The Week: Trump’s 100-Day Wild Ride

• Donald Trump says kids may have to make do with fewer toys because of his trade war, and it’s lucky for Republicans they can’t vote.

• Trump has set a new standard for a president’s first 100 days. His successors may well promise to replicate his frenetic activity. What we’ve gotten from Trump so far is a mixed bag. The unalloyed goods: reversing the Biden agenda, ending the border crisis, sanity on transgender issues, consequential moves against DEI and race-conscious policies, hitting the Houthis, speaking forthrightly about the Gaza war. The directionally correct, if poorly executed: DOGE, gang deportations, the fight with Harvard. The indefensible: targeting law firms and individuals for purposes of revenge, blaming Ukraine for the Russian invasion. And the terrible: the trade war that threatens the economy and his presidency. Perhaps most disturbing in the first 100 days has been Trump’s penchant for personal rule achieved by stretching grants of power by Congress to their limits and beyond. We should all be grateful that Kamala Harris is largely forgotten. But it has been a wild ride to this point, and there are many more ups and downs ahead.

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• Donald Trump says kids may have to make do with fewer toys because of his trade war, and it’s lucky for Republicans they can’t vote.

• Trump has set a new standard for a president’s first 100 days. His successors may well promise to replicate his frenetic activity. What we’ve gotten from Trump so far is a mixed bag. The unalloyed goods: reversing the Biden agenda, ending the border crisis, sanity on transgender issues, consequential moves against DEI and race-conscious policies, hitting the Houthis, speaking forthrightly about the Gaza war. The directionally correct, if poorly executed: DOGE, gang deportations, the fight with Harvard. The indefensible: targeting law firms and individuals for purposes of revenge, blaming Ukraine for the Russian invasion. And the terrible: the trade war that threatens the economy and his presidency. Perhaps most disturbing in the first 100 days has been Trump’s penchant for personal rule achieved by stretching grants of power by Congress to their limits and beyond. We should all be grateful that Kamala Harris is largely forgotten. But it has been a wild ride to this point, and there are many more ups and downs ahead.