Trump's response to a deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia,
was one of the most controversial moments in his presidency.

It was emblematic of Trump's struggle to bring the country together after
tragedies, and more generally. His response also typified his controversial
record on race relations and white supremacy.

Trump blamed "many sides" for the violence at the rally, which resulted in
the death of a counterprotester, Heather Heyer. He later said there were
"very fine people on both sides."

The former president was excoriated by Republicans and Democrats alike over
his response and his failure to offer a swift and forceful condemnation of
white-supremacist violence.

GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, often one of Trump's fiercest
defenders in Congress, at the time said the former president's words were
"dividing Americans, not healing them."

"President Trump took a step backward by again suggesting there is moral
equivalency between the white supremacist, neo-Nazis and KKK members,"
Graham added.

In the wake of the brutal death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis
police and the nationwide protests that followed, Trump also failed to rise
to the occasion. He's done far more to divide the country than bring it
together.

The former president had peaceful protesters tear-gassed near the White
House so he could pose for a photo with a Bible at a nearby church. He's
consistently demonized anti-racism demonstrators, and controversially sent
federal agents into US cities to squash unrest and intimidate the local
population. Trump has elevated conspiracy theorists and people who've
threatened protesters with guns.

Historians have warned that Trump's tactics mirror those of authoritarian
regimes.

Trump has frequently employed racist rhetoric during his presidency, but
especially during times of heightened racial tensions.

Polling has shown that the vast majority of Black Americans view Trump as
racist, and his approval rating with this demographic stood at 14% in late
2020, according to Gallup.
Failure: America's global image is in shambles
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America's global image declined significantly under Trump, who repeatedly
insulted key US allies while cozying up to dictators.

The former president's tendency to push important allies away and isolate
the US, including by pulling out of landmark international agreements like
the Paris climate accord, had a palpable impact.

People across the world expressed negative views on Trump. Pew Research
Center in January 2020 released a survey of 32 countries that showed a
median of 64% said they do not have confidence in Trump to do the right
thing in world affairs, and just 29% expressed confidence in the president.

Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic also left the US embarrassed
on the world stage, and created a void in global leadership that China has
rushed to fill.
Failure: Family separations and the deaths of migrant children
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Trump in 2016 campaigned on reducing undocumented immigration, pledging to
take a hardline approach.

He made good on that promise when coming into office, but was accused of
human-rights abuses and violating international law by the UN.

The Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy on illegal border
crossings led to the separations of at least 5,500 families and saw
children placed in cages.

The president of the American Academy of Pediatrics at the time described
the practice as "nothing less than government-sanctioned child abuse."

After widespread backlash, Trump issued an executive order in June 2018 to
halt the family separations, and a federal judge ordered the Trump
administration to reunite all those it had separated. But the fallout from
the separations is ongoing.

Trump falsely blamed his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, for
the policy that saw thousands of children separated from their parents.

At least six migrant children died in US custody, leading to widespread
condemnation of conditions in detention facilities.

The UN human-rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, in July 2019 said she was
"shocked" by the US government's treatment of migrant children and the
conditions they faced in detention facilities after crossing the border
from Mexico.

"As a pediatrician, but also as a mother and a former head of state, I am
deeply shocked that children are forced to sleep on the floor in
overcrowded facilities, without access to adequate healthcare or food, and
with poor sanitation conditions," Bachelet, the former president of Chile,
stated.
Failure: Iran, Syria, and Afghanistan
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Trump's decision to unilaterally withdraw the US from the 2015 nuclear deal
in May 2018 has induced chaos throughout the Middle East.

It remains one of Trump's most unpopular decisions in the global arena, and
has been condemned by top US allies who were also signatories to the deal.

The former president failed to thwart Iran's aggressive behavior in the
region through a maximum pressure campaign, meant to squeeze Tehran into
negotiating a more stringent version of the pact.

After a series of incidents in the Persian Gulf region in 2019, tensions
between Washington and Tehran reached historic heights and sparked fears of
war. These fears were exacerbated after Trump ordered a strike that killed
Iran's top general, Qassem Soleimani, in early January 2020. The strike led
Iran to retaliate and fire on US troops in the region, and dozens were
seriously injured.

Iran also abandoned the 2015 nuclear deal, which was designed to prevent it
from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Trump's decision to pull US troops out of northern Syria in October 2019
was also among his most disastrous foreign policy moves. In doing so, Trump
effectively abandoned US-allied Kurdish forces who bore the brunt of the
US-led campaign against ISIS to a Turkish military invasion.

The withdrawal induced a humanitarian crisis and created a security vacuum
that Russia, Iran, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an accused war
criminal, all benefited from.

Trump repeatedly pledged to end "endless wars," zeroing in on Afghanistan.
He wanted to remove all US troops from Afghanistan by the November
election, but that didn't happen.

Meanwhile, The New York Times in June 2020 reported that US intelligence
officials determined Russia paid bounties to Taliban-linked Afghan
militants to kill US troops.

The Trump administration didn't take any known responses. Though the White
House claimed Trump was not initially briefed on the matter, reporting from
multiple outlets suggests otherwise. Trump in a July 2020 interview said he
had not confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin on the matter.
Failure: Replacing the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare)
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The late GOP Sen. John McCain's iconic "thumbs-down" vote denied Trump a
full congressional repeal (even a "skinny repeal") of former President
Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.

But Trump did have success in dismantling parts of the law. His tax bill
included a rollback of the tax penalty for those who did not enroll in
healthcare.

Trump never offered a replacement for the Affordable Care Act. As a
candidate Trump promised "insurance for everybody" and a more immediate
replacement to the nearly decade-old ACA. But he didn't deliver on that as
president.
Failure: Impeachment
In this Dec. 18, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign
rally in Battle Creek, Mich. Using stark �Us versus Them� language, Trump
and his campaign are trying to frame impeachment not as judgment on his
conduct but as a culture war referendum on him and his supporters, aiming
to motivate his base heading into an election year (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Associated Press

Trump was impeached in the House of Representatives on December 18, 2019.

The House approved two articles of impeachment against Trump, one for abuse
of power over his dealings with Ukraine and one for obstruction of Congress
over his efforts to stonewall the impeachment inquiry.

Trump urged Ukraine to launch investigations into his political rivals as
he simultaneously withheld about $400 million in congressionally approved
military aid from the country, which is fighting an ongoing war against
pro-Russian separatists.

The former president was acquitted in a Senate trial, but will still go
down as just the third president in US history to be impeached. GOP Sen.
Mitt Romney of Utah also made history by voting to convict Trump, marking
the first time ever that a senator voted to convict a president from their
own party.

On January 6, 2021, Trump provoked an attempted coup at the US Capitol in
relation to his baseless claims of mass voter fraud and refusal to concede
to Biden. Five people were killed.