The Indo Daily: 100 days later — is America really ‘greater?'
Things move fast in Trumpworld – from week to week, day to day, even hour to hour. One moment, the US president is tariffing the hell out of every country in the world (except Russia) and sending global financial markets into meltdown. The next, he's pressed the 90-day pause button.
Everything happens at such head-spinning speed, it's impossible to keep track of it all. Trump lobs so many grenades that, while everyone is still trying to absorb the impact of the latest one, he's already pulled the pins from a few more.
The 100 days since Trump assumed office have been filled with global shockwaves, political drama and heightened tension on the world stage. It's nearly impossible to know what the remaining 44 months will look like under President Trump.
Will his upending of the global financial system succeed in making America great again? What long-term effect will it have on Europe? Will there be lasting consequences for the world?
By breaking things apart, is Trump actually laying the foundations to rebuild America?
Today on The Indo Daily, we look at both sides of the political coin when it comes to all things Trump 2.0. To do this, Tabitha Monahan is joined by Larry Donnelly, political commentator and law lecturer at the University of Galway, and by Greg Swenson, chairman of Republicans Overseas UK.
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