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Week 130
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Thursday, July 11 | - President Trump speaks to attendees at the President's Social Media Summit.[9]
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Sunday, July 14 | - President Trump tweets that progressive Democratic congresswomen should "go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came", drawing widespread criticism, even from some Republicans.[14] [15] [16] [17]
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Week 131
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Monday, July 15 | - President Trump launches "Made in America Week" at the White House by showcasing products made in all fifty states.[18] [19]
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Tuesday, July 16 | - President Trump denies that his previous tweets made towards several Democratic congresswomen were in any way racist.[20] [21] [22]
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Wednesday, July 17 |
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Thursday, July 18 | - President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte at the White House.[27]
- President Trump claims he did in fact try to stop the crowds chants and "was unhappy" with the chants of "send her back" from his supporters during the Greensville rally on July 17.[28]
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Week 132
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Friday, July 26 | - The Supreme Court rules in a 5–4 decision that President Trump may use military funding for construction of the border wall.[37] [38] [39]
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Sunday, July 28 |
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Week 133
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Week 133
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Sunday, August 4 | - A mass shooting occurs in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio, at 1:00a.m.—less than 24 hours after the El Paso shootings—leaving nine dead and at least 27 injured. The gunman, Connor Stephen Betts, is killed at the scene attempting to enter the Ned Peppers Bar.[57] [58]
- In New Jersey, President Trump declares "hate has no place in our country" and suggests that mental illness played a role in both shootings.[59]
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Week 134
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Monday, August 5 | - President Trump addresses the nation in regards to the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, offering his condolences to the victims and their families.[60]
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Week 135
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Monday, August 12 | - The Trump administration announces a new immigration policy designed to limit the number of green card applicants from legal migrants.[64] [65]
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Tuesday, August 13 |
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Thursday, August 15 |
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Friday, August 16 | - President Trump expresses interest in purchasing Greenland from Denmark. Both Danish and Greenlandic officials reject the proposal.[69]
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Week 136
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Monday, August 19 | | |
Tuesday, August 20 | - President Trump holds a bilateral meeting with Romanian president Klaus Iohannis at the White House.[70]
- President Trump asserts that any Jew who votes for a Democrat is either, "disloyal or unintelligent".[71]
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Wednesday, August 21 | - President Trump proclaims "I am the chosen one" to reporters at the White House.[72] [73]
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Thursday, August 22 | - President Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to NBA legend Bob Cousy. He also jokingly adds he would like to "give myself a Medal of Honor".[74] [75]
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Friday, August 23 | - President Trump asserts that he reserves the right to order U.S. companies to stop doing business with China.[76] [77] [78] [79] [80]
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Week 137
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Monday, August 26 |
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Wednesday, August 28 | - President Trump announces a new administration rule that citizenship will no longer be automatic for children of some U.S. military members living overseas.[92]
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Thursday, August 29 |
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Friday, August 30 | - President Trump tweets a high-resolution aerial image of a failed Iranian missile launch. Ankit Panda, who specializes in analyzing satellite imagery at the Federation of American Scientists, remarked "The resolution is amazingly high. I would think it's probably below well below 20 centimeters, which is much higher than anything I've ever seen," adding the image disclosed "some pretty amazing capabilities that the public simply wasn't privy to before this."[97] The image appeared to be a snapshot of a physical photograph, which a defense official said had been included in Trump's intelligence briefing that morning.[98] [99] Satellite tracking analysts concluded the image was likely taken by the USA-224 reconnaissance satellite.[100] [101] Some intelligence veterans expressed dismay that Trump tweeted the image,[102] which he asserted he had the "absolute right to do".[103]
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Saturday, August 31 |
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Week 137
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Week 138
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Thursday, September 5 | - President Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jerry West.[109]
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Friday, September 6 | - A report shows that the United States added 130,000 jobs in August, missing economists' expectations; the national unemployment rate remains unchanged at 3.7%.[110]
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Week 139
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Monday, September 9 |
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Tuesday, September 10 |
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Wednesday, September 11 | - President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump lay a wreath at the September 11 memorial at the Pentagon and later pay tribute to all the nearly three thousand Americans killed that day, pledging to continue to confront radical Islamic terrorism.[119]
- The Trump administration announces that it will ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, in response to numerous mysterious respiratory diseases that appear to have been caused by vaping.[120]
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Thursday, September 12 | | |
Friday, September 13 | - Trump administration opens huge reserve in Alaska to drilling.[121]
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Sunday, September 15 | | |
Week 140
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Monday, September 16 |
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Tuesday, September 17 |
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Wednesday, September 18 | - President Trump visits San Diego, California, and meets with Border Patrol personnel.[126]
- President Trump names Robert O'Brien as the next National Security Advisor.[127] [128]
- President Trump announces on Twitter that he is revoking California's ability to set its own auto emissions standards.[129] [130] [131]
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Thursday, September 19 | - President Trump meets with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in an unannounced meeting. This was the first face-to-face meeting between the two men.[132]
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Friday, September 20 | - Australian prime minister Scott Morrison, accompanied by his wife, begins a state visit, his second during the Trump presidency.[133]
- President Trump holds a bilateral meeting and joint press conference with Australian prime minister Scott Morrison at the White House.[134]
- President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump host their second and final state dinner in honor of Australian prime minister Scott Morrison and his wife, Jenny.[135]
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Week 141
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Monday, September 23 |
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Tuesday, September 24 |
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Wednesday, September 25 | - President Trump holds bilateral meetings with Japanese prime minister Shinzō Abe, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele at the UN General Assembly in New York City.[153] [154] [155]
- A whistleblower complaint that was filed on August 12 is declassified and released to the public by a 421–0 vote in the House of Representatives. It accuses President Trump of "abus[ing] his office for personal gain" by "[soliciting] interference" from Ukraine in the 2020 election and that the White House took steps to cover it up". Michael Atkinson, the Inspector General for the Intelligence Community, had deemed the complaint "urgent and credible" and submitted it to the acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire.[156] [157]
- A release of President Trump's call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy shows that President Trump repeatedly pressured Zelenskyy to investigate the potential 2020 presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter with Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr.[158]
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Thursday, September 26 | - President Trump visits the United States Mission to the United Nations.[159]
- Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire meets with the House Intelligence Committee to discuss the whistleblower complaint and the transcript of the phone conversation between the two presidents. Maguire supported his decision to delay informing Congress of the whistleblower document as required but instead having diverted the complaint to the Justice Department and the White House for review.[160] [161]
- The Senate confirms Eugene Scalia as the 28th U.S. secretary of labor in a vote of 53–44.[162]
- The Senate confirms General John E. Hyten as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a vote of 77–2.[163]
- The Administration says it plans to allow only 18,000 refugees to resettle in the United States in the 2020 fiscal year, its lowest level since the modern program began in 1980.[164] [165]
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Friday, September 27 | - President Trump celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month at the White House.[166]
- President Trump's special envoy for Ukraine Kurt Volker resigns amid reports that he introduced Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to Ukrainian officials.[167]
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Saturday, September 28 | | |
Sunday, September 29 | | |
Week 142
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Monday, September 30 |
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