United States President Donald Trump completes 100 days on Tuesday (29) since taking over his second term at the White House on January 20, 2025.
Since the date, he has launched an unprecedented global tariff war and cut off US foreign aid. He talked about attaching Greenland, resuming the Panama Canal and making Canada the 51st state of the US.
In the first 100 days since Trump returned to power, he had a frequently unpredictable campaign that shook parts of the world order based on rules that Washington helped build from the ashes of World War II.
“What we are seeing is a huge break in world affairs,” Middle Eastern former negotiation for Democratic and Republican governments told Reuters Dennis Ross. “No one is sure, right now, what to do with what is happening or what will come next,” he added.
The White House rejects the idea that Trump has harmed US credibility, citing, instead, the need to recover from what he calls “irresponsible leadership” from former President Joe Biden on the world scenario.
“President Trump is taking quick steps to face the challenges, bringing Ukraine and Russia to the negotiation table to end the war, stunning the flow of fentanil and protecting American workers, responsible to China, and taking Iran to the negotiating table by imposing the maximum pressure,” said the White House National Security Council spokesman in a statement.
He added that Trump was also “making the Houthis pay for their terrorism … and protecting our southern border, which was open to invasions for four years.”
However, as it approached the 100 days of its presidency, the Americans’ view of what he has done so far has become deeply negative, reveals a new research from CNN conducted by SSRS.
Remember main ones made in 100 days
Accusing commercial partners of “stealing” the US for decades, Trump has put into practice a comprehensive tariff policy that shook the financial markets, weakened the dollar and triggered a warnings of slowdown in world economic production and increased risk of recession.
Trump called the necessary “medicine” rates, but their goals remain obscure, even with the government working to negotiate separate agreements with dozens of countries.
At the same time, he practically reversed American politics from Russia’s three -year war in Ukraine and was involved in an argument in the Oval Hall with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in late February.
He approached Moscow and aroused fears that he will force Kiev, supported by NATO to accept the loss of territory, while prioritizing the improvement of relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump has insisted that the US will “keep” Greenland, a Danish island island. He also stated that Canada has little reason for existing and should become part of the US.
He threatened to take the Panama Canal, which was handed over to Panama in 1999. And he proposed that Washington took control of Gaza, devastated by war, and transforming the Palestinian enclave into a “rivian -style” resort.
Some analysts say Trump may be seeking to resurrect a global structure in the cold war style, in which great powers divide geographical spheres of influence.
Even so, he has not offered details of how the US could acquire more territory, and some experts suggest that he may be taking extreme and even exaggerated positions as bargaining maneuvers.
With their historical friendship with the US now worn out, Canada seeks to strengthen economic and security ties with Europe.
Another fundamental issue is whether some governments will discreetly protect their bets, narrowing commercial ties with China, Trump’s main tariff target.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez met President Xi Jinping in Beijing in early April, and China recently said he exchanged opinions with the European Union about strengthening economic cooperation.
Beijing presented himself as a solution to nations who feel intimidated by Trump’s commercial approach, despite their own history of sometimes predatory practices at the international level.
Aaron David Miller, a former US veteran director in republican governments and democrats, told Reuters that it is not too late for Trump to change his way in foreign policy, especially if he begins to feel pressure from republican colleagues, concerned about economic risks, seeking to maintain congress control in next year’s middle term elections.
If Trump remains firmly, the next president may try to restore Washington’s role as the guarantee of the world order, but the obstacles may be huge.
“What is happening is not yet beyond the point without return,” he told Reuters Miller, now a senior member of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington.
“But how much damage is being caused now to our relationships with friends and how much opponents will benefit is probably incalculable,” he added.
With information from Reuters.
This content was originally published in Trump completes 100 days with impasse on tariffs and falling popularity on the CNN Brazil website.
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