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Trump steams ahead on these campaign promises as he reaches 100 days in office
President Donald Trump is now at the finish line of his first 100 days of his second term in the White House, as of Tuesday.
Key tenants of Trump’s first 100 days include imposing harsh tariffs on Chinese imports, starting and continuing peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, unveiling plans to dismantle organizations like the Education Department and cracking down on border security amid a mass deportation initiative.
The period also marked a steep increase in executive orders in comparison to previous presidents. Altogether, Trump has signed over 140 executive orders during his first 100 days in office during his second term. That is an increase from the 33 he signed during the first 100 days of his first term, and up from the previous record of 99 that former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed during that same timeframe.
The Trump administration’s mass deportation effort is in full force, and border czar Tom Homan told reporters Monday that border crossings were down by 96% under the Trump administration.
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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks as White House «border czar» Tom Homan looks on during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
Additionally, the White House said earlier in April it has deported more than 100,000 illegal immigrants in 2025. The administration’s handling of these deportations has attracted scrutiny in certain high-profile cases, including one involving El Salvador native Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who the Trump administration claimed in court filings was deported by mistake.
However, the Trump administration has since said Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang and has released protective order documents from his wife.
Following through on another campaign promise, the Trump administration unveiled sweeping tariffs against a host of countries on April 2, after historically lambasting other countries’ trade practices and accusing them of engaging in unfair trade practices against the U.S.
«For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike,» Trump said April 2 at the White House.
The administration later walked back its initial proposal, and announced April 9 it would immediately hike tariffs on Chinese goods to 145% but scale back reciprocal tariffs on other countries for 90 days to a baseline of 10%. In response, China proceeded to boost its tariffs on U.S. goods to 125%.
Additionally, Trump signed an executive order on March 20 to overhaul the Education Department — following through on a campaign promise he made to eliminate the federal government’s influence over education and «stop the abuse of your taxpayer dollars to indoctrinate America’s youth.»
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President Donald Trump signs an executive order to reduce the size and scope of the Education Department alongside school children signing their own versions, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House on March 20, 2025. (Getty)
A White House fact sheet on the executive order said the directive aims to «turn over education to families instead of bureaucracies» and instructs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to «take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education and return education authority to the States, while continuing to ensure the effective and uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely.»
Still, Trump revealed that functions of the department overseeing Pell Grants, student loans and others that provide services for those with special needs would continue at other agencies.
Likewise, Trump has long called for an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and promised to end the conflict between the two within 24 hours during his time on the campaign trail.
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President Donald Trump, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sparred during Zelenskyy’s visit to the White House in February but have since picked up peace discussions to end the conflict with Russia. (Getty)
Still, he has continued to advance negotiations during his first 100 days in office — including hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House in February. Trump said Sunday that he is aiming to end the war in the next two weeks or so and that he wants Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop launching strikes against Kyiv.
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«I want him to stop shooting, sit down and sign a deal,» Trump told reporters Sunday on the way back from Italy for Pope Francis’ funeral. «We have the confines of a deal I believe and I want him to sign it and be done with it and just go back to life.»
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One hundred days into his new administration, President Donald Trump has reset negotiations with allies and foes across the globe, and experts say one is certain: it is all transactional.
Gone are the days when the U.S. could be drawn to throw its force around the world solely in the name of defending or spreading democracy. Global leaders are learning to speak a new language with U.S. leadership, one that is less about ideology and more about how their interests benefit U.S. interests.
«There is a lot more transactional engagement rather than I think we’re ideological-based, policy decisions that were sort of the hallmark of the Biden administration,» said Gregg Roman, executive director of the Middle East Forum.
Here is a round-up of how Trump has changed U.S. foreign policy since taking office:
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Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, left, and President Donald Trump are working on a nuclear deal. (West Asia News Agency, Reuters | SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Negotiating a deal to avert a nuclear Iran
Former President Joe Biden toyed with reviving a nuclear deal with Iran and criticized Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, but his administration made little progress toward serious negotiations.
