President Donald Trump has served 365 days of his 1,461-day term of office. Here’s a look at some of the records that have been set during his first year.
Approval ratings
The president took office with the lowest approval rating of any modern president but has kept his approval percentage above 30 percent.
Compared with other presidents
The highest and lowest percentage of public approval of president’s job performance:
Executive orders
As of Dec. 20, Trump had the highest executive order average per year since President Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter: 320 total orders, 80 average/year
Ronald Reagan: 381 total orders, 48 average/year
George H.W. Bush: 166 total orders, 42 average/year
Bill Clinton: 364 total orders, 46 average/year
George W. Bush: 291 total orders, 36 average/year
Barack Obama: 276 total orders, 35 average/year
Donald J. Trump: 58 total orders, 58 average/year
Turnover rate
President Trump’s had a turnover rate of 34 percent of his top advisers in his first year according to Brookings. You can read a full explanation here.
The second-highest turnover rate was half that when Ronald Reagan had 17 percent turnover in his first year in office.
Full tweet ahead
At inauguration, Trump was ranked 55th in the world on Twitter with 21.8 million followers. He has risen to 20th on the list with more than 46 million followers.
No. 1 on the list is Katy Perry, with 108 million followers.
Travel and vacations
Travel abroad
While in office Trump visited the following 12 countries as well Vatican City and the West Bank. Country visited in blue.
President Barack Obama set the record as the most-traveled president for any first year in office when he visited 21 countries. The president with the second highest amount of countries visited in the first year is George H.W. Bush, who visited 17.
The current president has visited these 30 states and territories while in office.
On course
Trump has golfed on 91 days of his presidency (as of Dec. 19), about 25 percent of his days in office.
His top three places to golf:
- Trump National Golf Club, Bedminster, N.J., 40 days
- Trump International Golf Club, West Palm Beach, 30 days
- Trump National Golf Club, Potomac Falls, Va., 23 days
Looking back…and ahead
You can read the White House’s press briefing on year-end accomplishments here.
Vice President Mike Pence wrote an editorial about the administration’s accomplishments. You can read that here.
Looking back:
Here are a few of the accomplishments the Trump administration claims on the Whitehouse.gov website:
- Passage of the tax reform bill
- Two consecutive quarters of 3 percent or better GDP while spending billions on hurricane relief and recovery
- Unemployment rate dropped to 4.1 percent in Dec. 2017 – lowest in 10 years
- Repeal of the individual mandate for health insurance under the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act
- Appointment of one Supreme Court judge and the most circuit judges (12) confirmed in the first year of a president in history
- Exiting the Paris climate agreement
- Recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Israel
Looking ahead:
The administration pointed out these topics as what it is focused on in 2018:
- The president’s 70-point immigration plan
- Infrastructure
- Welfare reform
- The budget
- Eradicating Islamic State
- Encourage NATO to contribute more to defense
Sources: Whitehouse.gov, Factbase, The Pew Research Center, Gallup, The Associated Press, The American Presidency Project
Top photo: The Associated Press