­­­­­­The New World: The Hundredth Day

­­­­­­The New World: The Hundredth Day

Deepak Razdan

Wednesday, 30 April, 2025

President Donald Trump celebrated the 100th day of his Second Presidency of the United States with a public rally in Michigan on Tuesday.

The day also marked the 100th day of the dawn of the New World which followed the US President’s inaugural speech on 20th January and the events that came after.

The President had a long list of achievements to speak about before the crowds. Equally noteworthy with the large body of his work was the President’s style of conducting his work.

President Trump voiced all through the past 14 weeks his determination to realize the dream of an average American to see her country become Great Again. Tariffs were only one medium to achieve that.

Mr Trump expressed a deep faith in democracy and dialogue by engaging with over 70 countries simultaneously to work out trade deals.

There were corrections to various announcements coming every other day. The US President never shied away from answering questions from the Press, even if the questions went on for more than an hour in one interaction, or even when the questions were uncomfortable.

He gave patient answers and could laugh with people easily, all in the open. There was nothing in hiding for this President.

Mr Trump was most concerned about illegal immigration, and he was always happy to express his satisfaction that it was almost totally shut down. A fact not taken much note of was the calm with which he always spoke about the attempt on his life during his election campaign.

It was a serious attempt, and he escaped harm by chance. He comforted his fans saying he had emerged safe from the incident as he had a job to perform for his country.

In the Oval Office in White House, at public gatherings or even while boarding a flight, President Trump was always ready to connect with people or the Press. At public meetings, he called people to share the limelight with him and even take the microphone.

At any public meeting like Michigan, he could call people by name, and often told the crowds he missed the election campaign. There were negative stories about him and still he won, he often said. Mr Trump communicated with his audience all through and shared a common man’s attitude towards day-to-day life easily.

Mr Trump’s 2nd April announcements of new tariffs against different countries shocked the whole world, but he responded to various issues raised, and finally declared a 90-day pause to work out the trade agreements.

He had nothing against any particular country; his complaint was the existing system of trade had harmed America’s interests, shutting down manufacturing and reducing jobs for the locals. As the President, he could not sit down and watch this helplessly.

It is for this reason he repeatedly said the US was ready to reach out a deal with China and was confident it would happen. Similar was his expression regarding deals with the European Union, the United Kingdom and India.

“With my China tariffs, we are ending the greatest job theft in the history of the world. China has taken more jobs from us than any country has ever taken from another country. It does not mean we are not going to get along. Tariffs are now 145 per cent. They want to make a deal. We are going to make a deal. But it is going to be a fair deal. Not a deal where we lose a trillion dollars a year like during former President Biden’s rule,” President Trump said.

Assuring his countrymen how he was working against illegal immigration, Mr Trump said “after years of (US) leaders who sent money to defend borders of distant foreign nations, to fight for other nations, you finally have a President who is defending our borders and our nation.”

What the world has witnessed in the past 14 weeks is a revolution of common sense, he said. Mr Trump said his policies on tax and tariffs had made companies from all over the world wanting to come to America and make cars.

In three months, he said “we have created 350,000 jobs. First time, jobs for native America-born exceed jobs for foreign workers. First time, Americans are doing better than foreign workers. But I want everyone to do well.”

“We are now respected all over the world, they are coming from India, from France, from Spain, from China too, they are coming from all over the world to see your President; they want to make a deal, we will make deals, but we don’t have to,” he said.

“We are the ones who have the product, they want a piece of our product, we can set the price, but I want to be respectful and I want to be nice. We lost billions of dollars during President Joe Biden’s time,” he said.

“Jobs are anyway up. We want Japanese and Chinese to build cars here. We love Japan. They have done this to us for 40 years. We have been abused by friend and foe, in many cases more by the friends,” he said.

“We are losing five billion dollars a day on trade and now we are making money. Tariffs have not even kicked in really. We will make our cars,” the President said happily.

“We don’t need cars from outside, it includes Canada and Mexico. Canada took our 10 to 12 per cent of our car production; we are going to make our cars. Mexico was taking 32 per cent of our car business. Why are we subsidizing Canada and Mexico. I am the proud President of our workers and not outsourcers,” President Trump said.

“We want to protect the middle class and not the political class. Trillions of dollars are coming to the US just because of common sense. Big corporates have announced billions of dollars investment for US. Polls say first time people believe the country is headed in the right direction,” he said.

“We have achieved more in 100 days than other Administrations in four years or eight years, and we have just getting started,” he said.

“In 100 days, I have taken 1000 executive decisions. We have saved on Paris Climate Accord money. No big country like Russia, China and India was paying anything. We have distanced ourselves from the WHO also,” he said.

“It was this gross incompetence of Biden Administration that let Putin to attack Ukraine. That would never have happened if I was the President. Russia would not have done this. Not even a small chance,” he said.

“Our Golden Age has only just begun. We will never back down, we will fight and fight and we will win, win, win, not surrender; we will make America powerful again, wealthy again, healthy again, we will make America strong again, proud again, safe again, and will make America Great Again,” President Trump said.

The US President’s 100th day rally came a day after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Victory Rally after returning to power in the Canadian federal elections on Monday night.

The Liberal Party leader told his countrymen not to forget “our world has fundamentally changed.” He was obviously referring to US President Trump’s various remarks on Canada and tariff announcements.

Mr Carney said “our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, the system of open global trade anchored by the United States, a system Canada has relied upon since the Second Word War, a system which is not perfect to deliver prosperity, is over.”

Echoing his country’s fears, Mr Carney said “As I have been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country. But these are not idle threats: President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us, that will never ever happen.”

“When I sit down with President Trump, it will be to discuss the future economic and security relationship between two sovereign nations, and it will be with our full knowledge that we have many, many other options to build prosperity for all Canadians,” Mr Carney said.

A day later after assuming office, Mr Carney spoke with the US President on 29th April. President Trump congratulated Prime Minister Carney on his election.

The two leaders agreed on the importance of Canada and the United States working together – as independent, sovereign nations – for their mutual betterment. To that end, the leaders agreed to meet in person in the near future.

That the dialogue process is on in the New World, representatives of India’s Department of Commerce and the Office of the US Trade Representative met in Washington, DC from 23 to 25 April 2025 and held fruitful discussions on wide ranging subjects covering tariff and non-tariff matters.

The officials discussed the pathway for concluding the first tranche of the mutually beneficial, multi-sector Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) by Fall of 2025, including through opportunities for early mutual wins.