US Presidents (Brenden's Universe)

Please Note
This is a part of Brenden's Universe. Some people are made up, others are real.

Elections
President Trump won the 2016 and 2020 elections because he successfully stirred up people who had been screwed over by president Obama. In 2020, he won because of the Republican narrative.

Presidency
President Trump did a multitude of things while in office. His biggest accomplishments included nominating two supreme court justices in his first term (Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, flipping it to a 5-4 majority. However, in 2020 the Covid-19 Crisis would test his presidency, proving his administration's incompetence.

He cut back NATO spending by 80%, which was damaging to the Alliance during the Saudi-Iran War as well as the Reclamation War.

The Saudi-Iran War had soured his relations with hardcore conservatives and Libertarians who were very anti-war. His base shrunk. His existing base continued to shout 'Promises Made, Promises Kept' even after he broke almost all of his promises.

He won re-election by a slim margin, requiring re-counts in Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, and Ohio.

The economy was bust during his second term and instead of trying to fix it, he cut the corporate tax entirely through executive order. After a decisive battle in the court system he lost. His next move to 'save' the economy was an executive order allowing companies to fire transgenders. This way, they could spend their wage money on other things. Once again, this was struck down in the courts.

His final attempt was a full on military intervention in Venezuela to get all of their oil, and then sell it. Yes. That's something he'd do. Despite. a U.N. intervention, the United States occupied Venezuela until January 21st, 2025 when Kamala Harris officially ended the occupation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg died and Stephen Breyer retired, both during his second term. He successfully nominated Amy Coney Barrett, who would have replaced Justice Kavanaugh, as he successfully nominated Thomas Hardiman, someone who had been on his list for a while. This brought the Supreme Court to a Republican Majority of 7-2. By stacking the courts, Trump had guaranteed Republican hold on the courts for the next decade.

He left office with a 26.3% approval rating.

Elections
In her first election, Kamala Harris beat Republican Nikki Haley by a massive margin. She also lead the house to become a 317-124, and the senate 56-44. Her victory was partly due to the fact that everyone was sick of Republican rule after eight years of Donald Trump.

The election was hailed by progressives and feminists as being the first election where both candidates were female.

In her second election, she was going against Nikki Haley again, and it was a closer election. By now, Republicans were back and had forgotten about Trump's failures.

Presidency
Kamala Harris came in at a difficult place. The economy was bust because of the Covid-19 and the Saudi-Iran war had come to a stand-still. Her first action was to end America's fourteen month occupation of Venezuela. Her next actions were to greatly increase NATO spending to help the United States allies in Europe.

Merrick Garland was finally given his deserved Supreme Court seat in summer of 2025, replacing Clarence Thomas. Despite being 73, he'd serve for thirteen years before stepping down.

Not all of Harris's policies were good however. In her first six months, her administration's handling of the Saudi-Iran war was even worse than Donald Trump's. Finally the United States allies had to step in, which convinced Harris to switch up her war strategy.

She legalized Marijuana, raised taxes on corporations and individuals making over $400,000. She gave a bunch of government based jobs like teachers and public attorneys pay increases, fixed the Affordable Care Act, and oversaw the first manned mission to Mars as well as laying out NASA's plans to colonize the moon.

She left office with a 46.8% approval rating.