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Foreign Policy Live

100 Days of Trump: The Ask-Me-Anything Edition

Foreign Policy Live

Foreign Policy

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.1622 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

To mark the first 100 days of the second Trump White House, we have a special ask-me-anything episode. Amid a firehose of news, which policies will endure, and which are purely rhetorical? How does Foreign Policy find the signal in the noise? FP Live’s executive producer, Dana Sherne, turns the tables on host Ravi Agrawal as he assesses the implications of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy. Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free): Ravi Agrawal: Trump Is Ushering In a More Transactional World Stephen M. Walt: Trump Is Not a Revolutionary Daniel Treisman: The Deep Familiarity of Donald Trump Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, Foreign Policies Editor-in-Chief.

1:06.5

This is FP Live.

1:11.0

We are 100 days in to Trump's second term, and whatever your politics, it has been a

1:16.9

whirlwind. On again, off again tariffs, slashing the bureaucracy, a significant shift in

1:22.9

foreign policy towards allies in particular, and the sheer number of executive orders has been hard to keep track of.

1:30.5

Earlier this week, I brought on the realist scholar Emma Ashford to make sense of it all, but today, as promised, we want to flip the script.

1:38.2

So for this episode, the guests on FP Live will be me, and in a moment, I will hand the mic over to our executive producer, Donna

1:45.4

Sherne. If this is your first time joining us on FP Live, welcome. Subscribers can send in

1:51.7

questions for all of our episodes, along with many other benefits. If you're not one yet,

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So if these first 100 days are any indication,

2:05.5

how will the Trump presidency change the global order?

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