Milestones and moments you may have missed from Trump's first 100 days

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : But Harvard refused to bow to the orders -- which included cancelling diversity-based admissions and hiring initiatives, overhauling leadership, banning face masks and increasing campus policing.
50% : "The American people chose Donald Trump to be their president after he promised to pardon these individuals," he said.
48% : Then, amid a major sell-off on the all-important bond market, Trump made an about-face.
48% : The tariff on China though eventually settled at 145 per cent after back-and-forth retaliation between the world's two biggest economies. Day 85: Trump freezes billions in Harvard University funds Harvard, America's oldest and richest university, has found itself at the frontline of a fight between the Trump administration and higher education across America.
44% : Day 16: Trump says the US should take over Gaza Throughout last year's election campaign, Trump vowed to bring lasting peace to the Middle East.
41% : Some of America's biggest companies, such as Meta and McDonalds, have also reversed or scaled back their diversity and inclusivity programs to align more with the Trump administration's ideology. Day 15: Foreign aid staff are told not to come to work Foreign aid was one of the first big targets of the "Department of Government Efficiency" (DOGE) -- the Elon Musk-led team tasked with shrinking government and rooting out "waste and fraud".
39% : Trump said they went through a "strong vetting process".
38% : " Unsurprisingly, Netanyahu welcomed the president's "fresh ideas", but elsewhere, they led to shock and condemnation, including from countries across the Middle East and the United Nations.
37% : Unauthorised border crossings fell from a record high of 250,000 in December 2023 to just over 7,000 in March, according to official figures. Day 11: Trump blames diversity initiatives for a plane crash Less than a fortnight into his second term, the president was tasked with leading the nation through its deadliest plane crash in nearly 25 years.
36% : " Day three: Troops are deployed to the Mexican border Two days after Donald Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border (having also done this in his first term), the US military began deploying thousands of troops there.
32% : The Pentagon's spokesman, Sean Parnell, has argued there "was no classified information in any Signal chat, no matter how many ways they try to write the story". Day 55: Hundreds of migrants are flown to a Salvadoran jail Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of implementing "the largest domestic deportation operation in American history" and he didn't waste any time getting started.
30% : "Don't tell us what we're going to feel because you're in no position to dictate that," Trump said.
30% : The US is continuing efforts to broker a deal, but Trump has warned the US could give up if there's no meaningful progress soon.
29% : Trump told prison authorities to pardon almost 1,500 people, and commute the sentences of 14 others so they could be freed straight away.
27% : The next day, at a press conference, Trump attacked previous Democratic administrations and speculated that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies were to blame for the collision.
27% : Asked how he could suggest this without evidence, Trump replied: "I think it's disrespectful to the families," former air traffic controller Todd Yeary told 7.30.
26% : Trump accuses universities of pushing left-wing and "woke" ideals, and of mishandling pro-Palestinian campus protests.
25% : Trump labelled USAID a "left-wing scam".
25% : Trump spoke to Putin by phone, but Russia would not agree to the same terms.
24% : Trump called the public backlash unfair. DOGE says it has saved taxpayers more than $US150 billion -- much of it characterised as "waste and fraud" -- but many of its published "receipts" have been disputed after independent analysis.
22% : Undeterred, Trump has doubled down on his deportation blitz, even suggesting he'd like to send US citizens to prisons in El Salvador in the future.
21% : Trump said they'd been treated unfairly compared to other criminals.
21% : Trump has also threatened to revoke Harvard's tax-exemption status and block it from enrolling international students.
20% : Day 73: Trump unveils tariffs for 185 countries Donald Trump started introducing new tariffs early in his presidency, but his "Liberation Day" announcement promised to be the motherlode.
19% : Trump falsely claimed Ukraine invaded Russia, and called Zelenskyy a "dictator.
18% : Under Donald Trump's orders, DOGE quickly moved to gut the US Agency for International Development (USAID), cancelling more than 80 per cent of its programs and telling most of its staff they were being fired.
17% : Both Jordan and Egypt -- which Trump proposed would accept the approximately 2 million displaced Palestinians -- rejected the idea, which is also illegal under international law.
13% : So Trump froze billions of dollars in Harvard funding, declaring: At the time, Harvard law professor Andrew Crespo said Trump "wants to change what we're teaching.
8% : Vice-President JD Vance accused Zelenskyy of showing insufficient gratitude to America, and Trump fired up after Zelenskyy suggested the US could feel the effects of Russian aggression.
8% : Trump pushed back on pressure to discipline Waltz or Hegseth, saying: The Pentagon's chief spokesman, John Ullyot, later resigned and wrote that the scandal was the start of "a month of total chaos" at the Pentagon.
2% : Day 40: Trump and Vance berate the Ukrainian president During the first month of his presidency, Trump repeatedly criticised Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and praised Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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