Domestically, he failed to achieve some of his biggest priorities — building the wall and a big infrastructure bill. But he put three conservative judges on the Supreme Court, and ushered through a huge tax cut.
At the G7 in Canada, Mr Trump threw a couple of pieces of candy across the table, saying: “Here, Angela. Don't say I never give you anything.”
Although he frequently praised his “good friend” Chinese president Xi Jinping until the coronavirus arrived in the US, he launched a trade war with China before signing a piecemeal deal that produced very little.
One former official said Mr Trump wanted to call the legislation, “The Cut, Cut, Cut Bill”, and told Paul Ryan, speaker of the House, that Republicans on Capitol Hill always gave their legislation such boring names.
In another example of the Teflon-nature of his presidency until this weekend, Mr Trump was impeached in the House over his attempts to get Ukraine to meddle in the US election by digging up dirt on Mr Biden — but was acquitted in a Senate trial.
Mr Trump was only the third president to be impeached in the House, after Bill Clinton in 1998, and Andrew Johnson 130 years before that.
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