INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
US President Donald Trump has celebrated the 100th day of his second term in office with a campaign-style speech, touting his achievements
number of migrants crossing illegally into the US, but the economy is a potential political vulnerability as he wages a global trade
the day he softened a key element of his economic plan - tariffs on the import of foreign cars and car parts - after US car-makers warned of
approval rating of 44%.But the majority of Republican voters still firmly back the president
real victor of the 2020 election, which he lost.Other targets of his ire included Jerome Powell, head of the US central bank, whom the
7,000, down from 140,000 in March of last year.The White House also said almost 65,700 immigrants had been deported in his term so far,
although that is a slower pace than in the last fiscal year when US authorities deported more than 270,000.Part of the way through his
speech Trump screened a video of deportees being expelled from the US and sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador.His immigration crackdown has
faced a flurry of legal challenges, as has his effort to end the automatic granting of citizenship to anyone born on US soil.During
prices and mortgage rates have fallen since Trump took office, although unemployment has risen slightly, consumer sentiment has sagged and
the stock market was plunged into turmoil by the tariffs.Before the speech, Joe DeMonaco, who owns a carpentry business in Michigan, said
