Trump’s first 100 days in 10 central moments

US President Donald Trump takes questions during a briefing on the midst of the Airlines Flight 5342 air and a military helicopter in Washington in the Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. – AFP

Since his return to the White House, President Donald Trump has made us foreign policy upside down, sent shock waves through the financial markets and transformed the oval office into one “happening” after another.

Here are 10 of the most important moments in the first 100 days of its second period as president:

January 20: A flurry of decree

Trump signs a record 26 decree on his first day back in the oval office.

Donald Trump signs an executive order to introduce sweeping changes in the US election process. - AFP
Donald Trump signs an executive order to introduce sweeping changes in the US election process. – AFP

His first actions set the tone, pulled the United States out of the World Health Organization and pardoned the rebels who invaded the American Capitol four years earlier.

February 4: Trump suggests Gaza takeover

During a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump says that the war-raised gaza strip, home to more than two million Palestinians, could become “Riviera in the Middle East.”

He announces a plan for the United States to take control of the territory to remodel it, expressing hope that Palestinians could be removed from the territory and provoke international indignation.

February 12: Trump, Musk, Musk Jr Meet the Press

Trump’s billionaire Alley Elon Musk and his young son are attending the president of a news conference in the Oval Office.

Elon Musk's son X A-XII, whom he calls X, depicted with Donald Trump in the oval office. - Reuters
Elon Musk’s son X A-XII, whom he calls X, depicted with Donald Trump in the oval office. – Reuters

Musk, who leads federal cost-saving efforts through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency-Doge-rejects criticism of a lack of transparency and possible conflicts of interest.

His son X-full name x ĂĽ † A-XII-CHATTERS AND HROWS UNDER HIS ROMNOUNDS.

12th February: Trump brings Putin in from the cold

Trump ends years of diplomatic insulation of Vladimir Putin and holds a 90-minute phone with the Russian leader.

Another call will follow on February 28 and several US-Russian meetings from which European powers are excluded. The connection has so far led to two exchanges of prisoners between the two countries.

February 14: Vance Lectures Europe

At the Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance is shocking European leaders, chiding them to limit freedom of speech, asking them to “intensify” on defense and criticize them over immigration.

His breadth and others who follow from the Trump administration signalize an end to the ancient transatlantic security of US support for Europe.

February 28: Zelensky humiliated

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is exposed to a verbal assault by Trump and Vance that condemns him for his lack of gratitude to us support during a tense meeting before the White House cameras.

“Trump and Vance perform Putin’s dirty work,” the Democratic Senate’s minority leader Chuck Schumer on social media posts.

March 7: Trump goes after universities

The Trump administration accuses several universities of allowing pro-Palestine protests and demonstrations on Campus condemning war in the Middle East.

Protesters fly Palestinian flags outside the White House in the United States during the national march at Washington for Palestine while calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on November 4, 2023. - AFP
Protesters fly Palestinian flags outside the White House in the United States during the national march at Washington for Palestine while calling for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on November 4, 2023. – AFP

It cuts $ 400 million in federal grants to Columbia University over claims that the institution stood by “in the light of sustained harassment by Jewish students”.

Recently, it has frozen $ 2.2 billion in federal funding to Harvard University and threatened to strip its tax-exempt status as a non-profit institution after the opposite steps to submit to government supervision.

March 15: Mass Disclosure to El Salvador

The Trump Administration uses a fuzzy wartime law to justify the deportation of more than 200 suspects members to a prison with high security in El Salvador.

The American Secretary of Homeland Security Christ's Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist -Insection Center (Cecot), which catches and looks from a cell, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26, 2025. - AFP
The American Secretary of Homeland Security Christ’s Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist -Insection Center (Cecot), which catches and looks from a cell, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26, 2025. – AFP

Challenged by the courts, the affair has gone to the Supreme Court. The executive branch has refused to settle back, and a federal judge is now saying that there is “probable cause” to find the administration contempt for the court to ignore a residence order on the expulsions.

March 26: US should take over Greenland

Trump doubles on comments in December that the United States needs Greenland and refuses to exclude the use of power two days before a visit there by Vance and his wife.

“We need Greenland for international security and security,” he says. “We’re going to have it.”

Danish leaders respond sharply, and the habits do not eventually meet members of the Greenlandic community and limit their visits to the US military base there.

April 2-9: Trump starts Customs War

On April 2, Trump announces a wave of huge tariffs against cuts in the countries of the world and accuses them of taking advantage of the United States.

Donald Trump introduces mutual tariffs. - AFP
Donald Trump introduces mutual tariffs. – AFP

On April 9, the day his tariffs are to take effect, Trump will perform a partial increase. He reduces customs duties on most of the world’s imports to a blanket 10 percent for a period of 90 days, while China -Tariffs rise to 145 percent on many imports.

The crisis has rattled the world markets, sent the price of gold shooting and hit the value of the dollar.

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