Donald Trump/First presidency

 Donald Trump/First presidency (US/Presidency)

Date	January 20, 2017 - January 20, 2021
Interest of	2021 Washington D.C. Riots
Description	The fist Donald Trump administration. Operation Warp Speed, Russiagate.
Participants	Mike Pence, Rex Tillerson, Mike Pompeo, Steven Mnuchin, Jim Mattis, Mark Esper, Jeff Sessions, William Barr, Ryan Zinke, David Bernhardt, Sonny Perdue, Wilbur Ross, Alexander Acosta, Eugene Scalia, Tom Price, Alex Azar, Ben Carson, Elaine Chao, Rick Perry, Dan Brouillette, Betsy DeVos, David Shulkin, Robert Wilkie, John F. Kelly, Kirstjen Nielsen, Chad Wolf, Scott Pruitt, Andrew Wheeler, Mick Mulvaney, Russell Vought, Dan Coats, John Ratcliffe, Mike Pompeo, Gina Haspel, Robert Lighthizer, Nikki Haley, Kelly Craft, Linda McMahon, Jovita Carranza, Reince Priebus, John F. Kelly, Mark Meadows

See also Donald Trump and Donald Trump/Second presidency

The presidency of Donald Trump began on January 20, 2017, when Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2021.

Official narrative

The official narrative in corporate media presented Trump as a Russian stooge, with the intense Russiagate narrative.

Official opposition narrative

The official opposition narrative of supporters presented Trump as an underdog fighting the deep state "draining the swamp". Neither of these narratives are correct if looking purely at what happened during his presidency.

Trump announces leaders for "Operation Warp Speed" to find a coronavirus vaccine.

Operation Warp Speed

Full article: Operation Warp Speed

His most monumental decision was the plan to jab every in the United States and the world with a mystery product allegedly developed and tested in record time.

China

Trump's stance on China became increasingly hostile towards the end of his presidency, starting the US-China trade war in 2018.

“We can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing, it's the greatest theft in the history of the world”
Donald Trump (May 2016) 

Friend of Israel

In a 2016 speech to AIPAC, Trump denounced the United Nations as an anti-Israeli opponent of democracy. “We will totally dismantle Iran’s global terrorist network, which is big and powerful—but not powerful like us,” he promised, without further explanation. He said he would “dismantle the disastrous deal” struck by President Barack Obama to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions, then seemed to say that he would enforce it, or perhaps the sanctions regime that preceded it, “like you haven’t seen the terms of a contract enforced.”

Trump’s State Department recognized Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, flying in the face of UN Security Council resolution 242 that the U.S. itself voted for.

The State Department also formally rejected its own 1978 legal finding that Israeli West Bank “settlements” were “inconsistent with international law.”

Stance against WHO

On May 19, 2020, in a letter to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Trump wrote:

I cannot allow American taxpayer dollars to continue to finance an organization that, in its present state, is so clearly not serving America’s interests.

In response Bill Gates turned to the EU for his fund raising campaign. He still went along, at the very least, with the Covid-19 lockdowns and other measures that dominated the last year of his presidency.

Breaking Iran Deal

The Trump administration reneged on the Obama administration's Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran. The move was done in order to reimpose economic sanctions, but they failed to create the human misery necessary to start the uprising the CIA wanted.

One of the most reckless actions during Trump’s term was probably to allow the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani at Baghdad airport on Jan. 3, 2020, risking a catastrophic war in the Middle East.

Continuing War in Syria

• While constantly talking of withdrawing from the conflict, the Trump administration continued arming and financing proxy forces in the 'civil' war.
• The administration introduced crushing economic sanctions on Syria, destroying its economy.
• In 2017, the US bombed Syria, justifying it with a false flag chemical weapons attack staged by local propagandists. On the night that Trump ordered a missile attack on Syrian territory he was hailed by corporate media, which had spent years delegitimizing him, as finally “presidential.” CNN's Fareed Zakaria said “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States last night. I think this was actually a big moment. For the first time really as president, he talked about international norms, international rules, about America’s role in enforcing justice in the world.”
• After the main proxy forces losing in battle, the US used Kurdish militias to occupy the eastern 1/3 of Syria, congaing the country's main wheat and oil production areas.

