Ever since his inauguration for a second term on January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump has been initiating dramatic and drastic measures both on the domestic and foreign fronts.

First, he challenged the age-old citizenship law that conferred US citizenship on anyone born in the country. His amendment said that principle of law despite its hoary antiquity across the globe would apply only to the children born to the US citizens. That stopped what is known as birth tourism much to the chagrin of the Democrats and resentment of Hispanics from Cuba and Mexico. And with the US Supreme Court upholding this seminal amendment a few days ago, this has been his sole victory thus far in governance marked by cantankerousness. In a way that was the first concrete measure towards ushering in America is for the Americans fierce and triumphalist assertion.

His much-vaunted attempt to downsize the US bureaucracy and federal spends under the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative by a massive $2 billion came almost unstuck after Elon Musk at its helm threw up his hands apparently in exasperation, citing expiration of 130 days to actualise its mission which BTW achieved only one thing—abolition of Department of Education. Musk perhaps realised that he had bitten more than he could chew and that the nation after all needed a........

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