How Donald Trump upended the world in 30 days

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Chennai: If Donald Trump’s political resurrection and return as the 47th president of the US was dramatic, his first few weeks in office have been extraordinary. Armed with a strong mandate, a governing ‘trifecta’ with control over the White House, Senate and the House of Representatives, and an absolute sway over the Republican Party, he is on steroids.

In his first month, he upended global trade with a rash of punitive tariffs on the country’s largest trading partners, rounded up and deported illegal immigrants, sought takeover of other countries and attacked bureaucracy like never before, terrifying thousands of federal workers. And that is not all. He has unsettled European allies through his efforts to end the Ukraine war and put paid to efforts to combat climate change.

Mint tries to make sense of his actions, and how it has made the world an uncertain place. No other president in the history of the US has issued as many executive orders as Trump has in the first 100 days in office. In just 27 days, Trump has issued 65 executive orders on a wide range of issues such as pulling the US from the Paris Climate Agreement and World Health Organization (WHO), ending birthright citizenship, declaring a climate emergency, pausing foreign aid and imposing trade tariffs.

These orders, in some instances, are testing the limits of presidential powers, setting up a possible showdown with the judiciary. For instance, the abolition of birthright citizenship has been stayed by the courts. Trump’s penchant for tariffs is well known.