Votes & Positions Over Time

Where has he stood, recorded, over time? There is no voting record — no seat was ever held, and no legislative vote was ever cast. What a president records instead is the veto, and there are twelve. Eight of the ten in the first term refused Congress the power to reverse something he had already done alone, arriving through four separate statutes written for exactly that purpose. None of the four worked, and across eight presidencies none has ever worked for anybody.

The six universal dives are asked of every subject at this tier. This is not one of them. It exists because of one thing this subject has been — office-holder — and a subject who has not been that never gets this page. That is why this record has 11 overlay dives to write rather than a number every record shares. All six base dives were written first, and that ordering is a rule rather than a habit: an overlay dive published on its own is a page about the part of someone chosen by whoever built it.

The six base dives and the other 10 overlay dives are listed on the full record.

No roll-call record exists, because there was never a seat

The office-holder overlay asks where someone stood, recorded, over time. For most office-holders that is a voting record. He has never held a seat in any legislature and has cast no legislative vote, so the measure this dive is named for is empty. What a president records instead is the veto, and there are twelve.

Day numbers count from inauguration. Source: the Senate's veto record.

Ten across the first term and two so far in the second. No pocket vetoes, one override. There is no roll-call record of any kind to set beside them, because he has never held a seat in a legislature.