Israel

On December 6, 2017, Trump announced the United States recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and ordered the planning of the relocation of the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Killing 10 million in 10 days

In August 2019, Trump threatened to use an unknown type of WMD ready to be used in Afghanistan, possibly a next generation biological weapon. Stating:

We could win that war so fast if I wanted to kill 10 million people … which I don’t. I’m not looking to kill a big portion of that country [Afghanistan]...I have plans on Afghanistan that, if I wanted to win that war, Afghanistan would be wiped off the face of the Earth. It would be gone...It would be over in — literally, in 10 days. And I don’t want to do — I don’t want to go that route.

He specifically stated this it was not nuclear weapons:

As I’ve said, and I’ll say it any number of times – and this is not using nuclear – we could win that war in a week if we wanted to fight it, but I’m not looking to kill 10 million people,”

Relationship with Russia

The Trump administration, while on occasion voicing wishes for peaceful coexistence, terminated the Start Treaty on nuclear disarmament, imposed hard sanctions, tried to sabotage Russian business deals with other countries (Nord Stream 2; started a diplomatic, political and cultural cold war, and drastically increased the US military presence on Russia's border.

Large armaments increase

Trump increased the military budget to the largest since World War II (even adjusting for inflation), to $740 billion, plus more billions in hidden budget posts. The budget emphasized building more nuclear weapons, preparing for exotic flavors of warfare, and expanding America’s global military presence.

Despite rhetoric to the opposite effect, the Trump administration opened "additional bases in Afghanistan, Estonia, Cyprus, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Niger, Norway, Palau, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Somalia, Syria and Tunisia”.

Persecution of Assange

The Trump administration prosecuted Julian Assange on espionage charges after he was expelled from his asylum at the Ecuador embassy in London and requested his extradition from Britain. While Trump to the end denied a pardon to Assange, he issued a number of pardons for his cronies.

Presidential pardons

Trump granted executive clemency to 237 individuals charged or convicted of federal criminal offenses. Trump frequently granted executive clemency to his supporters or political allies, as in the cases of Rod Blagojevich, Michael Milken, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, and Clint Lorance, as well as Bernard Kerik. Trump granted clemency to five of his former campaign staff members and political advisers: Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Stephen Bannon, and George Papadopoulos. Trump also granted clemency to at least ten healthcare executives and doctors convicted in large-scale Medicare fraud schemes.

Trump pardoned four Blackwater mercenaries who had been convicted of killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians in Baghdad. The UN said the pardons violated international law.

Coup in Bolivia

The Trump administration was behind the 2020 Coup in Bolivia. At least six of the key coup plotters are alumni of the infamous School of the Americas, while General Williams Kaliman Romero and another figure was in the past as Bolivia’s military and police attachés in Washington. Kaliman and other military chiefs each received $1 million and top police officers were paid out $500,000 each. U.S. Charge d’affaires Bruce Williamson allegedly arranged for the monetary transactions.

The State Department allocated $100,000 to enable a company called CLS Strategies to mount a porpaganda campaign through social media. The CIA station in La Paz assumed control of Bolivia’s WhatsApp network in order to leak false information. On Twitter more than 68,000 fake anti-Morales tweets were released.

Venezuela's Oil

In August 2017, when Trump announced he was considering a 'military option' against Venezuela, the country with the world's largest oil reserves, President Nicolás Maduro's popularity appeared to have been boosted:

"He's doing Maduro a favour by reinforcing the nationalist position that the Gringos want to come and attack Venezuela. This has always been part of Maduro's rhetoric, and Chavez before him. It's not going to have any impact other than the government using it to further unify its people and attack the opposition," said lawyer Luis Alberto Rodriguez.

2021 US Capitol Riots

Dr. Dave Janda interviews Patrick Byrne "What Really Happened In The Oval Office".

Senators Find Trump ‘Not Guilty’ Of Abuse Of Power Impeachment Article

Trump played an interesting role, consistently tip-toeing between support for the rioters, and trying to not be removed by forces in the U.S Government. One could begin to question what his true thought process was, apart from the usual CCM answers that the US President was clueless just thinking what to do on the spot.

