Ken Griffin, one of the billionaire donors who had convinced himself that President Trump would not do certain things he campaigned to do, finally got things last week. Griffin inadvertently identified the irony of the presidency of Trump so far: the man who has made a mark of his own name (“Trump”, all the ceilings) – and a fortune which linked it as a signifier of success on the products of the hotels to the sneakers – practically destroyed the brand of the United States in 100 days.
“We are eroding this brand right now,” Griffin deplored to an economic forum. All that “USA” has long defended – financial stability, military force, cultural prestige and more – undermined. “It can take a long time,” Griffin warned“… to withdraw the tarnish.”
A sad related irony: Trump competed President Franklin Roosevelt, who popularized the marker of the “first 100 days”, for a rapid decisive action. But when the FDR saved an overwhelmed economy and considered a social security net which endured almost a century, Trump took what economists considered “stellar“The economy and crashed, while deputy the servants to tear the holes in the safety net and take the chainsaws to the federal government and the rule of law.
The proceedings against the Trump administration proliferate at the rate of two per day, according to trackersEspecially on the billionaire Elon Musk assault On federal workers and expenditure laws, and against the repression of Trump's immigration. The president continues to challenge a decision from the Supreme Court “Facilitate” the return of a man wrongly deported to El Salvador's Gulag. Like J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a federal judge appointed by President Reagan, written for the 4th district court of appeal On April 17, “the government affirmed the right to hide the residents of this country in foreign prisons without the appearance of regular procedure.”
Internationally, Trump destroys the heritage of the last days of Roosevelt, the global structure of alliances which was a force of force for the United States against Russia, China and other adversaries. Dollar and Americans vouchers are diminished like safe ports. The toxicity of the Trump-US brand was considerably obvious in the elections on Monday in Canada: the liberal party of Prime Minister Mark Carney came to win, while the voters have disgust for Trump Canada on conservative candidates.
Characteristically, Trump evokes his own selfish reality. During a Magi rally in the county of Macomb, Michigan, Tuesday, he exult“It's the best … Beginning of 100 days from any president of history, and everyone says it.”
No, this is not the case. A multitude of recent surveys Show that Trump's job rating has slipped to the lowest new president in eight decade Pew Research Center And AP / NORC. On a series of questions, including the two who have undoubtedly elected it, immigration and the economy, Trump now obtains negative criticisms, including in a Fox News survey.
“We just started,” he told Michigan. “You haven't even seen anything.”
With that, he is probably right: the worst is still to come.
Americans seem to think. Day 100 came a report that Consumer confidence has plunged In April, a signal of an upcoming recession. Day 101, Wednesday, came from news that The economy has taken place 0.3% in the first quarter, after an annual growth rate of 2.4% in the previous quarter – the last of the presidency of Biden. Stocks have dropped, once again.
This “golden age” that Trump announced in his inaugural address seems to begin and finish With the new bling in the oval office.
Its prices have wreaked havoc on businesses and consumers they Softened the samples linked to the car In time for his visit to Michigan. But that only exacerbated the chaos surrounding his “beautiful“The prices, and the economic uncertainty it has caused. And that has put the lie to his claims that the Americans do not pay any prices, China does it.
And because consumers pay, Trump had to clean 100th day price messagein the Amazon alley. On Tuesday, he phoned CEO Jeff Bezos, another of its billionaire donors, so that the electronic commerce giant abandons a plan to show the price fees on customer bills. (They will always pay more, they simply will not see proof.)
However, 100 days is 99 more than the candidate that Trump said he had to make America again. He campaigned on ad nauseum saying that he would solve this, this or another problem on day 1. At least 53 times He promised to end the Russian war against Ukraine Before He took office. (He had spoken “jokingly”, Trump said Time magazine last week.)
What did he do before taking office? Admit that it would be “very hard“Lower prices as it prompted. (Forget them to fall: he led them with prices.)
“There will be a little disturbance, but we agree with that,” Trump said A joint session of the congress in March. Curiously, he praised like his economic model at the end of the 19th century when “it was all prices” and America was “the most successful”. In fact, this era has seen repeated recessions, depression and financial panics.
Who will tell him that he is wrong? Trump, in the bubble of the sycophance he created in the cabinet, the congress and among his base, makes a few checks. “I direct the country and the world”, he boastful of the Atlantic Last week.
He is not wrong, since he leads what is still the superpower of the world and – impulsive, unpredictable and avenger like he – often obliges others to fold. He has not completely destroyed the American brand. But it has even more than 1,300 days.
