The unprecedented political and economic decisions made since January that have caused stock markets to plummet and left governments around the world scrambling to respond to the US President's list of reciprocal tariffs. Leading voices, insiders and commentators contemplate whether Trump's economic strategy and attitudes to global conflicts are carefully thought out and whether creating chaos is a small part of working towards long-term stability.
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00:00USA! USA! USA!
00:04Citizens, America is back!
00:08My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day.
00:16In a few moments, I will sign a historic executive order
00:20instituting reciprocal tariffs on countries
00:24throughout the world. We're going to charge them 46% tariff.
00:28Judging them 24%, 30%. Jobs and factories
00:32will come roaring back into our country. The markets
00:36have opened with major losses. All businesses, big
00:40and small, will suffer from day one. Thank you everybody.
00:44Thank you very much.
00:48Chaos and disruption are part of the bargain.
00:52When you have Donald Trump as president.
00:56Donald Trump has turned the economic system on its head
01:00and potentially tipped the world perilously close to a recession.
01:04Our global economy, our security, all of these things
01:08are right front and centre.
01:10There's a new sheriff in town, and this sheriff means business.
01:14He's occupied the White House for almost 100 days.
01:18So how has Trump broken down the systems Americans have relied on for generations?
01:24Is Trump deliberately tearing at the fabric of the republic
01:28and undermining the stability of the world, all in a bid to remake the USA?
01:34This is an absolute attempt to reshape government, and it will be lasting if done correctly.
01:40The free world needs to punch Trump.
01:42The right in America has embraced authoritarianism.
01:46Is it structured chaos?
01:48Fuck no.
01:50He is on the verge of a comeback, the likes of which the world will never witness again.
02:04Just a few months ago, in a beautiful Pennsylvania field, an assassin's bullet ripped through my ear.
02:12But I felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason.
02:18I was saved by God to make America great again.
02:24Trump 2.0 has begun.
02:26And this time round, for the MAGA movement and for the man himself,
02:29it feels like divine intervention, Trump's destiny,
02:32that fate nudged that bullet out of harm's way
02:35and led him back up the steps and into the White House.
02:40The first 100 days of Trump's first administration were total chaos.
02:43He didn't expect to win.
02:45He had no plan for what he would do if he'd won.
02:47This time around, it's totally different.
02:51This term could be the most consequential second term of any president in history.
02:56He had four years to really think about what he wanted to accomplish.
03:01What does he want that legacy to be when he leaves?
03:05President Trump is on a mission.
03:07He's acting very decisively to do what he thinks is what he's been put on this earth to do.
03:13He tried to overthrow an election, and here he is.
03:16And here he is, back in the White House.
03:18Man, if I'm Donald Trump, I think I can do anything.
03:21And he knows that.
03:23This is a purer Trump.
03:25This is an undiluted Trump.
03:28Unmoderated Trump.
03:30And this is undoubtedly a more empowered Trump.
03:33He's back with a vengeance, with a mandate, and in a hurry to completely reinvent what America is all about.
03:43High on his list of presidential priorities is a radical upending of the global trading system through sweeping tariffs, which Trump says will make America great again.
03:53I will immediately begin the overhaul of our trade system to protect American workers and families.
04:02Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens.
04:12President Trump sees himself, and I think correctly so, as the one person who can change the trajectory of American decline.
04:26I think he's right.
04:27Trump has promised tariffs will make America affordable again, but the US and the world economy is in meltdown.
04:35President Trump's announcement of the tariffs hit countries worldwide hard.
04:40Sweeping tariffs against much of the world.
04:43The impact is already being felt here at home.
04:46Millions of citizens will face higher grocery bills.
04:49Donald Trump's announcement today is unquestionably changing global commerce.
04:55President Trump is clearly comfortable upending the global trading system.
04:59He's moving with a speed, velocity, severity with his trade policy that candidly is just unprecedented in the modern era.
05:07This is an aggressive president who is, you know, trying to use tariffs in a way that are against the interests of many partners of the United States.
05:17It's highly disruptive.
05:20He doesn't believe that there's going to be real, lasting change unless he takes these sort of disruptive actions.
05:26The United States was $2 trillion in debt per year.
05:32It was unsustainable.
05:34And so the mission is to change the world trading system.
