Donald Trump 2024 presidential campaign facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Donald Trump for President 2024 |
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| Campaign | 2024 U.S. presidential election 2024 Republican primaries |
| Candidate | Donald Trump 45th President of the United States (2017–2021) J. D. Vance U.S. Senator from Ohio (2023–present) |
| Affiliation | Republican Party |
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| Headquarters | Arlington, Virginia |
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| Receipts | US$124,151,212.64 (April 30, 2024) |
| Slogan | Save America Win Back The White House Make America Great Again Joe Biden You're Fired! I was indicted for you! |
Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, who served from 2017 to 2021, announced his campaign for a nonconsecutive second presidential term in the 2024 U.S. presidential election on November 15, 2022. He was officially nominated on July 15, 2024 at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, and accepting his nomination to the presidency of the United Sates for the GOP during the final day of the convention on July 18, 2024, where was announced J. D. Vance, the junior U.S. Senator from Ohio, as the nominee for vice president and campaign partner.
Trump has campaigned on vastly expanding the authority of the executive branch over the federal government. This would be accomplished through the imposition of the Jacksonian spoils system, and directing the Department of Justice to go after domestic political enemies. Other campaign issues include: implementing anti-immigrant policies and a massive deportation operation; pursuing an isolationist "America First" foreign policy agenda; repealing the Affordable Care Act; pursuing a climate change denial and anti-clean energy platform; terminating the Department of Education; implementing anti-LGBT policies; and pursuing what has been described as a neomercantilist trade agenda.
Beginning as early as Veterans Day in November 2023, Trump leaned into violent and authoritarian rhetoric throughout his campaign. Trump has increasingly used dehumanizing and violent rhetoric against his political enemies. His 2024 campaign has been noted for leaning into nativist and anti-LGBT rhetoric. The Trump campaign has been noted for its close connections to Project 2025, which has been heavily criticized and described as an attempt for Trump to become a dictator and a path leading the United States towards autocracy, with several experts in law criticizing it for violating current constitutional laws that would undermine the rule of law and the separation of powers.
The campaign is unfolding as Trump faces the legal aftermath of four criminal indictments filed against him in 2023, as well as a civil investigation of the Trump Organization in New York. The campaign has continued to promote false claims that the former 2020 election was stolen, and comes in the wake of Trump's unprecedented attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election and its culmination in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, which has been widely described as an attempted coup d'état or self-coup. Trump has publicly embraced the January 6 attack and has promised to pardon those charged for their involvement in the attack.
On May 30, 2024, Trump was convicted of all 34 felony counts for business fraud in an attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election. He is the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime in American history. After he won a landslide victory in the 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, Trump was generally described as being the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for president, with a process of consolidation then underway. On July 13, 2024, Trump survived being shot by Thomas Matthew Crooks and injuring his upper right ear during an attempted assassination at a 2024 presidential campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.
Eligibility
The questions of Trump's eligibility to run for president in 2024 are delineated by the U.S. Constitution. Two amendments addressing this issue are the 14th and 22nd Amendments. Some scholars have argued, although Trump has been indicted multiple times, neither the indictments nor any resulting convictions would render him ineligible for the office.
On December 19, 2023, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled in Anderson v. Griswold that Donald Trump was ineligible to be on the ballot for the 2024 United States presidential election in Colorado under section three of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The ruling is currently stayed to allow for an appeal.
Platform
Trump's platform calls for the vast expansion of presidential powers and the executive branch over every part of the federal government.
Trump and his allies have reportedly drafted executive orders to invoke the Insurrection Act on the first day of his presidency to allow the military to shut down civil demonstrations against him. Campaigning in Iowa, Trump stated he would deploy the military in Democratic cities and states. The Insurrection Act would be used to allow the military to detain migrants at the southern border.
