24 Pictures Of Things Before And After Donald Trump Touched Them
Here's what four years of Trump will do to a country.
1. Here's the Capitol on Day 1 of Trump's presidency...
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2. ...and here's the Capitol on Day 1,447 of his presidency:
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3. Here are the steps where Trump got sworn in on Day 1...
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4. ...and here are those same steps on Day 1,447:
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5. Here's Trump on Day 1 of his presidency, going to Mass at St. John's Church...
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6. ...and here's that same church on Day 1,229, after Trump ordered police to use tear gas on Black Lives Matter protesters so he could do a photo shoot in front of it:
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7. Here's Trump on Day 1, swearing on a Bible...
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8. ...and here's Trump on Day 1,229, holding up a Bible in front of St. John's Church for his photo shoot:
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9. Here's a shot of the Capitol on Day 1 of Trump's term...
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10. ...and here's what the Capitol looked like on Day 1,210, after Trump said he "[doesn't] take responsibility at all" for his administration's handling of the coronavirus pandemic:
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11. Here's Trump on Day 40 of his term, walking through the door of the House Chamber to deliver his first address to Congress...
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12. ...and here's Day 1,447 in the House Chamber as police pointed guns at insurrectionists attempting to enter through that very same door:
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13. Here's Day 40 again as Trump smiled up at the gallery during his first congressional address...
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14. ...and here's that gallery on Day 1,447 as members of Congress hid from terrorists whom Trump incited:
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15. Back to Day 1, here's a Trump supporter wrapped in a "Trump" flag...
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16. ...and on Day 1,447, a terrorist wrapped himself in a "Trump" flag and took over the Senate Chamber:
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17. Here's Trump on Day 1 as he bid the Obamas goodbye on a Marine helicopter...
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18. ...and here's Trump on Day 1,352, boarding his own Marine helicopter to the hospital after he hosted a super-spreader event at the White House and contracted COVID-19:
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19. Here's the Capitol on Day 0 of Trump's presidency. The night before he was inaugurated, the building was secured with a chain-link fence...
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20. ...and here's the Capitol before Joe Biden's inauguration, which now must be protected by 25,000 armed members of the National Guard:
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21. Here's a shot from Day 1 of Trump's term as he walked through the hallways of the Capitol...
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22. ...and here's what the hallways of the Capitol looked like on Day 1,447:
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23. And finally, here's the National Mall on Day 1 of Trump's term as a scattered crowd gathered to watch his swearing-in...
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24. ...and here's the National Mall on Day 1,461, with 200,000 flags placed on the ground to honor the 400,000 American lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic. (The memorial was put together by Biden; Trump has remained mostly silent on these deaths.)
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