Donald Trump's unprecedented first year in the White House in numbers - Independent

19/1/2018

Donald Trump's unprecedented first year in the White House in numbers

From his tweets to his global visits, his poll numbers to US job numbers it has been quite a 12 months for the US president

Chris Stevenson International Editor

As we approach the anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration as president on 20 January, it is clear that it has been 12 months full of incident.

Mr Trump has drastically changed how the president interacts with everyone from world leaders to the press, particularly in terms of his communication with the masses via Twitter.

His White House has been at the centre of a number of controversies, while Mr Trump himself has been involved in a number of spats. Here is his extraordinary year in numbers.

This is how the US economy performed in Trump’s first year

2500+ – The number of times Mr Trump has tweeted in his first 12 months, including 174 mentions of “Fake News”

2 – The number of times Mr Trump has posted directly from the official @POTUS account, rather than his personal @realDonaldTrump account. During his last year as president, Mr Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama used the @POTUS account 139 times.

96 – Number of references to the Fox News show Fox & Friends. Mr Trump has lavished praise on the right-wing show a number of times and several of his tweets on various other topics have appeared at the same time as the programme is discussing an issue. The President has also mentioned Fox News a further 45 times.

58 – The number of executive orders signed by Mr Trump since becoming president. Mr Obama signed 41 orders during his first year, while George W Bush signed 56. Mr Trump’s total of 58 is the highest for any single presidential year (from January 20 to January 19) so far this century.

4 – Mr Trump has visited a golf course every four days on average during his first year. At least 88 rounds have been played, although the White House has said he does not play every day he visits a property. The President had criticised Mr Obama – who played 29 times in his first year – for his time on the course.

14 – Number of different countries visited by Mr Trump since becoming president. His itinerary has included China, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, Germany and France, but not the UK. Mr Obama visited 21 different countries during his first year in office, including the UK.

Guess the 70s Song from Just the First Line (Quiz)

HowStuffWorks.com

This Photo Has Not Been Edited, Look Closer

HistoryInOrbit.com

Can you diagnose more car problems than most men?

Zoo.com

by Taboola Sponsored Links

$1.75m – The General Services Administration showed the President’s office spent that amount on White House furniture, rugs, wallpaper and other furnishings as the Trump family renovated the 55,000sq-foot mansion and surrounding buildings.

25 seconds – Mr Trump is known for his strong handshakes and there have been a number of examples in his first year, but he met his match in French President Emmanuel Macron on a visit to Paris in July when seemingly neither leader wanted to be the first to let go.

34% – The amount of turnover in the White House in the past 12 months, representing staff that had been fired, resigned or reassigned, according to Kathryn Dunn-Tenpas, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Mr Trump’s first-year turnover rate is exactly double that of Ronald Reagan’s 17 per cent in 1981, which is the next highest in the past four decades.

Processing Trump’s first year – from fake news to a federal probe

How Trump's first year has decimated federal bureaucracy

Trump to end first year as president without hosting a state dinner

3.2 million – The rise in the number of Americans who did not have health insurance in 2017 according to polling company Gallup, as Mr Trump and his administration looked to repeal elements of Mr Obama’s flagship healthcare policy.

8 – The number of prototypes built as part of Mr Trump’s drive to put a border wall up between the US and Mexico, a flagship element of his immigration plan.

2 million – The number of jobs added in the US across 2017, with December being the 87th straight month of gains.

37 per cent – Donald Trump’s current approval rating, according to Gallup. This is the lowest rating for any US president since the end of the Second World War. Gallup recorded Barack Obama as having a rating of 50 per cent at the end of his first year as president, while Bill Clinton had a rating of 54 per cent. George W Bush enjoyed a rating of 83 per cent.