Gordon Cormick

Gordon Joseph Cormick (born September 09, 1964), is an American politician who served as the 46th President of the United States from 2017 to 2025, after Barack Obama. The only child of Gordon and Ethel Cormick, he graduated from the University of Washington in 1989, earning a B. A. in finance. Cormick went on to obtain an MBA degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. He served one term as a senator of the state of Washington from 2000 to 2014, eventually running unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary against Francis Uprock. Cormick won the presidential election of 2016 against Republican nominee Donald J. Trump. He was inaugurated on the 18th of January, 2017.

Cormick's administration saw the invasion of the Senkaku Islands by China in May 2020. His responses to the Chinese aggression later became known as the Cormick Doctrine, signified by the signing of the controversial Executive Order 14325 that issued oil based sanctions on China, which was the largest trading partner of the United States at the time. Cormick's foreign policies are heavily criticized as an exaggerated form of American protectionism and mercantilism that stifles American growth rather than support it.