100 days down, 100 days of danger ahead

If Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office had gone to plan, the United States would be a different country.

It would have more jobs, less government ‘interference’, lots of cheap and dirty fuel, an invisible wall at every entry point against immigrants, a real wall against Mexico, reformed healthcare, reversed policing reforms... the list goes on.

But despite all the bluster and executive orders, all that’s really changed is that there is a very noisy man in the White House. That, and the fact that economic growth has just recorded its worst quarter in three years.

Little wonder, given his ineffectiveness on the home front, that he has turned attention to foreign policy. And here’s where the noise we’ve got used to hearing could fall on less immune ears.

When he talks of the possibility of a “major, major conflict” with North Korea, he might mean it, or he might not, or he might not know what he means. And therein lies the danger of a man who has made less of a mark than intended during his first 100 days but has 1,360 more to go to change all that.