The Republican shook the financial markets with the tariff war and became the US foreign policy upside down
Since returning to the White House, the President has been the foreign policy of Headed upside down, he shook the financial markets and turned the oval hall into the scene of an event succession.
Check out ten key moments of the first 100 days of Trump’s second term:
January 20, 2025: a flood of decrees
Trump signs a record of 26 decrees on his first day back to the Oval Hall. His first measures set the tone of his new term, with the United States departure from the World Health Organization and forgiveness to agitators who invaded the Capitol, the headquarters of the US Legislature, four years earlier.
February 4: Trump proposes to take Gaza
During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump says the War-ranked Gaza Strip, home to over two million Palestinians, could become “the Middle East Riviera.” Three weeks later, he posted an artificial intelligence video that showed an imaginary gaza transformed into a resort in his honor.
February 12: Trump, Musk and his son receive the press
Elon Musk, Trump’s billionaire ally, and his little son join the president at a press conference at the Oval Hall. Musk, ahead of cost cut efforts in the so -called government efficiency department – the Doge Agency – rejects criticism of lack of transparency and possible conflicts of interest. His son-whose full name is x æ a-xii-murmurs and writhing during his speech.
February 12: Trump Putin from the refrigerator
Trump ended with years of Vladimir Putin’s diplomatic isolation with a 1h30 telephone conversation with Russian President. A second call followed on February 28, as well as some US-Russian meetings, from which the powers were deleted. So far, rapprochement has resulted in two prisoners’ exchanges between the two countries.
February 14: Vance gives sermon in Europe
During the Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance shocked European leaders, to whom they rebuked by restricting freedom of expression, telling them to “increase” investments in defense and criticizing them about immigration. Their harsh statements, as well as others who followed the Trump administration, signal an end of the old transatlantic certainties about American support to Europe.
February 28: Zelensky humiliated
During a tense meeting at the White House, Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky is subjected to the cameras to a verbal attack by Trump and Vance, who criticizes him for his lack of gratitude for American support in the war that Ukraine wages with Russia. “Trump and Vance are doing Putin’s dirty work,” published on social networks the leader of the Democratic minority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer.
March 7: Trump attacks universities
The Trump government accuses several universities of being tolerant with anti -Semitism during the manifestations in the campuses denouncing the war of Israel in Gaza. He cut $ 400 million (R $ 2.3 billion) in federal grants at Columbia University, claiming that the institution supported “persistent harassment of Jewish students” after anti-Israeli protests.
More recently, he froze $ 2.2 billion in federal funds for Harvard University, threatening to remove his tax exemption status as a non -profit institution after the education center opposed to government surveillance.
March 15: mass deportations to El Salvador
The Trump government has appealed to an obscure law of war times to justify the deportation of more than 200 alleged gang members sent to maximum security in El Salvador. Contested in court, the case came to the Supreme Court. The executive refused to go back and a federal judge now says that there is a “probable cause” of committing judicial contempt by the administration for ignoring an order to suspend deportations.
March 26: The US should take Greenland
Trump reinforces the comments made in December that the United States need Greenland and refuses to discard the use of force two days before a visit by Vice President Vance with his wife to the island, a Danish autonomous territory. “We need Greenland for international security…,” he said. “We have to have it,” he added.
Danish leaders react quickly and Vance does not meet with members of the Greenland Society, restricting his visit to the American military base installed there.
April 2 to 9: Trump begins the tariff war
On April 2, Trump announces a new wave of tariffs against dozens of countries, allies and rivals, accusing them of taking advantage of the United States, leading many affected to adopt retaliatory rate increases.
On April 9, the day when ‘tariff’ should come into force, Trump announces a 90 -day break for all tariffs, except those directed to China, which he raises to 145% – which can reach 245% for some products, including electric cars. The crisis shook global markets, made the price of gold trigger and affected the value of the dollar.
*With information from AFP
Posted by Carolina Ferreira
