<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States at noon EST on January 20, 2017, succeeding Barack Obama . Trump, the Republican nominee, was a businessman and reality television personality from New York City at the time of his victory in the 2016 presidential election over the Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton . While Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, he won the Electoral College vote by 304 to 227 . His running mate, former Governor Mike Pence of Indiana, took office as the 48th Vice President of the United States on the same day . Trump's term in office is set to end on January 20, 2021, though he is eligible for election to a second term and has declared his intention to run, announcing his reelection campaign on the day of his inauguration . Opinion polls have shown Trump to be the least popular President in the history of modern American presidential opinion polling, as of the end of his first year in office . </P> <P> Upon taking office, Trump repealed regulations intended to address climate change, such as the Clean Power Plan, and withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation . Trump also withdrew the United States from the Trans - Pacific Partnership, issued a controversial executive order denying entry into the U.S. to citizens of certain countries, and withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement . Trump ended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which had protected undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as minors from deportation . Trump also announced that the United States would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, forge closer ties to Saudi Arabia, and restrict transgender and transsexual people from the military . </P>

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