'Just more powerful': Trump pushes presidential limits in first 100 days

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Trump is closing out his first three months with approval ratings well below all other post-World War II presidents -- except for himself, in his first term, according to Gallup.
59% : Trump is meanwhile backed by a court of true believers.
59% : When asked how he had reached one of his tariff decisions Trump replied: "Just instinctively."
56% : Trump has also stepped up the sense of an endless reality show in which he is the star, as he signs executive orders and takes questions from reporters in the Oval Office almost daily.
52% : But there has been one constant behind the chaos of his first 100 days -- Trump is pushing US presidential power to almost imperial limits.
42% : "We have seen certainly not in modern times such a sustained attack to unwind constitutional safeguards," added Dallek. - 'Brazen' - Controversially aided by Elon Musk, the world's richest man, Trump has launched a drive to gut a federal government he regards as part of a liberal "deep state.
39% : The question now is whether Trump -- who at one point referred to himself as "THE KING" on his Truth Social platform -- will be willing to give up power.
38% : "Trump 2.0 is far more authoritarian-minded and authoritarian in its actions than Trump 1.0," political historian Matt Dallek of George Washington University told AFP.
34% : And while Trump freed hundreds of those attackers from jail on his first day back in office, he is taking no prisoners when it comes to consolidating the power of the White House.
31% : On the foreign stage Trump has made territorial claims over Greenland, Panama and Canada -- asserting a sphere of influence that echoes Russian President Vladimir Putin's expansionist bent.
26% : Trump recently said that when he repeatedly mentioned a Constitution-defying third term he was "not joking."
22% : With Donald Trump back in the White House you never know what you're going to get.
11% : "They do it -- when I say do it, they do it, right?" Trump has been driven by a sense of grievance left over from an undisciplined first term that ended in the shame of the 2021 US Capitol riots after his election defeat to Joe Biden.

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