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On November 2016, President-elect Donald Trump asked to meet Gabbard to discuss Syria, ISIS, al Qaeda, and other foreign policy issues. Gabbard accepted over concern that Republican neocons would grow in influence once Trump took office in January and escalate the war to overthrow the Syrian government.

In 2017, Gabbard called the Trump administration's 2017 Shayrat missile strike reckless and "short-sighted."

She did not join congressional Democrats opposing Steve Bannon's appointment as Trump's chief strategist, but did co-sponsor a bill to remove him from the National Security Council.

In 2018, Gabbard vehemently criticized the administration's decision not to sanction Saudi Arabia over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.

In 2019, Gabbard, at a press conference with family members of victims of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, asked the Trump administration declassify the investigation of Saudi Arabian government official involvement in the September 11 attacks, She reintroduced House resolutions to push for this goal.

In December 2019, Gabbard voted "present" when the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump. She criticized Republicans for "blindly supporting their party leader and abdicating their responsibility to exercise legitimate oversight" and Democrats for using "extreme rhetoric that was never conducive to an impartial fact-finding process". She introduced H. Res. 766, to censure Trump for several of his foreign policy decisions and "send a strong message to this president and future presidents that their abuses of power will not go unchecked".