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Magazine Releases Blistering Cover About Trump Presidency That Will Surely Raise Some Eyebrows

The Economist is already counting down until the end of Trump's term.

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With the second Trump presidency approaching the 100-day mark, different publications are making it in different ways. Time Magazine featured a lengthy new interview with the president. The Economist, however, commemorates the occasion by counting down how much time Trump has left in his presidency.

“Only 1,361 days to go,” the cover says. The cover story is possibly more scathing.

“Mr Trump is leading a revolutionary project that aspires to remake the economy, the bureaucracy, culture and foreign policy, even the idea of America itself. The question for the next 1,361 days is: will he succeed?” the article says.

The story notes that the administration has sought to subjugate everything from law firms to the media to Congress to the courts.

“Yet there is another, more likely, scenario in which the extremism of the first 100 days stirs up powerful forces of resistance. One such force is investors in the bond market and the stock market,” the editorial says. “Though they were broadly enthusiastic about Mr Trump’s election, they have been his most effective opponents—not out of political conviction, but because they deal in reality. They are rightly alarmed about the economy being poisoned by tariffs.”

This has led Trump to back down from his plans to remake the economy with tariffs.

There were quite a few reactions to the Economist cover:

“Most Americans do not want a revolution. Many like the sound of bringing manufacturing back home, but only a quarter say they would work in those new factories,” the Economist editorial says. “They like the idea of fair trade, but they do not want chaos. None is keen on inflation. Mr Trump, like other presidents, may see a narrow election win as an invitation to pose for Mount Rushmore, but it does not give him the right to rule by diktat, shut agencies created by Congress, suspend habeas corpus, or grab Greenland.”

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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