Timeline of the Donald Trump presidency (2019 Q4)

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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The following is a timeline of the presidency of Donald Trump during the fourth quarter of 2019. To navigate quarters, see Timeline of the Donald Trump presidency.

Overview

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Public opinion

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Main article: 2019 opinion polling on the Donald Trump administration

Timeline

October 2019

Date Events Photos/Videos

Week 140
Tuesday, October 1
Wednesday, October 2
  • President Trump holds a bilateral meeting and joint press conference with Finnish president Sauli Niinistö at the White House. While responding to reporters about the impeachment inquiry, President Trump calls Adam Schiff a “low life” and the whistle-blower's source a “spy”.[6][7]
  • After previously evading questions, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admits he was a listener on the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.[8]
  • President Trump expresses interest in building an electrified moat filled with alligators along the southern border with Mexico, forcing his aides to find a cost estimate. He also proposes shooting migrants in the legs in order to slow them down and threatens to close the 2,000 mile border with Mexico in an effort to control immigration.[9][10][11]
  • White House officials tell reporters that President Trump frequently engaged Vice President Mike Pence in the president's efforts to pressure Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to find damning information on Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.[12][13]
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A Joint Press Conference between President Trump and Finnish president Sauli Niinistö
Thursday, October 3
Friday, October 4
Saturday, October 5
Sunday, October 6

Week 141
Monday, October 7
  • President Trump signs the U.S.–Japan trade agreement.[18]
  • President Trump announces a Sunday night decision to withdraw US special forces from northeastern Syria in the fight against ISIS.[19]
  • The House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight committees subpoena the Department of Defense and the White House Office of Management and Budget for documents related to Ukraine.[20][21]
  • The Trump administration announces it is adding 28 Chinese corporations to a blacklist over concerns of the role the companies played in human rights violations, barring American companies from doing business with these companies.[22][23]
File:President Trump Signs the US-Japan Trade Agreement & US-Japan Digital Trade Agreement.webm
Tuesday, October 8
  • President Trump presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Attorney General Edwin Meese.[24]
  • The House of Representatives announces that it will subpoena Gordon Sondland to testify and hand over any documents to the Impeachment inquiry after the State Department blocked Sondland's testimony.[25][26]
  • The Trump administration announces in a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that it will not cooperate in any way with the impeachment inquiry, calling it "illigitimate" and "dangerous", effectively challenging Congress's constitutional power.[27][28]
File:President Trump Presents the Medal of Freedom to Edwin Meese III (48870706006).jpg
President Trump awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Edwin Meese
Wednesday, October 9
Thursday, October 10
Friday, October 11
  • President Trump holds a rally in Lake Charles, Louisiana.[31]
  • Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan, the fourth person to serve in that post during the Trump presidency, resigned. "Kevin McAleenan has done an outstanding job." President Trump tweets that he will announce a replacement in the coming days.[32][33][34]
  • Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defends President Trump's call with the Ukrainian president and accuses Democratic members of Congress of "trying to take down this president", saying that is commonplace to ask allies to "do things for us".[35]
  • Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, in defiance of a White House ban on cooperating with Congress, told the House impeachment inquiry that Trump personally pressured the State Department to have her ousted from her position.[36]
Saturday, October 12
Sunday, October 13

Week 142
Monday, October 14
  • President Trump falsely claims that the Kurdish soldiers—a former US ally in the War against ISIS—are releasing ISIS POW 's during the Turkish invasion of Syria following President Trump's order for US troops to vacate the country.[37][38]
  • President Trump announces sanctions on Turkey following backlash from Republican Party congressmen over the president's withdrawal of American troops stationed in Syria.[39]
  • Fiona Hill, past senior official for Russia and Europe on the National Security Council, testifies for nine hours before House panels regarding a July 10 meeting with senior Ukrainian officials, then-National Security Adviser John Bolton, and other U.S. officials including U.S. ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland.[40]
Tuesday, October 15
File:President Trump Welcomes the 2019 Stanley Cup Champions, the St. Louis Blues (48905278836).jpg
President Trump with the St. Louis Blues
Wednesday, October 16
  • President Trump holds a bilateral meeting and joint press conference with Italian president Sergio Mattarella at the White House.[43]
  • The House of Representatives formally condemns President Trump's withdrawal of troops from Syria by a vote of 354–60.[44]
  • President Trump holds a White House meeting with key Democrats and Republicans on Syria. After the meeting, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and some Democrats contend that the president was "having a meltdown", calling the speaker a "third-rate politician".[45][46]
  • Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker and Michael McKinley, recently resigned senior adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, testify in closed-door sessions before the House impeachment inquiry.[47][48]
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President Trump and Italian president Sergio Mattarella
Thursday, October 17
  • Vice President Mike Pence and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan agree to a ceasefire regarding the Turkish invasion of Kurdish-held northeastern Syria.[49]
  • Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney confirms Trump blocked military aid to Ukraine in order to force investigation of his political rivals. Mulvaney called the quid pro quo exchange "absolutely appropriate" and "we do that all the time with foreign policy."[50][51]
  • Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney defends President Trump's decision to hold the 2020 G-7 summit at the Trump National Doral Miami Golf Club.[52]
  • President Trump holds a rally in Dallas, Texas.[53]
  • Energy Secretary Rick Perry informs President Trump of his plans to resign.[54]
  • Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, testifies before the House impeachment inquiry.[55]
Friday, October 18
Saturday, October 19
Sunday, October 20

Week 143
Monday, October 21
  • Russ Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, refuses to testify in the House impeachment inquiry.[60]
Tuesday, October 22
  • Bill Taylor, an American diplomat to Ukraine, testifies to the House impeachment inquiry that President Trump directed officials to deny foreign aid to Ukraine if the country would refuse to open an investigation into Joe Biden and his son.[61][62]
  • Kelly Ann Shaw, a senior woman on President Donald Trump’s economic team, announces she will be leaving as deputy assistant to the president for international economic affairs and deputy director of the National Economic Council.[63]
Wednesday, October 23
  • Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper, a Pentagon official in charge of Ukraine policy, testifies to the House Impeachment inquiry after a 5 hour delay.[64]
Thursday, October 24
Friday, October 25
Saturday, October 26
Sunday, October 27

See also

References

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