0:00:02 > 0:00:04- I won. I won! - It's been a busy few months
0:00:04 > 0:00:06for President Donald J Trump -
0:00:06 > 0:00:10trying to ban Muslim entrants to the United States.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12PEOPLE CHANT Protests on the streets.
0:00:14 > 0:00:16Russian leaks of various kinds.
0:00:16 > 0:00:18Theresa May's visit.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22A National Security Adviser who lasted weeks.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24A threat to take the courts to court.
0:00:24 > 0:00:29A billionaire Education Secretary accused of buying her seat.
0:00:29 > 0:00:30Feuding with a department store
0:00:30 > 0:00:33for daring to drop his daughter's fashion line.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35- Hurry up! - I'm only on Day 19!
0:00:35 > 0:00:36War on the media.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40Hiring people who forgot they'd met the Russians.
0:00:40 > 0:00:41A presidential address to Congress,
0:00:41 > 0:00:45followed by a Twitter meltdown in which he accused Barack Obama
0:00:45 > 0:00:47of tapping his phone.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49A humiliation on health care.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51The highly controversial budget.
0:00:51 > 0:00:55Ramming through his appointment to the Supreme Court.
0:00:55 > 0:00:57Vowing to sort out North Korea.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59Meeting China's leader.
0:00:59 > 0:01:01An air strike in Syria.
0:01:01 > 0:01:05Dropping the Mother Of All Bombs on Islamic State.
0:01:05 > 0:01:07And - an Easter egg hunt.
0:01:07 > 0:01:12As a reality TV star, Donald Trump may have been shallow,
0:01:12 > 0:01:15vain and ignorable.
0:01:15 > 0:01:17But he is now unignorable.
0:01:17 > 0:01:21He comes to us 24/7, a global media phenomenon,
0:01:21 > 0:01:24from the ultimate Big Brother house over there.
0:01:26 > 0:01:29For the past 100 days, the world has woken up thinking -
0:01:29 > 0:01:31"What's he done now?"
0:01:32 > 0:01:35I'm trying to find out if Donald Trump has a plan
0:01:35 > 0:01:39or if he's just making up the most important job on Earth
0:01:39 > 0:01:42as he goes along.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44What makes him tick, and what will his next four years
0:01:44 > 0:01:46mean for the US government?
0:01:46 > 0:01:48Americans wanted to send a wrecking ball
0:01:48 > 0:01:50to Washington and that's what they got.
0:01:50 > 0:01:51For the media?
0:01:51 > 0:01:54His base, they already agree with him
0:01:54 > 0:01:56in rejecting the news reports in the media.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58Maybe they watch TV on mute
0:01:58 > 0:02:01and see him there looking presidential and that's enough.
0:02:01 > 0:02:02For America?
0:02:02 > 0:02:06On a scale of 1 to 100, I would give Trump in the mid-90s
0:02:06 > 0:02:08for the first 100 days.
0:02:08 > 0:02:09And for the world?
0:02:09 > 0:02:11I'm worried about that 3am knock on the door
0:02:11 > 0:02:13to President Trump saying, "I'm sorry to wake you
0:02:13 > 0:02:15"but something terrible has just happened
0:02:15 > 0:02:17"and you have five minutes to make a decision."
0:02:17 > 0:02:23This programme contains some strong language.
0:02:31 > 0:02:33When America went to the polls on November 8th,
0:02:33 > 0:02:35the world held its breath.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43Political know-it-alls predicted victory
0:02:43 > 0:02:45for boring old Hillary Clinton.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47They were wrong.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50When they started calling those states.
0:02:50 > 0:02:51They kept going red, red and red...
0:02:51 > 0:02:55If you want to know why Trump won, the Republicans of Macomb, Michigan,
0:02:55 > 0:02:59America's closest swing state are the people to talk to.
0:02:59 > 0:03:01If we won Macomb, we won Michigan.
0:03:01 > 0:03:03If we won Michigan, we won the United States.
0:03:03 > 0:03:05Donald Trump has won the presidency.
0:03:05 > 0:03:07I'm going home and going to bed.
0:03:08 > 0:03:12By the early hours, it was clear America had a new president.
0:03:12 > 0:03:13God bless America!
0:03:14 > 0:03:19And instead of a politician, he was a perma-tanned plutocrat
0:03:19 > 0:03:22with immobile hair and wandering hands.
0:03:24 > 0:03:26His supporters went wild.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Eight years ago, Obama had been greeted like a rock star.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35Well, Trump was a hope and change candidate, too
0:03:35 > 0:03:37and millions felt he spoke for them.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39FIREWORKS FIZZ AND POP
0:03:42 > 0:03:44Maybe he wasn't our first choice but we rallied around him
0:03:44 > 0:03:46cos he's so principled and he constantly talked
0:03:46 > 0:03:49about the same issues and if you see the distinct difference
0:03:49 > 0:03:52between the Trump administration and the Obama administration,
0:03:52 > 0:03:55he believes so firmly in the Constitution, he's such a patriot.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58We wanted somebody that can speak for our people,
0:03:58 > 0:04:03can protect our kids, our faith, somebody that loves this country.
