With tariffs and Putin summit, Trump is now fully unleashed

Donald Trump is finally getting almost everything that he wants. But the question is, how will everyone else respond to that?

- Eric Garcia, The Independent

On Wednesday, he arrived at the Kennedy Center and announced that he would host the annual honours award ceremony, a first for a president. For a president who loves the theatrical, it’s definitely a coup, especially given that he removed the board members that Joe Biden nominated before the new board made him chairman. Trump has long had a flair for the theatrical-at his rallies, he regularly plays “Memory” from Cats and “Do You Hear the People Sing?” from Les Miserables-and it further reflects how he wants to remake parts of government that were previously nonpartisan and unchanged by who occupies the White House into his own image.

But while Trump taking over the performing arts center is campy and even a bit weird, it shows how Trump feels no scruples and that he can finally realise the vision he wants for the country. The only question at this point is what the rest of the world’s pain tolerance will be.