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The president said all countries that use the vital shipping route should send warships. Iran has effectively choked off traffic in the narrow waterway, through which a fifth of the world’s oil must transit.
The president said all countries that use the vital shipping route should send warships. Iran has effectively choked off traffic in the narrow waterway, through which a fifth of the world’s oil must transit.
In-Depth Context: Second presidency of Donald Trump
Donald Trump's second and current tenure as the president of the United States began upon his inauguration as the 47th president on January 20, 2025. Trump, a Republican, previously served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021. He lost re-election to Democratic nominee Joe Biden in 2020, and then won against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in 2024, who replaced Biden following his withdrawal from the race on July 21. Trump is the second former U.S. president to return to office. Alongside Trump's second presidency, the Republican Party also currently holds majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate during the 119th U.S. Congress following the 2024 elections, thereby attaining an overall federal government trifecta. During 2025, Trump signed 225 executive orders, the most of any president in a single year since Franklin D. Roosevelt. Many of these have been or are being challenged in court. His attempts to expand presidential power and conflict with the courts have been described as a defining characteristic of his second presidency. The Trump administration has taken action against law firms for challenging its policies. On immigration, Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law, revived numerous immigration laws from his first presidency, attempted to restrict birthright citizenship, and initiated procedures for mass deportations, including nationwide raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In January 2025, Trump launched the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), with Elon Musk briefly overseeing it. DOGE was tasked with reducing federal spending and limiting bureaucracy, and it oversaw mass layoffs of civil servants along with efforts to dismantle government agencies such as the Agency for International Development. Trump has also overseen a series of tariff increases and pauses, which led to retaliatory tariffs from other countries and stock market volatility. In international affairs, Trump has further strengthened U.S. relations with Israel. His administration increased support for Israel in the Gaza war, aided Israel in the June 2025 Twelve-Day War that he named, and carried out strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. In early October, Trump's plan for a Gaza ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was signed. Amid the Russo-Ukrainian war that began in 2022, the Trump administration undertook multiple attempts at peace negotiations. Trump has authorized a series of lethal strikes on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea, whose legality is widely disputed under both U.S. and international law, and subsequently ordered a military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro, the disputed president of Venezuela. In February 2026, he launched a major attack on Iran with Israel with the stated goal of regime change, including the assassination of Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran. As in his first presidency, Trump initiated the withdrawal of the U.S. from the World Health Organization, the Paris Climate Accords, and UNESCO. The Trump administration has been criticized for its targeting of political opponents and civil society. Many of his administration's actions have been found by judges to be illegal and unconstitutional, and have been criticized as authoritarian and contributing to democratic backsliding in the country. Trump is the first president with a felony conviction. At 78 years old and seven months, he is the oldest person to become U.S. president. Following his electoral victories in 2016 and 2024, he is constitutionally ineligible from seeking further terms due to the Twenty-second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, although Trump and many of his associates have discussed the possibility of him running for a third term.
== Milestones ==
=== 2024 election ===
Trump, who previously served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021 and lost his reelection bid to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, announced his candidacy for the nomination of the Republican Party in the 2024 presidential election on November 15, 2022. In March 2024, Trump secured the Republican nomination. Trump selected Senator JD Vance of Ohio, a former critic of his, as his running mate, and the two were officially nominated at the 2024 Republican National Convention. On July 13, 2024, Trump was the victim of an attempted assassination during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The attempt resulted in the bullet grazing his ear, but he was otherwise unharmed. Early on November 6, 2024, the day after the election, Trump was projected to have secured the presidency. Trump won the presidential election with 312 electoral votes and 49.8% of the popular vote, while Kamala Harris received 226 electoral votes and 48.3% of the popular vote. Trump, upon taking office, became the second president in U.S. history to serve non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland in 1893, and the first with a felony to serve the presidency after his conviction in May 2024. In the concurrent congressional elections, Republicans secured a government trifecta after retaining their majority in the House of Representatives and winning back control of the Senate.
=== Transition period and inauguration ===
The presidential transition period began following Trump's victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, though Trump had chosen Linda McMahon and Howard Lutnick to begin planning for the transition in August 2024. According to The New York Times, Trump was "superstitious" and preferred to avoid discussing the presidential transition process until after Election Day. His transition team relied on the work of the America First Policy Institute, rather than the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank that garnered controversy during the election for Project 2025, a set of initiatives that would reshape the federal government. By October, he had not participated in the federal presidential transition process, and he had not signed a required ethics pledge,
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