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Donald Trump had a genius that no other politician
0:04:09 > 0:04:13or businessman who has run for president in the last 50 years
0:04:13 > 0:04:16has had, and it was all about giving the American people
0:04:16 > 0:04:18exactly what they want.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22And that is what he's doing and that is what he's doing
0:04:22 > 0:04:24every time he upholds his campaign promises.
0:04:24 > 0:04:29The world gasped and waited to see what on Earth would happen next.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31I've a feeling it's going to be beautiful.
0:04:31 > 0:04:33APPLAUSE
0:04:35 > 0:04:38MILITARY BAND PLAYS
0:04:43 > 0:04:44CHOIR SINGS
0:04:47 > 0:04:50I, Donald John Trump do solemnly swear,
0:04:50 > 0:04:52that I will faithfully execute...
0:04:52 > 0:04:55The office of President of the United States.
0:04:55 > 0:04:59The office of President of the United States.
0:05:01 > 0:05:05And so on January 20th, 2017, a new name was added
0:05:05 > 0:05:09to the illustrious roll call that runs from
0:05:09 > 0:05:11George Washington, through Abraham Lincoln,
0:05:11 > 0:05:14to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
0:05:14 > 0:05:18And, in the 45th President of the United States,
0:05:18 > 0:05:21Donald John Trump.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23APPLAUSE
0:05:25 > 0:05:30This American carnage stops right here,
0:05:30 > 0:05:33and stops right now.
0:05:33 > 0:05:37As he took the oath of office, Trump looked out, he said,
0:05:37 > 0:05:40over "a sea of love".
0:05:40 > 0:05:44But some media killjoys pointed out that Obama's sea of love
0:05:44 > 0:05:46had been more like an ocean.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50And the first row of Trump's fledgling presidency blew up.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56The President's press secretary, Sean Spicer -
0:05:56 > 0:05:59we'll be seeing a lot more of him - got very narky.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Photographs of the inaugural proceedings
0:06:02 > 0:06:05were intentionally framed in a way, in one particular tweet,
0:06:05 > 0:06:07to minimise the enormous support
0:06:07 > 0:06:10that had gathered on the National Mall.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13These attempts to lessen the enthusiasm of the inauguration
0:06:13 > 0:06:14are shameful and wrong.
0:06:24 > 0:06:28The BBC's North America editor, Jon Sopel, was there.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31I went to Sean Spicer's first White House briefing,
0:06:31 > 0:06:34on a Saturday evening, where he called us all in, er,
0:06:34 > 0:06:38berated us for our coverage of the inauguration and said
0:06:38 > 0:06:41that we were wrong to say that Donald Trump
0:06:41 > 0:06:43didn't have the biggest audience ever for an inauguration.
0:06:43 > 0:06:46Thank you, guys, for being here tonight.
0:06:46 > 0:06:48- I will see you on Monday. - JOURNALISTS CLAMOUR
0:06:48 > 0:06:50He refused to answer any questions and stormed out,
0:06:50 > 0:06:53and I was sitting next to the Guardian correspondent,
0:06:53 > 0:06:55who had previously been the Southern Africa correspondent,
0:06:55 > 0:06:58and he said, "Oh, it's just like being back in Zimbabwe."
0:07:00 > 0:07:04So, what most of us would regard as a fact,
0:07:04 > 0:07:07the Trump Bunker considered merely opinion.
0:07:07 > 0:07:08Curious enough.
0:07:08 > 0:07:11But then a Trump spokesperson went on TV
0:07:11 > 0:07:13and it all got weirder.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17It undermines the credibility of the entire White House press office...
0:07:17 > 0:07:19- No, it doesn't.- ..on day one.
0:07:19 > 0:07:21Don't be so overly dramatic about it, Chuck.
0:07:21 > 0:07:23You're saying it's a falsehood.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25And they're giving... Sean Spicer, our press secretary,
0:07:25 > 0:07:28gave alternative facts to that.
0:07:28 > 0:07:31- But the point remains... - Wait a minute, alternative facts?!
0:07:31 > 0:07:33- That there's...- Look, alternative facts are not facts.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35They're falsehoods.
0:07:38 > 0:07:43"Alternative facts" wasn't just a nonsensical turn of phrase.
0:07:45 > 0:07:49It signalled something totally new about how Trump's White House
0:07:49 > 0:07:52planned to communicate with the American people.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55It'd cut out the middlemen.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57So screw the mainstream media.
