Trump 100 days: Trump's whirlwind start to his second presidency

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : On the eve of his inauguration, Trump promised the "most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history", and what followed has been a whirlwind pace of extreme policies and actions that have reshaped the federal government and the US's role in the world.
75% : Trump has signed 140 executive orders in his first 100 days, including 36 in his first week in office.
67% : On day one, Trump signed an executive order creating the "department of government efficiency" (Doge) - a novel initiative chaired by Elon Musk.
66% : Trump has been everywhere all the time, dominating the "attention economy" like no other public figure.
45% : This was the first of many times Trump would attempt to use the threat of an economic assault to force countries to bend to his will.
45% : Trump and his aides sought to bill 2 April 2025 - the day he presented sweeping tariffs on much of the world, including China - as "liberation day".
40% : But the numbers were fewer than the White House hoped, so cabinet secretaries fired tens of thousands more, while Trump approved the termination of about 25,000 employees on their probationary periods.
38% : Trump moved to dismantle USAID, which has administered Washington's foreign aid agenda for more than six decades, and fold it into the state department.
37% : ," Trump said in an 18 March post on Truth Social.
37% : A week after the Columbia graduate and green card holder Mahmoud Khalil was detained in March, Trump signed an order called "Securing American Values" to target visa holders who have participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
36% : Trump and allies have threatened judges who have ruled against them.
34% : Trump has used executive orders to punish law firms connected to rivals or that have taken on causes averse to his administration.
33% : Trump did not wait to return to the White House before threatening China, Canada and Mexico with sweeping tariffs.
31% : When Beijing retaliated against US tariffs, Trump hiked them further - leaving the world's two largest economies spiraling into a tit-for-tat dispute.
30% : While Trump has repeatedly pulled back from the brink of all-out economic war with most countries, China is the exception.
27% : Several firms have settled with Trump to avoid being punished.
27% : In March, Trump reportedly stopped Musk from seeing the defense department's secret plans for a potential war with China during his visit to the Pentagon, noting that the Tesla boss had extensive business interests in China.
26% : Trump has called European allies "freeloaders" who have relied on the US to pay for their defense and said he would not defend allies who didn't meet a spending threshold of 2% of GDP.
25% : If Trump has seemed transactional toward Europe, then his top advisers have appeared downright hostile.
24% : Trump in a February post on X, underscoring that he believes he can justify breaking the law In March, the Trump administration ignored an order from the US district judge James Boasberg to turn around a plane headed to El Salvador containing people alleged to be gang members.
22% : Trump has suspended all refugee resettlement into the United States, leaving tens of thousands of people in an overseas limbo.
19% : As Trump has retreated from Europe, he has increasingly thrown the US's weight around the western hemisphere.

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