Thread highlighting The Post series assessing important aspects of the Trump presidency - ‘The 45th President’
Allegations of racism have marked Trump’s presidency and become key issue as election nears @gregpmiller https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-race-record/2020/09/23/332b0b68-f10f-11ea-b796-2dd09962649c_story.html?tid=ss_tw
Trump promised to bring China to heel. He didn’t and the result is a pitched conflict between the world’s two major powers. @DavidNakamura https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-china-xi-biden/2020/10/11/9c6e3146-0270-11eb-a2db-417cddf4816a_story.html?tid=ss_tw
Spin, hyperbole and deception: How Trump claimed credit for an Obama veterans achievement @AshleyRParker https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/23/trump-obama-veterans-choice-act/
Tumult at home, ailing alliances abroad: Why Trump’s America has been a ‘gift’ to Putin @PhilipRucker @shaneharris https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-russia-putin/2020/10/24/4edb462e-13bb-11eb-ba42-ec6a580836ed_story.html?tid=ss_tw
How Trump abandoned his pledge to ‘drain the swamp’ @jdawsey1 @PostRoz @Fahrenthold https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-drain-the-swamp/2020/10/24/52c7682c-0a5a-11eb-9be6-cf25fb429f1a_story.html?tid=ss_tw
Ballrooms, candles and luxury cottages: During Trump’s term, millions of government and GOP dollars have flowed to his properties @Fahrenthold @jdawsey1 @OConnellPostbiz @anu_narayan https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ballrooms-candles-and-luxury-cottages-during-trumps-term-millions-of-government-and-gop-dollars-have-flowed-to-his-propertiesmar-a-lago-charged-the-government-3-apiece-for-glasses-of-water-for-trump-and-the-japanese-leader/2020/10/27/186f20a2-1469-11eb-bc10-40b25382f1be_story.html?tid=ss_tw
Trump’s conservative imprint on the federal judiciary gives Democrats a playbook — if they win @seungminkim https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/court-barrett-senate-trump/2020/10/25/d9eed9c0-16bc-11eb-befb-8864259bd2d8_story.html?tid=ss_tw
How Trump waged war on his own government @Reinlwapo @thamburger @eilperin @afreedma https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-federal-civil-servants/2020/10/28/86f9598e-122a-11eb-ba42-ec6a580836ed_story.html?tid=ss_tw
Trump put up walls to immigrants, with stinging rhetoric and barriers made of steel and regulation @NickMiroff @mariasacchetti @jdawsey1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-immigration-walls/2020/10/31/e43453cc-09a3-11eb-991c-be6ead8c4018_story.html?tid=ss_tw
How Trump learned to embrace the executive order, which he once called an ‘easy way out’ @agearan https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-executive-orders/2020/10/29/c2329162-17bd-11eb-aeec-b93bcc29a01b_story.html?tid=ss_tw
The project was spearheaded by @DanEggenWPost with contributions from several other editors. Read it all in one place: https://www.washingtonpost.com/45th-president/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_9