Donald J. Trump
Former President
His Supreme Court appointees doomed Roe, and he has privately supported a 16-week ban.
More than perhaps any other Republican, former President Donald J. Trump is responsible for the current state of abortion access: He appointed three of the six Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade and the judge who invalidated the approval of the abortion drug mifepristone. But he has been loath to talk about abortion, and when asked about it, he has given muddled and contradictory answers.
His actions as president may have caused irreversible damage to the global climate.
Donald J. Trump has mocked climate science and championed the production of the fossil fuels chiefly responsible for warming the planet.
He says the war is not a vital U.S. interest.
Former President Donald J. Trump has said that the war “must end” but that “this fight is far more important for Europe than it is for the U.S.”
His policies cemented hard-line immigration stances in the G.O.P. mainstream.
We are going to restore and secure America’s borders just
like we had them before —
best ever.
We built the wall and now we will add to it.
When I return to office, the travel ban
is coming back even bigger than before and much stronger
than before.
He has denied any wrongdoing and raged at the justice system.
The baseless indictment of me by the Biden administration’s
weaponized “Department of Injustice” will go down as among
the most horrific abuses of power
in the history of our country.
I think it already is.
I will appoint a real special prosecutor
to go after the most corrupt president in the history
of the United States of America,
Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family.
Name a special prosecutor, and all others
involved with the destruction of our elections, our borders
and our country itself.
They’re destroying our country.
He promotes himself as tough on China, but his record and rhetoric are not so straightforward.
I will implement a bold series of reforms
to completely eliminate dependence on China
in all critical areas.
We will revoke China’s most-favored nation trade status
and adopt a four-year plan to phase out all Chinese imports
of essential goods, everything from electronics to steel
to pharmaceuticals.
This will include strong protections to ensure China
cannot circumvent restrictions by passing goods through
conduit countries.
We will also adopt new rules to stop U.S. companies
from pouring investments into China
and to stop China from buying up America, allowing
all of those investments that clearly
serve American interests.
We’re not going to allow bad things to happen
to our country anymore, and we will eliminate federal
contracts for any company that outsources to China.
He deployed traditional Republican moves like tax cuts alongside protectionism.
As president, Donald J. Trump mixed Republican orthodoxy on the economy with populism.
He rolled back transgender rights while he was president, and he wants to go further.
I will immediately sign a new executive order
to cut federal funding
for any school pushing critical race theory
transgender insanity —
[applause]
and other inappropriate
racial, sexual or political content on our children.
I will keep men out of women’s sports.
I will sign a law prohibiting child sexual mutilation.
He has called for impeachment.
Former President Donald J. Trump has been the most extreme among the G.O.P. field in his position regarding the man who ousted him from office, calling not just for an inquiry to determine whether Mr. Biden committed impeachable offenses, but for impeachment outright.
He presents himself as a defender of union workers while denouncing union leaders.
Former President Donald J. Trump pitched himself from the start as an ally of the blue-collar worker. That message helped him make inroads among union members, traditionally a Democratic constituency, though his policy record on labor issues is mixed.
He says he wouldn’t cut the programs but hasn’t explained how he would keep them solvent.
Former President Donald J. Trump has said he would not make any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits. However, he has also opposed raising taxes to bring in more funding for them, which means his plans would not keep the programs solvent for the long term. A spokesman for his campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
He signed criminal justice reforms, but has endorsed extreme responses to criminal acts.
While his signing of the bipartisan First Step Act as president was a major turn away from “tough on crime” policies, Mr. Trump has repeatedly taken hard-line positions on crime that extend beyond the boundaries of the law.
He vowed to “fully support” Israel, but he has also criticized Israeli leadership.
ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR After Hamas attacked Israel in October, former President Donald J. Trump first blamed what he described as weakness from President Biden — but, days later, he criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and Israeli intelligence, saying they had not been prepared.
He tried to overturn the 2020 election and still promotes the lie that it was stolen.
Donald J. Trump — the first president of the United States to refuse to accept the outcome of a democratic election — has sought both to delegitimize the electoral system and to dehumanize his political opponents, echoing language used by fascist dictators like Hitler and Benito Mussolini in describing liberals as “vermin” who threaten the nation more than foreign enemies.
He wants to close the Department of Education and impose ideological requirements for schools to get funding.
Former President Donald J. Trump wants to eliminate the Department of Education, a proposal he also made during his 2016 campaign, but did not try to get through Congress after taking office. He sought multiple times to cut the department’s budget, but each time lawmakers appropriated more money than he had requested.
He wasn’t successful in repealing Obamacare when he was president, but he says Republicans should “never give up” trying to do so.
Former President Donald J. Trump said in November that he was “seriously looking at alternatives” to the Affordable Care Act. Repealing that law was a major promise of his 2016 campaign, but Congress defeated such bills while he was president, and the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the law backed by his administration.