On Monday, Donald Trump reconfirmed the presidency. Heralding a new American "Gilded Age," Trump has set a "power clock" in his new term, using sweeping executive powers to try to erase much of Joe Biden's legacy and show that he plans to learn from the failures of his first term and implement a transformative Presidency: Wrote about thisof CNNanalyst Stephen Collinson.
Trump pardoned hundreds of people who participated in the January 6, 2021 riots. He has launched a promised immigration cleanup and border security program and has brought billionaire tech oligarchs into his inner political circle.
The new president has simultaneously caused political consternation in several foreign capitals with his spontaneous foreign policy decisions, instantly distancing the United States from the internationalism that every president since World War II has embraced except him.
