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Section sizes

Section size for First presidency of Donald Trump (88 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	8,203	8,203
2016 election	3,021	3,021
Transition period, inauguration, and first 100 days	3,566	3,566
Administration	4,895	16,732
Cabinet	7,381	7,381
Dismissal of James Comey	4,456	4,456
Judicial appointments	4,726	8,973
Supreme Court nominations	4,247	4,247
Leadership style	6,947	55,577
False and misleading statements	11,118	11,118
Rule of law	11,592	11,592
Relationship with the news media	11,296	11,296
Twitter	14,624	14,624
Domestic affairs	67	248,594
Agriculture	2,302	2,302
Consumer protections	2,362	2,362
Criminal justice	7,025	12,920
Presidential pardons and commutations	1,732	1,732
Drug policy	3,019	3,019
Capital punishment	1,144	1,144
Disaster relief	182	10,940
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria	8,586	8,586
California wildfires	2,172	2,172
Economy	14,286	34,092
Taxation	6,603	6,603
Trade	13,203	13,203
Education	4,833	4,833
Election integrity	652	652
Energy	7,880	7,880
Environment	25,144	25,144
Government size and regulations	4,860	4,860
Guns	2,664	2,664
Health care	13,123	50,532
Reproductive rights	5,742	5,742
Opioid epidemic	3,763	3,763
COVID-19 pandemic	27,904	27,904
Housing and urban policy	2,055	2,055
Immigration	18,139	39,388
Family separation policy	9,393	9,393
Travel bans	7,678	7,678
2018–2019 federal government shutdown	4,178	4,178
LGBT rights	7,890	7,890
George Floyd protests	2,669	18,354
Photo-op at St. John's Episcopal Church	6,545	6,545
Deployment of federal law enforcement to cities	9,140	9,140
Science	5,554	5,554
Space	1,145	1,145
Surveillance	623	623
Veterans affairs	3,648	3,648
Voting rights	4,939	4,939
White nationalists and Charlottesville rally	5,750	5,750
Foreign affairs	5,883	49,386
Defense	7,238	7,238
Afghanistan	4,415	4,415
China	1,528	1,528
North Korea	7,859	7,859
Turkey	2,859	2,859
Iran	6,841	6,841
Saudi Arabia	6,645	6,645
Israel / Palestine	4,655	4,655
United Arab Emirates	1,463	1,463
Russia and related investigations	15,972	47,131
Special counsel's report	28,020	28,020
Counter-investigations	3,139	3,139
Ethics	3,837	56,979
Role of lobbyists	2,210	2,210
Potential conflicts of interest	13,855	13,855
Saudi Arabia	1,058	1,058
Transparency, data availability, and record keeping	6,792	6,792
Hatch Act violations	2,173	2,173
Security clearances	3,439	3,439
Impeachment inquiry	12,863	12,863
Use of the Office of President	10,752	10,752
Elections during the first Trump presidency	3,136	23,846
2018 midterm elections	559	559
2020 re-election campaign	2,354	20,151
Lost re-election and transition period	4,297	4,297
Electoral vote count and U.S. Capitol attack	6,715	6,715
Aftermath	6,785	6,785
Historical evaluations and public opinion	49	8,051
Historical evaluations	1,771	1,771
Opinion polling	3,836	3,836
Democratic backsliding	2,395	2,395
See also	655	655
References	76	76
Further reading	3,327	4,641
Historiography, memory and teaching	1,314	1,314
External links	1,436	1,436
Total	536,867	536,867

On 6 November 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to First presidency of Donald Trump. The result of the discussion was Speedy moved.