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.
Tech titans flock to Trump’s inauguration
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Record-setting number of executive orders
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Sharpies for everyone
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Trump connected a devastating plane crash to DEI hiring practices
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Elon Musk and his son X Æ A-Xii join President Trump in the Oval Office
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Trump and Vice President Vance berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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Trump administration ramps up deportation policy
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DOGE’s lead cost-cutter Musk wields a chainsaw
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Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’
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The South Lawn became a kind of Tesla showroom
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Easter Bunny joins Trump on the South Lawn of the White House
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Trump and Zelensky’s Vatican conversation
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