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Current consensus
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01. Use the official White House portrait as the infobox image. (link 1, link 2, link 3, link 4) (temporarily suspended by #19 following copyright issues on the inauguration portrait, enforced when an official public-domain portrait was released on 31 October 2017)
02. Show birthplace as "Queens, New York City
" in the infobox. No state or country. (link 1, link 2) "New York City" de-linked. (link 3)
03. Omit reference to county-level election statistics. (link)
04. Obsolete Lead phrasing of Trump "gaining a majority of the U.S. Electoral College" and "
receiving a smaller share of the popular vote nationwide", without quoting numbers. (link 1, link 2) (superseded by #15 since 11 February 2017)
05. Use Donald Trump's net worth evaluation and matching rankings, from the Forbes annual list of billionaires (currently the 2020 edition, $2.1B/1001st/275th), not from monthly or "live" estimates. (link 1) In the lead section, just write: Removed from the lead per #47.
Forbes estimates his net worth to be billion.
(link 2, link 3)
06. Do not include allegations of sexual misconduct in the lead section. (link 1, link 2)
07. Superseded by #35 Include "Many of his public statements were controversial or false." in the lead. (link 1, link 2, wording shortened per link 3, upheld with link 4) (superseded by #35 since 18 February 2019)
08. Mention that Trump is the first president elected "without prior military or government service
". (link)
09. Include a link to Trump's Twitter account in the "External links" section. (link) Include a link to an archive of Trump's Twitter account in the "External links" section. (link)
10. Keep Barron Trump's name in the list of children and wikilink it, which redirects to his section in Family of Donald Trump per AfD consensus. (link 1, link 2)
11. Superseded by #17 The lead sentence is "Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American businessman, television personality, politician, and the 45th President of the United States." (link 1, link 2, link 3, link 4, link 5, link 6) (superseded by #17 since 2 April 2017)
12. The article title is Donald Trump, not Donald J. Trump. (link 1, link 2)
13. Auto-archival is set for discussions with no replies for 7 days. Manual archival is allowed for (1) closed discussions, 24 hours after the closure, provided the closure has not been challenged, and (2) "answered" edit requests, 24 hours after the "answer", provided there has been no follow-on discussion after the "answer". (link) (amended 16 November 2019, with respect to manual archiving, to better reflect common practice at this article) (link)
14. Omit mention of Trump's alleged bathmophobia/fear of slopes. (link)
15. Cancelled There is no consensus to change the formulation of the paragraph which summarizes election results in the lead (starting with "Trump won the general election on November 8, 2016, …"). Accordingly the pre-RfC text has been restored, with minor adjustments to past tense.Special:Diff/764846021 No new changes should be applied without debate. (link 1, link 2, link 3, link 4) In particular, there is no consensus to include any wording akin to "losing the popular vote". (link 5) (cancelled by local consensus on 26 May 2017 and lead section rewrite on 23 June 2017) 16. Cancelled Do not mention Russian influence on the presidential election in the lead section. (link) (cancelled by lead section rewrite on 23 June 2017)
17. The lead paragraph is "Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.
" The hatnote is simply {{Other uses}}. (link 1, link 2, link 3, link 4, link 5, link 6, link 7) Amended by lead section rewrite on 23 June 2017 and removal of inauguration date on 4 July 2018. Lower-case "p" in "president" per link 7 and this October 2017 RFC. Wikilinks modified per this April 2020 discussion. Wikilink modified again per this July 2020 discussion. "45th" de-linked. (link 8) Wording modified per link 9 to "Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) was the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality.
"
18. The "Alma mater" infobox entry shows "Wharton School (BS Econ.)
", does not mention Fordham University. (link 1, link 2, link 3, link 4)
20. Mention protests in the lead section with this exact wording: His election and policies have sparked numerous protests.
