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Day 100: Does Trump really ‘run the country and the world’?

Project 2025: Is Donald Trump following a right-wing playbook – and what’s next?

Democrats said Project 2025 was a blueprint for Trump 2.0 during last year's election campaign. He disavowed it. But 100 days into Donald Trump's presidency, lots of his policies look like Project 2025. What's going on?
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A copy of Project 2025 held up during the Democratic National Convention last year. Pic: AP

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US marines seen at the US-Mexico border wall

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Deliveries of medication supplied by USAID in the Kisumu hospital in Kenya

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Protesters at the Supreme Court mark two years since the fall of Roe v Wade. Pic: AP

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Protesters demonstrate against Project 2025 in Philadelphia. Pic: AP

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Analysis
Analysis
The world and America have changed irreversibly under Trump

Some hope President Trump will soften his approach as his policies encounter controversy and threaten his popularity, as he has already with tariffs. But he has shown a determination and radicalism far greater than in his first term in office.
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Tariffs, DOGE and diet coke: Trump’s first 100 days in 100 words

The US president's return to the White House has provided no shortage of landmark moments, encounters and executive orders.
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Demonstrators at a 'Hands Off!' protest against Trump and Musk in LA on 5 April. Pic: Reuters

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Trump unveiling the tariffs on 2 April. Pic: Reuters

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Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico just weeks into his presidency. Pic: Reuters

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Trump signs documents as he issued pardons for January 6 defendants on his inauguration day. Pic: Reuters

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Elon Musk brought his son X Æ A-12 for an Oval Office visit on 11 February. Pic: Reuter

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Trump and Musk sit in a Tesla in front of the White House. Pic: Reuters

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Donald Trump with wife Melania Trump, VP JD Vance and his wife Usha at an inauguration ball. Pic: Reuters

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Trump and Zelensk..

Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has changed lives

The current situation at the southern border can be viewed as a PR victory for the White House. But even on this signature issue of immigration, one of his biggest strengths, President Trump's approval ratings are declining.
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Adriana Jasso

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The border is deserted – a huge difference from just a few months ago

More than 100 immigrants detained at illegal after-hours nightclub in Colorado

DEA agents raided the club in Colorado Springs in the early hours of Sunday as Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration enforcement continues.
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Pic: US Drug Enforcement Administration via AP

Trump says death of Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, is ‘a horrible thing’

Virginia Giuffre's family said the 41-year-old, who had become an advocate for survivors of sex trafficking, died at her farm in Australia last week.
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Donald Trump was asked about Ms Giuffre's death at a New Jersey airport. Pic: Reuters

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Prince Andrew, Ms Giuffre and Ghislaine Maxwell, pictured in a photo believed to have been taken in 2001. Pic: Shutterstock

Analysis
Analysis
What we learnt from remarkable photos of Trump-Zelenskyy meeting

The US president has presented Ukraine and Russia with a proposal and ultimatum so one-sided it could have been written in the Kremlin.
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The two leaders held talks before attending the Pope's funeral

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The world leaders shared a moment before the service

Analysis
Analysis
Canada might be the second election Trump wins in six months

Mark Carney and the Liberals have seen a stunning reversal of fortune – and the “Trump effect” looks like it will be the difference.
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Pierre Poilievre led the Conservatives to a 25-point lead before Trudeau stepped down. Pic: Reuters

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Pierre Poilievre and Mark Carney after an English-language leaders' debate in Montreal. Pic: Reuters

Podcast
Podcast
Day 99: Why did Trump change his approach to Ukraine?