In pictures: Donald Trump’s road to impeachment

Donald Trump has been impeached for a second time just days before he’s due to leave the White House. Take a look back at the highs and lows of his Presidency.

Donald Trump has become the first US president to be impeached for a second time, just one week before he is due to leave the White House.

From his handling of COVID-19 and the building of the wall at the Mexican border to the handling of Black Lives Matter protests, this is the legacy he leaves.

NOVEMBER 9, 2016:

The then-President elect arrives with his family to speak during election night at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York. Picture: AFP

JANUARY, 20, 2017:

Donald Trump, centre, arrives for the swearing-in ceremony in front of the Capitol in Washington. Picture: AFP

First Lady Melania Trump, President Donald Trump, former President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama at the US Capitol after inauguration ceremonies in Washington, DC. Picture: AFP

Then US President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in as President at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Picture: AFP

JANUARY 25, 2017:

Donald Trump takes the cap off a pen to sign an executive order to start the Mexico border wall project at the Department of Homeland Security facility in Washington, DC. Picture: AFP

FEBRUARY 27, 2017:

Counsellor to the President Kellyanne Conway takes a photo as US President Donald Trump and leaders of historically black universities and colleges talk before a group photo in the Oval Office of the White House before a meeting with US Vice President Mike Pence. Picture: AFP

MAY 22, 2017:

Donald Trump visits the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem’s Old City. Picture: AFP

MAY 24, 2017:

Ivanka Trump, first lady Melania Trump, and President Donald Trump stand with Pope Francis during a meeting. Picture: AFP

AUGUST 12, 2017:

A woman receives first-aid after a car accident ran into a crowd of protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, as the city braced for a flood of white nationalist demonstrators as well as counter-protesters, declaring a local emergency as law enforcement attempted to quell early violent clashes. Picture: AFP

AUGUST 21, 2017:

US President Donald Trump looking up a the partial solar eclipse with First Lady Melania Trump from the balcony of the White House in Washington, DC. Picture: AFP

OCTOBER 3, 2017:

Donald Trump throws a paper towel roll as he visits the Cavalry Chapel in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, nearly two weeks after Hurricane Maria thrashed through the US territory leaving much of the islands remains short of food and without access to power or drinking water. Picture: AFP

NOVEMBER 6, 2017:

US President Donald Trump feeding koi fish as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks on during a welcoming ceremony in Tokyo. Picture: AFP

NOVEMBER 8, 2017:

Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, China's President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan pose in the Forbidden City in Beijing. Mr Trump was in Beijing for the critical leg of his Asia tour to drum up an uncompromising, global front against the nuclear weapons ambitions of the "cruel dictatorship" in North Korea. Picture: AFP

MARCH 24, 2018:

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student Emma Gonzalez, centre, listens with other students during the March for Our Lives Rally in Washington, DC, after a massacre at a Florida high school. Picture: AFP

JUNE 1, 2018:

North Korean general and politician Kim Yong-chol gives and Donald Trump a letter from Kim Jong-un

JUNE 12, 2018:

Donald Trump gestures as he meets with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un at the start of their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa Island in Singapore. Picture: AFP

JULY 13, 2018:

US President Donald Trump and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II inspect a Guard of Honour, formed of the Coldstream Guards at Windsor Castle. Picture: Getty Images

JULY 16, 2018:

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump attend a meeting in Helsinki. Picture: AFP

NOVEMBER 25, 2018:

A group of Central American migrants climb the border fence between Mexico and the United States, near El Chaparral border crossing, in Tijuana, Baja California State, Mexico. Hundreds of migrants attempted to storm a border fence separating Mexico from the US amid mounting fears they will be kept in Mexico while their applications for asylum are processed. An AFP photographer said the migrants broke away from a peaceful march at a border bridge and tried to climb over a metal border barrier in the attempt to enter the United States. Picture: AFP

JANURAY 14, 2019:

