{"id":8763,"date":"2025-12-30T16:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/12\/30\/how-long-has-trump-been-in-office-2026-will-bring-his-first-year-back-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:20:20","slug":"how-long-has-trump-been-in-office-2026-will-bring-his-first-year-back-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/12\/30\/how-long-has-trump-been-in-office-2026-will-bring-his-first-year-back-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"How long has Trump been in office? 2026 will bring his first year back &#8211; USA Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 30, 2025, 10:09 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<div xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\">\n<ul>\n<li>Donald Trump began his second, nonconsecutive term as president on Jan. 20, 2025.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It has been less than a year since President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">Donald Trump<\/a> returned to office, and in that time, his administration has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/graphics\/2025\/12\/30\/donald-trump-changing-america\/87605660007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">relentless in pushing<\/a> forward its agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has enacted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/tariffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">widespread tariffs<\/a>, reduced the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/11\/10\/government-shutdown-layoffs-senate-deal-jobs\/87192278007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">federal workforce<\/a>, ramped up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/immigration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">immigration enforcement<\/a> for those without legal status, deployed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2025\/12\/11\/national-guard-deployments-legal-limbo\/87700131007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">National Guard to American cities<\/a>, and passed a sweeping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/graphics\/2025\/07\/04\/trump-big-beautiful-bill-tax-details-explained\/84461981007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">tax and policy bill<\/a>. The administration also hit snags on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/12\/24\/jeffrey-epstein-timing-explained\/87906246007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">Jeffrey Epstein scandal<\/a>, the ongoing war in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">Ukraine<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/graphics\/2025\/10\/14\/government-shutdown-2025-senate-votes-tracker\/86672788007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">longest-ever government shutdown.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s approach has been controversial and not all popular, as his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/12\/24\/donald-trump-approval-rating\/87887336007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">approval rating<\/a> has been underwater on average since the spring. Some recent polls show he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/12\/23\/new-poll-economy-congress-gallup\/87895624007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">losing support<\/a> on his handling of the economy, an issue that helped his re-election.<\/p>\n<p>So, how long has it been since he returned to the White House? See the ongoing count of Trump&#8217;s days in office:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/news\/politics\/2025\/01\/20\/donald-trumps-47th-presidency-in-pictures\/77839237007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - Donald Trump's second term: Actions, travels of the 47th president\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/12\/28\/USAT\/87936050007-11806.jpg?crop=8255,4644,x0,y0&#038;width=660&#038;height=372&#038;format=pjpg&#038;auto=webp\" data-gl-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/12\/28\/USAT\/87936050007-11806.jpg?crop=8255,4644,x0,y0&#038;width=1320&#038;height=744&#038;format=pjpg&#038;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/12\/28\/USAT\/87936050007-11806.jpg?crop=8255,4644,x0,y0&#038;width=660&#038;height=372&#038;format=pjpg&#038;auto=webp\"><svg><use xlink:href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/#gnt_svg_camera\" \/><\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>How long has President <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/donald-trump\/\" data-autotag=\"26f031d1-9924-4f10-b4e6-019d076113d5\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">Donald Trump<\/a> been in office?<\/h2>\n<p>Trump was sworn into office for his second term on Jan. 20, 2025.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump is one of two presidents to serve nonconsecutive terms<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to almost a year back in office as the 47th president, Trump also served another term from 2017-2021.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is just one of two presidents in history to be\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/11\/06\/donald-trump-grover-cleveland-non-consecutive-president-terms\/76088079007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\">elected to nonconsecutive terms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Grover Cleveland was the first, serving as the 22nd and 24th presidents from 1885 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><em>Contributing: Max Hauptman, Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kinsey Crowley is the Trump Connect reporter for the USA TODAY Network. Reach her at KCrowley@usatodayco.com. Follow her on<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KinseyCrowley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\"><em>X (Twitter)<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/kinseycrowley.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\"><em>Bluesky<\/em><\/a><em> and<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@kinseycrowley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\"><em>TikTok<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 30, 2025, 10:09 a.m. ET Donald Trump began his second, nonconsecutive term as president on Jan. 20, 2025. It has been less than a year since President Donald Trump returned to office, and in that time, his administration has been relentless in pushing forward its agenda. Trump has enacted widespread tariffs, reduced the federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}