Trump 100 days: Trump’s whirlwind start to his second presidency

The president has begun his second term at a whirlwind pace, slashing the government, upending international alliances, challenging the rule of law and ordering mass deportations

Law-abiding migrants sent to foreign prisons. Sweeping tariffs disrupting global markets. Students detained for protest. Violent insurrectionists pardoned. Tens of thousands of federal workers fired. The supreme court ignored.

The first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term have shocked the United States and the world. On the eve of his inauguration, Trump promised the most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history", and what followed has been a whirlwind pace of extreme policies and actions that have reshaped the federal government and the US's role in the world.