Mick Clifford on Donald Trump's '100 days of greatness'

Starting off his second term in a position of unparalleled power, the controversial US president has flooded the zone in order to usher in a country ruled by autocratic diktat

Donald Trump began his second term on January 20 in a position of unparalleled power for a new president. Picture: AP Photo/Alex Brandon

“No one can say when the unwinding began — when the coil that held Americans together in its secure and sometimes stifling grip, first gave way. Like any great change, the unwinding began at countless times, in countless ways — and at some moment the country, always the same country, crossed a line of history and became irretrievably different.” — George Packer, The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline

Donald Trump hit the symbolically significant mark of 100 days in office on Wednesday. This benchmark came into being in first term of Franklin D Roosevelt in the 1930s when he mentioned it in a radio broadcast.