“Mr President, your first 100 days have far exceeded that of any other presidency in this country ever. Ever. Never seen anything like it. Thank you!” she grovelled, like a Kim Jong-un acolyte.
There isn’t much middle ground between these verdicts, but I’m going to try to carve out some space. Trump’s authoritarianism and grift pose a serious challenge to democratic norms. But I’m surprised by the haste of critics to dump on the President as though his four-year period in office was already doomed.
If so, the doom-mongers will look like chumps. The media, cast as the villain in Trump’s White House reality show, will be vulnerable to accusations of having pumped out malicious “fake news”. This will empower Trump to behave with more impunity.
I have yet to meet a Maga voter with regrets. They are more likely to say, approvingly: “Promises made, promises kept.”
The economy is sputtering and the constitution being trashed, but Trump is carrying out his election promises at a clip
The courts are scoring some victories over the Trump administration, leading to the release of some detainees, such as the Columbia University student and pro-Palestine protester Mohsen Mahdawi. Just as often, their decisions are ignored.
Second, tariffs. These have created havoc and empty container ports suggest there may be worse to come. Trump conceded tariffs cause inflation when he said blithely that US kids might have to settle for “two dolls rather than 30”.
Mexico’s President, Claudia Sheinbaum, says she is having “a good conversation” with the administration. Mark Carney, the victorious Canadian Prime Minister, arrives in Washington next week. Trump treats him with respect and calls him a “gentleman”.
At the White House National Prayer Day, Trump said tariffs were “beautiful for us if you can use them, get away with using them. It will make us very rich. We will be paying off debt, lowering your taxes substantially, because so much money will be taken in”.
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Read MoreThird, Ukraine. The US minerals deal looks less punitive than critics feared. Volodymyr Zelensky has welcomed it as a “truly equal agreement”. Kyiv gets to keep “full ownership” of its resources and the Trump administration has approved $50m in defence sales. The pressure is on Russia to stop fighting.
Gretchen Whitmer, governor of Michigan, has gone further. She attended a meeting with Trump at the White House and greeted him at an air base rally celebrating his 100 days in office, where he announced new investment in fighter jets.
Sarah Baxter is director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting
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