As his team had promised, Trump began his presidency with shock and awe. And yet when you scratched a little deeper, there was a familiar gap between the rhetoric and the reality.
The deep divisions over the man who has taken back the White House were on stark display in the US capital this week.It was filled with happy supporters of the new president, many of them tourists, kitted out in Trump beanies and MAGA caps.
As Trump 2.0 arrived with fireworks, a circus-like show in a downtown arena and a blizzard of executive orders, many locals stayed home. The former reality TV star then headed downtown, where he made a show of signing the first of his executive orders at a fake Oval Office desk in an arena filled with his supporters.
Trump signed more executive orders on his first day in office than any other president, but the total — 26 — was nowhere near the 100 or even 200 that had been foreshadowed.A court in Washington state has placed a temporary stay on the move to end the automatic right to US citizenship for anyone born here, regardless of their parents' legal status.
Then a bishop shook things up, issuing a direct plea to the president to show mercy to people she said might feel scared as a result of his executive orders, including the LGBTQ community and illegal immigrants. On the list are former chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci, former secretary of state Mike Pompeo, and former national security adviser John Bolton., and on that front he's delivered.He hasn't ended the Ukraine war in a day, he hasn't yet imposed tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico, and the deportation raids his team flagged have, at time of writing, not yet eventuated at scale.
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