100 days of Trump: he “has a great time” but the Americans are disillusioned

After 100 days of chaos and anger that earned him falling in the polls, Donald Trump hopes to find on Tuesday, the space of a meeting, the unreserved adulation of his supporters.

To mark this symbolic stage of his second mandate, the Republican President goes to the place of one of his last campaign rallies, in Warren in Michigan (North), a state he turned on on November 5.

“The first time, I had to do two things: direct the country and survive, I had all these crooks around me,” Donald Trump told the journalists of The Atlantic, in reference to the waltzes of ministers and advisers of his first mandate (2017-2021). “The second time, I direct the country and the world,” he said, also ensuring, with reporters of the monthly, that he “had a great time”.

“Very happy”

Number of voters from the former real estate developer remain faithful to him. “He knows what he is doing,” Karen Miner, who holds a wine cellar in Reno (Nevada) told AFP. “For the moment, I am very happy with his job,” says Frank Tuoti, a retired worker of the New Hampshire (Northeast), even if he is said to be “a little worried about the economy”.

The economy will be on the menu on Tuesday morning from a press briefing of spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, who devoted that of Monday to migration politics.

The American president “has no equal, no one arrives at the ankle,” said Tom Homan journalists, who implements the government’s massive eviction program, in defiance, according to his opponents, fundamental rights and the distribution of powers.

Now surrounded by devoted faithful, Donald Trump has now left since January 20 free rein to all his impulses in matters of customs duties, foreign policy, political revenge.

Over 140 decrees

In the White House Hall of Honor, he replaced a portrait of former President Barack Obama with a painting drawn from the assassination attempt against him. In the oval office, the billionaire with a notoriously rowdy taste has accumulated golden ornaments.

Pushing the limits of the presidential power, the Republican has already signed more than 140 decrees. In this way, he called into question the law of the soil, attacked universities and law firms, defeated environmental policies, entrusted to his ally Elon Musk the task of dismantling the federal bureaucracy, and launched, before partly retracting, a violent protectionist offensive. Many decrees were blocked by judges, with which the executive power has hired an unprecedented showdown.

Donald Trump, whose political career was done by digging the divisions, cannot claim the relative state of grace generally accompanying the first 100 days of a president, him that an irreducible number of Americans hate or love.

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On the contrary, opinion polls agree to note a particularly brutal slide of his rating of trust, nourished by concerns linked to customs duties, but also to his attacks of the institutional order.

According to a survey published on Sunday by the Washington Post and ABC news, 39% of Americans only “approve” the way in which Donald Trump leads his presidency. 64% of those questioned consider that he will “too far” in his attempt to extend the presidential powers.

Impossible to predict how long Donald Trump, who has become, at the age of 78, the oldest American president to have ever taken oath, will maintain a frantic pace.

The Republican gives certain signs of impatience, in particular linked to diplomatic files, he who swears by rapid “deals”. Regarding the war in Ukraine, he has obviously not kept his campaign promise to end the conflict in one day, upon his return to power. Asked about this by Time magazine, the former reality TV host assured: “People know that when I said that, it was in the tone of the joke.”

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