US President Donald Trump speaks alongside fast food he purchased for a ceremony honoring the 2018 College Football Playoff National Champion Clemson Tigers in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC. Trump says the White House chefs are furloughed due to the partial government shutdown. Picture: AFP

JUNE 5, 2019:

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (L) sits alongside US President Donald Trump during an event to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, in Portsmouth, southern England. Picture: AFP

JUNE 30, 2019:

Donald Trump steps into the northern side of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea, as North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un looks on, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) of Panmunjom in the Demilitarised zone (DMZ). Picture: AFP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019:

Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky looks on during a meeting in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. Picture: AFP

FEBRUARY 4, 2020:

Vice President Mike Pence claps as Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi appears to rip a copy of Donald Trump’s speech after he delivers the State of the Union address at the US Capitol in Washington, DC. Picture: AFP

FEBRUARY 6, 2020:

The President holds up a newspaper that displays a headline "Acquitted" as he arrives to speak at the 68th annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. In his first public comments since being acquitted by the Senate of abuse of office, he said he had been "put through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people." "They have done everything possible to destroy us and by so doing very badly hurt our nation," he said at a televised prayer breakfast with a Who's Who of Washington powerbrokers. Picture: AFP

APRIL 24, 2020:

Alisha Narvaez, manager at International Funeral & Cremation Services, transports a body to the funeral home in the Harlem neighbourhood of New York City. For many families already in distress, finding a funeral home in New York that will accept the body of a loved one is a headache; in Harlem, International Funeral home tries not to turn anyone away, even if it means being under stress. Picture: AFP

MAY 30, 2020:

Police officers kneel during a rally in Coral Gables, Florida in response to the recent death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while being arrested and pinned to the ground by a white Minneapolis police officer. Picture: AFP

JUNE 1, 2020:

The President walks back to the White House escorted by the Secret Service after appearing outside of St John's Episcopal church across Lafayette Park in Washington, DC, after days of anti-racism protests against police brutality that erupted into violence. Picture: AFP

JUNE 4, 2020:

People raise their hands as they protest at the makeshift memorial in honour of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died in Minneapolis after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, pressed his knee to Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes. Picture: AFP

JUNE 23, 2020:

Donald Trump participates in a ceremony commemorating the 200th mile of border wall at the international border with Mexico in San Luis, Arizona, June 23, 2020. Picture: AFP

JULY 3, 2020:

Donald Trump arrives for the Independence Day events at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, South Dakota. Picture: AFP

AUGUST 2, 2020:

Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One as lightning splits the sky during a storm at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Picture: AFP

AUGUST 27, 2020:

US First Lady Melania Trump smiles to US President Donald Trump at the conclusion of the final day of the Republican National Convention from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC. Picture: AFP

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020:

The President arrives for a campaign rally at Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon Township, Pennsylvania. Picture: AFP

OCTOBER 4, 2020:

A car with US President Trump drives past supporters in a motorcade outside of Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, after he is released from hospital after a battle with COVID-19. Picture: AFP

The president takes off his face mask as he arrives at the White House upon his return from Walter Reed Medical Center, where he underwent treatment for COVID-19, in Washington, DC. Picture: AFP

NOVEMBER 3, 2020:

A Trump supporter clashes with a demonstrator at Black Lives Matter plaza across from the White House on election day in Washington, DC. Picture: AFP

JANUARY 6, 2021

Pro-Trump protesters gather outside the US Capitol Building. Picture: AFP

A protester holds a Trump flag inside the US Capitol Building near the Senate Chamber. Picture: Getty Images

A protester is seen inside the US Capitol Building. Picture: AFP

Members of Congress evacuate the House Chamber as pro-Trump protesters attempt to enter during a joint session of Congress. Picture: Getty Images

JANUARY 14, 2021:

With the electronic vote tally projected on the wall above, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) presides over the vote to impeach U.S. President Donald Trump for the second time in little over a year in the House Chamber of the US Capitol. Picture: AFP

Originally published as In pictures: Donald Trump’s road to impeachment