President Donald Trump completes the first 100 days of his return to the White House on April 29, 2025, and the period has been marked by a whirlwind of activity that has remade vast swathes of American life and international relations.
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President Donald Trump completes the first 100 days of his return to the White House on April 29, 2025, and the period has been marked by a whirlwind of activity that has remade vast swathes of American life and international relations.
Largely bypassing Congress and the courts, the 47th (and 45th) President of the United States has signed a record-setting 139 executive orders. While doing so, he has eliminated DEI initiatives from government hiring, assumed broad wartime deportation powers, attacked enemies in law firms and universities and, perhaps most importantly, hit most of the international community with trade tariffs of a level not seen in a century—in the process remaking long-held alliances and risking a trade war and worldwide recession.
It has not been boring.
Washington , DC - January 20: President Donald Trump signs an executive order pardoning about 1,500 defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, on January 20, 2025, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images)WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: President Donald Trump throws pens after signing executive orders following the Presidential Parade at Capital One Arena on Monday January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. Weather has moved Monday's inauguraton indoors. (Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - FEBRUARY 03: A salvage worker guides a wing of American Airlines flight 5342 as a crane lowers it onto a barge in the Potomac River during recovery work on February 03, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. The commercial flight from Wichita, Kansas collided midair with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter while on approach to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on January 29, 2025 outside of Washington, DC. According to reports, there were no survivors among the 67 people onboard both aircraft. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk with his son X Æ A-Xii join US President Donald Trump as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, February 11, 2025. Tech billionaire Elon Musk, who has been tapped by President Donald Trump to lead federal cost-cutting efforts, said the United States would go "bankrupt" without budget cuts. Musk leads the efforts under the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), and was speaking at the White House with Trump, who has in recent weeks unleashed a flurry of orders aimed at slashing federal spending. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)Washington, DC - February 28 : President Donald J Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in the Oval Office at the White House on Friday, Feb 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)TOPSHOT - US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT) as prisoners stand, looking out from a cell, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26, 2025. (Photo by Alex Brandon / POOL / AFP) (Photo by ALEX BRANDON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)TOPSHOT - Elon Musk (L) holds a chainsaw alongside Argentine President Javier Milei during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 20, 2025. The chainsaw was a present to Elon Musk from Argentina's President Javier Milei. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)US President Donald Trump holds a chart as he delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled "Make America Wealthy Again" at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. Trump geared up to unveil sweeping new "Liberation Day" tariffs in a move that threatens to ignite a devastating global trade war. Key US trading partners including the European Union and Britain said they were preparing their responses to Trump's escalation, as nervous markets fell in Europe and America. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 11: U.S. President Donald Trump and White House Senior Advisor, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk deliver remarks next to a Tesla Model S on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump spoke out against calls for a boycott of Elon Musk’s companies and said he would purchase a Tesla vehicle in what he calls a ‘show of confidence and support’ for Elon Musk. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 21: U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by First Lady Melania Trump and the Easter Bunny, delivers remarks during the White House Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. The White House is expecting thousands of children and adults to participate in the annual tradition of rolling colored eggs down the White House lawn, which was started by President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1878. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)VATICAN CITY, VATICAN - APRIL 26: (EDITOR’S NOTE: This handout image was provided by a third-party organization and may not adhere to Getty Images’ editorial policy.) In this handout photo released via the official social media channels of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) meets with U.S. President Donald Trump (L) during Pope Francis's funeral at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on April 26, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. Pope Francis died on April 21st, aged 88. Anointed in 2013, Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio was the first Latin American and Jesuit Pope. Taking the name Francis after St Francis of Assisi, he was a more humble Pope than many of his predecessors and will be buried outside of the Vatican in a simple wooden coffin at the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore. (Photo by Office of the President of Ukraine via Getty Images)
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