05:39And I'm sure that a lot of the European countries and the Asian countries are upset about it because it is a change.
05:45And it's a rapid change.
05:48Trump is a bully.
05:50He doesn't make any bones about it.
05:52He believes in using all of the strength and power that he has to advance his interests or the interests of the United States.
06:04You know, there's a new sheriff in town is the American expression.
06:07And this sheriff means business.
06:09Trump, after all, is a businessman at heart.
06:13And since his days as a New York real estate mogul, he's always believed that tariffs can, in fact, boost the economy.
06:20I always say tariffs is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary.
06:25And now he's staking his presidency on it.
06:28Tariffs are core to Donald Trump's ideology.
06:31He's believed in them for 30 years.
06:34He wrote about them way back in the 80s and 90s when the U.S. was competing with Japan.
06:40You took out a full page ad in major U.S. newspapers last year criticizing U.S. foreign policy.
06:45What would you do differently, Donald?
06:47I'd make our allies pay their fair share.
06:49We're a debtor nation.
06:50Something's going to happen over the next number of years with this country because you can't keep going on losing 200 billion.
06:55And yet we let Japan come in and dump everything right into our markets and everything.
07:00It's not free trade.
07:01He's been talking about tariffs forever.
07:03If there is one policy constant in his life, it's this idiotic 19th century idea of tariffs.
07:12In Trump's world, we build a wall around America and we keep everybody out and we make everything here in America.
07:20He is obsessed with America's trade deficits and particularly with China.
07:25And he sees tariffs as the way to correct that.
07:29He sees tariffs as the way not just to raise money, but to re-industrialize the United States.
07:35At the end of the day, what Trump is looking for is fairness.
07:39If the EU is charging us 10 percent for our cars to get into their markets and we're giving them a much lower rate to get into ours,
07:47why would anybody sit back and think that's a good deal?
07:50President Trump understands that the United States is the largest market in the world.
07:56So what that gives the United States is enormous leverage.
08:00Any country in the world needs to sell to us a whole lot more than we need to buy from them.
08:05And President Trump's going to exploit that. He knows how to negotiate.
08:08So part of the tariffs is the threat of a tariff war is to bring other countries to the negotiating table.
08:14Many of you in the media clearly missed the art of the deal.
08:18You clearly failed to see what President Trump is doing here.
08:22Trump's supporters claim his tariff negotiations are straight out of the out of the deal,
08:27the book he released nearly 40 years ago.
08:30And the president has been in bullish mood about closing the biggest deal of them all.
08:35These countries are calling us up, kissing my ass.
08:40They are dying to make a deal. Please, please make a deal.
08:46I do think that most countries are going to have a really strong incentive to try to find deals with the United States.
08:52Now, if they don't, you know, there's other paths they could look to, right?
08:57Do they diversify away from the United States? How fast can they do that?
09:01Do they swing towards China? Do they swing towards Europe?
09:04But fundamentally, it's going to be very difficult for any country to replace the U.S. as a trading partner.
09:10This is a changing and completely new world, an era where old assumptions, which we've long taken for granted, simply don't apply any longer.
09:23For Britain, like all America's trading partners, Trump's economic revolution marks the end of an era.
09:30A shift from the relative stability of globalization, the bedrock of international trade for decades,
09:37to the chaos of a new order shaped by deals, not rules.
09:42The way that he is approaching trade, it's not just isolationist, but it's predatory and it's extractive as well.
09:51It's very much someone who is business-minded, who thinks of the world as zero-sum.
09:58It's no more excuses. If you don't come to the negotiating table and if we don't get an agreement that we find equitable for both sides,
10:05then we could tariff you, and that would be to your enormous disadvantage.
10:08It could really cause bankruptcy to your economies.
10:11What's going to happen with the market? I can't tell you.
10:14I don't want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.
10:20Trump held, and he held, and he kept on holding, and the markets dropped, and they dropped, and they kept on dropping,
10:27while the rest of the world looked on in despair.
10:30Until in the 11th hour, Trump blinked, and he paused most of the tariffs for 90 days,
10:36and the world breathed a brief sigh of relief.
10:39Major breaking news into CNN on the global trade war. President Trump just truthed out saying,
10:44quote, I have authorized a 90-day pause. The president here announcing a 90-day pause on tariffs.
