAMATION
POINT: Perhaps Trump's favorite punctuation mark, often found at the end of his
myriad tweets.
FAKE
NEWS: How the president describes the output of mainstream media, which he
accuses of treating him unfairly by chasing what he considers non-stories --
such as, he says, Russia's alleged interference to help him win election -- and
not giving him credit when he deserves it.
GORSUCH:
The last name of Neil Gorsuch, the conservative judge that Trump nominated to
the US Supreme Court. Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate after a year of
political arm-wrestling what many see as one of Trump's chief victories since
taking office.
HEALTH
CARE: A central plank of Trump's campaign was repealing Barack Obama's
signature health care law that gave coverage to millions of Americans who
lacked it. Trump largely watched from the sidelines, albeit loudly, as his
divided Republican Party tried repeatedly -- and failed -- to come up with an
alternative.
IVANKA:
Trump's eldest daughter, once seen as a potentially moderating influence on her
unpredictable father, and perhaps a force to empower women. She has since set
the record straight, calling such expectations "unrealistic."
JOBS,
JOBS, JOBS: Trump promised upon taking office that his pro-growth economic
policy will create 25 million of them over a decade. While that may be a
stretch, the administration boasts that the jobless rate has fallen to a
16-year low under its watch.
KELLYANNE
CONWAY: The senior Trump aide who, just days after the inauguration, gave the
first sign that Trump's White House may take liberties with objective reality.
Conway coined the term "alternative facts" to defend exaggerated
attendance figures at Trump's swearing-in ceremony.
LOVE:
"Love fest", anyone? That was Trump's way of describing a recent
meeting with Republican lawmakers, the same day one of them accused him of
debasing the nation and another said he'd leave Congress to disassociate
himself from Trump and his behavior.
MOOCH
(The): The nickname of Anthony Scaramucci, the New York financier who lasted 10
days as Trump's communications director until he strolled through the revolving
door of a White House criticized as chaotic and riven by infighting.
NUKES:
North Korea has them and tests them and Trump has threatened to destroy that
country if it threatens America or its allies in Asia. Iran was feared to be
developing them, until world powers reached a landmark 2015 accord curbing its
nuclear drive, only to see Trump ignore advice from his allies and threaten to
tear up the accord.
OUTBURSTS:
They have been legion, setting the tone of Trump's presidency. He has publicly
humiliated his own attorney general, for instance, and locked horns with
everyone from war widows to black American football players to a judge of
Mexican heritage.
PUERTO
RICO: Hit by a ferocious hurricane in September in what became a PR nightmare
for Trump's administration and its disaster response -- exemplified by an image
of Trump tossing rolls of paper towels to survivors during a visit to the US
island territory.
(I)Q:
Trump voiced confidence his IQ is higher than that of Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson, who reportedly called Trump a moron, preceded by the F word, for
expressing interest in a huge increase in the US nuclear arsenal.
RUSSIA:
The country that, allegedly, conspired -- with team Trump collusion -- to help
defeat Hillary Clinton last November. It is arguably Trump's biggest headache,
and has prompted use of the word impeachment. He fired FBI chief James Comey to
thwart investigation of the case. The probe continued under special prosecutor
Robert Mueller and has yielded its first indictments: against ex-campaign
manager Paul Manafort and a one-time business partner Rick Gates, and a former
Trump campaign aide, George Papadopoulos, who has pleaded guilty to lying to
the FBI about Kremlin-related contacts.
STEVE
BANNON: The bruising, behind-the-scenes adviser who championed the
nationalist-populist agenda that swept Trump to power. Darling of the so-called
"alt-right," Bannon left the White House as it was reeling from the
fallout over Trump's equivocal response to a white supremacist rally in
Charlottesville.
TWITTER:
Trump's favorite conduit for reaching his political base, talking himself up
and attacking enemies real and perceived, at any time of day or night. He's got
more than 40 million followers!
USA:
Pronounced U-S-A, of course, but with the stress on the A; a frequent chant at
the campaign-style, stream-of-consciousness rallies Trump still holds.
VOTERS:
Trump's fired-up base, who propelled his insurgent bid for the White House and
who polls suggest still stand behind their man despite the turbulence of his
first year.
WALL:
The multi-billion dollar barrier Trump wants to build on the border with Mexico
with the stated goal of keeping out drug traffickers and undocumented
foreigners who Trump says steal US jobs.
XENOPHOBIA:
Intense fear of foreigners, a charge leveled against the Trump administration
for its anti-immigrant stance, and notably as part of legal challenges to its
travel ban.
YUGE:
A phonetic rendering of Trump's way of saying the word 'huge.'
ZERO: Another staple of Trump speak, a way to add negative emphasis, such as his assertion there was "zero collusion" between his campaign and Russia.
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