President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office have not exactly gone to plan. So many of the policies coming out of the White House should strike one as absurdities that are either blatantly illegal or obviously won’t work. That hasn’t stopped Trump from trying and, where most can simply reflect for a moment to learn that those policies are idiotic, he has had to learn the hard way by way of market backlash and over 200 lawsuits.
After months of blustering about bringing China and the world to heel with tariffs, he is now learning that even as leader of the most powerful nation, he does not have that capacity. The only explanation for his actions so far is that he figured that the rest of the world would simply fall in line. It’s generally good practice to avoid turning others into caricatures but in this case, Trump is doing it to himself. I can almost see a thought bubble over Trump’s head reading, “I have the biggest military and the biggest economy so everyone has to do what I say.”
Most countries are more than happy to work with us, but if given no other option, they’ll go without in order to avoid being forced into unfair trade conditions. This is the order that Trump gave Canada for example: Curb the imaginary flood of fentanyl crossing our border or we will impose tariffs. Canada responded with tariffs of their own and in recent elections, handed the Conservative Party a defeat despite them having held a 25 point advantage earlier this year.
After repeatedly claiming that he would end the Russo-Ukrainian war in a day, he’s now at the point of expressing anger at Putin for his attacks on Kiev. Far from ending the war in a single day, he’s learned that he can’t just waltz into such a complicated geopolitical conflict and dictate his preferred ending – in February, he went so far as to attempt to negotiate an end with Russia without a Ukrainian delegation present. Trump now claiming that the US may step away from negotiations certainly reveals that he has failed to accurately appraise his own abilities. Apparently, he was kidding when he said he would end the war in a day. It is funny but not in the way that he thinks.
Yet another hard lesson that most people have no need to experience to understand is that if you put unqualified idiots in charge of important government departments, they will inevitably reveal their shortcomings. Like one would expect a car salesman to botch a root canal, we should also expect an ex-Fox News presenter to do something like accidentally text war plans to a reporter.
The White House began to walk back international student visa cancellations, promising to restore thousands of student visas. For many years, countries around the world have suffered from brain drain – their young and intelligent people leave for the US to increase their earning potential.
Between 2020 and 2023, during the “invasion,” 46% of immigrants were college educated. The US hosts 1.1 million international students, approximately 41% of which remain in the country long term to enrich the American workforce with talent. Here we have another existing state of affairs that is perfectly beneficial to the US. Instead of simply leaving it alone, Trump chooses to terrorize international students, making the US substantially less attractive for highly-skilled immigrants.
Trump is also in the process of learning that you cannot destroy the rule of law and upend Americans’ ability to receive legal representation by black listing firms who have the audacity to represent those who disagree with your policies. First amendment protections guarantee that we have the substantive right to petition the government for redress and this right is diminished if law firms are afraid to represent individuals who are challenging the executive. Courts have been consistently handing this particularly dictatorial strategy defeat after defeat.
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Rafael Perez is a columnist for the Southern California News Group.
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