{"id":2778,"date":"2021-01-20T14:55:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2021-01-20T15:07:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T15:07:45","slug":"what-will-be-the-lasting-headlines-of-trumps-four-years-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/01\/20\/what-will-be-the-lasting-headlines-of-trumps-four-years-in-office\/","title":{"rendered":"What will be the lasting &#8216;headlines&#8217; of Trump\u2019s four years in office?\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Today as the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">transfer<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">power<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> took place in Washington from President Donald Trump to President E<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">lect<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Joe Biden \u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2596\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/2596\/wroe-andrew\">Dr Andy Wroe<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in American Politics and co-author of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/gp\/book\/9783030049423\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Ordinary\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Presidency<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of Donald J Trump<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> discussed Joe Biden&#8217;s inauguration and <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">what he predicts will be the three<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> &#8216;headlines&#8217; <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of Trump\u2019s Presidency<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Firstly, his double impeachment. <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">President\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Andrew<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Johnson<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was impeached in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">868,\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">President\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bill Clinton in 1998, but Trump is the on<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ly one to have\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">been<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0impeached twice<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Secondly, his <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">attempts<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0to overturn a Democratic election result, resulting in the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">storming of the Capitol &#8220;that incredible attempt&#8221; inspired by the President on the 6<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Jan.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Thirdly, his response to the corona pandemic, or \u201cthe abject failure of the government on his part\u201d to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">control the virus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Listen to the full interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live:bbc_radio_kent\">here<\/a> at 10.10.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/antonymicallef.com\/\">Antony Micallef<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today as the\u00a0transfer\u00a0of\u00a0power took place in Washington from President Donald Trump to President Elect Joe Biden \u2013Dr Andy Wroe, Senior Lecturer in American Politics and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2021\/01\/20\/what-will-be-the-lasting-headlines-of-trumps-four-years-in-office\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":2783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2785,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/2785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}