Let’s take a look at his tumultuous time in the White House.
PRESIDENTIAL HIGHS
Booming US economy
Trump has spoken of his desire to turbo-charge the US economy which he claims is the healthiest it’s ever been.
It’s true that Americans are in the midst of a booming economy which includes low unemployment and a record-breaking stock market.
Although contrary to the president's repeated claims, the US has been stronger economically at times in the 1950s and 1960s when GDP growth was higher and unemployment was lower than today’s figures, according to reports.
That being said, the country’s financial markets, particularly the Dow Jones Industrial Average, have experienced record highs under Trump.
Republicans point to the president’s tax cuts, his “America First” policies and his plan to invest in infrastructure to explain the growth in the stock market.
Low unemployment
Unemployment in the US, as of October, 2018, stands at 3.7 per cent which is the lowest since 1969.
However, this is a downward trend which began during President Obama’s tenure in the White House.
Another statistic which Trump regularly highlights is the level of African American unemployment which at 5.9 per cent is the lowest since the 1970s.
Female unemployment is also at a 65 year low – a trend which again began during the Obama administration.
Summit with Kim Jong-un
Trump's meeting with Kim in Singapore in June was the first time a sitting US President has ever met a North Korean leader.
Following the summit, Kim vowed to destroy all his nukes with the American billionaire saying the process would start "very quickly".
The US President said the meeting had gone "better than anyone could have expected."
Despite Kim's vow to disarm his nuke programme, US intelligence services claim that North Korea is still developing missiles.
Relationship with Emmanuel Macron
Following a state visit to France in July 2017, Trump and French president Emmanuel Macron, 40, lavished praise on each other before engaging in an excruciating 30 second handshake.
The US President later claimed "smart, strong" Macron “loves holding my hand”.
Macron has spoken of the pair's "unbreakable bond" while Trump has enthused about their "great relationship.
Despite disagreeing on issues such as the Iran Nuclear Deal and the Paris Climate Accord, both of which Trump pulled the US out of, the pair have refrained from attacking each other publicly.
PRESIDENTIAL LOWS
Investigation into collusion with Russia
Former FBI boss Robert Mueller is investigating whether there was collusion between the Russian government, its agencies or affiliates, and the Trump election campaign.
It is already the established view of the US that Moscow intervened in the 2016 race through a massive online propaganda campaign and covert means to influence the election in favour of Trump.
Mueller aims to discover whether this effort was coordinated or aided by the Trump team.
Trump found out he was being investigated by the FBI on his birthday, June 14 last year.
In the run-up to the probe's second anniversary, Trump tweeted: "This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!"
Claims over inauguration crowd
Trump's fractious relationship with the media was on display MINUTES after he was sworn into office.
Following reports that there was a smaller than average crowd watching his inauguration, the firebrand and his administration launched a bizarre attack on the press which was widely mocked by satirists.
Trump claimed there were "a million and a half" people stretching from the US Capitol to the Washington Monument, despite other estimates of about 250,000.
He insisted aerial pictures of the event looked sparse in areas because the grass was covered by protective mats.
It soon emerged that protective mats had been used in previous presidential inauguration.
Later Trump’s then Press Secretary Sean Spicer gave an infamous statement to the White House press pack.
He said: "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period."
Obama 'wiretap' accusation
In March 2017, Trump tweeted that former President Barack Obama had bugged his phones during the “very sacred election process”, slamming the allegations as a “Nixon/Watergate” scandal.
The brash billionaire, who started the Twitter rant at 5:30am, wrote: “How low has President Obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”
Trump later added: “Is it legal for a sitting President to be “wire tapping” a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!”
Obama has strongly denied the unsubstantiated allegations which appear to have emerged on a right-wing radio show.
The Stormy Daniels 'affair'
Former porn star Stormy Daniels, 39, is alleged to have had an affair with Trump while he was married to his third wife Melania in 2006.
She claims she had sex with him in a hotel room in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, just months after Melania gave birth to their son Barron.
But days before the 2016 presidential election, Ms Daniels was paid £96,000 to stay quiet as part of a non-disclosure agreement handled by Trump's personal attorney Michael Cohen.
Trump rejects all the allegations and his lawyers sued Daniels for breaching a non-disclosure order.
But in August 2018, Mr Cohen entered a plea deal with prosecutors and sensationally claimed he made the payment under orders from Trump.
Implicating the President in a federal crime, Mr Cohen told a court that he paid hush money to Ms Daniels and ex-Playboy bunny Karen McDougal, who also claimed she had an affair with Mr Trump.
Mr Cohen told a stunned courtroom: "I participated in this conduct, which on my part took place in Manhattan, for the principal purpose of influencing the election."
He said he made the payment, in breach of campaign finance laws, "in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office".
Mr Trump denied the two payments counted as campaign spending, insisting it was his own money and did not need to be declared.
Charlottesville – good people “on both sides”
Trump’s response to the violence which erupted during a neo-Nazi rally in Virginia last year is one of the most controversial moments of his presidency.
Far-right groups had gathered at Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017, to protest the decision to bring down the statue of Confederate General Robert E Lee.
But a peaceful counter-protest ended in tragedy when a car driven by a self-identified white supremacist ploughed into a crowd, killing one person and injuring about 19 others left wind demonstrators.
President Trump spoke out in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, saying: "We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence, on many sides. On many sides. It's been going on for a long time in our country.”
Trump later launched an angry defence of his comments, saying there had been "fine people" protesting the removal of Confederate symbols.
The firebrand claimed left-wing protesters were “violently attacking” white supremacists and insisted the “alt-left” were as much to blame as the far-right.
Retweeting Britain First
On November 29, several tweets containing videos posted by a member of far-right group Britain First were retweeted by President Donald Trump’s account.
One of the clips allegedly showed a Muslim man appearing to destroy a statue of the Virgin Mary.
Another allegedly showed a group of men killing a youngster and is titled: “Islamist mob pushes teenage boy off roof and beats him to death.”
The President was condemned by Downing Street for sharing the posts, with No.10 describing Trump’s actions as “wrong”.
Resignations and sackings from Trump's White House
Trump's two years in office has seen an unprecedented number of people leaving his administration.
Here's a run down of the most notable departures form his team including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Communications director Anthony Scaramucci and Chief of staff Reince Priebus.
2018
Oct. 9: Trump announces UN Ambassador Nikki Haley's resignation
Aug. 29: Trump announces that White House counsel Don McGahn would leave sometime in the fall
July 5: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt
June 5: Communications aide Kelly Sadler
April 12: Deputy national security adviser Ricky Waddell
April 11: Deputy national security adviser Nadia Schadlow
April 10: Homeland security adviser Tom Bossert
March 28: Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin
March 22: National security adviser H.R. McMaster
March 13: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
March 12: Special assistant and personal aide to the president John McEntee
March 6: Economic adviser Gary Cohn
Feb. 28: Communications director Hope Hicks
Feb. 7: Staff secretary Rob Porter
2017
Dec. 13, 2017: Communications director for the White House Office of Public Liaison Omarosa Manigault Newman
Dec. 8, 2017: Deputy national security adviser Dina Powell
Sept. 29, 2017: Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price
Aug. 25, 2017: National security aide Sebastian Gorka
Aug. 18, 2017: Chief strategist Steve Bannon
July 31, 2017: Communications director Anthony Scaramucci
July 28, 2017: Chief of staff Reince Priebus
July 21, 2017: Press secretary Sean Spicer
May 30, 2017: Communications director Michael Dubke
May 9, 2017: FBI Director James Comey
March 30, 2017: Deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh
Feb. 13, 2017: National security adviser Michael Flynn
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