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Today in Focus

Mehdi Hasan on Trump’s first 100 days

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Guardian US columnist Mehdi Hasan on the start of Donald Trump’s second term as president and the threat to democracy in the US. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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1:03.4

Day one, Trump begins... About a year ago, the journalist Mehdi Hassan imagined, if Donald Trump won the 2024 election,

1:10.2

what his first 100 days would look like?

1:13.0

Day two, Trump moves to pardon and release the January 6th interactionists,

1:17.7

serving time in prison for violently storming the US Capitol.

1:20.9

Trump says he's pulling the US out of the Paris climate change agreement

1:23.6

and rolling back the Biden administration's climate initiative.

1:26.7

The president orders authorities

1:28.2

to build massive detention camps and raid cities nationwide. The president's top advice

1:33.5

Medi didn't have a crystal ball. He didn't have high level access. He just listened to what

1:39.8

Trump said he would do if he returned to power. Sorry Palestinian refugees fleeing war and genocide in Gaza.

1:47.0

The Muslim ban is back and it now includes you too.

1:50.1

Oh, and any foreign student supporters of yours in the United States.

1:56.9

That doesn't mean the past 100 days of government departments being dismantled, the post-war

2:03.4

order in Europe falling apart, the possible end of the global economy as we know it, hasn't

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