Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2016)
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The following is a timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama, from January 1, 2016 to the present. For his time as President-elect, see the Presidential transition of Barack Obama; for a detailed account of his first months in office, see First 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency; and for a complete itinerary of his travels, see List of presidential trips made by Barack Obama.
January
- January 5 – President Obama announces an executive order on gun control that would require purchased guns to undergo background checks.[1]
- January 7 – President Obama participates in a town hall meeting regarding gun control entitled Guns in America at the George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, organized by CNN and moderated by Anderson Cooper.[2]
- January 12 – President Obama delivers his final State of the Union Address before a joint session of Congress.[3][4]
- January 15 – President Obama holds a live interview with YouTube personalities Adande Thorne, Destin Sandlin and Ingrid Nilsen.[5]
- January 16 – President Obama signs an executive order lifting some of the economic sanctions on Iran.[6]
- January 17 – President Obama delivers a statement on the Iran nuclear deal framework and the release of four Iranian-American prisoners from Iran through prisoner exchange.[7][8]
- January 19 − President Obama holds a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull of Australia discussing the military intervention against ISIL.[9]
- January 20 – President Obama visits Detroit's auto show.[10]
- January 27 – President Obama meets with Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in the Oval Office.[11]
February
- February 3 – President Obama visits the Islamic society at a mosque in Baltimore, marking his first visit to a mosque in the United States.[12]
- February 4 − President Obama holds a bilateral meeting and a press conference with President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia, where Obama announced a $450 million plan to fund Plan Colombia.[13]
- February 4 − President Obama honors the 2015 NBA champion, the Golden State Warriors, at the East Room of the White House.[14]
- February 8 − President Obama holds a bilateral meeting with President Sergio Mattarella of Italy.
- February 9 – President Obama releases his final budget proposal for the fiscal year 2017.
- February 10 – President Obama addresses the Illinois General Assembly in the State Capital Building in Springfield, Il and spoke about political gridlock. [15]
- February 13 – President Obama issues a statement on the passing of Supreme court Justice Antonin Scalia[16]
- February 15–16 – President Obama hosts the first special U.S.-ASEAN Leaders Summit, participating with the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations at the Sunnylands estate in Rancho Mirage, California.[17]
- February 18 – President Obama welcomes the Stanley Cup winning Chicago Blackhawks to the White House.[18]
- February 23 – President Obama unveils his plan to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Caimanera, Cuba.[19]
- February 24 − President Obama holds a bilateral meeting with King Abdullah of Jordan to discuss ISIS, the Syrian war and refugees and the reducing of tensions in the Middle East.[20]
- February 24 – President Obama signs H.R. 1428 – Judicial Redress Act of 2015 and H.R. 644 – Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 into law.
- February 29 − President Obama awards a Medal of Honor to SEAL Team Six member Edward Byers for rescuing an American doctor from the Taliban in Afghanistan in December 2012.[21]
March
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President Obama views an exhibition baseball game with Cuban President Raúl Castro at Estadio Latinoamericano during Obama's historic visit to Havana, Cuba, March 22, 2016
- March 10 – The President welcomes Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the White House for a state visit.
- March 10 – The Obamas host a state dinner at the White House for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
- March 15 – President Obama holds a bilateral meeting with Taoiseach of Ireland, Enda Kenny.
