Trump’s first 100 days: DOGE, tariffs, TikTok, and more

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We deed the 100-day people successful Donald Trump’s 2nd statesmanlike word this week and, good — a batch of things person happened successful that time.

Verge argumentation exertion Adi Robertson has been moving a bid of stories astir the interaction of these 100 days connected the tract each week. They’re great; we’ve linked them beneath and successful the amusement notes. And truthful I wanted to person Adi connected the amusement to speech astir six large themes — six large stories we’ve been pursuing — to spot what has and hasn’t gone the mode we mightiness person expected.

Up beforehand are a mates of the biggest. First, the tariff concern has thrown a wrench successful fundamentally the full planetary economy. It’s not truly clear day-to-day what tariff rates the US is adjacent demanding, and that’s starring to a batch of unpredictability, which is truly ne'er what you’re looking for successful the concern world.

Then there’s 1 of my idiosyncratic favorites, the mode Brendan Carr is weaponizing the Federal Communications Commission against the First Amendment. I deliberation he’s an unserious, censorious hack, and that’s putting it mildly. Adi commissioned a communicative astir that, and you’ll perceive america get into it a bit.

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Those are things that are changing, but past determination are a mates of things that aren’t truly changing, adjacent though they seemed similar a large woody — oregon astatine slightest Trump made dependable similar a large woody — earlier his word began. The Kids Online Safety Act, oregon KOSA, seemed similar it was astir to go instrumentality — and past didn’t. And the TikTok prohibition is thing Trump willed into being that ne'er came to fruition during his archetypal term. Then Congress did marque it happen, Biden signed it into law, and Trump conscionable — decided that doesn’t matter. So you’ll perceive america interaction connected those, arsenic well.

And of course, tying it each unneurotic is the DOGE of it all. Elon Musk’s favored task has torn a swath of destruction done the national authorities since January, and you’ll perceive america sermon not lone what he’s destroyed but besides the scarier newer happening DOGE mightiness beryllium building: a comprehensive surveillance state.

Even for arsenic overmuch arsenic Adi and I got through, there’s a batch going connected that we didn’t person clip to discuss. It would person taken america hours and hours to get done everything Trump and Elon person upended successful conscionable 3 months, truthful we didn’t truly speech precise overmuch astir immigration, for example, oregon everything that’s happening with science, climate, research, oregon public health.

And that truly does item the standard of the problem: Only a 100 days in, and there’s truthful overmuch going connected astatine erstwhile that it’s fundamentally intolerable to support up.

But we’re inactive going to try. One 100 days of Trump: present we go.

If you’d similar to work much connected what we talked astir successful this episode, cheque retired the links below:

Trump’s 100 time inferno | The Verge
The DOGE days person conscionable begun | The Verge
America is surviving successful tariff limbo | The Verge
MAGA’s adjacent question of influencers saved TikTok | The Verge
Whatever happened to the Kids Online Safety Act? | The Verge
Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment instrumentality | The Verge
Warning systems for floods, hurricanes, and famines are suffering from Trump’s information purge | The Verge
Why Trump can’t beryllium trusted with Congress’ caller anti-deepfake measure | Decoder
How Trump’s tariffs really enactment connected the crushed | Decoder
The FCC is simply a limb successful Trump’s warfare connected escaped code | Decoder