10:51The rate has been fixed at 10% for every country except China, where the export tax has been increased again.
10:58Some influential business leaders who supported President Trump's return to the White House are expressing just a little bit of what might be called buyer's remorse.
11:07The president had promised there would be no retreat on his tariff war.
11:11But amidst pressure from wealthy backers, his close circle, and his own party, Trump did exactly that.
11:17He caved. Elon Musk, other wealthy Republican donors came to him and said,
11:24man, you are destroying our economy. We are running into a recession.
11:31So even Trump realized, uh-oh, I've got to pause this for right now.
11:39Well, I thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line. They were getting yippee.
11:45Trump has always cared about the stock market because he used the stock market as a barometer of his success.
11:52No president can survive a real economic collapse on his watch.
11:57Trump doesn't know what's going on right now with these tariffs. He's got no clue.
12:01Now, he's an idiot, but he's in the most powerful position in the world. That makes him a super dangerous idiot.
12:09Trump may have blinked, but chaos still ensues and the clock is ticking as America's trading partners try to strike some sort of agreement with the Trump administration.
12:20And the American public, the very people Trump wants to empower, are left waiting for the golden age that he has promised them.
12:28Donald Trump used to say that tariff was the most beautiful word in the English language.
12:45And then once he got into office, he declared a trade war on the rest of the world, convulsing markets across the globe.
12:52But American voters had voted for him to fix the economy, to lower inflation.
12:58And the exact opposite seems to have happened. The pain on Wall Street has washed up on Main Street and the American public is in a bad mood.
13:08Twelve hundred rallies taking place. Thousands marching in New York, Detroit, Los Angeles, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
13:16Hey hey, ho ho! Donald Trump!
13:20Hey hey, ho ho!
13:21Protistas began to hold rallies against the Trump administration across the country.
13:25We're only three months in, and we had Americans in every state out there.
13:30This is only going to grow and it's going to get bigger.
13:33Well, they're killing our business, so I hate them.
13:36I think he is dangerous.
13:38We, the basic people, the real people, we're the ones who suffer for it.
13:44Tariffs, to me, are some sort of, like, power play,
13:49blackmailing of the world,
13:51and we want to be the empire that controls the economic fate
13:55of everybody else in the world.
13:57You just want to make deals with everybody.
14:00Only deals, you know, like, you try to push everybody his way.
14:03I think this is not the way to go.
14:06It's terrifying.
14:07I think it's scary that nothing like this
14:08has been done before successfully.
14:10I'm scared for the stock market.
14:12I'm trying to buy a home,
14:14so I'm scared for my future and my family's future.
14:17It's going to raise our costs here for sure,
14:20and we're going to be forced to, you know,
14:23to pass it along to our customers, which is very unfair.
14:27Worst president that we ever had.
14:30Doing tremendous damage to this country.
14:32In the fallout from his trade war,
14:34Trump's approval ratings have sunk
14:36to the lowest point of his second term so far.
14:40Tariffs are his signature policy after all.
14:44Americans have very serious concern about where
14:48Donald Trump's use of tariffs are going.
14:50He's eroded the confidence of so many people in so many states.
14:54The current market turmoil is policy-based.
14:58It's something that was a deliberate action by the White House.
15:02Entirely a man-made economic crisis.
15:07Entirely one man.
15:10One mad man.
15:12And when you step back and think about that,
15:14how wrong it is, right,
15:17that any single person on this planet has this much power to do this?
15:23Especially an American president?
15:27Trump has said that he's willing to accept some short-term disruption
15:33because of his conviction that long-term tariffs help America.
15:37It's based on the premise that the short-term pain will bring long-term gain.
15:42It's really a question of how much pain the United States consumer, in particular, is prepared to bear.
15:51The one thing that you can absolutely guarantee is that Trump's tariff war will result in Americans paying more.
15:58You're just going to see a spike in prices.
16:01And so I do think it's going to be hard to make the case for folks who, you know, aren't billionaires
16:08that these tariffs are worth the cost in the short-term.
16:11If they are literally going to the grocery store and can't fill up the basket.
16:15I think way too often right now, people are looking at the short-term to the detriment of the long-term.
16:22If you want to achieve something, there's usually a bit of pain involved, a bit of hard work.
16:27Trump insists that there is method to what many are calling madness.
