Donald Trump was the biggest public booster of the nonsense theory that President Barack Obama's birth certificate was fake, and that he had secretly been born in Kenya.
It put doubt in the minds of a quarter of Americans
📌 Rattling the stock market 📌
Donald Trump used the power of his position to target private companies.
Bank of America found that the stock market tended to fall on days when Trump tweeted more than 35 times, and rise when he tweeted less than 5
📌 Anyone for covfefe? 📌
This bizarre half-tweet was meme-ified at lightning speed and became obnoxious just as quickly, inspiring merchandise, a race horse name and a ban on "COVFEFE" licence plates in the state of Georgia
📌 Punching CNN 📌
To some, this video of Trump beating CNN in a wrestling match was a joke; to others, it was a threat to journalists.
Extremists took notice. They drew attention to their communities by injecting their ideas into the Twitter feeds of Trump's 89m followers
📌 A very stable genius 📌
Trump's response to questions about his mental stability have gone down in history as the epitome of protesting too much. His phrasing inspired a book, a parody song to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Modern Major General', and even a proposed law
📌 Threatening nuclear annihilation 📌
In July 2018, Trump targeted Iran. Such a naked threat of nuclear force sent a chill round the world.
He tweeted last January that his tweets would suffice to legally notify Congress of a war
📌 Supercharging anti-lockdown protests 📌
During the first peak of America's pandemic, Trump endorsed anti-lockdown protests in three Democrat-led states, which triggered online radicalisation that culminated in this week's violence on Capitol Hill
📌 Threatening a military response to the George Floyd protests 📌
Twitter restricted this tweet for glorifying violence. From here, the social media platform began to act more strictly against Trump and his more extreme supporters, setting the stage for Friday's ban
📌 I have Covid 📌
Trump's announcement that he had contracted Covid-19 was his most retweeted and liked tweet ever.
His recovery became a central motif of his re-election campaign
📌 Four Seasons Total Landscaping 📌
Donald Trump met his Waterloo across the road from a crematorium and around the corner from a sex shop at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.
It was a surreal, bleakly comical end to the most polarising presidency in recent US history
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"Even if we went back to that last spring level of reduction in contacts, we couldn't be confident we would see the same effects as we saw last year because of the increased transmission"
The PM starts by setting out how the vaccine roll-out will begin.
Mr Johnson says the limits will be on the supply of vaccines, but he has "no doubt we will be able to vaccinate these four groups [most vulnerable] by the February 15th deadline" telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/…
Boris Johnson says nearly 1.5 million people across the UK have now received their first dose of the Covid vaccine.
At midday President Trump addresses his supporters at a rally near the White House. He tells the crowd he wants his vice president, Mike Pence, to do "the right thing" and refuse to recognise Joe Biden as the election winner
📌 Make your voices heard 📌
Trump urges his fans to march on the Capitol building "to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard" ahead of the certification process. The crowds, many wearing Make America Great Again baseball caps, descend on the Capitol
Rev. Warnock's victory is the first time a Democrat has won a Senate race in Georgia in 20 years and gives the Democrats the chance to regain control of the Senate for at least the first two years of the Biden presidency
The Leader of the Senate Democrats Chuck Schumer has declared himself the new Senate Majority Leader, despite the fact that the race between Jon Ossoff and David Perdue has yet to be declared.