10 minutes after the first rioters entered the US Capitol during the 2021 Washington D.C. Riots Trump tweeted on Twitter;

“Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!"”
Donald Trump (January 6, 2021) 

And waited 8 minutes before tweeting "Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!". 20 minutes after the National Guard cleared the interior of the building, Trump tweeted

“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”
Donald Trump (January 6, 2021) 

Historical Knowledge

Imperialism

"Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" Trump burst out, referring to African countries and Haiti. Instead, he suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries like Norway.

The Toronto Star created a running list of the false claims Trump has made since taking office on January 20th 2017, which stood at over 350 by July 2017.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Jeb Bush	“Whatever his views are this morning, they might change this afternoon, and they were different than they were last night, and they'll be different tomorrow. ... They seem to be ever, ever-changing, depending on what crowd he's in front of. Sounds like a typical politician, by the way, where you get in front of one crowd and say one thing, and then say something else to another crowd that may want to hear a different view. All the things that Donald Trump railed against, he seems to be morphing into — it's kind of disturbing. ... He doesn't believe in things, this is all a game.”	Jeb Bush	August 2016
Jimmy Carter	““Well, he might be escalating it but I think that precedes Trump,” he said. “The United States has been the dominant character in the whole world and now we’re not anymore. And we’re not going to be. Russia’s coming back and India and China are coming forward.””	Jimmy Carter New York Times	2017

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Kevin Harrington	Deputy Assistant to the President for Strategic Planning	2017	2021	Minion of Peter Thiel. Attended Bilderberg/2024
Brian Hook	US/Director of Policy Planning	17 February 2017	1 September 2018
Brian Hook	US/Special Representative for Iran	1 September 2018	6 August 2020

 

Known Participants

20 of the 40 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Alexander Acosta	The US lawyer whose approval of a plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein avoided a public trial after being told that “Epstein was above his pay grade.”
William Barr	US deep state actor, US Attorney General
Ben Carson	US neurosurgeon and Republican politician. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021, and a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. In February 2022, he publicly warned against injecting the Covid jabs in children.
Elaine Chao	In the cabinets of George W Bush and Donald Trump.
Kelly Craft	US businesswoman
Nikki Haley	US diplomat, YGL 2011, RINO and Designated Survivor who contended the US 2024 Presidential election
Gina Haspel	Director of the Central Intelligence Agency 2018-21. "Godmother of the torture program".
John Kelly	Suspected US deep state functionary, held various posts including White House Chief of Staff, United States Secretary of Homeland Security
Robert Lighthizer	Covington & Burling lawyer. U.S. Trade Representative in the First Trump administration from 2017 to 2021, where he he was central in increasing tariffs and other trade barriers on China. First Bilderberg in 2024 where one of the subjects was "China". Similar role in Trump 2.0.
James Mattis	“Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.”
Linda McMahon	Wrestling executive who was administrator of the Small Business Administration from 2017 to 2019 under Donald Trump.
Mike Pence	Politician, Governor and former VP under Trump. Called a "decent guy" by Joe Biden. Called himself "Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order." Was named "to be hanged" by Trump mob and pressured Christopher C. Miller to deploy the national guard on January 6, the day of the D.C Capitol riots.
Sonny Perdue	US Politician, Governor of Georgia 2003-2011
Rick Perry	Longtime Governor of Texas, single Bilderberger
Mike Pompeo	Lawyer, US Secretary of State, CIA Director, friend & protegé of Mike Pence, advocated for the death penalty for Edward Snowden.
Tom Price	Resigned as Secretary of Health and Human Services following criticism of his use of private charters and military aircraft for travel
Scott Pruitt
John Ratcliffe	Became Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in 2025. Heritage Foundation.
Wilbur Ross	Multi-millionaire US financier. Bilderberg. US Secretary of Commerce since 2017
Rex Tillerson	Stated in 2017 that military action against North Korea was “on the table” if the country continued to develop its nuclear weapons