16:32And while talks with America's global trading partners continue,
16:35there is one country that hasn't picked up the phone to the Oval Office yet, and that's China.
16:41Now, Trump posted on TrueSocial today, he's waiting for China to call him to make a deal.
16:47But China doesn't seem to be picking up the phone anytime soon.
16:50There's an old saying that God made heaven and earth and everything else was made in China.
17:02And that includes these Donald Trump key rings just around the corner from the White House itself,
17:09made in the People's Republic of China.
17:11Now, if Donald Trump's trade war would be taken to its final conclusion,
17:16forget about these being made cheaply over there.
17:19Someone's going to have to make them over here.
17:21And that's the dilemma that he faces with his trade policy.
17:25It's certainly fair to characterize what's happening between the United States and China as a trade war.
17:32It does not seem like there is a clear path to getting to any sort of deal between the US and China.
17:38The fact that we're now at over 100% tariffs on China, those numbers are so high that at a certain point, trade will just stop.
17:45Trump is seeking to do damage to the Chinese economy as a leverage point.
17:51China's established this big manufacturing ecosystem that is going to be very, very, very hard, if possible at all, to replicate back in the United States.
18:04I know what the hell I'm doing.
18:06With the markets still fluctuating and Americans yet to feel the promised benefits of Liberation Day,
18:13only time will tell if Trump was right to stake it all on tariffs.
18:18If Trump's tariff bets pay off, he certainly could have a legacy of getting to the United States
18:27to a more fair and balanced position in the global economic order.
18:31We've got to right the ship of the American economy.
18:34It took President Reagan probably 18, 24 months before all the things he initiated early on kicked in.
18:41When it did kick in, it set America and the world up for prosperity for a generation.
18:47And I think that it's a very similar situation today with President Trump.
18:51If the Trump bet on tariffs and reordering the global economy goes really south, if it does lead to job loss in the United States at significant levels,
19:01he has taken such personal responsibility for this strategy, it's hard to see how you would avoid blame for increases in inflation or ultimately, politically, loss of the Congress and implications for the next presidential race.
19:16The tariffs are costly. They're going to inflict a lot of pain on many people.
19:22So the prospects for this escalating and getting out of control are significant.
19:28He knows what he's doing, but does he realise the economic damage it's going to do?
19:34The problem is that it might actually be short-term pain followed by long-term loss.
19:41But there is one keynote policy of the Trump administration so far that has hit the right note with many Americans.
19:49Today I will sign a series of historic executive orders.
19:54With these actions, we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common sense.
20:02It's all about common sense.
20:06First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.
20:18Immigration has unquestionably been a huge success for Trump.
20:21His threat of mass deportations and his high-profile attacks on immigrants have genuinely calmed the U.S. southern border,
20:30which was a huge crisis for most of the Biden administration.
20:35Trump has really solved something that most American voters saw as a big problem.
20:40All illegal entry will immediately be halted,
20:44and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.
20:53Trump has been true to his word with tens of thousands of deportations since he took office.
21:01And in March, he began deporting hundreds of people accused of being Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador.
21:07The hardened criminals, they're leaving.
21:11And, you know, if you want to be an American, you've got to play by the rules.
21:14You come here legally.
21:16You abide by our laws.
21:18You contribute to our societies.
21:20There are now legal battles over the administration's right to remove individuals who they say are members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua,
21:31because it turns out many of those deported were reportedly legal residents in the U.S. with no criminal record.
21:37All of the sudden, it goes from people who look, who have tattoos, who look like gang members,
21:44to people who are protesting on college campuses, to all of the sudden people they know, people who are their neighbors.
21:53In America, right now, people are being grabbed off the streets.
21:57They're being grabbed off campuses because of what they believe.
22:02When is it going to be too much?
22:05On the White House's social media account, videos of mass deportation have been displayed,
22:12some say as a deterrent, while his critics claim it's a deliberate and cruel show of strength.
22:19Trump's cruel, man. He is cruel.
22:22Trump doesn't care because he wants the world to be afraid.
22:26He wants immigrants around the world to know how cruel he is.
22:30The commentary on social media that's so dehumanizing, it's all being normalized so quickly.
22:38I think even faster than we realize it ourselves as we're watching it.
22:43A lot of civil liberties unions and lawyers are raising questions about that, that it could be sort of, you know, a slippery slope.
