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Thursday, April 4 | - President Trump threatens to close the United States–Mexico border within one year if Mexico does not stop the "massive amounts of drugs" coming into the United States.[2]
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Week 117
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Friday, April 12 | - President Trump confirms reports that he is considering the release of detained undocumented immigrants into "sanctuary cities".[16]
- Linda McMahon's resignation becomes effective as head of the Small Business Administration. President Trump made the original announcement on March 29, 2019.[17]
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Week 118
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Monday, April 15 | - Attorney General William Barr issues an order directing immigration judges to deny posting of bail by asylum seekers.[18]
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Tuesday, April 16 | - President Trump uses the second veto of his Administration on a bipartisan resolution to end American involvement in the military campaign in Yemen. Congress had earlier voted to invoke the War Powers Act of 1973.[19]
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Thursday, April 18 | - Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein hold a press conference on the Mueller Report and, soon after, release it to Congress and the American public.[20]
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Week 121
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Monday, May 6 | - President Trump presents the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy to the Army Black Knights football team.[37] [38]
- President Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to golfer Tiger Woods.[39]
- Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin fails to meet the House Ways and Means Committee deadline to provide President Trump's tax returns.[40]
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Thursday, May 9 |
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Friday, May 10 | - The Trump Administration raises tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports.[47]
- House Ways and Means Committee chairman Richard Neal subpoenas the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service for the tax returns of President Trump.[48]
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Saturday, May 11 | - Effective day of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's resignation.[49]
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Week 122
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Monday, May 13 |
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Tuesday, May 14 | - President Trump visits Cameron LNG Export Facility.[51]
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Thursday, May 16 |
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Friday, May 17 | - President Trump speaks at the National Association of Realtors Legislative Meetings and Trade Expo.[55]
- The Trump administration rejects a Democratic subpoena by the House of Representatives for President Trump's tax returns.[56]
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Week 123
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Monday, May 20 | - A federal judge from the DC District Court denies President Trump's bid to quash a House Oversight Committee subpoena for years of his financial records from his accounting firm. The judge also declined a request by the president's lawyers to stay his order pending their appeal.[57]
- The Department of Justice moves to block former White House counsel Don McGahn from testifying to Congress about the Mueller report citing the separation of powers.[58]
- President Trump holds a rally in Montoursville, Pennsylvania.[59]
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Tuesday, May 21 | | |
Wednesday, May 22 | - President Trump leaves a meeting on infrastructure with senior Democrats after only three minutes. Shortly afterwards, he holds a surprise press conference in the Rose Garden.[60]
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Thursday, May 23 | | |
Friday, May 24 | - President Trump travels to Japan aboard Air Force One for a four-day state visit.[61]
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Saturday, May 25 | - President Trump arrives in Tokyo, Japan.[62]
- The New York Times reported the White House never followed through with stripping John Brennan of his security clearance, as Trump had asserted he had on August 15, 2018.[63]
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Sunday, May 26 | - President Trump meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe at Mobara Country Club.[64]
- President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe attend a sumo tournament.[65]
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Week 124
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Monday, May 27 |
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Tuesday, May 28 | - President Trump boards the USS Wasp (LHD-1) in Yokosuka, Japan.[69]
- President Trump departs Japan.[70]
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Wednesday, May 29 | - Robert Mueller announces his resignation as Special Counsel in a press conference and speaks publicly about his report.[71]
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Week 124
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Saturday, June 1 | - President Trump announces via tweet that White House counsel Emmet Flood will be leaving his post on June 14.[73]
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Sunday, June 2 | - President Trump delivers an evening speech at the Ford's Theater's annual fundraising gala.[74]
- President Trump travels to the United Kingdom aboard Air Force One for a three-day state visit.[75]
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Week 125
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Monday, June 3 |
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Tuesday, June 4 | - President Trump holds a bilateral meeting and joint press conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May at 10 Downing Street.[82]
- President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump hosts a black-tie dinner at Winfield House.[83]