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:After Mossad Targeted Soleimani, Trump Pulled the Trigger	Article	3 January 2020	Jefferson Morley	Donald Trump has now fulfilled the wishes of Mossad. After proclaiming his intention to end America’s “stupid endless wars,” the president has effectively declared war on the largest country in the region in solidarity with Israel, the most unpopular country in the Middle East.
Document:British military presence near Venezuela ‘extremely concerning’	Article	5 February 2019	Phil Miller	“Britain’s recent history of catastrophic military interventions should rule out any UK participation in Donald Trump’s attempts to destabilise a democratically elected government in Venezuela.”
Document:Canada Takes A Hostage: Free Meng Wanzhou	Article	8 December 2018	Christopher Black	Canadians should be angry about these traitors isolating Canada from China, from Russia, from Iran and their great cultures, and condemning Canada to be nothing more than an outpost of the American empire. For traitors they are as they betray the Canadian people by serving the interests of the Americans and their war machine. Free Meng Wanzhou, for so long as she is held hostage, so are we all.
Document:Canada sanctions 40 Venezuelans with links to political, economic crisis	Article	22 September 2017	Michelle Zilio	Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, MP for the Toronto district of University-Rosedale, said: "I have some Venezuelan Canadians living in my constituency and they have been really vocal … and have said our family, our friends, they need help and they're counting on Canada to speak up."
Document:Destroying Syria	Article	23 January 2018	Philip Giraldi	Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi says the United States has zero evidence on the Syrian conflict. Someone should remind the President that similar scenarios did not turn out very well in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.
Document:Meet Team Trump	Article	12 November 2016	James Corbett	Trump supporters: Will you rally around the party flag as a new crew of neocons and banksters and establishment insiders step into their pre-ordained roles?
Document:Outside In: The Trump Administration’s Plan to Remake the Middle East	Article	10 October 2018	Ted Snider	Benjamin Netanyahu refers to his doctrine as Outside In: first you pacify the Outside and ally with the Sunni Arab states (Egypt and Saudi Arabia) outside of Israel, then, in exchange, you extract a peace plan out of them that you then impose Inside on a Palestine now devoid of allies and leave it helpless to hold out against a peace plan forced on the Palestinians by Donald Trump.
Document:Speech by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on 20 August 2017 to the Syrian Diplomatic Corps	Speech	31 August 2017	Bashar al Assad	The US President is not the maker of policies, but the executor. Therefore, the “Deep State” in the United States does not govern in partnership with the President, but leaves him a small margin.
Document:Speech to the European Parliament by Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN	Speech	7 February 2018	Beatrice Fihn	"Are you going to support the new Trump Nuclear Doctrine? Join the thinking of Russia, North Korea? Cheer on a new nuclear arms race? Or are you going to support the work for the prohibition and the elimination of nuclear weapons? You cannot do both."
Document:There is no military solution in North Korea	Interview	5 September 2017	Mishal Husain	Former Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell says the United States needs to bring the international community together more effectively over North Korea
Document:Trump Set to Recognise Israel’s Claim to Occupied Golan Heights and its Sizeable Oil Reserves	Article	26 May 2018	Whitney Webb	Given that Genie Energy’s contract to conduct exploratory drilling in the Golan Heights expires this year, its investors are in urgent need of a way to extract and sell the region’s oil – and a US decision on Israel’s claim to the Golan Heights could be just the answer to the company’s problems.
Document:Trump targets Corbyn in UK election intervention	Article	2 November 2019	Laura Tiernan	Donald Trump’s interview shows that Mike Pompeo’s threatened “push back” is far advanced. If Trump is willing to make such anti-democratic public pronouncements against the leader of Her Majesty’s opposition, what are they discussing—and preparing—behind the scenes?
Document:Venezuela, Iran: Trump And The Deep State	Article	22 May 2019	Thierry Meyssan	Sheikh Hassan Rouhani was the primary contact with the Western powers during the Iran-Contra affair. He knows Elliott Abrams personally and put the US deep state in relation with Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who became the richest billionaire in Iran thanks to this arms traffic.
Document:Washington Considers Military Action Against North Korea to Force Regime Change	article	7 March 2017	Stephen Gowans	A history of Post-WWII US military threats against North Korea leading to the latest escalation in Spring 2017, with due weight given to the North Korean perspective

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