22:52Now the net is being cast a bit wider.
22:57Where does that slippery slope go?
22:59I can't overstate it. It's a very dangerous, scary and uncertain time for Americans living in the US.
23:06Whilst there is vocal opposition to these deportations, the Trump administration tactics have proved a success with many Americans.
23:15Can the same be said when Trump's muscle is displayed on the world stage?
23:31We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end.
23:37My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier.
23:46Donald Trump doesn't just say that he wants to make America great again from the White House.
23:50He also genuinely believes that he's a global kingmaker and a peacemaker with an eye on the Nobel Peace Prize,
23:58who can solve conflicts that have been festering around the world in the Middle East or in Europe for years.
24:04But the question is, does he actually have the ability to change anything?
24:10President Trump, what's your message to Vladimir Putin, sir?
24:14In late February 2025, Donald Trump held one of the first foreign relations meetings of his new tenure with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
24:24It was an extraordinary encounter that broke all diplomatic norms.
24:29You're playing cards, you're gambling with the lives of millions of people, you're gambling with World War III, you're gambling with World War III.
24:39The scene with Zelensky in the Oval Office was a horrible humiliation of Zelensky, a heroic figure.
24:48Have you said thank you once?
24:49A lot of times.
24:50Even today.
24:51Even today.
24:52Even today.
24:53If you look at his conduct with Ukraine, what has he done?
24:57Has he sought to use the immense power and strength of the United States to force Putin to come to the negotiating table?
25:06No.
25:07Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country.
25:14He's kneecapped Ukraine, bullied them, forced them to come to the table to take whatever deal is presented to them.
25:23This is not the America we grew up with, I'm afraid.
25:27This is going to be great television, I will say that.
25:31After the meeting, Trump paused military aid to Ukraine and reiterated calls for the other members of NATO to increase their spending on defense.
25:42A move that's had knock-on effects globally, including here in the UK, where Prime Minister Starmer announced raising defense spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027.
25:55I can announce this government will begin the biggest sustained increase in defense spending since the end of the Cold War.
26:02The problem that President Trump has observed is that for 30 or 40 years, those countries have been capable of their own defense.
26:11But the United States continued to support them in a way that was to our disadvantage.
26:17So America first means, okay, no more free lunch, you stand on your own.
26:22This administration has disdain for Europe.
26:25Trump doesn't care about our alliances.
26:27He wants us out of NATO.
26:29If he could snap his fingers and end the Russia-Ukraine war, he'd give all of Ukraine to Russia.
26:35That's his notion of peace.
26:37Toughen up, Europe.
26:39As long as Trump's in the White House, America isn't your friend.
26:43For now, Trump's feelings on NATO are clear.
26:47Unless Europe and others stump up more for their defense, America's unwavering support for the alliance is not guaranteed.
26:54Right now, we have no recipe for success.
26:57Donald Trump is the only one in the world that can bring people to the table to sustain a lasting peace.
27:03Full stop.
27:04No one else can pull that off.
27:06But Vladimir Putin appears to be dragging his feet on peace.
27:11And despite Trump having previously bragged of his ability to get the Russians to the negotiating table,
27:17there may now be signs Trump's patience is wearing thin.
27:21When Vladimir Putin called for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to be removed,
27:27it didn't go down well with President Trump.
27:30In his call with Kristen Welker, he said, quote,
27:33You could say I was angry, pissed off.
27:37What we've been anticipating is that at some point, President Trump and President Putin would fall out over this.
27:47And then the question is, and then what happens?
27:49We're beginning to see a few hints of that.
27:52It's very early days.
27:53But that could change the equation.
27:55It may lead to a different U.S. position.
27:59The war in Eastern Europe isn't the only major world crisis Trump swore to resolve when he took power.
28:08Benjamin, thank you very much.
28:09Thank you, Mr. President.
28:10Thank you very much.
28:11Sitting next to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, he spoke about how he saw Gaza as a prized piece of seaside real estate
28:18and wanted the U.S. to control and own the Palestinian enclave.
28:22Controversial, to say the least.
28:25Well, you know how I feel about the Gaza Strip.
28:27I think it's an incredible piece of important real estate.
28:32And I think it's something that we would be involved in.
28:36But, you know, having a peace force like the United States there, controlling and owning the Gaza Strip would be a good thing.
