President Trump is introduced at the World Economic Forum, Jan. 26, 2018, in Davos, Switzerland. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
President Trump’s second year in office was filled with plenty of dramatic moments. There were the public embraces of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin; clashes with reporters and lawmakers at the White House, and the responses to mass shootings, hurricanes and wildfires that affected millions of Americans in 2018.
In January, Trump delivered his first State of the Union address, a carefully crafted speech aimed at bringing the country together as “one team, one people, and one American family.” But the message did not seem to resonate, and the president spent much of the year lashing out at perceived enemies and political rivals.
And with staff shakeups; mounting investigations into the president and his orbit, and a reelection campaign already under way, 2019 promises a lot more drama for a president who seems to relish it. (Dylan Stableford/Yahoo News)
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President Trump gestures as he delivers his first State of the Union address in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 30, 2018. (Photo: Win McNamee/Pool via AP)
President Trump leaves the stage after addressing the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 26, 2018. (Photo: Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)
President Trump leaves the White House to head to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Feb. 16, 2018. (Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
President Trump holds notes during a listening session with high school students and teachers in the White House’s State Dining Room on Feb. 21, 2018. (Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP)
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump listen at a funeral service for the Rev. Billy Graham in Charlotte, N.C., on March 2, 2018. (Photo: Chuck Burton/AP)
President Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., to travel to West Palm Beach, Fla., on March 23, 2018. (Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP)
France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron; first lady Melania Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and President Trump join hands at a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on April 24, 2018. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
President Trump with the Easter Bunny at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll on April 2, 2018. (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un shake hands on Sentosa Island in Singapore on June 12, 2018. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
President Trump shakes hands with then Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in the East Room of the White House on July 9, 2018. (Photo: Alex Brandon/AP)
President Trump and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth inspect an honor guard at Windsor Castle in Windsor, England, on July 13, 2018. (Photo: Matt Dunham, Pool/AP)
President Trump attends a meeting of the North Atlantic Council during a summit of heads of state and government at NATO headquarters in Brussels on July 11, 2018. (Photo: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP)
President Trump shakes hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki on July 16, 2018. (Photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)
President Trump arrives at the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City, Mo., on July 24, 2018. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
President Trump points heavenward at a meeting with inner-city pastors at the White House in Washington on Aug. 1, 2018. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)
President Trump holds hats as he walks across the South Lawn before leaving for a rally in Evansville, Ind., Aug. 30, 2018. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)
President Trump speaks as he meets with business leaders at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., on Aug. 7, 2018. (Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP)
President Trump speaks to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House on Aug. 17, 2018. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)
President Trump speaks to first responders as he visits the Horry County Emergency Management Center in Conway, S.C., after Hurricane Florence on Sept. 19, 2018. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
President Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House on Oct. 8, 2018. (Photo: Susan Walsh/AP)
Rapper Kanye West shows President Trump a photograph of a hydrogen plane during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on Oct. 11, 2018. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
First lady Melania Trump, President Trump and Tree of Life Rabbi Jeffrey Myers visit a memorial for those killed at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, on Oct. 30, 2018. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP)
President Trump arrives at a campaign rally at the IX Center in Cleveland, Nov. 5, 2018. (Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP)
President Trump points to CNN’s Jim Acosta during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 7, 2018. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
CNN journalist Abby Phillip asks President Trump a question outside the White House as he speaks with reporters before departing for France on Nov. 9, 2018. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
President Trump views damage caused by wildfires as a city council member speaks in Paradise, Calif., on Nov. 17, 2018. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
President Trump tosses a coin before the Army-Navy NCAA college football game in Philadelphia on Dec. 8, 2018. (Photo: Matt Rourke/AP)
President Trump salutes the flag-draped casket of former President George H. W. Bush in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington on Dec. 3, 2018, as first lady Melania Trump looks on. (Photo: Patrick Semansky/AP)
President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence meet with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in the Oval Office of the White House on Dec. 11, 2018. (Photo: Evan Vucci/AP)
