There is one thing President Donald Trump‘s fans and foes can both agree on: A lot has happened over the past 100 days.
The Republican president kicked off his nonconsecutive second term on Jan. 20 with a promise to usher in “the golden age of America.”
He has wasted no time in implementing his version of that goal, largely by leaning more heavily on the use of executive orders than any other president in modern history.
Among his biggest moves so far: unilaterally rolling out an unpredictable, market-churning tariff regime that threatens to upend decades of U.S. trade relationships and alliances with its longtime partners.
He has also worked to carry out an increasingly controversial mass deportation policy and, with the help of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, a plan to drastically downsize the federal government by slashing whole departments and firing thousands of workers.
The ostentatious ex-TV host’s unprecedented turn in the White House has already produced several striking visual moments. See some of them below:
Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the U.S. by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the Bible during the 60th Presidential Inauguration in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2025.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Platforms Inc.; from left, Lauren Sanchez; Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc.; Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc.; and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc., during the 60th presidential inauguration in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025.
U.S. President Donald Trump points a a map reading “Gulf of America” as he speaks to the press after signing an executive order, alongside U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (L), at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 25, 2025.
Recently fired U.S. Agency for International Development staff carry boxes with a message as they leave work and are applauded by former USAID staffers and supporters during a send-off outside USAID offices in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 21, 2025.
U.S. President Donald Trump (C) and Vice President JD Vance meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 28, 2025.
Leader of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency Elon Musk wears a shirt that says “Tech Support” as he speaks during a cabinet meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb, 26, 2025.
U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order to shut down the Department of Education, during an event in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 20, 2025.
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 2, 2025.
Demonstrators rally against U.S. President Donald Trump and his advisor Elon Musk during a ‘Hands Off!’ protest on the Washington Monument grounds in Washington, D.C., on April 5, 2025.
As prisoners stand looking out from a cell, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 26, 2025.
In this handout photo released via the official social media channels of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (R) meets with U.S. President Donald Trump (L) during Pope Francis’ funeral at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, in Vatican City, Vatican, on April 26, 2025.
A poster of U.S. President Donald Trump on the wall of a house in Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
