Drilling into Trump 2.0 data

From the crashing stock market to mass deportations and days spent golfing, Alicja Hagopian and Alex Woodward take an in-depth look at the US president's second term so far

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One hundred days into his second term in the White House and Donald Trump has commanded a chaotic reordering of the federal government and the nation's economy, and targeted virtually every aspect of American life.

He broke records - including his own - introducing tariffs and executive orders, and he faces more than 200 lawsuits against him and his administration. Here, The Independent explores the numbers behind the beginning of Trump’s second term, from a crashing stock market to mass deportations and purges of the federal workforce.

Republicans control the White House, the House of Representatives and the Senate, but Trump’s legislative agenda isn’t getting any action in Congress. Virtually all of Trump’s agenda is being pushed through a blitz of executive orders – since taking office, the president has signed a whopping 142 of them.

More than a dozen are focused on immigration, nine are aimed at expanding coal and oil and gas production, and at least two deal with election administration and voting rights, baselessly asserting his narrative that the 2020 election was stolen from him in a White House document.

Other orders cover Trump’s culture wars, with at least four explicitly targeting transgender Americans, and at least another four attacking DEI and accessibility initiatives.

Within 100 days, the president has signed only five bills into law – the least amount for a new president within seven decades. At this point in his first term, he had signed 24 bills into law.

Trump has taken a brute-force approach to trade and the economy, whether it’s blanket tariffs or sweeping cancellations of federal contracts, and the stock markets in particular have seen historic swings.