0:08:05 > 0:08:09'Tara Palmeri is White House correspondent for Politico magazine.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12'She's a rising star in the press pack.
0:08:12 > 0:08:14'Unless you're Press Secretary Spicer, that is,
0:08:14 > 0:08:19'in which case she is, quote, "an idiot with no real sources".'
0:08:21 > 0:08:24They think, "We don't need you to carry our water,
0:08:24 > 0:08:26"like, convey our message for us - we have Twitter now.
0:08:26 > 0:08:32"We can put our top senior officials on every single network."
0:08:32 > 0:08:35They don't want the filter and frankly, like, Trump is really
0:08:35 > 0:08:40good at kind of like shaping the message every morning.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43And he knows that on Saturday he will control the message
0:08:43 > 0:08:47on the Sunday shows by whatever he tweets on Saturday.
0:08:47 > 0:08:48It's just... It's brilliant.
0:08:50 > 0:08:55As an outsider, it seems the belief inside the White House
0:08:55 > 0:08:58is that, if you're not with us, you're against us,
0:08:58 > 0:08:59and we don't need you.
0:08:59 > 0:09:01When I worked at the New York Post,
0:09:01 > 0:09:04I used to deal with Trump a lot and he would send stories back
0:09:04 > 0:09:08with red ink circling adjectives he didn't like, writing notes.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10He's very involved. Even - you see the way he communicates,
0:09:10 > 0:09:13everything's amazing, everything's great.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Those are words you're not going to see in any respectable news outlet.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18"It's going to be a beautiful health plan!"
0:09:18 > 0:09:21You're not going to read that in a real reputable newspaper
0:09:21 > 0:09:23or see that on TV, so they are therefore the enemy
0:09:23 > 0:09:26and not supportive of him.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29In other words, if you're not telling the White House
0:09:29 > 0:09:32version of the story, you're not worth listening to.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38The notion spawned a phrase that's dominated
0:09:38 > 0:09:41these first 100 days - "fake news".
0:09:46 > 0:09:49As you know, I have a running war with the media.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53They are among the most dishonest human beings on Earth.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56Suddenly, that little finger was pointing at almost
0:09:56 > 0:09:58every major news outlet.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00I could name them but I won't bother
0:10:00 > 0:10:03but you have a few sitting right in front of us.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06I called the fake news the enemy of the people and they are.
0:10:06 > 0:10:07Fake...
0:10:07 > 0:10:09The fake news. Fake news. It's fake.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Phoney. Fake.
0:10:12 > 0:10:14The enemy within -
0:10:14 > 0:10:16it's everywhere.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18Can I just ask you, thank you very much, Mr President.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21- Where are you from? - Er, BBC.
0:10:21 > 0:10:23OK. Here's another beauty.
0:10:23 > 0:10:25It's a good line.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28- Impartial, free and fair. - Yeah. Sure.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30- Er, Mr President... - Just like CNN.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33Aren't they right in their suspicion
0:10:33 > 0:10:37that the mainstream media were biased against Trump?
0:10:37 > 0:10:39I'd put it differently.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42I think that some of the mainstream media are
0:10:42 > 0:10:43falling into the trap
0:10:43 > 0:10:47of allowing themselves to be painted as Trump's opposition.
0:10:47 > 0:10:51Trump loves having an opponent, whether it's lying Ted Cruz,
0:10:51 > 0:10:55little Marco Rubio, low-energy Jeb, or crooked Hillary,
0:10:55 > 0:10:57and now he's got the fake news media.
0:10:57 > 0:10:58We're not the opposition.
0:10:58 > 0:11:00We're there to hold politicians to account.
0:11:06 > 0:11:10But who needs accountability, when Trump is such a master
0:11:10 > 0:11:11at writing his own script?
0:11:18 > 0:11:19HORN BLASTS
0:11:21 > 0:11:24He allows the press to really videotape him a lot,
0:11:24 > 0:11:26especially when he's working.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29It's almost like he wants a reality TV show
0:11:29 > 0:11:30going on inside the White House.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32You know, if I ever fell, would they be happy?
0:11:32 > 0:11:34LAUGHTER
0:11:34 > 0:11:36We see him signing executive orders,
0:11:36 > 0:11:37holding them up to show his signature.
0:11:39 > 0:11:43He looks like he is an executive president taking on all these tasks,
0:11:43 > 0:11:46he looks like he's working, that's a good visual.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48He's the reality TV president.
0:11:48 > 0:11:52He knows that substance doesn't matter and he knows that.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54Substance does matter.
0:11:54 > 0:11:56It does, but not when you're trying to communicate
0:11:56 > 0:11:59- to a mass audience.- Yeah.
0:11:59 > 0:12:04And his base, they already agree with him in rejecting, you know,
0:12:04 > 0:12:06the news reports and the media.