28:43If you look at these endless negotiations, nothing ever gets solved.
28:48And one of the things that Donald Trump is the best at is negotiating.
28:52This is Donald Trump himself who's on the other end of the phone.
28:56He is making the decisions.
28:58And that's his secret sauce.
29:00Trump has doubled down on his Gaza plan, saying he wants to create a Middle Eastern Riviera.
29:07And an AI video the President posted on his social media seemed to demonstrate exactly what he had in mind.
29:14Donald, it's going to set you free.
29:16You had a Trump Tower in Gaza.
29:19Everything was gold.
29:22You had Netanyahu and Trump sipping cocktails by the pool.
29:26It shocked a lot of people.
29:28But the computer-generated AI video didn't originate from the White House.
29:33The filmmaker behind it came up with the idea to make fun of Trump's statement about the future of Gaza.
29:39To their surprise and shock, Donald Trump shared it.
29:42And I think it just goes back to this alternate reality that I think that he and his team are living in,
29:49where you can't even see when someone is mocking an idea of yours.
29:54Controversially, many would say outrageously, Trump's Gaza plan would involve the forced removal of Palestinians to surrounding countries.
30:04Something banned under international law.
30:07So what's the President's real aim here?
30:09I don't think Trump cares about Israel.
30:11I don't think Trump cares about the Palestinian people.
30:13Trump cares about Trump.
30:15And the focus of that was, hey, I got a great idea.
30:18Let's build a bunch of Trump towers and Trump condos on the seaside in Gaza, benefiting Trump.
30:26Donald Trump wants to be able to go in and do a ton of deals with the Gulf countries.
30:32You know, he wants that quiet, but he wants to package it as peace.
30:41Whether Donald Trump managed to bring about peace in the Middle East or in Ukraine, that remains to be seen.
30:46But his agenda is openly expansionist, almost in a kind of 19th century way.
30:52And that has involved picking fights with America's closest neighbors and friends.
30:57We lose $200 billion a year with Canada, and I'm not going to let that happen.
31:02If they're a 51st state, I don't mind doing it.
31:04The notion that Canada can become the 51st state, that's been extremely disturbing for many people, not least the Canadians.
31:12The threats pile on, and Canadians are angry.
31:16We're nice people. We like to get along. But don't push us around.
31:20Trump loves to entertain.
31:22A lot of what the White House does is driven by winning the day, getting a lot of retweets, pleasing their supporters, rather than any long-term plan.
31:31I can tell you that as a conservative, I don't want Canada as a 51st state, knowing their voting habits.
31:36Greenland is a separate case.
31:40We need Greenland for national security and even international security, and we're working with everybody involved to try and get it.
31:49And I think we're going to get it. One way or the other, we're going to get it.
31:53Trump is enamored with this idea of empire.
31:56And I also know that people around him are very serious about Greenland.
32:02They think there are enormous strategic interests, and there are people around him who think we should just take it over.
32:09There's no question that Greenland sits in a part of the world that is going to become much more strategic in the coming years, particularly as climate change causes the ice flows in that part of the world to melt and it opens up new shipping routes.
32:23Greenland also has these very rich mineral deposits. The U.S. already has an air base in Greenland.
32:30It could arguably be Trump's greatest real estate deal. And to lay the groundwork, he sent his vice president, J.D. Vance, and his wife to the island, still an autonomous region of Denmark.
32:44But they were given the cold shoulder by locals when they got there.
32:48How are we doing? It's cold as shit here. Nobody told me.
32:53The only audience the vice president could find to hear what he'd come to say were soldiers at the U.S. base on the island.
33:02Our message to Denmark is very simple. You have not done a good job by the people of Greenland. That has to change.
33:10And because it hasn't changed, this is why President Trump's policy in Greenland is what it is.
33:16Trump wants to extract as much as he can from other countries to the benefit of the United States.
33:23Hey, guys.
33:24My guess is that by the end of the Trump second term, we have a much deeper relationship with Greenland.
33:30Whether that means a larger footprint on the air base there, a greater military presence or a greater U.S. government presence,
33:37or in fact, it becoming an actual territory, I'm not sure how it manifests itself.
33:42But I can pretty much assure everybody that we will have a greater footprint there.
33:47What Trump is doing is he's pushing the boundary to see how far can he go.
