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Surf WikiThis is a list of political endorsements issued by Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th president of the United States, prior to his becoming president as well as during his time as president and between his two terms.
Nurul Amin Shah Alam (born January 1, 1970) was a blind 56-year-old Rohingya refugee who died after United States Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a closed Tim Hortons restaurant in near-freezing temperatures on the night of February 19, 2026, in Buffalo, New York. Shah Alam was found dead on February 24. His death was ruled a homicide on April 1, 2026, a ruling which means it resulted from another person's actions or inaction but does not necessarily mean a crime was committed.
Clapton is a district of east London, England, in the London Borough of Hackney.
Eugene Boris Mirman (born July 24, 1974) is an American actor, comedian, and writer, known for playing Yvgeny Mirminsky on Delocated and Gene Belcher on the animated comedy Bob's Burgers.
Pramila Jayapal (born September 21, 1965) is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative from Washington's 7th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she represents most of Seattle, as well as some suburban areas of King County. Jayapal represented the 37th legislative district in the Washington State Senate from 2015 to 2017. She is the first Indian American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district's first female member of Congress, she is also the first Asian American to represent Washington at the federal level.
Tulsi Gabbard (; born April 12, 1981) is an American politician and U.S. military officer serving as the eighth director of national intelligence (DNI) since 2025. She previously served as U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021 and in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2002 to 2004. Gabbard was a member of the Democratic Party until 2022, after which she became independent until joining the Republican Party in 2024.
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of about 7,641 islands, with a total area of about 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. With a population of over 112 million, it is the world's fourteenth-most-populous country.
The National Education Union (NEU) is a trade union in the United Kingdom for school teachers, further education lecturers, education support staff and teaching assistants.
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country located in South America, with insular regions in North America. Colombia's mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 departments. The Capital District of Bogotá is the country's largest city hosting the main financial and cultural hub. Other urban areas include Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Bucaramanga, Pereira, Santa Marta, Cúcuta, Ibagué, Villavicencio and Manizales. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers (440,831 sq mi) and has a population of around 52 million. Its rich cultural heritage—including language, religion, cuisine, and art—reflects its history as a colony, fusing cultural elements brought by immigration from Europe and the Middle East, with those brought by the African diaspora, as well as with those of Indigenous civilizations that predate colonization. Spanish is the official language, although Creole, English and 64 other languages are recognized regionally.
The Nintendo Switch is a video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. Released in the middle of the eighth generation of home consoles, the Switch succeeded the Wii U and competed with Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One; it also competes with the ninth-generation consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.
Xín Mần is a rural commune (xã) of Tuyên Quang Province, Vietnam.
The 67th Writers Guild of America Awards honor the best film, television, radio and video-game writers of 2014. The nominations for television, new media, and radio categories were announced on December 4, 2014. The nominations for original, adapted, and documentary screenplay nominations were announced on January 7, 2015. The winners were announced in simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York on February 14, 2015.
During the second presidency of Donald Trump, the United States has pursued a policy of targeting political dissidents, particularly pro-Palestinian international students and academics, for deportation. As of April 17, 2025, over 1,000 international students and graduates had had their visas revoked or their status terminated, and by May 15, 2025, almost 2,000 student visas had been canceled, though many had been restored by courts. Many of the visas were revoked based on minor violations such as speeding tickets, and only for a handful was national security cited as the basis for revocation. Unsealed court depositions have revealed extensive use of the website Canary Mission by the Trump administration to identify pro-Palestinian activists for deportation and the heavy involvement of Trump aide Stephen Miller.
Donald Trump assumed office as the 47th president of the United States on January 20, 2025. The president has the legal authority to nominate members of his cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution.
Patriot Front is an American white supremacist and neo-fascist group. Part of the broader alt-right movement, the group split off from the neo-Nazi organization Vanguard America in the aftermath of the Unite the Right rally in 2017.
Friedrich Adolf Steinhausen (13 July 1859 − 23 July 1910) was a German medical doctor who was intensively involved with the physical conditions of making music.