Trump has now expressed interest in a new nuclear deal. He told Israel the U.S. would not come to their aid in attacking Iran until diplomatic negotiations played out.
As Trump’s team met with Iranian counterparts in Oman this weekend for a second round of nuclear talks, he issued another threat: if negotiations whither away, the U.S. would not be dragged by Israel into war with Iran but will be «leading the pack.»
Taking Yemen’s Houthis head-on
An offensive campaign against Yemen’s Houthi terrorists launched six weeks ago has struck more than 800 targets and cost nearly $1 billion – a sharp departure from the tit-for-tat retaliatory strikes seen under the Biden administration, when Houthis attacked U.S. naval ships and Western commercial vessels.
«Biden pursued a policy of retaliatory strikes: If you hit us, we’ll hit you,» said Roman. «What Trump is trying to do is what I call a salting the earth strategy. If you dare challenge American military supremacy or the ability for us to conduct free trade to the bottom of or through the Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Yemen, Red Sea, Suez … We will attempt to end your ability to wage war on the United States in its interests.»
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President Donald Trump is taking a different approach when dealing with Houthi fighters. (AP Images/Getty Images)
From funding Ukraine ‘as long as it takes’ to demanding a negotiated settlement
While Biden had promised the U.S. would stand by Ukraine «as long as it takes» in the war against Russia, Trump expressed a desire to see the war come to an end, promising that he could end the war on «day one» of his presidency.
One hundred days in, the war is not over. Negotiations are ongoing, and Trump has jumped between sounding off in frustration with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
As Putin continues to strike even civilian regions of Ukraine, Trump questioned on Saturday whether the Russian leader truly wants peace or is «tapping me along.»
He again questioned whether he would need to slap «secondary sanctions» on nations that do business with Russia to starve its war coffers.
On Monday, Russia offered a three-day ceasefire from May 8-10, but the White House was not satisfied. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump wants a «permanent ceasefire.»
Trump met face-to-face with Zelenskyy in Rome on Saturday, the first time since their infamous Oval Office spat in February, after slamming Zelenskyy’s latest rejection of his peace proposal, one that would have formally ceded Crimea to the Russians.
President Donald Trump, left, met face-to-face with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time since their Oval Office spat in February over the weekend. (Vatican and Ukraine Ambassador to Holy See)
Strategic takeover: New pushes for Greenland, Panama
The Monroe Doctrine is back, analysts say, and Trump wants both Greenland and the Panama Canal under U.S. control.
The proposals drew shock across the world, but at least in Panama, Trump’s bold words prompted a proposal to offer the U.S. «first and free» passage for its warships, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said earlier this month. It also spurred the proposed sale of two ports of entry from Hong Kong-based CK Hutchison to U.S.-based BlackRock, though that deal has been delayed by Chinese regulatory and political scrutiny.
Efforts to attain Greenland have proved less successful. Tough talk against Denmark and its ownership of Greenland has ratcheted up tensions with the NATO ally and Greenland’s leadership has expressed little interest in becoming a part of the U.S.
However, Trump has called out the threat of Russia and China’s increasing arctic military capabilities – the shortest range for a missile to travel from Russia to the U.S. would be over the icy island’s territory. Trump is also interested in the rare earth mining potential of the massive swath of land.
President Donald Trump wants the U.S. to control the Panama Canal. (REUTERS/Enea Lebrun/File Photo)
Allies step up for their own defense
Trump’s threats to pull out of the NATO alliance – or refuse to come to the defense of allies that do not contribute enough military spending – has left nations across the world planning for the contingency that they may have to defend themselves without U.S. aid.
The European Union announced a plan for its nations to spend $840 billion to «re-arm Europe» after Trump halted all aid to Ukraine in March.
