Mehdi Hasan on Trump’s first 100 days

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2025-04-30

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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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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, the first 100 days of Trump, and how to survive the next, oh my god, 1,361.

  • Day one.

  • Trump.

  • About a year ago, the journalist Mehdi Hassan imagined if Donald Trump won the 2024 election,

  • what his first 100 days would look like.

  • Day two.

  • Trump moves to pardon and release the January 6th insurrectionists serving time in prison for violently storming the US Capitol.

  • Trump says he's pulling the US out of the Paris climate change agreement and rolling back the Biden administration's climate initiative.

  • The president orders authorities to build massive detention camps and raid cities nationwide.

  • Mehdi didn't have a crystal ball.

  • He didn't have high-level access.

  • He just listened to what Trump said he would do if he returned to power.

  • Sorry, Palestinian refugees fleeing war and genocide in Gaza.

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

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

  • That doesn't mean the past hundred days of government departments being dismantled,

  • the post-war order in Europe falling apart,

  • the possible end of the global economy as we know it, hasn't been shocking.

  • So many things have shocked me about the past hundred days because,