So how have the first 100 days of Trump 2.0 been for you? It’s been quite a ride. In the opening three months of his second term as US president, Donald Trump has declared a trade war with the world, enlisted the help of the richest man on the planet to gut America’s federal workforce and destroy its foreign aid programme, threatened to annex Canada and Greenland, started deporting alleged criminals and gang members to El Salvador without trial, described Gaza as “incredible real estate” and accused Ukraine of starting a war with Russia.
Trump is a severe stress test for all manner of institutions. The inner workings of US democratic law failed its course module before Trump was even re-elected, by allowing him to stand again despite inciting an attempted insurrection in 2021. Since then, US legal, political, business, cultural and educational institutions have all largely flunked their biggest tests, and some of those failures are – albeit much too tentatively – documented in Channel 4’s Trump Revolution: 100 Days That Changed the World.
