But there has been one constant behind the chaos of his first 100 days -- Trump is pushing US presidential power to almost imperial limits.
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.
“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.
That slew of orders has unleashed an unprecedented assault on the cornerstones of American democracy -- and on the world order.
‘Brazen’
He has invoked a centuries-old wartime act to deport migrants to a mega prison in El Salvador -- while warning that US citizens could be next.
He has cracked down on the media -- which he still dubs the “enemy of the people” -- and limited access to news outlets covering him at the White House.
The US Congress, which is meant to have ultimate control over the government’s purse strings, has been sidelined. Republicans have abetted his power grab while crushed Democrats have struggled to muster a response.
“The president appears indifferent to formal -- even constitutional -- checks on his power,“ added Barbara Trish, professor of political science at Grinnell College.
Trump is meanwhile backed by a court of true believers. Aides with often fringe views, like vaccine-skeptic health secretary Robert Kennedy, take turns to praise him at cabinet meetings.
‘Instinctively’
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.
Trump’s wild televised meltdown in the Oval Office with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky -- abetted by hawkish Vice President JD Vance -- deeply alarmed allies who were already unnerved by his pivot to Russia.
When asked how he had reached one of his tariff decisions Trump replied: “Just instinctively.”
Trump recently said that when he repeatedly mentioned a Constitution-defying third term he was “not joking.”
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