More than 103,000 jobs were created in March as the unemployment rate remained stable into April. At the start of the quarter, the U.S. stock market experienced daily sell-offs and recoveries due to a burgeoning U.S.–China trade war and increased political scrutiny of American business icons Amazon and Facebook.[1] [2] In May, the U.S. Labor Department reported a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.9% for April and an increase of 164,000 jobs. Wages grew by 2.6%. Hiring gains were broad based with jobs being added in the fields of professional and business services, health care, manufacturing, and mining.[3]
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Week 64
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| Monday, April 2 | - President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump participate in the White House Easter Egg Roll.[5]
- Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov claims Trump invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House.[6]
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| Tuesday, April 3 |
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| Wednesday, April 4 | - President Trump signs a proclamation directing the deployment of the National Guard to the U.S.–Mexico border to fight illegal immigration.[9]
- President Trump attends a campaign rally in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia.[10]
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Week 65
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| Monday, April 9 | - After the FBI and federal prosecutors raid the home, hotel room, and office of President Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, Trump brands the raid as "an attack on our country in a true sense".[11]
- Regarding firing special counsel Robert Mueller, President Trump says, "Many people have said you should fire him", and "We'll see what happens".[12]
- President Trump meets with military leaders to discuss a response to poison gas attacks in Syria.[13]
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| Wednesday, April 11 | - President Trump signs a bill that reduces legal protections for websites that enable sex trafficking.[17]
- Nadia Schadlow, deputy national security adviser for strategy, resigns effective April 27.[18]
- President Trump hires a new member for his legal team, Joanna Hendon, a partner at the New York firm Spears & Imes.[19]
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| Thursday, April 12 | - President Trump launches a task force to "conduct a thorough evaluation of the operations and finances of the United States Postal System".[20]
- President Trump tweets a warning that "an attack on Syria could be very soon or not soon at all!"[21]
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Week 66
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| Monday, April 16 | - President Trump's new lawyer, Joanna Hendon, a partner at New York's Spears & Imes law firm, represents him at a hearing concerning Michael Cohen.[30]
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| Tuesday, April 17 | - President Trump meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe for the first of two days of meetings and events to discuss trade, security, and Trump's expected meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un this spring.[31]
- President Trump announces that CIA director Mike Pompeo had travelled to North Korea over the Easter Weekend and met with Kim Jong-un to discuss and plan for Trump's visit.[32]
- UN Ambassador Nikki Haley responds to a claim by White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow that she was confused when she announced a rollout of sanctions on Russia by commenting, "With all due respect, I don't get confused."[33]
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| Wednesday, April 18 | - President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe conduct a joint news conference after their second day of meetings.[34]
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| Thursday, April 19 | - Rudy Giuliani, as well as Jane and Marty Raskin, join President Trump's legal team. The Raskins are married law partners based in Coral Gables, Florida.[35] [36]
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| Saturday, April 21 | - President Trump uses Twitter to attack New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman following an article she wrote about his poor treatment of Michael Cohen and that Cohen may cooperate with prosecutors as a result.[37]
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| Sunday, April 22 | - President Trump tweets a claim that North Korea has agreed to denuclearize.[38] [39]
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| Monday, April 23 |
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| Tuesday, April 24 | - The Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs announces a delay in the hearing for Trump veterans administration nominee Ronny Jackson.[42]
- President Trump holds a bilateral meeting and joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the White House.[43]
- President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump host their first state dinner in honor of French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte.[44]
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Week 68
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| Monday, April 30 | - Stormy Daniels files a defamation lawsuit against Trump for his "total con job" tweet about the forensic sketch of a man who allegedly threatened her in 2011.[53]
- President Trump holds a bilateral meeting and joint press conference with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari at the White House.[54]
- Thomas Homan, acting director of ICE, announces his retirement effective June 2018.[55] [56]
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| Tuesday, May 1 | - President Trump presents the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy to the Army Black Knights football team for its victory over both Air Force and Navy last year.[57]
- During an interview with NBC News, Harold Bornstein, Donald Trump's longtime personal medical doctor for over 35 years, says Keith Schiller, director of Oval Office operations for the White House, another unnamed "large man", and Alan Garten, The Trump Organization chief legal officer, had taken Donald Trump's medical records from Bornstein's office on February 3, 2017, without obtaining a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) release statement signed by Donald Trump.[58]
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| Wednesday, May 2 |
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| Thursday, May 3 | - President Trump speaks at the National Day of Prayer service in the Rose Garden.[60]
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| Friday, May 4 | - Over the preceding week, four EPA officials have resigned: Albert "Kell" Kelly, the top Superfund advisor; Pasquale Perrotta, the head of Administrator Pruitt's security detail; Associate Administrator Liz Bowman; and today John Konkus, deputy Associate Administrator for public affairs.