Countries like Spain, Belgium and Sweden have all announced plans this year to increase defense spending to meet NATO’s 2% target, while eastern European states near Russia’s border, including Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland, have announced plans to increase defense spending to around 5%.
Punishing China for unfair trade practices
Concern over China’s hegemonic ambitions bridges the partisan divide, but the Biden White House never considered such drastic measures as 145% tariffs.
Trump has said the goal of the tariffs is to both bring back US manufacturing after decades of offshore production and punish China for intellectual property theft, a massive trade imbalance, and fentanyl flowing from China to the U.S. A free trade push in the early 2000s had wrongly assumed liberal trade policies would bring democratic values and free markets into Chinese borders, his supporters argue.
Trump has insisted that President Xi Jinping wants to cut a deal to lower the soaring tariffs, even as China has rejected the prospect of talks.
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It is unclear what sort of realistic concessions the U.S. could get out of a deal, perhaps promises to buy more American-made agricultural products, fuel or other specialty goods.
For now, steep tariffs remain, and China is choking off U.S. supply of critical minerals, which could spell deep trouble for everyday electronics, electric vehicles and defense equipment.
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La mentira imperdonable del cardenal Becciu al papa Francisco que provocó su expulsión del cónclave
Angelo Becciu fue el primer cardenal juzgado y condenado por un tribunal penal del Vaticano por estafa y malversación. Entre sus delitos se encuentra el pago de sobreprecios en la compra de un edificio de lujo en Londres en 2014, donaciones que terminaron en mano de su familia y sobre todo el desvío del dinero del rescate de una monja colombiana que estaba en manos de Al-Qaeda.
Tras amenazar con hacer valer sus derechos como cardenal, Becciu cedió a la presión de sus pares y renunció a participar en el cónclave que comenzará el 7 de mayo para elegir el sucesor del papa Francisco.
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Según medios italianos, el cardenal tomó esta decisión tras ver dos cartas que dejó el papa argentino “que aprobaba la decisión de no dejarlo entrar en el cónclave”.
El cardenal Angelo Becciu fue condenado a 5 años y 6 meses de cárcel en 2023. (Fuente: REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane).
Por qué fue condenado el cardenal Angelo Becciu
El derrotero de Becciu comenzó en 2020. Una poco clara operación inmobiliaria en Londres lo puso en la mira de la justicia.
El caso estalló con la compra de un edificio en una antigua sede de las galerías Harrods, en el exclusivo barrio londinense de Chelsea, una operación especulativa que creó un agujero en las cuentas de la Santa Sede de al menos 139 millones de euros.
El edificio en el centro del escándalo financiero del Vaticano. (Foto: Reuters/John Sibley),
Además, durante el proceso surgieron otros delitos financieros cometidos presuntamente por Becciu como las donaciones de 125.000 euros que el cardenal ingresó en la cuenta de una asociación, vinculada a la Cáritas sarda de Ozieri, que en ese momento presidía uno de sus hermanos.
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En ese entonces, Becciu era prefecto de la Congregación para las Causas de los Santos. Francisco le soltó la mano. Lo obligó a renunciar y le quitó sus privilegios. Finalmente fue condenado a cinco años y seis meses de prisión por delitos financieros.
Sin embargo, uno de los temas que más revuelo causó fue el desvío de un rescate de más de millón de euros que estaba destinado a la liberación de la monja colombiana Gloria Cecilia Narváez, raptada por Al-Qaeda en Mali en el año 2017.
Según se descubrió, 570.000 euros fueron a parar a una sociedad eslovena controlada por una asesora de Becciu, Cecilia Marogna, supuesta experta en seguridad y relaciones internacionales. El resto del dinero, la mujer se lo gastó en hoteles de lujo, viajes, ropa bolsos, perfumes y otras opulencias.
Qué dijo la exasesora de Becciu
En su defensa, Marogna sostuvo que en una entrevista con el diario Corriere della Sera que ofreció en 2015 a Becciu crear una “red diplomacia paralela en los países del norte de África y Oriente Medio”.