33:53And it's a test for Europeans and for the rest of the world.
33:57It is really a challenge for the system. He is pushing the limits of that authority.
34:04Trump's foreign policy approach is breaking new ground. And at home, he's reimagining systems and ways of operating that could change America for generations.
34:19Donald Trump is a man in a hurry. When he entered the White House, he wasted no time in signing a blizzard of executive orders that challenged the way the American government functioned.
34:37But is there a bigger plan here? Does he want to reimagine what it means to be American?
34:42There is a contestation between people within the American polity over what does it mean to be American? What rights should Americans have?
34:55And that has been continually contested throughout our history. And this is a very profound moment.
35:02He's signed executive orders on all these topics that have allowed him to do things that if he were trying to do them legislatively, I think would be difficult in some cases.
35:14When you're seeing that in agency after agency, they're going through, they're cutting budgets, they're cutting grants, they're cutting staff.
35:20This is an absolute attempt to reshape and remake government in a way that conservatives have dreamed about for decades.
35:27And it will be lasting if done correctly.
35:30This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.
35:35The Trump administration early on began considering some major changes to the Postal Service that would lead to privatizing the United States Postal Service.
35:46The direct impact on our workers would be significant if that service was reduced in any way.
35:52And could change a lot of services that affect the American people in their daily lives.
35:59I think the actions the administration has taken could be described as chaotic.
36:04It's arguable that in some ways, some of the actions certainly display the characteristics of an autocrat.
36:11But arguably the biggest target of the president's federal government reforms is the federal government itself.
36:20In the short time he's been in power, Trump has broken down some of its key institutions, including in a bold move on March the 20th, signing an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education.
36:34The Department, we're going to shut it down and shut it down as quickly as possible. It's doing us no good.
36:40The Department of Education can't be closed without congressional consent. But that won't stop Trump.
36:47Today we take a very historic action that was 45 years in the making. In a few moments I will sign an executive order to begin eliminating the federal Department of Education once and for all.
37:01But rather than being about reducing spending, is his dismantling of the Department of Education part of the administration's wider war on what they deem wokeness?
37:19This letter was sent by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights.
37:24The letter was sent to the Departments of Education in all 50 states, notifying them that they have 14 days to remove all DEI programming in all public schools or risk losing federal funding.
37:35We didn't like what they were showing and we're going to make sure that it's good and it's not going to be woke. There's no more woke in this country.
37:42When the gender identity of young children is being questioned, that to most Americans is, hey, wait a minute, this has gone way too far.
37:51Trump seems to be the only one political leader who has the common sense to stand up to the woke craziness.
37:58And our country will be woke no longer.
38:03Trump's anti-woke position cannot be underestimated. And it is far reaching from influencing museums.
38:12President Trump essentially appoint Vice President Vance to lead a task force to review exhibits, programs that they believe are, quote, improper or have divisive ideology based on race.
38:24To oppressing free speech at top universities.
38:27An Ivy League school is apparently ceding now to President Trump's demands to do more to combat anti-Semitism on campus in an effort to keep hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.
38:38President Trump has threatened to withhold the money from Columbia University because of those pro-Palestinian protests.
38:45There is a clear interest in controlling the freedom of speech. Using the threat to withdrawal and actually taking away federal funding of institutions that don't align with the Trump agenda.
39:02To use coercion, right? And let's think, what does that funding go towards? Scientific research that's delivered things in the past that have provided daily benefits.
39:14So the, you know, the use of that leverage is really scary.
39:20And the troubling curtailing of civil liberties continues. After being detained in March, following his involvement in pro-Palestinian demonstrations,
39:29Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is now facing deportation, despite holding a green card that grants him permanent U.S. residency.
39:39Khalil's attorneys have called this hearing in a statement just released unfair and say the immigration courts have been, quote, weaponized.
39:45They've consistently argued that him being deported for exercising free speech rights against the Trump administration's will and what they believe in is a slippery slope for deportation efforts.
39:57All this from the man whose mantra has been to stand up for free speech. So do these enforced reforms spell the end for democracy in America?
40:07Opponents to Trump's policies hope not. They're using the courts to push back. With over 160 lawsuits filed so far against his various policies.
40:19But if Trump defies the courts, could it risk pushing the country into a constitutional crisis?
