In 2020, the President of the United States was Donald Trump. He served as the 45th president from 2017 until January 2021

. The 2020 presidential election was held on November 3, 2020, in which the Democratic nominee Joe Biden defeated the incumbent Donald Trump. Biden won the election with 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232 and received over 81 million popular votes, the most ever cast for a U.S. presidential candidate

. Although Trump was president throughout 2020, Joe Biden was elected president in November 2020 and inaugurated as the 46th president on January 20, 2021