Day 1,000 of the Trump presidency: ‘I think now we have to pray…’ Wednesday was the 1,000th day of Donald Trump’s presidency. He spent it the usual way, by saying unusual things. “It’s a lot of sand,” Trump said. He was sitting in the Oval Office next to the president of Italy, and referring to the battleground between the Turkish military and Syrian Kurds. View the complete October 16 article by Dan Zak on The Washington Post website here. Share this:FacebookTwitterPocketPrintEmail