- March 16 – President Obama announces Merrick Garland as his nomination to replace the late Antonin Scalia as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.[22]
- March 20 – The President and the First Family travel to Havana, Cuba, to underscore the thaw in Cuba–United States relations following a 54-year rift; Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to visit the country since Calvin Coolidge in 1928.[23]
- March 21 – President Obama holds a bilateral meeting and a joint press conference with President Raúl Castro of Cuba at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana.[24]
- March 22 – President Obama addresses the Cuban people on national television from the Gran Teatro de La Habana in Havana,[25] where he also delivered a statement on the Brussels bombings.[26]
- March 22 – The Obamas and President Castro attend an exhibition baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuba national baseball team at Havana's Estadio Latinoamericano to highlight the two countries' cultural relations. The Rays won the game 4–1.[27]
- March 23 – President Obama holds a bilateral meeting and a joint press conference with President Mauricio Macri of Argentina at Casa Rosada during a visit to Buenos Aires to discuss improving Argentina–United States relations, following tension in trade and investment between the two countries under Néstor and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's administrations.[28]
- March 31 – President Obama hosts the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., participating with 58 leaders and representatives from around the world to lay out a system of global security against nuclear warfare.[29]
- March 31 – On the sidelines of the Nuclear Security Summit, President Obama holds a trilateral meeting with Prime Minister Shinzō Abe of Japan and President Park Geun-hye of South Korea to discuss trilateral cooperation amid North Korea's nuclear program.[30]
- March 31 – President Obama holds a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping of China to discuss "global nuclear security cooperation" amid North Korea's nuclear program, as well as "constructive" cooperation regarding the territorial disputes in the South China Sea.[31]
April
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President Obama greets Prince George of Cambridge, third in line to the British throne, at Kensington Palace during his visit to London, April 22, 2016
- April 4 – President Obama meets with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to discuss the alliance's involvement in the military intervention against ISIL (particularly in Libya) and the War in Afghanistan, as well as the Syrian refugee crisis.[32]
- April 20 – President Obama holds a bilateral meeting with King Salman of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh to discuss joint action against the nuclear program of Iran and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the Syrian and Yemeni crises, as well as to resolve the issue of human rights.[33][34]
- April 21 – President Obama participates in a summit meeting with the leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Riyadh to discuss ways of addressing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and other regional conflicts, including the Syrian and Yemeni crises.[35]
- April 22 – The President and the First Lady attend a private lunch with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh at Windsor Castle in England to celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday.[36]
- April 22 – President Obama participates in a joint press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street in London, reiterating their campaign for British voters to vote for the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union ahead of the referendum on June 23.[37]
- April 22 – The President and the First Lady attend a dinner hosted by Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince Harry at Kensington Palace in London,[38] where they also greet Prince George of Cambridge.[39]
- April 23 – President Obama participates in a town hall meeting with the British youth at Lindley Hall in London, where he addressed questions regarding political issues like terrorism, trade, and the Northern Ireland peace process,[40] as well as social issues and changes involving LGBT rights, racial inequality (touching on the Black Lives Matter movement), and discrimination towards non-binary gender persons.[41][42]
- April 24 – During a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Hanover, Germany, President Obama announces plans to increase U.S. military presence in Syria to at least 250 personnel to combat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and assist local Syrian forces in doing so.[43][44]
- April 25 – President Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Hannover Messe, the world's largest industrial fair, which he opened as the U.S. was the "partner country" of the fair.[45]
- April 25 – President Obama and Chancellor Merkel participate in a multilateral meeting with other European leaders including British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President François Hollande, and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to discuss cooperation in resolving the Syrian and Libyan civil wars and the Ukrainian crisis.[46]
- April 30 – President Obama attends his last White House Correspondents' Dinner.[47]
May
- May 4 – President Obama visits Flint, Michigan to address the city's water crisis.[48]
- May 7 – President Obama delivers a commencement speech to the 2016 graduating batch of Howard University, urging them to change their country "through action."[49]
- May 13 – President Obama hosts a multilateral meeting and state dinner at the State Dining Room of the White House for the leaders of the five Nordic countries: Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen of Denmark, President Sauli Niinistö of Finland, President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson of Iceland, Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway, and Prime Minister Stefan Löfven of Sweden. The six leaders discussed humanitarian issues, combating climate change, and the Ukrainian crisis.[50]
- May 15 – President Obama delivers a commencement speech entitled Ignorance is not a Virtue at Rutgers University's 250th anniversary commencement ceremony in New Brunswick, New Jersey.[51]
- May 22 – President Obama arrives in Hanoi for a three-day visit to Vietnam aimed at building stronger economic and defense ties with the country and the Asia-Pacific region.[52][53]
- May 23 – President Obama announces the full lifting of the 32-year arms embargo on Vietnam.[54]
- May 25 – President Obama attends the 42nd G7 summit in Shima, Japan.[55]
- May 26 – President Obama and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe visit one of Japan's holiest Shinto sites, the Ise Grand Shrine and plant trees.[56]
- May 27 – President Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the city of Hiroshima following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where he paid his respects along with Prime Minister Abe and met with survivors at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, calling for the end of nuclear weapons.[57][58]
June
President Obama delivers a statement in Orlando, Florida after meeting with the families and victims of the nightclub shooting, June 16, 2016
- June 2 − President Obama delivers a commencement speech to the graduating class of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado, urging them to reject an "isolationist foreign policy."[59]
- June 7 − President Obama holds a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India.
