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Year of Trump
Donald Trump on Wednesday, November 9, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump’s First Year: An Abbreviated Timeline

A highly abbreviated timeline of how Washington lost its mind under the 45th President.

Written by Benjamin Freed
| Published on November 8, 2017
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It’s been a turbulent past 365 days, to say the least. In the 12 months since Donald Trump’s shocking election, Washington’s faced a lot of new experiences: wealthy cabinet members buying homes in Kalorama, an armed conspiracy theorist firing a gun in a pizza restaurant, round-the-clock protests, newspapers’ scoops about White House infighting, an unlikely alliance between liberal activists and national-security hawks. And tweets—so many tweets—from a President who can send DC into a frenzy with every early-morning blast. These are just a few hundred of the many moments that define the era in which we now live.

To explore more of “Our Year of Trump,” a look at how our city has dealt with 12 exhausting months, click here.

This article appears in the December 2017 issue of Washingtonian.

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Benjamin Freed joined Washingtonian in August 2013 and covers politics, business, and media. He was previously the editor of DCist and has also written for Washington City Paper, the New York Times, the New Republic, Slate, and BuzzFeed. He lives in Adams Morgan.

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