Soon, it will be 100 days since Donald Trump returned to the presidency. And the evaluations so far show that it is the most disruptive start to a presidential term in U.S. history.
In the U.S., Trump is trying to consolidate his power over the courts, Congress, and more, writes Sky News in an analysis.
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On the international stage, the White House has given the green light to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to intensify their attacks on Ukraine and Gaza.
There are significant and controversial changes. Perhaps because Trump is considered so powerful at this moment - his opponents at home and abroad are struggling to organize effectively against him.
A battle between two parties
American politics is strictly a battle between two parties. There are no significant third forces. Politicians are either Republicans or Democrats.
Outside of election years, when both parties have presidential candidates, there is no opposition leader fighting against the president. Opposition to a president depends on who controls the U.S. Congress.
Currently, the Democrats are in a very weak position, as they are in the minority in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives. They are usually outnumbered by Republicans.
This month, to the disgust of many Democrats, their party leadership in the Senate missed a rare opportunity to oppose the Trump administration. Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, and eight other Democratic senators joined Republicans to allow the adoption of Trump's budget resolution.
The Democrats, including Schumer, denounced the resolution because it included massive cuts to government programs such as housing, social security, and healthcare.
But Schumer justified his last-minute change by stating that the federal government would have shut down if the bill had not been passed.
Democrats in both chambers were furious. Senator Chris Murphy from Connecticut argued that Democrats helped Trump and Musk's plan to destroy the government so they could hand control over to their "billionaire friends."
Jon Stewart, host of the Daily Show, said of Schumer, "It's a shame."
Meanwhile, Schumer defends himself and says that sensitive agreements cannot be made in Congress until Trump's approval rating drops to 40%.
So, Democrats in the U.S. are fighting amongst themselves and looking for a way to confront Trump beyond the hope that his popularity will drop before he permanently destroys the democratic system.
Not even foreign leaders confront him
Also, political leaders across Europe are privately horrified by what appears to be the end of international politics as they knew it. But they do not want to provoke Trump's vengeful anger and publicly state that he is undermining America's role as the pivot of the Western alliance.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, and future German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have a key advantage: Trump is overwhelmingly unpopular in their countries.
This allows them to adopt a two-faced strategy - they try, with a smile, to save everything they can from their existing ties, while preparing to defend their countries with the U.S. as an unreliable ally and seemingly an economic enemy.
But no one has a plan to confront Trump directly. The best bet is to hope that he goes too far and self-destructs. But that's not a sure bet, concludes Sky News.