Articles tagged: Donald Trump

News

Demonstrators respond to Trump’s election at second Women’s March in eight days

Several hundred protesters gathered on the streets of D.C. on Nov. 9 in response to President Donald Trump’s reelection.  The “Time to Resist” rally came only a week after 10,000... Read more

By , and November 10, 2024

News

Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidential election

Former President Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election on Tuesday, reclaiming the White House and beating Vice President and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris. The Associated Press (AP) called the... Read more

By November 6, 2024

News

How to spend Election Day at Georgetown

Stressed about the election? Can’t stop the intrusive thoughts about what comes next for our nation and democracy? Well, we can’t offer much help there, but here are some opportunities... Read more

By November 4, 2024

Features

Georgetown Law student runs to unseat Georgia state senator indicted with Trump

When residents of Johns Creek, Georgia heard that Ashwin Ramaswami was running to be their representative in the state senate, there was a decent chance they already knew him. Even... Read more

By February 3, 2024

News

Biden administration to review Trump-era Title IX rules

Joe Biden has called on the Department of Education to review all current policies on sex and gender discrimination in schools.

By March 14, 2021

Editorials

White supremacists attacked Washington. Georgetown must protect its students.

On Jan. 6, while a joint session of Congress gathered to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump breached the Capitol... Read more

By the January 19, 2021

News

A violent pro-Trump mob attacks U.S. Capitol; Mayor places D.C. into curfew 

An extremist mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters violently breached the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6.

By and January 6, 2021

News

Ex-FBI officer hired to teach counterintelligence

Peter Strzok (SFS ‘91), a former FBI special agent fired in 2018 for sending text messages critical of President Donald Trump to a coworker, has been hired to teach at Georgetown.

By November 12, 2020

News

As election draws near, GU Politics panel predicts Democratic “tsunami”

A GU Politics panel predicted yet another blue wave in the 2020 presidential and congressional elections, weeks before Nov. 3.

By October 30, 2020

Opinion

Who’s derailing the U.S. election? Hint: It’s not just Russia or China.

Misinformation campaigns may be signaling the start of the end of true pluralism.

By October 17, 2020

News

GU Politics looks back on the Republican Party’s transformation

The Georgetown University Institute of Politics and Public Service hosted its first Political Pageturners Event on Sept. 15 to discuss the Republican Party’s ideological transformation under President Donald Trump and... Read more

By September 29, 2020

Features

Primary Concerns: Student led political activism builds as 2020 election begins

Even in a political moment characterized by inter and intra party fighting, Mo Elleithee (SFS ’94) finds the wonder in politics. As director of the Georgetown Institute of Politics and... Read more

By January 31, 2020

Editorials

Hold Republicans accountable for government shutdown

On Dec. 22, 2018, parts of the federal government shut down after Congress and President Donald Trump could not agree on a budget for a wall at the southern border.... Read more

By the January 18, 2019

News

Sen. Flake discusses Republicans’ future, ‘politics of resentment’ with GU Politics

Republican senator Jeff Flake from Arizona spoke at Georgetown about his discontent with the direction of the Republican party on Monday, Jan. 29 in an event hosted by the Georgetown... Read more

By February 1, 2018

Halftime Leisure

The Weekly List: Resistance

With the anniversary of Trump’s election coming up, we’d all like a nice pick-me-up. Unfortunately, as impeachment hearings apparently require a more colossal devastation to our national institutions than what... Read more

By November 6, 2017

Opinion

Protect Global Health, End the Gag Rule

The World Health Organization estimates that every eight minutes a woman in the developing world dies from an unsafe abortion.  On January 23, 2017 President Donald Trump endangered even more... Read more

By September 28, 2017

News

The Trump family’s ties to Georgetown

On a rainy day in January just four miles from Georgetown’s Hilltop, Donald Trump took the oath of office to become the 45th President of the United States. He was... Read more

By March 13, 2017

Halftime Sports

My team, not my politics

In 2015, a reporter spotted a “Make America Great Again” hat in Tom Brady’s locker. “He’s a friend,” Brady responded, adding that it’d be “great” if Trump were president because... Read more

By February 14, 2017