“Yo sabía qué hacer y cómo moverme, también para reducir los peligros para las nunciaturas derivados las células terroristas presentes en esos países”, explicó.
Cecilia Marogna, la ex asesora de seguridad del Vaticano. (Foto: gentileza El Mundo).
Respecto a que muchos de esos fondos se gastaron en artículos de lujo, la mujer lo justificó alegando que: “Quizás el bolso era para la esposa de un amigo nigeriano que pudo hablar con el presidente de Burkina Faso para vigilar los riesgos y peligros de las nunciaturas del Vaticano”.
“Con ese dinero hice el trabajo que me pidieron: entablar relaciones y contactos en países difíciles. Hice informes y análisis, siempre y cuando fuera pagado. No soy un estafadora”, dijo también al diario Domani.
Sin embargo, durante la investigación, se descubrió que Marogna no era ninguna experta en seguridad: su currículum era completamente inventado.
“En torno a esto hay muchas sospechas, pero es seguro que no había ninguna relación carnal entre Becciu y Marogna. Simplemente, ella es una mujer muy lista por la que se deja llevar», contó al diario El Mundo una fuente cercana a la prensa del Vaticano.
Becciu fue el primer cardenal juzgado por un tribunal penal del Vaticano. También fue condenado a inhabilitación “perpetua” para ejercer cargos en la Santa Sede, pero la sentencia se encuentra en proceso de apelación y sin condena efectiva. La nueva etapa del juicio comenzará en septiembre.
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Convicted cardinal announces he won’t be part of conclave to choose Pope Francis’ successor
A cardinal who was forced by Pope Francis to resign his Vatican job and was later convicted of embezzlement will not take place in the upcoming conclave to choose the next pope.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, 76, announced Tuesday, «Having at heart the good of the church, which I have served and will continue to serve with fidelity and love, as well as to contribute to the communion and serenity of the conclave, I have decided to obey as I have always done the will of Pope Francis not to enter the conclave while remaining convinced of my innocence.»
Becciu was once an influential Vatican chief of staff who was a leading papal contender himself, according to the Associated Press. But he fell from grace in 2020 when Francis forced him to resign his job as head of the Vatican’s saint-making office and his rights as a cardinal because of allegations of financial misconduct in relation to the purchase of a building in London.
Becciu denied wrongdoing but was put on trial in the Vatican criminal court and convicted of finance-related charges in December 2023. He is appealing the conviction and 5 1/2-year prison sentence and had participated in the pre-conclave meetings, including on Monday.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu greets Cardinal Matteo Zuppi during a consistory ceremony to elevate Roman Catholic prelates to the rank of cardinal, at Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in August 2022. (Reuters/Remo Casilli)
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Italian daily Domani reported last week that during the initial pre-conclave discussions, Becciu was presented with two letters signed by Francis before he died saying he should not participate in the conclave.
Becciu is under the age limit of 80 and technically eligible to vote, but the Vatican’s official statistics list him as a «non-elector.»
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Angelo Becciu presides over a Eucharistic liturgy at the St. John in Latheran Basilica in Rome in February 2017. (AP/Gregorio Borgia)
The conclave is set to begin next Wednesday, while Becciu’s appeal will unfold in September.
Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez of El Salvador, an 82-year-old who is not eligible to vote in the conclave, said Tuesday that «I have the impression that the conclave will be short, two or three days, this is the feeling we have inside the room,» according to Reuters.
Pope Francis appears on the central lodge of St. Peter’s Basilica to bestow the Urbi et Orbi (Latin for to the city and the world) blessing at the end of the Easter mass presided over by Cardinal Angelo Comastri in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Sunday, April 20. (AP/Gregorio Borgia))
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The Vatican recently announced «the Sistine Chapel will be closed to the public from Monday 28 April 2025 for the requirements of the Conclave.»
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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