Dec 14, 2020 3 min to read
He changed Americaâs approach to trade. He transformed the nationâs relationship with China. He altered the countryâs role in international institutions. He remolded the nationâs alliances. He reshaped American views about immigration. He modified decades-old customs of politics. He weaponized social media.
He recast ancient notions of how leaders behave, speak and relate to one another. He spawned a debate about whether he endangered democratic values, undermined the Constitution and stirred racial tensions.
But most significant of all: He remade two of the three branches of government.
As a result, President Donald J. Trump may be pilloried by contemporary scholars even as he is remembered in history as the most consequential president in three-quarters of a century and the most significant one-term president in nearly 175 years.
SHRIBMAN: Historians will long debate legacy of transformative Trump
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Top White House positions such as chief of staff, national security adviser and director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, as well as Cabinet posts such as secretary of State and Director of National Intelligence, have gone to people who worked in the Obama administration.
And while Biden has put an emphasis on diversity of race and gender for his incoming administration giving a handful of top roles to women and people of color his choices have included few new faces, with top positions going to people he served alongside in the Obama years or worked with before that.