The Springs is an American country music husband/wife duo composed of Stewart Halcomb from Enterprise, Alabama (male vocals) and Holly Halcomb from New Market, Alabama (female vocals). The Springs have now moved to Nashville.
The Terrorism Confinement Center (Spanish: Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, stylized as CECOT) is a maximum security prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The prison was built in late 2022 amid a large-scale gang crackdown in the country. The Salvadoran government opened the prison in late January 2023, and it began housing inmates the following month.
Kfar Hatta (Arabic: كفرحتى) is a municipality located in the Sidon District of the South Governorate in Lebanon. It is located 8 kilometres east of Sidon.
Randolph B. Campbell (November 16, 1940–August 13, 2022) was an American historian.
John Edward Costigan NA (February 29, 1888 – August 5, 1972) was an American artist.
Guardian Australia is the Australian website of the British global online and print newspaper, The Guardian.
Hybe Co., Ltd. (Korean: 하이브), commonly known as simply Hybe (stylized in all caps), is a South Korean multinational conglomerate Hybe has transformed from a traditional music entertainment company (formerly Big Hit Entertainment) into a tech-driven lifestyle platform corporation.
"Pink Pony Club" is a song by the American singer and songwriter Chappell Roan. It was released through Atlantic Records on April 3, 2020, and was later included on her debut studio album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess (2023). Written by Roan and Daniel Nigro, "Pink Pony Club" is a pop, synth-pop, dance-pop, power pop, disco-pop, and disco track that describes the story of a woman moving to Southern California from her home residence of Tennessee, taking a job as a dancer in a gay club in West Hollywood despite her mother's wishes.
Velma Wayne Dawson (May 30, 1912, Sydney – September 26, 2007) was an American puppet maker and puppeteer. She was best known for creating Howdy Doody marionettes for the Howdy Doody Show.
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in Southeast Asia. Its territory comprises a main island, over 60 satellite islands and islets, and one outlying islet. The country is about one degree of latitude (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to the east and the Straits of Johor along with the State of Johor in Malaysia to the north.
Rebecca Lynn Grassl Bradley (born August 2, 1971) is an American lawyer, and justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, serving since 2015. She has been a state judge in Wisconsin since 2012. She was appointed to the Supreme Court by Governor Scott Walker in 2015, and won election to a 10-year term in 2016. Bradley did not seek re-election in 2026, and her term in office is set to expire on July 31, 2026.
The APEC South Korea 2025 (officially stylized as APEC 2025 Korea) was a year-long hosting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings, which concluded with the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting on November 1, 2025. It was the second time South Korea hosted the summit, having previously hosted in 2005.
Northwestern Mutual is an American financial services mutual organization headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The financial security company provides consultation on wealth and asset income protection, education planning, retirement planning, investment advisory services, Financial Planning trust and private client services, estate planning and business planning. Its products include life insurance, permanent life insurance, disability income, and long-term care insurance; annuities; investments; and investment advisory products and services. Northwestern Mutual ranks No. 110 on the Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue and is in the top 30 by assets held. The firm distributes a portion of its earnings to eligible policyholders as annual dividends. The hiring and sales policies and practices of Northwestern Mutual have attracted controversy.
City of Sanctuary is a British charitable organisation whose purpose is to build a movement of welcome across the UK, predominantly for asylum seekers and refugees, by coordinating and supporting networks of community groups across the UK and Ireland. It claims to be a grassroots movement.
Nancy Patricia Pelosi ( pə-LOH-see; née D'Alesandro; born March 26, 1940) is an American politician who was the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives, serving from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first female elected speaker and the first woman to lead a major political party in either chamber of Congress, heading the House Democrats from 2003 to 2023. Her 20 years as a House party leader are tied with Joe Martin's as the second-longest after Sam Rayburn. Pelosi is in her 20th term, having served in the House since 1987, representing California's 11th congressional district, which includes most of San Francisco. She is the dean of California's congressional delegation.