- Hope Hicks, a former aide to President Trump, and Annie Donaldson, a former McGahn aide, are instructed by the White House not to comply with House Judiciary Committee subpoenas.[84]
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Wednesday, June 5 |
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Thursday, June 6 |
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Friday, June 7 | - President Trump drops threats of tariffs against Mexico after the United States reaches a deal with Mexico over Latin American immigration.[93] [94] [95]
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Week 126
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Monday, June 10 |
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Tuesday, June 11 | - President Trump visits Southwest Iowa Renewable Energy Facility.[97]
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Week 127
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Tuesday, June 18 | - President Trump holds a rally in Orlando, Florida, and formally announces his reelection campaign for president in the upcoming 2020 election. During the rally President Trump vowed if "elected to a second term we will cure cancer and ends AIDS' and "come up with the cures to many, many problems, to many, many diseases".[103]
- President Trump withdraws the nomination of Patrick Shanahan to be Secretary of Defense and names Mark Esper as his replacement.[104]
- President Trump reaffirms that the five teenagers in the Central Park jogger case were guilty, refusing to apologize for the ads he published in 1989 calling for the death penalty for them.[105]
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Wednesday, June 19 | - President Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist Arthur Laffer.[106]
- EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler announces a roll-back of the Clean Power Plan. States will now be allowed to set their own carbon emissions standards for coal-fired power plants. EPA authority on carbon emissions will be limited going forward.[107]
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Thursday, June 20 |
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Friday, June 21 | - President Trump warns Iran after its Revolutionary Guard acknowledges shooting down an American drone in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran claims the drone "violated Iranian airspace", while U.S. military claims the drone was shot down over "international airspace" and the action was "an unprovoked attack on a U.S. surveillance asset".[109] [110] [111] [112]
- President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump hosts the second congressional picnic in the White House South Lawn.[113]
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Saturday, June 22 | - President Trump announces that he will delay ICE raids on immigrants living illegally in 10 major cities by two weeks to allow Congress to develop a solution for the United States–Mexico border problem.[114]
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Week 128
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Monday, June 24 | - President Trump announces retaliatory sanctions on Iran in response to Iran's actions in taking down a United States military drone on June 20.[115]
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Wednesday, June 26 | - President Trump travels to Asia for a four-day trip to visit foreign leaders at the 2019 G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan from June 28 to June 29.[121]
- Robert Mueller announces he will testify before the House Intelligence Committee and the Judiciary Committee in public hearings to be held on July 17.[122]
- EPA official William Wehrum resigns amid claims of possible ethics violations.[123]
- Presidential aide Kellyanne Conway fails to appear at a House Oversight Committee meeting and will be subpoenaed about her possible violations of the Hatch Act.[124]
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Thursday, June 27 | - Mark Morgan is picked to take over the U.S. Border Patrol and Matt Albence will return as acting director of ICE.[125] [126]
- Supreme Court blocks a citizenship question from being included in the 2020 census and says "the administration provided a contrived justification" for including it.[127] [128] [129]
- President Trump arrives in Osaka, Japan.[130]
- President Trump holds a bilateral meeting and dinner with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.[131]
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Friday, June 28 |
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Saturday, June 29 | - President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, declaring a truce in the trade war.[134]
- President Trump holds a bilateral meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[135]
- President Trump arrives in Seoul, South Korea.[136]
- Asked about Putin's comment that "western-style liberalism is obsolete," Trump replied "it's so sad to look at what's happening in San Francisco and a couple of other cities which are run by an extraordinary group of liberal people. I don't know what they're thinking."[137]
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Sunday, June 30 | - President Trump holds a bilateral meeting and joint press conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the Blue House.[138]
- President Trump visits the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), accompanied by South Korean President Moon Jae-in.[139]
- President Trump briefly walks into the northern side of the Joint Security Area of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), accompanied by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to enter North Korea.[140]
- President Trump returns to the southern side of the Joint Security Area of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.[141]
- President Trump participate in a DMZ summit with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un at the Inter-Korean Freedom House on the southern side of the Joint Security Area of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
- President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un at the Inter-Korean Freedom House.[142]
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