Presidents have increasingly used executive orders and presidential memorandums interchangeably to issue directives to their agencies they are both legally binding, though executive action can be undone by the next president. Bush - the most recent one-term president. Trump has been able to successfully appoint three US Supreme Court justices, and he’s surpassed the number of federal judges appointed by George H.W. Anthony Scaramucci, who was fired after 11 days, had the shortest tenure in history in that position. Trump has had four chiefs of staff, tying with Obama for the most chiefs of staff during a first term.Īdditionally, Trump has had seven White House communications directors. This is the most press secretaries to ever fill the role in one US presidential term since the job was established more than 90 years ago. Trump has had four White House press secretaries. That same data showed that each US president going back to Reagan had eight or fewer Cabinet departures in his first four years in office. In addition, there have been 13 Cabinet departures since Trump took office, the most recent to exit being Attorney General William Barr.ĭata collected by Brookings looking into turnover among those same “senior-ranking adviser” roles in past administrations found that among US presidents going back to Ronald Reagan, none had a turnover rate higher than 80% in his first term in office. Thirty-nine percent of these departures have been in jobs that have turned over twice or more since Trump took office. As of December 17, Twitter had flagged 362 of his tweets over potentially misleading or disputed claims, according to, a data analytics company.Īs of December 15, the turnover rate among “senior-ranking advisers in the executive office of the president” was 91%, according to the Brookings Institution. He also uses social media to spread misinformation. On Twitter, he regularly expresses displeasure toward his own appointees, and sometimes uses expletives or shares tweets from users who do.
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He’s largely forgone news releases and one-on-one television interviews in favor of tweets to announce delicate matters such as Cabinet terminations and new policies.Īnd public behavior that otherwise was largely beneath the office before his tenure is often on full display online, with Trump often resorting to name-calling and tweeting overtly racist messages and media. Trump has also largely eschewed many of the formalities associated with the public affairs side of the office. While in office, Trump has continued to use a personal cell phone with a microphone and camera to make calls - defying previous presidential security protocols and ignoring repeated warnings from his staff that the practice could leave him vulnerable to foreign surveillance.īy comparison, Obama, who requested he be able to keep his Blackberry while in office, was given a “a military-grade phone without a microphone, camera, or location tracker that could not make or receive calls,” according to Politico. His longest break from Twitter was just 1.9 days without tweeting in June 2017, when former FBI Director James Comey was testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee during the Russia investigation. He has tweeted more than 25,000 times - an average of 18 times per day - since taking office in January 2017, including retweets. Trump has continued to tweet more with each additional year in office. While Barack Obama was the first US president to fully harness the power of modern social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, no American president has used social media - specifically, Twitter - like Trump. But these numbers illustrate some of the many ways Trump and his administration defied the status quo of the executive branch. The story of the Trump presidency cannot be fully told in numbers. It’s long been known that President Donald Trump’s actions in office have upended the norms of the presidency - from his use of social media to make major announcements to his use of the pardon power to the amount of turnover in his administration. As the days of the Trump presidency wind down, the picture of how his tenure in office compares with that of his predecessors is becoming clearer.
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