In October 2023, Trump claimed he planned "an extreme expansion of his first-term crackdown on immigration," including "preparing to round up undocumented people already in the United States on a vast scale and detain them in sprawling camps while they wait to be expelled." To achieve the goal of deporting millions per year, Trump has stated his intent to expand a form of deportation that does not require due process hearings.
Trump has promised to reinstate his ban on entry to individuals from certain Muslim-majority nations, and having the Centers for Disease Control reimpose Covid 19-era restrictions on asylum claims by asserting migrants carry infectious diseases such as the flu, tuberculosis, and scabies. Trump has said he would build more of the border wall, and move thousands of troops currently stationed overseas to the southern border.
Trade
Trump has stated he plans to institute tariffs of "perhaps 10%" on most foreign goods, with increased penalties if trade partners manipulate their currency or engage in unfair trade practices. Trump stated his plans to urge Congress to pass a "Trump Reciprocal Trade Act" to bestow presidential authority to impose a reciprocal tariff on any country that imposed one on the United States.
Trump's trade policies are noted to be mainly aimed against China. Trump has proposed a four-year plan to phase out Chinese imports of essential goods such as electronics, steel, and pharmaceuticals.
Foreign policy
Trump's 2024 campaign has reiterated its isolationist "America First" foreign policy agenda.
Trump has promised to "fundamentally reevaluate" NATO's purpose and mission. During his previous time as President, Trump repeatedly denigrated the NATO alliance, and suggested several times of withdrawing the United States from the alliance. Trump has previously made comments questioning whether or not come to the defense of a NATO ally depending on whether they "fulfilled their obligations to us," called the European Union a "foe" based on "what they do to us in trade," and has provided recent statements questioning the value of alliances.
Health care
Trump has promised to replace the Affordable Care Act if elected as President. Some Republican senators have signaled openness to unwind and replace the ACA. No specifics on a replacement plan have yet been revealed. Trump previously attempted to repeal the ACA in 2017.
LGBT rights
Trump has stated that he will ask Congress to pass a bill stating that the United States will only recognize two genders as determined at birth. Trump has stated that hospitals and health care providers that provide transitional hormones or surgery will no longer qualify for federal funding, including Medicare and Medicaid funding. Trump has stated he will push to prohibit hormonal and surgical intervention for minors in all 50 states.
Education
Trump has pledged to terminate the Department of Education, claiming it has been infiltrated by "radical zealots and Marxists," but also pledged to exert influence over local school districts and universities by giving funding preference to schools that abolish teacher tenure, adopt merit pay, and allow the direct election of school principals by parents. Trump has promised to cut funding to any school with a mask or vaccine mandate. Trump has stated his support for teachers to carry concealed weapons, and to provide funding to allow schools to hire armed guards.
Trump has stated his intention to promote prayer in public schools, and stated he will fight for "patriotic education" that will "teach students to love their country, not to hate their country like they're taught right now" and will promote "the nuclear family" including "the roles of mothers and fathers" and the "things that make men and women different and unique."
Energy, environment, and climate change
Trump has promised to increase oil drilling on public lands and offer tax breaks to oil, gas, and coal producers. Trump has stated his goal for the U.S. to have the lowest cost of electricity and energy of any country in the world.
He has proposed leaving the Paris Climate Accords, ending wind subsidies, and eliminating regulations targeting incandescent lightbulbs, gas stoves, dishwashers and shower heads. Trump previously rescinded over 125 environmental rules and policies designed to reduce planet-warming emissions during his previous presidency.
During his initial 2016 campaign, Trump stated that climate change was a hoax, that China was using the myth of climate change to gain an advantage over the United States, and that environmentalists were using the phrase climate change because global warming didn't stick.
In an October, 2018 interview with 60 Minutes, Trump stated that he didn't deny climate change and that something was changing, but doubted it was being caused by mankind and speculated it was part of a natural cycle and could "go back," and that scientists have a political agenda.
Trump has not officially stated how he will deal with climate change if reelected to the White House.
See also
In Spanish: Campaña presidencial de Donald Trump de 2024 para niños
