Donald Trump's return to the White House has been marked by a flurry of activity and a focus on legacy building. While his supporters are energized, the focus remains on whether his promises of a golden age will translate into tangible benefits for ordinary Americans, particularly in addressing rising costs and economic concerns.
Regaining power has invigorated him but for the US president’s popularity at home to last, he will have to ensure all his talk of a golden age translates into more money in ordinary people’s pocketsOne of the marvels in the Washington museums is the buckskin jacket once worn by George A Custer. It is there, behind glass, as one of the curios explaining the’s relentless and bloodthirsty westward expansion. It always draws a crowd.
One of the first pieces of legislation passed in Trump’s second term was the Laken Riley Bill, which sailed through the Senate and came before the House on Thursday. The immigration detention act is named after a Georgia nursing student whose horrific murder, while she was out for a morning run on campus, became an election campaign touchstone. An undocumented immigrant was convicted of the crime.
“Nothing to improve our healthcare system or build on our success in the last Congress in reducing prescription drug prices; nothing to get health insurance coverage for millions of people who don’t have it. Nothing to bring down the cost of housing or build new housing; nothing to combat the nightmare of climate change other than the full-scale retreat of withdrawing from the Paris climate accord; nothing to address the real problems faced by the American people.
“Look no further than the $83 billion price tag of this Bill. They know that it can’t be paid for. They know that the capacity is not there. Do you know what will be there? Private prison companies are going to get.flooded with money ... I want folks at home to look at what members of Congress are invested in private prison companies ...”.
US president Donald Trump is joined by Masayoshi Son , chief executive of SoftBank, and Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, at an event touting a $100 billion venture in artificial intelligence infrastructure at the White House on Tuesday. Photograph: Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times The U-turn towards origin countries is, of course, the precise objective of the Trump immigration policies. Images of Immigration and Customs Enforcement teams making raids and arrests on immigrants identified as criminals in wintry Boston would have reached those migrants on Thursday.
But his inauguration speech in the Rotunda on Monday contained intimations of what he truly feels about that experience. The speech was not a memorable address, in part because Trump was forced to read a script, which he dislikes and which he believes is as pointless as having Jimi Hendrix limiting himself to playing sheet music.
He wants to stake his claim over the next two years. “We will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars,” he said, an odd concoction of the phrase that contains echoes of Custer’s ill-fated date in Montana, JFK’s aspirations for the limitless 1960s –”We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard” – and Musk’s ambition to plant a US flag on Mars.
From left to right: Priscilla Chan, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Google chief executive Sundar Pichai and Tesla chief executive Elon Musk at the inauguration of US president Donald Trump on Monday. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
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