5 h. ago Chaos is Trump’s calling card. But reality is biting back | Lloyd Green

In his first 100 days, the president has taken a sledgehammer to institutions and the constitution. We can only guess what’s nextIn nearly 100 days on the job, Donald Trump has outlasted Liz Truss and a fabled head of lettuce. That’s a fact, not an achievement. Like the hapless British prime minister, the 47th president blazes a trail of wreckage. Chaos is his calling card. If, when and how the carnage ends is anyone’s guess.The US simultaneously wages economic war on its allies and China. Tariffs soar. It’s as if Trump forgot the words “Smoot-Hawley” and “Great Depression”. The president risks higher inflation and a recession for an idealized yesteryear that never quite was. Back on Earth, markets signal potential capital flight and stagflation.Lloyd Green is an attorney in New York and served in the US Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992 Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Flood the zone: Trump’s shock and awe game plan to revolutionize America – and keep his enemies on the back foot

The chaos of Trump’s first 100 days is actually the result of a deliberately choreographed plan to damage any institution not explicitly aligned with the MAGA movement, writes Andrew Feinberg

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6 h. ago Trump’s chaotic threats won Mark Carney the Canadian election – but only just | Colin Horgan

This was a vote against delusions of a ‘51st state’ and economic warfare, rather than an endorsement of the Liberals’ policiesYesterday, as Canadians went to the polls, US president Donald Trump suggested that if Canada became part of America, they could vote for him instead. But in truth, Canada becoming the 51st state wasn’t a prerequisite for Canadians to vote on Trump. It was Trump who set the stakes of this election anyway, beginning almost as soon as he took office. His threats against Canada, both economic and existential, were the backdrop of this campaign. An unexpected crisis on our doorstep.And now, the Liberal party, led by Mark Carney, has won a fourth term in office, a result that would have seemed unthinkable just a few months ago, before Trump’s unprecedented intervention.Colin Horgan is a Toronto-based writer and a former speechwriter for Justin Trudeau Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Trump 100 days: delusions of monarchy coupled with fundamental ineptitude

Trump has wasted no time in trying to remake the US in his image – with results that are sweeping, vengeful and chaotic100 days Trump – interactiveHe has blinged it with gold cherubs, gold eagles, gold medallions, gold figurines and gilded rococo mirrors. He has crammed its walls with gold-framed paintings of great men from US history. In 100 days Donald Trump has turned the Oval Office into a gilded cage.The portraits of Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan and other past presidents gaze down from a past that the 47th seems determined to erase. Trump is seeking to remake the US in his image at frightening speed. The shock and awe of his second term has challenged many Americans’ understanding of who they are. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Only a third of Americans approve of Trump’s tariffs in latest imploding poll

In yet another survey, over half of respondents said words like ‘scary’ and ‘chaotic’ well described Trump’s administration

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4 d. ago Trump Revolution: 100 Days That Changed the World has no answer to Trump’s chaos

With fresh outrages issuing from the White House on an almost hourly basis, this Channel 4 documentary struggles to find its bearings – and that may be exactly as the president’s strategists intended it

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5 d. ago Trump and DOGE’s cuts to Social Security Administration spark fears that benefit payments will be ‘interrupted’ soon

Former Biden official Martin O’Malley sounds alarm that impact of Trump’s DOGE chaos and cuts coming in near future

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6 d. ago Eni Aluko blames Joey Barton for her dramatic drop in TV punditry work after he called her a 'race card player'

Eniola Aluko, who made 105 appearances for the Lionesses, is suing the former Manchester City and Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton for libel over two posts he made in January last year on X.

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6 d. ago UK business output slumps in first sign of impact of Trump tariff chaos

Closely watched PMI Index points to falling output amid plummeting confidence

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6 d. ago Howard Webb clarifies two Liverpool vs Everton controversies including VAR 'error'

Liverpool saw off Everton in April's Merseyside derby but Howard Webb admits the referees and VAR made an error by not showing a red card - but backed their other major call

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6 d. ago ALEX BRUMMER: Far from making America great again, Trump Slump has caused global chaos

Donald Trump has presided over an economy that is reviving memories of the Great Depression. Unless he sees sense, his decisions will continue putting all our savings at risk.

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6 d. ago Another Republican town hall descends into chaos over Musk and Trump’s DEI policies

Donalds is the latest Republican to face confrontational questioning from constituents

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7 d. ago Trump tariffs chaos will blow huge hole in US economy and hit UK hard, says IMF in damning report

‘The US effective tariff rate surged past levels reached during the Great Depression,’ say the leading economists

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7 d. ago Trump tariffs chaos will slash UK economic growth and spike inflation, says IMF in double blow to Reeves

‘The US effective tariff rate surged past levels reached during the Great Depression,’ say the leading economists

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7 d. ago Hearts backed in John Beaton red card row as former ref calls for VAR rule change

Des Roache believes the Jambos have a case against Beaton after questioning both Cammy Devlin yellow cards

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8 d. ago Emboldened by Trump, the ‘liberal’ UK is giving free rein to its colonial impulses | Kenneth Mohammed

Faced with fading empires’ petulance, the global south must draw a red line under its relationship with them and forge new ties based on mutual respectAs Donald Trump rains chaos down upon the US – dismantling the rule of law trading in rage-fuelled nationalism and bullying the rest of the world – his ideology is now being eagerly imitated not just by the expected rogues of global politics, but by supposed bastions of democracy.These democracies now wear only a mask of civility over that old colonial impulses: control, divide, exploit. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago There is a way to turn Trump’s chaos into an opportunity. Here is what European leaders must do | Paul Taylor

The EU, the world’s biggest single market, can reposition itself and become less reliant on exporting goods to the US and ChinaThis is why America first doesn’t have to mean Europe last.Europeans have had plenty to mope about since Donald Trump entered the White House not quite three months ago. The US president has said that the EU was created to “screw the United States” and slapped punitive tariffs on European goods. He has cast doubt on the US commitment to defend Nato allies. He has cosied up to Vladimir Putin, insulted Volodymyr Zelenskyy and tried to settle Russia’s war in Ukraine on terms that would undermine European security. His vice-president has denigrated European democratic values, and his national security team has spewed venom in a Signal chat at “pathetic” Europe.Finally complete the European capital markets union and banking union to unleash the cross-border investment power of some €3tn in European savingsStrike trade deals with countries and regions around the w...

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9 d. ago Lewis Hamilton left 'praying' as reality bites at Saudi GP for struggling Ferrari star

Ferrari machinery continues to be difficult for Lewis Hamilton to handle and his qualifying result for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was another underwhelming one

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9 d. ago Oliver Glasner calls for consistency as Bournemouth's Scott escapes red card

Bournemouth escaped punishment for an incident similar to that which saw Palace go down to ten men

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9 d. ago Seething Neil Critchley lets rip at John Beaton as Hearts boss vents fury at referee over 'questionable decisions'

The Jambos gaffer accused the whistler of showing him no respect and reckons he got BOTH red card calls wrong

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