Access to public information and freedom of information (FOI) refer to the right to access information held by public bodies also known as "right to know". Access to public information is considered of fundamental importance for the effective functioning of democratic systems, as it enhances governments' and public officials' accountability, boosting people participation and allowing their informed participation into public life. The fundamental premise of the right to access public information is that the information held by governmental institutions is in principle public and may be concealed only on the basis of legitimate reasons which should be detailed in the law.
Canassatego (c. 1684–1750; also spelled Canasatego) was a leader of the Onondaga nation who became a prominent diplomat and spokesman of the Iroquois Confederacy in the 1740s. He was involved in several controversial land sales to colonial British officials. He is now best known for a speech he gave at the 1744 Treaty of Lancaster, where he recommended that the British colonies emulate the Iroquois by forming a confederacy. He was reportedly assassinated, perhaps by sympathizers or agents of New France.
Eduard Julius Ernst August Erdmann, Prince von Anhalt (German: Eduard Julius Ernst August Erdmann Prinz von Anhalt; born 3 December 1941), also referred to by the courtesy title Prince Eduard, is the head of the House of Ascania, the family which ruled the Duchy of Anhalt until 1918.
The five-year survival rate is a type of survival rate for estimating the prognosis of a particular disease, normally calculated from the point of diagnosis. Lead time bias from earlier diagnosis can affect interpretation of the five-year survival rate.
Nilamber-Pitamber University (NPU) is a state university located in Medininagar, Jharkhand, India.
The U.S. Congress enacted major amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in 1970, 1975, 1982, 1992, and 2006. Each of these amendments coincided with an impending expiration of some of the Act's special provisions, which originally were set to expire by 1970. However, in recognition of the voting discrimination that continued despite the Act, Congress repeatedly amended the Act to reauthorize the special provisions.
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States also asserts sovereignty over five major island territories and various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's third-largest land area and third-largest population, exceeding 341 million.
Chapel of Our Lady Help of Christians, also known as the Maria Hilf Chapel, is a historic Roman Catholic church located at Cheektowaga in Erie County, New York. It is part of the Diocese of Buffalo.
Randolph Daniel Moss (born 1961) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Eddystone Point lies on the north-east coast of Tasmania, Australia at 40.994 S/148.349 E.
Dom Lustosa Portuguese pronunciation: is a neighborhood in the western zone of Fortaleza–CE, in the Northeast Region of Brazil, which until 2020 was part of the Regional Executive Office III (Portuguese: SER – Secretaria Executiva Regional III). After 2020, under decree No. 14,899 it became part of Territory 37, in Region 11.
George Washington Rauch (February 22, 1876 – November 4, 1940) was an American lawyer and politician who served five terms as a U.S. representative from Indiana from 1907 to 1917.
Poręba (Polish pronunciation: ), additional name in German: Poremba, is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Leśnica, within Strzelce County, Opole Voivodeship, in southern Poland.
That Phanom (Thai: ธาตุพนม, pronounced ; Northeastern Thai: ธาตุพนม, pronounced ) is a district (amphoe) in the southern part of Nakhon Phanom province, northeastern Thailand.
Katherine Bucknell (born 1957 in Saigon) is an American scholar and novelist who resides in England.
Valsamoggia (Bolognese: Valsamûz) is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. It was created on 1 January 2014 after the merger of the former communes of Bazzano (the current town hall seat), Castello di Serravalle, Crespellano, Monteveglio and Savigno.
Han Dong-hoon (Korean: 한동훈; born 9 April 1973) is a South Korean politician and prosecutor who served as the leader of the People Power Party from July to December 2024 and as the 69th minister of justice from May 2022 to December 2023 under the cabinet of Yoon Suk Yeol.
Grace Tame (born 28 December 1994) is an Australian activist. She is best known as the recipient of the 2021 Australian of the Year award, which she received as an "advocate for survivors of sexual assault".
Bernard Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is an American politician and activist serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont, a seat he has held since 2007. He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but maintains a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020. Ideologically a democratic socialist, Sanders is regarded as one of the main leaders of the modern American progressive movement.