- June 9 – President Obama meets with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and soon after endorses former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the presidency in the 2016 election.[60]
- June 16 – President Obama travels to Orlando, Florida to meet with survivors and families of those victimized by the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, which occurred four days prior.[61]
- June 17–19 – The Obamas visit the Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico and Yosemite National Park in California's Sierra Nevada mountains to highlight natural conservation, which coincides with the centennial celebrations of the National Park Service.[62]
- June 24 – President Obama announces that the Stonewall Inn in New York City will be designated as the first National Monument dedicated to the LGBT history in the United States.[63]
- June 24 – While delivering his speech at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2016 at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, President Obama comments on the United Kingdom's decision to withdraw from the European Union following the result of their nationwide referendum held on June 23, saying that the Special Relationship between the U.S. and the UK is "enduring", UK's membership in NATO is "a vital cornerstone of U.S. foreign, security, and economic policy", and the U.S.' relationship with both the UK and the EU will "remain indispensable".[64][65]
- June 29 – President Obama participates in the North American Leaders' Summit in Ottawa, Canada with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico.[66]
- June 29 – President Obama addresses the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa to commit to Canada–United States relations.[67]
July
- July 7–9 – President Obama participates in the 2016 NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland that focused on strengthening defense cooperation to protect Eastern Europe from Russian aggression on Ukraine, confronting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the European migrant crisis, and the United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union.[68][69] He also announced that around 1,000 extra troops will be deployed to Poland to assist in Russian interference over the Ukrainian crisis.[70]
- July 7 – In Warsaw, President Obama comments on the American public reaction to the shooting of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the shooting of Philando Castile in Minnesota, cases which have led to protests in the United States and allegations of racial injustice and profiling by police.[71]
- July 8 – In Warsaw, President Obama comments on the shooting of Dallas police officers in the aftermath of the fatal shootings of Sterling and Castile, the deadliest single incident in the history of U.S. law enforcement since the September 11, 2001 attacks, which he called "a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement,"[72] and ordered all U.S. flags to be flown in half-staff for five days in honor of the five victims.[73]
- July 22 – President Obama holds a bilateral meeting and a press conference with President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico.
- July 27 – President Obama is the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.[74]
August
- August 2 – The President welcomes Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong to the White House for a state visit; the Obamas host a state dinner at the White House for Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
- August 6 – President Obama begins his vacation of the island of Martha's Vineyard for the 6th and final time during his presidency.[75]
- August 21 – President Obama and his family return to the White House after a 16-day vacation on the iland of Martha's Vineyard of the coast of Massachusetts.[76]
- August 23 – President Obama visited Baton Rouge to survey the damage and to comfort the victims of flood destruction in 20 Louisiana parishes.[77]
- August 31 – President Obama leaves on his final trip to Asia as President. He would visiting Midway Atoll, China and Laos.[78]
September
- September 4 − President Obama participates in the 2016 G-20 Hangzhou summit in Hangzhou, China.
- September 6 − President Obama participates in the Eleventh East Asia Summit in Vientiane, Laos.
- September 14 − President Obama holds a bilateral meeting with State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar.
- September 20 – President Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly.
- September 21 – President Obama holds a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
- September 21 – President Obama holds a bilateral meeting with President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia.
- September 24 – President Obama dedicated the new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington D.C.[79]
- September 28 – President Obama experiences the first veto override of his administration. In a bipartisan vote, both houses of Congress override Obama's veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act. The legislation allows families of the victims of the September 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for its alleged role in the attacks.[80]
- September 30 – President Obama gave a eulogy at the funeral for former Israeli President and Prime Minister Shimon Peres.[81]
October
- October 18 – The President welcomes Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to the White House for a state visit; the Obamas host a state dinner at the White House for Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
November
President Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump at the Oval Office following the latter's victory in the 2016 presidential election, November 10, 2016
- November 8 – The 58th quadrennial presidential election occurs. Businessman Donald Trump of New York wins the election and becomes President-elect. The Republicans retain their majority in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate.
- November 9 – President Obama calls President-elect Trump in the early morning hour to congratulate him on his victory.
- November 10 – President Obama meets with President-elect Trump at the Oval Office to discuss the transition of power between the presidents. President Obama stated the meeting was "excellent," and President-elect Trump said the meeting was supposed to last round 10-15 minutes, but went on to be around 90 minutes.
- November 14 – President Obama holds his first news conference since the election of Donald Trump and he encouraged Americans to give him some time to get adjusted to the responsibilities of the position as President.[82]
- November 15 – President Obama traveled to Athens, Greece, the first stop on his final international trip as president.[83]
- November 16 – President Obama toured the Acropolis of Athens and the Parthenon, on the second day of his official visit to Greece.[84]
- November 20 – President Obama attended the APEC economic summit in Lima, Peru.[85]
- November 26 – President Obama released a statement on the death of Fidel Castro saying in part, "History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him. "[86]
December
- December 2 – President Obama holds a bilateral meeting with Secretary-General-designate António Guterres of the United Nations.
See also
- Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2009)
- Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2010)
- Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2011)
- Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2012)
- Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2013)
- Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2014)
- Timeline of the presidency of Barack Obama (2015)
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