This week marked the one year anniversary since Donald J. Trump stunned the world by upsetting Hillary Clinton to become the 45th president of the United States.
For Trump, it’s something he is still focused on 10 months into his presidency.
“It was great victory, and a victory that made a lot of people very happy,” Trump said Tuesday speaking to reporters in Seoul.
Here is what happened this week in the world of Trump.
Nov. 9: Trump calls for Chinese president to ‘fix’ North Korea in softening stance
Trump continued on his state visit to China as the country rolled out the red carpet and put on a spectacle for the president.
He then sat down with Chinese president, Xi Jinping, where they talked trade and North Korea. Trump said if the two countries joined up, they could take on the world’s problems.
“I believe we can solve almost all of them, and probably all of them,” he said Thursday.
He also criticized their trade relationship, calling it unfair, but said he didn’t blame Xi, because: “After all, who can blame a country for being able to take advantage of another country for the benefit of its citizens?”
WATCH: Trump says he does not blame China ‘for taking advantage’ of U.S.
On North Korea, Trump’s previous hard stance softened some, when he urged Xi to “fix the problem.”
“China can fix this problem easily. And quickly. And I am calling on China and your great president to hopefully work on it very hard,” Trump said. “If he works on it hard it will happen.”
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Nov. 8: 1 year since 2016 election
In the one year since his election, Trump has not only profoundly affected American domestic policy, but he’s also shaken Canada’s approach to how it handles relations with their largest trading partner.
Global News looked at how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government have maintained a steady and often covert charm offensive in Washington and whether it’s had any effect on the mercurial U.S. president.
And on the eve of the first anniversary of Trump’s election, Democrat Ralph Northam was elected governor in a landslide in Virginia, with a nine-point margin of victory.
Danica Roem also made history as the first openly transgender person to be elected to a U.S. state legislature in Virginia.
Nov. 7: N. Korea should ‘make a deal”
Speaking in South Korea, Trump took a more diplomatic approach when discussing the threat posed by North Korea.
“I really believe it makes sense for North Korea to come to the table and make a deal that’s good for the people of the North Korea and the people of the world,” Trump said at a news conference.
WATCH: Donald Trump tells North Korea, ‘do not try us’
Threats to “totally destroy” Pyongyang and the nickname “little rocket man” were absent from his speech.
Meanwhile, Carter Page’s testimony before the House intelligence committee revealed that senior members of the Trump campaign were aware of the former Trump foreign policy adviser’s July 2016 trip to Russia. It also indicated he may have had interactions with more Russian government officials beyond what he’s previously stated.
Nov. 6: Trump blames mental illness not guns
In the wake of yet another massacre in the U.S. Trump pointed to mental health and not guns as the cause of the church massacre that killed 26 people in Texas.
“Mental health is your problem here. This was a very, based on preliminary reports, this was a very deranged individual, a lot of problems over a long period of time. We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, as do other countries,” the president said during news conference in Japan
It was reported the shooter had escaped a mental health facility, and the Air Force also failed to report charges that he beat his wife and baby stepson in 2012. The Air Force later admitted it failed to inform the FBI of the domestic violence charges which could have prevented Devin Patrick Kelley from purchasing a gun.
WATCH: Trump calls deadly Texas church shooting a ‘mental health’ issue
Columbia psychiatrist Michael Stone created a database of mass shooters and found that only 52 out of the 235 mass killers, or about 22 per cent, were mentally ill.
“The mentally ill should not bear the burden of being regarded as the ‘chief’ perpetrators of mass murder,” Stone writes.
On Sunday, a leak of millions of documents, dubbed the Paradise Papers, revealed how Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary in the Trump administration, shares business interests with Vladimir Putin’s immediate family and he failed to disclose those interests during his confirmation process.
*With files from The Associated Press
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