- The Trump administration ends temporary protected status for Hondurans, leaving potentially 57,000 people vulnerable to deportation.[61]
- President Trump and Vice President Pence speak at National Rifle Association of America's annual convention in Dallas, Texas.[62] [63]
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Week 69
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| Monday, May 7 |
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| Tuesday, May 8 | - The White House denies a New York Times report that President Trump has privately told French President Emmanuel Macron the U.S. is withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal.[66]
- President Trump announces in a speech that the U.S. will withdraw from the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal and reinstate sanctions.[67]
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| Wednesday, May 9 |
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| Thursday, May 10 | - President Trump welcomes three American detainees released from North Korea.[69]
- Homeland Security director Kirstjen Nielsen considers resigning after being berated by the president during a cabinet meeting.[70]
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| Friday, May 11 | - Kelly Sadler, a White House official, mocks Senator John McCain, saying his opposition to Gina Haspel, Trump's nominee for CIA director, "doesn't matter, he's dying anyway".[71]
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Week 70
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| Monday, May 14 | - A report shows the Trump administration is concerned about chemically polluted water supplies near military installations.[72] [73]
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| Tuesday, May 15 |
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| Wednesday, May 16 | - President Trump submits a disclosure of personal finances which is required by the Office of Government Ethics. Trump acknowledges that Michael Cohen was paid between $100,000 and $250,000 in 2017.[76] [77]
- President Trump meets with Uzbekistani President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at the White House.[78]
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Week 71
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| Monday, May 21 | - President Trump requests the Justice Department investigate whether his campaign was "infiltrated" by the FBI. The inspector general will review the FBI's counterintelligence investigation of the 2016 Trump campaign.[85]
- Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin announces the administration will not implement its planned tariffs on China.[86]
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| Tuesday, May 22 | - President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the White House to discuss the denuclearization of North Korea.[87] [88]
- Reporters from CNN and The Associated Press are denied entry and forcibly removed from the PFAS National Leadership Summit event at the EPA where Scott Pruitt was to speak.[89]
- President Trump signs the Securely Expediting Clearances Through Reporting Transparency Act of 2018.[90] [91]
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| Thursday, May 24 | - President Trump posthumously pardons heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson.[92]
- President Trump cancels the proposed June nuclear summit with North Korea via a letter to Kim Jong-un.
- The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act was signed into United States federal law by President Donald Trump on May 24, 2018.[93] [94] [95] [96]
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| Wednesday, June 6 | - Raj Shah announces via email that Kelly Sadler, a member of the White House communications staff, is "...no longer employed within the Executive Office of the President".[100]
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| Thursday, June 7 | - President Trump holds a bilateral meeting and joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe at the White House.[101]
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| Friday, June 8 |
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| Saturday, June 9 | - After President Trump leaves the 44th G7 summit early, he withdraws the United States' endorsement of a joint communique by the G7, and labels Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau "Very dishonest & meek".[105]
- President Trump also addresses Trudeau by saying the Trump tariffs targeting Canada "are in response to his of 270% on dairy!" In the tweet, Trump did not cite national security, the legal basis for implementing the tariff.[106]
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| Sunday, June 10 | - Trade adviser Peter Navarro says there is "a special place in hell for" Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for having employed "bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J. Trump and then tries to stab him in the back on the way out the door... that comes right from Air Force One."[107]
- Politico reports that Trump frequently and routinely would tear up papers he received, resulting in government officials' taping them together for archiving to ensure he had not violated the Presidential Records Act.[108]
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| Monday, June 11 |
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| Tuesday, June 12 | - President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un participate in a summit at the Capella Hotel in Sentosa, Singapore.[110]
- President Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un sign a joint declaration titled "Joint Statement of President Donald J. Trump of the United States of America and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the Singapore Summit".
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| Friday, June 15 | - The Department of Homeland Security states that between April 19 and May 31, 2018, there were 1,995 migrant children separated at the Mexico–United States border from 1,940 adults who are being held for criminal prosecution for an illegal border crossing.[111]
- President Trump says in response to the situation: "I hate to see separation of parents and children... I hate the children being taken away." Trump then falsely blames the Democrats for the situation when it was the Trump administration's own "zero tolerance" policy announced on April 6, 2018, which is responsible for spurring the separations.[112] He also says he "certainly wouldn't sign the more moderate" immigration bill proposed by House leaders with input from moderate Republicans and the White House.[113]
- The Washington Post quotes a White House official as saying that Trump's decision to enforce the current immigration law is "force people to the table" to negotiate on laws in Congress.[114] Meanwhile, Trump tweets: "Any Immigration Bill MUST HAVE full funding for the Wall, end Catch & Release, Visa Lottery and Chain, and go to Merit Based Immigration."[115]
- In June 2018, Trump falsely claims that a report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz "totally exonerates" him, despite the report's having nothing to do with the 2017 special counsel investigation, the Trump campaign or Russia. (The report was instead focused on the FBI's 2016 investigation of the Hillary Clinton email controversy.)[116] [117] [118] [119]
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Week 75
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Week 76
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| Monday, June 25 | - President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan at the White House.[121]
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