The US press, loyal to the Democratic Party, underlined that the first executive orders and steps of the 47th US President caused shock in the US and abroad. One magazine after the other is trying to convince readers that ‘Trump is already making America weaker and more vulnerable’ and that the fall of institutions is leading to the fall of the US.

Trump’s executive order on birth right citizenship is particularly being criticised. It blocks citizenship for children of illegal immigrants, as well as for children whose parents are legally in the United States if they do not have the appropriate status at the time of the child’s birth. This contradicts the wording of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, which states that “all persons born or naturalised in the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside”.

The governors of the 22 states in which the Democrats are in power have already filed a class action lawsuit to challenge the executive order. At the same time, the idea that America was created as a country of migrants, which welcomes ‘masses of people eager to breathe freely’ is being voiced.

Trump is striking at the US bureaucracy every day. In this regard, the thought that a superpower with a population of 330 million people needs public administration institutions regulating various aspects of life is being manifested in various ways. “There is no such reality”, The New York Times wrote the other day, “that could do without them. To pretend that the opposite is true, or to imagine that the government would work better if its powers were placed in the hands of those who adhere to a narrow partisanship and are less widely informed than current civil servants, is nonsense”.

Trump’s order on significant tax cuts and stricter immigration is being widely discussed. Republicans in the House of Representatives are proposing a 10% tariff on all imports to cover the new costs, which will rake in about $1.9 trillion, as well as to introduce new restrictions on Medicaid recipients, which will save $100 billion. They are also proposing to come up with $20 billion by raising taxes for people who can use the gym freely in the office.

The number of dissatisfied with Trump is rising

The number of Americans dissatisfied with Trump was significant even before the election, but it has been growing rapidly recently, with people who have been dismissed from the state apparatus joining them. At the same time, it is assumed that these dismissals will continue for some time. The press reports that there are plans to remove transgender people from the army and, according to the latest data, their number is estimated at 15,000 people.

The widening division of America is leading to an increase in separatist sentiments. According to Newsweek magazine, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber has approved a petition for California to secede from the United States. To be included on the ballot in 2028, 546,651 signatures must be collected by July 22, 2025. The question is formulated as follows: “Should California secede from the United States and become a free and independent country in 2028?” This initiative may be approved with the support of at least 55% or more than 500,000 registered voters and a turnout of at least 50% (California is the most populous state in the United States, with a population of 40 million, and its GDP is larger than that of the United Kingdom).

The president, noted the Washington Post on January 28 this year, was elected with a mandate to lower prices, promising that he would reduce the cost of everyday goods on the first day. However, he did not propose any plans to achieve this, only ordering his subordinates to brainstorm the concept of a price reduction plan and to then report back in a month.

Naturally, such innovations cause discontent among citizens. Trump, CNN noted on January 23 this year, gives his critics every reason to believe that their worst fears about his new presidency will be justified and will become even worse. Voters in seven swing states, angered by high food and housing prices, are still waiting to see how Trump will fulfil his promise to help them. His constant threats to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico, the European Union and even Russia increase the likelihood of even higher consumer spending.

Trump’s aides say they are preparing documents for the introduction of new tariffs on China and are also considering the possibility of 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, but these trade wars will lead to higher prices in the US for everything.

According to some Russian economists, this will not only cause a large-scale crisis in the US, but also in the entire world. The Foreign Policy magazine wrote that Trump has opened Pandora’s box.

It seems that Trump does not feel any restrictions entering a second term with an obedient Republican majority in both houses of Congress. This sense of impunity is also reflected in the imperialist demands against a number of states, including allies of the United States. A reaction from many figures in these countries will follow shortly.

The US press is writing about Trump’s amazing ignorance, noting that he announces his decrees to recently conquered friends and satraps as the ‘emperor of the 21st century’. Well-known political scientist Fareed Zakaria noted that Trump’s picture of the world is striking in its oddness, and his Secretary of State says that, in recent decades, the United States has prioritised the global order to the detriment of its national interests. Even US allies are not happy with Trump’s innovations.

On January 24 this year, CNN emphasised that, in the first days of his presidency, Trump “destroyed America” and now he is proposing to shake the whole world.

Panamanians are already complaining to the UN about Trump’s claims to the channel. Most Middle Eastern countries have rejected the US president’s call to resettle the majority of Gazans in Jordan and Egypt.

Trump’s demand to give Greenland to him caused outrage among the Danes; Danish Foreign Minister L. Rasmussen said that the US president would not receive Greenland, that this was a violation of international law and that the people of Greenland were protected by international law and the UN Charter. Copenhagen has announced that it is allocating more than $2 billion to strengthen its military presence in the Arctic. The French authorities have declared their readiness to send troops to Greenland.

French Prime Minister F. Bayrou warned that France and Europe will have to stand up to Trump, otherwise they risk being “dominated…defeated…and marginalised”.

In essence, this means that the Western alliance is beginning to crack. And then there was also the scandal with artificial intelligence corporations, which demonstrated that the slogan “America first” is not always a winner.

The little-known Chinese company Deep Seek has created an artificial intelligence (AI) model that successfully competes with US systems; however, it has done so for sums 100 times less than required by US technology firms (Deep Seek has shaken the market as it needs fewer and less advanced chips than other AI models and, at the same time, works just as well as its US competitors).

The New York Times wrote on January 24 that Wall Street may show the most resistance to Trump. Traders will support him as long as things do not go wrong; if they conclude that Trump is bad for stocks and bonds, they will sell him out. This will lower stock prices and raise interest rates, which will hit Trump, who cares a lot about the markets. This will also harm the country’s finances, as high interest rates will increase the cost of borrowing and worsen the federal budget deficit.

The reaction of the countries of the Global South is quote peculiar. The Saudi press actively supports Trump and the Asharq Al Awsat newspaper writes that Trumpism will last a long time, even if the president becomes the victim of an assassination attempt, while the Egyptian press is expressing more and more doubts about the reality of the plans and ideas put forward by Trump.

On January 27, the Turkish Daily Sabah newspaper emphasised that Trump has no plans to change the world order and the only strategy he has put forward is the ‘madman strategy’. Trump declared an energy emergency, but experts believe that this is a farce; the United States is already pumping record amounts of oil even though the country does not need such large quantities, and the EU will not buy additional volumes from the United States (the Saudis and other OPEC countries, according to Reuters, rejected the US president’s call to lower oil prices).

The newspaper is of the opinion that most of ‘Trump’s innovations’ are undoable, while the polarisation within the US has widened noticeably and escalated in ways bigger than during the tenure of the Biden administration.

Vladimir Mashin, Candidate of Historical Sciences, political observer. Courtesy

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