(link 1, link 2)
22. Do not call Trump a "liar" in Misplaced Pages's voice. Falsehoods he uttered can be mentioned, while being mindful of calling them "lies", which implies malicious intent. (link)
23. The lead includes the following sentence: Trump ordered a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, citing security concerns; after legal challenges, the Supreme Court upheld the policy's third revision.
(link 1, link 2, link 3, link 4, link 5) Wording updated on 6 July 2018 (link 6) and 23 September 2018 (link 7).
25. Do not add web archives to cited sources which are not dead. (link 1, link 2)
26. Do not include opinions by Michael Hayden and Michael Morell that Trump is a "useful fool manipulated by Moscow"
or an "unwitting agent of the Russian Federation"
. (link)
27. State that Trump falsely claimed
that Hillary Clinton started the Barack Obama birther
rumors. (link 1, link 2)
28. Include, in the Wealth section, a sentence on Jonathan Greenberg's allegation that Trump deceived him in order to get on the Forbes 400 list. (link 1, link 2)
29. Include material about the Trump administration family separation policy in the article. (link)
30. The lead includes: "Many of his comments and actions have been characterized as racially charged or racist.
" (link 1, link 2, link 3)
31. Do not mention Trump's office space donation to Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/Push Coalition in 1999. (link)
32. Omit from the lead the fact that Trump is the first sitting U.S. president to meet with a North Korean supreme leader. (link 1, link 2)
33. Do not mention "birtherism" in the lead section. (link)
34. Refer to Ivana Zelníčková as a Czech model, with a link to Czechs (people), not Czechoslovakia (country). (link)
35. Superseded by #49 Include in the lead:Trump has made many false or misleading statements during his campaign and presidency. The statements have been documented by fact-checkers, and the media have widely described the phenomenon as unprecedented in American politics.(link) 36. Superseded by #39 Include one paragraph merged from Health of Donald Trump describing views about Trump's psychology expressed by public figures, media sources, and mental health professionals who have not examined him. (link 1) (paragraph removed per followup RfC yielding consensus #39)
37. Resolved: Content related to Trump's presidency should be limited to summary-level about things that are likely to have a lasting impact on his life and/or long-term presidential legacy. If something is borderline or debatable, the resolution does not apply. (link)
38. Do not state in the lead that Trump is the wealthiest U.S. president ever. (link)
39. Do not include any paragraph regarding Trump's mental health. (link)
40. Include, when discussing Trump's exercise or the lack thereof: He has called golfing his "primary form of exercise", although he usually does not walk the course. He considers exercise a waste of energy, because he believes the body is "like a battery, with a finite amount of energy" which is depleted by exercise.
(link)
41. Omit book authorship (or lack thereof) from the lead section. (link)
42. House and Senate outcomes of the impeachment process are separated by a full stop. For example: He was impeached by the House on December 18, 2019, for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. He was acquitted of both charges by the Senate on February 5, 2020.
(link)
43. The rules for edits to the lead are no different from those for edits below the lead. For edits that do not conflict with existing consensus: Prior consensus is NOT required. BOLD edits are allowed, subject to normal BRD process. The mere fact that an edit has not been discussed is not a valid reason to revert it. (link)
44. The lead section should mention North Korea, focusing on Trump's meetings with Kim, and stating that they haven't produced clear results. (link)
45. Superseded by #48 There is no consensus to mention the COVID-19 pandemic in the lead section. (link 1, link 2) (cancelled by RfC closure on 23 August 2020)46. Use the caption "Official portrait, 2017" for the infobox image. (link 1, link 2)
47. Do not mention Trump's net worth or Forbes ranking (or equivalents from other publications) in the lead, nor in the infobox. (link)
48. Trump's reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic should be mentioned in the lead section. There is no consensus on specific wording, but the status quo is Trump reacted slowly to the COVID-19 pandemic; he minimized the threat, ignored or contradicted many recommendations from health officials, and promoted false information about unproven treatments and the availability of testing.
(link 1, link 2)
49. Include in lead: Trump has made many false and misleading statements during his campaigns and presidency, to a degree unprecedented in American politics.
(link)