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Jan. 20: 45th President Donald Trump and 48th Vice President Mike Pence take the Oath of Office.
Jan. 21: President Trump appoints Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor.
Jan. 22: Foreign advisor George Papadopoulos meets in Washington D.C. with the head of Israel's Shomron Regional Council, Yossi Dagan.
Jan. 23: The Senate confirms Mike Pompeo as the Director of the CIA in a vote of 66–32.
Jan. 24: Michael Flynn is interviewed by the FBI about prior conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.[46] Flynn pleads guilty on December 1, 2017, to lying during the interview.
Jan. 25: President Trump issues Executive Order 13767 directing the Department of Homeland Security to begin construction of a wall on the Mexico–United States border.[50] Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto rejects the idea that Mexico would pay for any border wall between the United States and his country.
Jan. 26: Acting Attorney General Sally Yates informs White House Counsel Don McGahn that National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's public account of his interactions with Russian officials during the transition were untruthful, making him vulnerable to blackmail.
Jan. 27: President Trump has a one-on-one dinner with FBI Directory James Comey. Later news reports state that Trump asks Comey to pledge loyalty to Trump, and Comey demurs. The White House denies this version of events.
Trump advisor George Papadopoulos is interviewed by the FBI concerning Russian meetings in 2016. He pleads guilty in October 2017 to making omissions and false statements during the interview.
Jan. 28: President Trump signs a memorandum to create a plan within 30 days to defeat ISIS, and another to restructure the National and Homeland Security Councils by downgrading the Chiefs of Staff and appointing the Assistant to the President and Chief Strategist Steve Bannon.
Jan. 29: Federal judges in the states of Massachusetts, Virginia, and Washington sign orders halting implementation of parts of Executive Order 13769.[81] Chief of Staff Priebus states that people from the affected countries who have a green card, will not be prevented from returning to the United States.
Jan.30: President Trump fires acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she ordered employees of the Department of Justice not to enforce the President's ban due to doubts over its legality. Dana Boente takes her place as acting Attorney General.[84] That same night, Trump replaces Daniel H. Ragsdale with Thomas D. Homan as acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Jan. 31: President Trump nominates Neil Gorsuch as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left by Antonin Scalia, who died in February 2016.
Feb. 1: The Senate confirms Rex Tillerson as the 69th U.S. Secretary of State in a vote of 56–43.
Feb. 2: Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley declares to the United Nations Security Council that sanctions against Russia for its Crimean conflict would not be lifted until Russia returned control over the region to Ukraine.
Feb. 3: Senior federal judge James Robart of the District Court for the Western District of Washington temporarily blocks President Trump's order to temporarily block immigration from seven middle-eastern nations.
Feb. 4: President Trump speaks with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, confirming his attendance to the 2017 G7 summit in Sicily, and with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenkoabout the ongoing Ukrainian crisis.
Feb. 5: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denies a request from the Trump Administration to immediately reinstate the temporarily blocked travel ban.
Feb. 6: The Department of Justice asks the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to restore the temporarily blocked immigration ban.
Feb. 7: The Senate confirms Betsy DeVos as the 11th U.S. Secretary of Education by a vote of 51–50. As president of the Senate, Vice President Mike Pence is the first vice president since 1945,[121] to cast a tie-breaking vote to confirm a Cabinet member.[
Feb. 8: President Trump writes a brief letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Feb. 9: President Trump agrees to continue the One China Policy after a discussion with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Feb. 10: Aboard Air Force One, President Trump tells reporters he is considering issuing a revised policy banning citizens of certain countries traveling to the United States.
Feb. 11: President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe play golf together at the Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida and reportedly discuss the "future of the world, future of the region, and future of Japan and the United States," as well as a North Korean Pukkuksong-2 missile which was test-launched during the meeting.
Feb. 12: NA
Feb. 13: Michael Flynn resigns as National Security Advisor, following alleged discussions with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak regarding the U.S. sanctions on Russia. Keith Kelloggbecomes acting National Security Advisor.
Feb. 14: FBI Director James Comey and other officials give President Trump a briefing on counter-terrorism in the Oval Office.[150][151] According to a statement Comey would later make to the Senate Intelligence Committee, after the briefing, Trump speaks to Comey one-on-one about the FBI investigation of Mike Flynn, saying "I hope you can let this go"
Feb. 15: Chief of Staff Priebus asks Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew G. McCabe to publicly dispute reports that associates of President Trump had been in regular communication with Russian agents, and is rebuffed.
Feb. 16: George Papadopoulos is interviewed for a second time by the FBI. In the following days, he deletes his Facebook account which he had run since 2005 (containing correspondence concerning Russia), opens a new Facebook account and changes his telephone number.
Feb. 17: From Mar-a-Lago President Trump describes on Twitter a wide range of mainstream news organizations as "the enemy of the American people."
Feb. 18: President Trump holds a rally in Melbourne, Florida, attended by an estimated 9,000 supporters, where he defends his actions and criticizes the media.
Feb. 19: NA
Feb. 20: Lieutenant general H. R. McMaster is appointed the 26th National Security Advisor. Keith Kellogg, who had been the acting National Security Advisor, remains as the National Security Council's Chief of Staff.
Feb. 21: The Trump administration announces the creation of 15,000 new positions in immigration enforcement, with the intention of deporting illegal immigrants. The Trump administration releases a memo that sets the policy for the deportation of undocumented migrants accused of any crime.
Feb. 22: The Trump administration rescinds a bathroom policy for transgender students that had been instated by the Obama administration.
Feb. 23: It is confirmed that six White House staff members, including Chief Digital Officer Gerrit Lansing, were removed from their positions earlier in the month after failing FBI background checks.
