Trump 100 days: 'unpredictable' US alienates allies and disrupts global trade

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : "We hear many things coming from President Trump," said Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, during a television appearance this weekend.
59% : In an extraordinary bit of election-day meddling, Trump wrote a social media post suggesting that he was on the ballot in Canada's vote, repeating that Canada should become the 51st state in order to avoid tariffs and reap economic awards. Canadians responded by duly electing the liberal candidate Mark Carney, completing a 30% swing in polling that has largely been explained by opposition to Trump's tariff war and territorial menaces.
54% : "We concentrate, as I said, on the real negotiations which President Trump supports and instructed his people to continue to engage in these negotiations.
48% : Last month the EU presented an €800bn ($913bn) plan on the future of European defense, a putative step in what would be a herculean task to overcome internal divisions and onshore European defense manufacturing.
44% : In the western hemisphere, Trump has terrorised US neighbours and tacitly declared what some have compared to a new Monroe doctrine, saying the White House planned to "take back" the Panama canal and annex Greenland, while regularly calling Canada the future 51st state.
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43% : The tariffs Trump has unleashed will, if effected, disrupt global trade and lead to supply chain shocks in the United States, with China's Xi Jinping seeking to recruit US trade allies in the region.
42% : While Trump was popular in terms of his ideological and anti-woke agenda, the trade war has made him "quite toxic, just in the last month or two, with a lot of the populist voting bases", said Jeremy Shapiro, the research director of the European Council on Foreign Relations and a former special adviser to the assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia.
33% : "There's no better way to get us into a war, perhaps a catastrophic war, than essentially poking out your eyes and numbing your brain, and you're left with Donald Trump and a few people sitting in the White House winging it, and they're not competent to wing it," said Steven Cash, a former intelligence officer for the CIA and Department of Homeland Security, and the executive director of the Steady State, an advocacy group of former national security professionals.
31% : But in terms of hard results, Trump has not fulfilled a promise to end the war within 24 hours or produced a clear path to peace many months later.
30% : Trump has tasked him with reaching a deal to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, in effect renegotiating the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action that he scuttled in 2018.
25% : Trump has swung wildly on the war, on certain days targeting Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a "dictator" and then quickly pivoting to call out Putin for continuing to rain down missiles on Ukrainian cities.
12% : He said he was critical of both the Biden and Trump administrations for failing to relocate the tens of thousands of Afghans who were far enough along in the vetting program to be relocated before Trump came into office.

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