World will never be same again as Trump steamrolls

To those who thought Donald Trump was someone who would "talk the talk" but not "walk the walk", the US president would have shattered those misconceptions with his salvoes of presidential decrees even before he had warmed the executive chair in the Oval Office of the White House.

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He followed through on some of his most dramatic and even outrageous campaign trail pledges.

In pledging to roll back everything even remotely liberal - from declaring there would henceforth only be two genders, to removing any form of race-based affirmative action, to declaring a state of emergency on the US southern border with Mexico and setting in motion the deportation of 13 million illegal immigrants, to the cancellation of green environmental commitments - Trump left no doubt that the "Make America Great Again" steamroller was in motion.

All around the world, though, analysts and government leaders were wondering whether the orders would be executed, or whether the Republican Party leader was using them as hardcore negotiating positions.