40:29Let's hope the courts hold. They won't in every regard because part of what Trump's doing is trying to just overwhelm the courts.
40:37He will defy a court order or two or three or four. And that's uncharted territory here.
40:44These networks and these newspapers are really no different than a highly paid political operative. And it has to stop. It has to be illegal.
40:57It's influencing judges and it's entered. It's really changing law and it just cannot be legal.
41:06To push his war on woke has Trump set unprecedented boundaries on some media outlets while enabling the powers of others.
41:15You have the rise of these right-wing cable channels. They were fairly peripheral players the first time around.
41:23Now they are sitting, you know, in the White House briefing room. So what had been kind of this right-wing echo chamber has now become much more central to the process of covering it.
41:35President Trump, but also going after what he calls legacy media or mainstream media.
41:41The White House has banned the Associated Press from covering events inside the Oval Office.
41:47There's a lot of concern in the media that the Trump administration will escalate from rhetorical attacks into something substantive,
41:53whether that's attempts to revise libel laws, whether it's nuisance lawsuits, I think, or whether it's national security prosecutions of journalists.
42:02As President Trump runs amok, there are several questions. What on earth has happened to the Republicans? Are they now the party of Donald Trump?
42:13And what about the opposition? What about Congress? What about the Democrats? Can they rally the troops for the all-important midterm elections?
42:21Historically, presidents tend to lose control of Congress in the midterm elections.
42:27And I think that members of both parties in Washington predict the Democrats will take control of the House of Representatives in 2027.
42:36And that will tie Trump's hands very, very significantly.
42:40All this remains to be seen.
42:43Meanwhile, Trump continues to tease the remarkable and unconstitutional notion of standing for a third term.
42:50It will be the greatest honor of my life to serve, not once, but twice, or three times or four times now.
42:58It makes sense for Trump to talk about running for a third term because otherwise he's a lame duck.
43:05I think he doesn't want to concede that he could be giving up control of the Republican Party.
43:10The 22nd Amendment to our Constitution is pretty clear, that you can run and be elected president twice.
43:17There's a vast amount of legal or political theories.
43:20He could become the Speaker of the House, which doesn't even entail being elected.
43:23Then the president and the vice president stepped down.
43:26Those are fun parlor games to play.
43:28There is no political scenario that I could possibly envision where any of that happens.
43:34None, zero, nada.
43:36He is trolling media in a way that is so beautiful and they're buying it hook, line and sinker.
43:43Trump can't run again in 2028.
43:46Constitution doesn't allow it.
43:49But don't you dare tell me that he won't try.
43:54I have zero patience.
43:56Zero patience for anybody who tells me I'm crazy thinking that.
44:01Because again, four years ago, he tried to overthrow an American election.
44:05So don't you dare tell me he wouldn't try to be president again.
44:10As an American, I grab my musket every day and I feel like I am at war every day defending this country that I love.
44:20And all this in less than 100 days.
44:23Whatever next?
44:25We're definitely in a moment of severe disruption, profound change.
44:31Is President Trump authoritarian?
44:33Is this the end of democracy in America?
44:35President Trump is trying to restore America to what it has been and what it will be in the future.
44:41He talks about a golden age, not a return to a golden age, but a new golden age.
44:46I think he's on a mission and he has a purpose and he also has the American people behind him.
44:52I think America right now is trying to figure out, I mean this, if we want to stay together as one country.
45:03I think that's what this revolution is all about.
45:07I don't know where it's going to go.
45:09I don't know how that question is going to be answered.
45:12But I know this, it's things here in America are going to get ugly, violent and bumpy for quite some time.
45:19I think this is still a president who's operating in a democratic system.
45:23He believes and says he has a popular mandate for what he's doing.
45:28We rejected the idea of kings and queens centuries ago.
45:32Our country was founded on a rejection of that idea.
45:35I think that the one thing you need to be careful to do is not assume you're going to see a certain outcome.
45:40Because it always has a way of surprising us.
45:44This is a big historic moment for America.
45:47Because this is the year in which the country celebrates 250 years since its revolution against the British monarchy.
45:54How ironic then, that the man living in the White House is as capricious, as mercurial and as egotistical as any wannabe monarch.
46:04With Donald Trump, it's all about him.
46:07The question is, can the republic that is trying to refashion in his own image survive his revolution?
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