Trump's First 100 Days, With Carla Anne Robbins and Matthias Matthijs
The President’s Inbox
Council on Foreign Relations
4.5 • 698 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the President's Inbox. I'm Jim Lindsay, the Mary and David Boyes Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. |
| 0:12.0 | Tomorrow marks 100 days since President Donald Trump took office. Certainly has been a busy 14 weeks. |
| 0:19.0 | Because so much has happened, we decided to ask our listeners |
| 0:22.6 | what questions they had on the Trump administration's foreign policy. To help me answer them, |
| 0:28.1 | I recruited my good friends and CFR colleagues, Matthias Metice and Carla Ann Robbins. Mattius |
| 0:34.4 | is a senior fellow for Europe at the council and the Dean Adjison Associate Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. |
| 0:45.3 | Carla is a senior fellow at the Council and faculty director and professor at Baruch College's Mark School of Public and International Affairs. |
| 0:53.3 | She was formerly the Deputy Editorial Page Editor at the New York Times, |
| 0:57.6 | and before that, the chief diplomatic correspondent at the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:02.1 | Matthias and Carla, thank you for joining me on the president's inbox. |
| 1:06.0 | Thanks for having us, Jim. |
| 1:07.8 | Yep, great to be back. As I mentioned in the intro, Carla and Matthias, |
| 1:20.0 | we asked followers of cfr.org on Instagram what questions they had about Donald Trump's first |
| 1:27.1 | 100 days. We got a ton of great suggestions. |
| 1:31.0 | I want to go through as many as I can in the time that we have. But first, I'd like to start |
| 1:37.0 | with your overall assessment of Donald Trump's first 100 days. What stands out about Trump 2.0 to you, Carla? |
| 1:47.0 | You know, we all wrote before he came back that he had learned a lot from the first term, |
| 1:53.7 | and mainly that he wasn't going to be constrained. He wasn't going to be constrained by the |
| 1:59.7 | adults in the room. And I just don't think |
| 2:03.5 | as many times as I wrote it and as many times as I said it, I just didn't think that it was going to be |
| 2:10.5 | this intense. Every single place you look, starting from the people that he chose for his cabinet, to the plans to slash |
| 2:21.3 | the State Department budget, to the firing of the chairman of the joint chiefs, to all the, |
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