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🗓️ 28 April 2025
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0:00.0 | President Donald Trump will hit his first 100 days in the White House on Tuesday, a key period |
0:07.0 | of his second presidency, defined by its breakneck pace and the chaotic rollout of an agenda |
0:13.0 | designed to expand his authority. Laura Barone Lopez has our report. |
0:18.0 | So this is a big one. |
0:20.0 | Since retaking the Oval Office in January, Donald Trump has tested the limits of presidential power. |
0:26.7 | We have rogue judges that are destroying our country. |
0:29.9 | More than 140 executive orders signed, a record for the first 100 days, and tariffs on allies and adversaries alike, a growing deportation |
0:39.4 | operation, and mass firings across the government. |
0:43.1 | All at a pace that historian Mark Uptogrove says has institutions struggling to keep up. |
0:48.9 | There's a muzzle velocity, this flooding the zone of activity that has come since he took the oath of office. |
0:56.0 | There have been enormous gambles that he has taken. |
1:01.0 | And we don't yet know what the ramifications of those gambles are. |
1:05.0 | Impulsive and often controversial, just one month in President Trump shocked the world. |
1:11.1 | You don't have the cards right now. |
1:13.3 | When he berated Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in an explosive Oval Office showdown |
1:18.4 | that forced allies to reckon with what could be the end of the transatlantic alliance. |
1:23.3 | You're gambling with World War III. |
1:27.0 | And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country, that's back to you. |
1:33.5 | Far more than a lot of people said they should have. |
1:36.4 | Have you said thank you once this entire meeting? |
1:39.0 | No, in this entire meeting, have you said thank you? |
1:42.0 | And now the administration is threatening to walk away from the peace negotiations. |
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