Feb. 24: President Trump gives a speech in Oxon Hill, Maryland to the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference. In the speech, he addresses numerous themes including immigration, ISIS and coal mining, and media reliability, suggesting limits on the use of anonymous sources by news agencies. The New York Times is barred from the White House press briefing along with the BBC, CNN, Politico, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Times and BuzzFeed News, prompting criticism from the White House Correspondents' Association.
Feb. 25: President Trump discusses the Affordable Care Act and the states' role in healthcare with Governor of Wisconsin Scott Walker and Governor of Florida Rick Scott.
Feb. 26: Philip M. Bilden withdraws from his nomination for Secretary of the Navy.
Feb. 27: Former President George W. Bush offers implicit criticism of the Trump administration's handling the free press and religious freedom on the TODAY show.
Feb. 28: President Trump signs a bill removing restrictions on the purchase of guns by persons with mental illnesses.
March 1: The House Intelligence Committee opens an inquiry into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections.
March 2: Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from any inquiries involving allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 American election. The White House verifies that Jared Kushner met with Sergey Kislyak alongside Michael T. Flynn at New York City's Trump Tower in December 2016.
March 3: President Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos visit Saint Andrew Catholic School in Orlando, Florida.
March 4: In a series of tweets, President Trump publicly accuses former President Obama of intercepting communications at his offices in New York City's Trump Tower in October 2016; Obama spokesman Kevin Lewis denies the claim. Trump rallies are held throughout the United States in support of President Trump.
March 5: Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA), chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, agrees to a demand from the White House for an investigation into abuses of executive power by former President Obama.
March 6: President Trump signs Executive Order 13780, seen as a revised version of Executive Order 13769, effective March 16, removing Iraq from affected countries and clarifying that lawful permanent residents are excluded from the travel ban.[243] Trump also signs a memorandum to increase immigration law enforcement.
March 7: Secretary of State Tillerson meets with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin.
March 8: The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform writes to the White House with concern that President Trump's deletion of social media postings may constitute a violation of the Presidential Records Act.
March 9: In an interview with Fox News, Vice President Pence states that he learns from the day's news reports that Michael Flynn was acting as an unregistered foreign agent of the Turkish government during the campaign.
March 10: Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone acknowledges personal communication he had with Democratic National Committee hacker Guccifer 2.0.
March 11: President Trump meets with Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Secretary of Veterans Affairs David Shulkin at the Trump National Golf Club, where they discuss healthcare and the economy
March 12: Press Secretary Spicer states that Trump's wiretapping tweet was misinterpreted by the media, saying that Trump meant that the Obama administration was responsible, not Obama personally
March 13: Rachel Maddow discloses a portion of Trump's 2005 tax returns (both sides of his Form 1040), mailed to David Cay Johnston by an unnamed source.[274] The form shows a payment of $38.4 million on a $49.5 million adjusted gross income, accounting for $103.2 million in losses that year. The White House verifies the cited figures and condemns the public release as "totally illegal".[
March 14: Federal Judge Watson issues a temporary nationwide restraining order on the revised travel ban.
March 15: Executive Order 13780 is scheduled to be put into effect. A second U.S. federal judge, Theodore D. Chuang of Maryland, grants that state's motion for a temporary restraining order on President Trump's revised travel ban.
March 16: The White House announces that it will appeal the Hawaii ruling against the revised travel ban.
March 17: Secretary of the Treasury Mnuchin meets with G-20 country finance ministers, where he defends the Trump administration's trade policy of economic protectionism.
March 18: NA
March 19: German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen rejects a statement by President Trump on 18 March that Germany owes a financial debt to NATO.
March 20: President Trump issues a tweet rejecting allegations of collusion with Russia as "fake news." And nn a House Intelligence Committee hearing, FBI Director James Comey states that their investigation of Russian influence on the presidential election also covers possible links between Russia and Trump campaign figures and that the FBI has no evidence of wiretapping against Trump.
March 21: Congressman Devin Nunes, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, secretly visits the White House grounds to observe classified information concerning Trump's allegations of wiretapping.
March 22: President Trump is briefed by Devin Nunes, who also holds a news conference at the White House, on the evidence concerning Trump's wiretapping allegations which he was shown on the White House grounds on the previous day.
March 23: Secretary of State Tillerson orders U.S. diplomatic missions to identify "populations warranting increased scrutiny."
March 24: During a visit to the Osceola County, Florida campus of Valencia College, Secretary of Education DeVos says she is considering the extension of federal financial aid for students that were year-round and interested in placing more focus on community colleges.
March 25: NA
March 26: Vice President Pence delivers an evening speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) at Washington D.C.'s Verizon Center, reaffirming the United States' commitments to Israeli defense, and to prevent Iran's nuclear program from producing a weapon.
March 27: President Trump signs a memorandum creating the White House Office of American Innovation, consisting of 2 senior advisors and 8 assistants to the president, to be headed by Jared Kushner.
March 28: Secretary of State Tillerson meets with the foreign ministers of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia (Baltic States that gained independence from the Soviet Union).
March 29: The White House verifies that Ivanka Trump is to become an unpaid employee in the West Wing.
March 30: President Trump calls FBI Director James Comey, asserts that he wasn't involved with Russian hookers and asks Comey to "lift the cloud" of the Russia investigation. Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn seeks immunity from the FBI in exchange for testimony on White House links to Russia.
March 31: President Trump issues a tweet describing as a "witch hunt" allegations of links between Russia and his associates, and recommending that Michael Flynn requests immunity in return for testimony to the intelligence authorities.
Source: Wikipedia Timeline Donald Trump Presidency (2017 Q1)
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