0:12:06 > 0:12:09Maybe they watch TV on mute and see him there
0:12:09 > 0:12:11looking presidential, and that's enough.
0:12:11 > 0:12:13- It's a clever thing to have worked out.- Right.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15Exactly.
0:12:16 > 0:12:21Is it possible that Trump the reality star got something right?
0:12:21 > 0:12:25That in our trivial, visual age,
0:12:25 > 0:12:28just looking presidential is half the job.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32It's a belief he would test to its limits in the coming months.
0:12:32 > 0:12:34Come on. Come with me.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Looking presidential means looking decisive,
0:12:37 > 0:12:40and that means to be seen doing things.
0:12:40 > 0:12:44So Trump, the get-it-done CEO, swung into action with a series
0:12:44 > 0:12:46of so-called executive orders.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51Should I give this pen to Andrew? Dow Chemical...
0:12:51 > 0:12:53I think maybe, right?
0:12:53 > 0:12:55APPLAUSE
0:12:55 > 0:12:58He cancelled a long-planned trade deal,
0:12:58 > 0:13:00and ordered construction of the border wall.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04Reversed climate change policy.
0:13:04 > 0:13:07And got a roomful of men to watch as he ended
0:13:07 > 0:13:11US aid to international abortion counselling.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14An executive order is an expression of intent.
0:13:14 > 0:13:17It's something the president wants to have done.
0:13:17 > 0:13:21It doesn't need a vote, but it does need to be within the law.
0:13:21 > 0:13:24So whatever the president wants to do, it still has to work
0:13:24 > 0:13:27within the structure of American governance.
0:13:27 > 0:13:30That's the legislature, ie, Congress.
0:13:30 > 0:13:33The judiciary - judges and courts.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36And the Executive - the president and his staff.
0:13:36 > 0:13:41It's a system set out by Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist Papers.
0:13:41 > 0:13:46In paper number 70, Hamilton talks about why
0:13:46 > 0:13:49a powerful president is important.
0:13:49 > 0:13:53He says - "Energy in the Executive is a leading character
0:13:53 > 0:13:56"in the definition of a good government.
0:13:56 > 0:14:00"It is essential to the steady administration of the laws."
0:14:01 > 0:14:04Well, Trump's certainly got energy.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06So is it going to produce good government?
0:14:07 > 0:14:10Increasingly, the American presidency,
0:14:10 > 0:14:13certainly during the Obama years and maybe now
0:14:13 > 0:14:15during the Trump years,
0:14:15 > 0:14:18is taking the route of going around
0:14:18 > 0:14:23the legislative action and doing more and more by executive order.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27'Theodore Roosevelt Malloch is an economist
0:14:27 > 0:14:29'who's served under presidents.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32'He's seen as Trump's pick for a top ambassadorial job
0:14:32 > 0:14:34'and he's a big fan.'
0:14:34 > 0:14:37And it is divisive as a mechanism, isn't it?
0:14:37 > 0:14:42Can be, because Congress feels like you are going around them.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46But it is also, you know, from an expedience point of view,
0:14:46 > 0:14:49a way to efficiently get things done.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51Many CEOs have that kind of mentality.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55I'm not saying it's command and control, ah,
0:14:55 > 0:14:58it's not, you know, authoritarian, to use the term, but it
0:14:58 > 0:15:03is the kind of view that a chief executive decides, and
0:15:03 > 0:15:05you might listen to a few board members,
0:15:05 > 0:15:06but basically in the end you decide.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08Wisconsin, I love Wisconsin.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12Donald Trump promised the voters he'd be
0:15:12 > 0:15:16the boss of America Inc.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20But can you really run a country as you would a company?
0:15:20 > 0:15:24Well, America, the world, and Donald Trump himself
0:15:24 > 0:15:26were about to find out.
0:15:27 > 0:15:29Who would Chief Executive Trump appoint
0:15:29 > 0:15:32as board members of America Inc?
0:15:32 > 0:15:36Sitting on one side of the table are his high-profile daughter Ivanka,
0:15:36 > 0:15:39and her husband Jared Kushner,
0:15:39 > 0:15:42a property developer turned so-called Secretary of Everything.
0:15:43 > 0:15:47On the other, a man called Steve Bannon.
0:15:47 > 0:15:51This one-time film producer and boss of the extreme right-wing website
0:15:51 > 0:15:55Breitbart News, is now Trump's Chief Strategist.
0:15:58 > 0:16:00The inner circle is a motley crew.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02Almost beyond satire.
0:16:02 > 0:16:03But not quite.
0:16:03 > 0:16:05AUDIENCE CHEERS
0:16:05 > 0:16:08You know I love my daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared.
0:16:08 > 0:16:12They always keep me so calm and make sure I don't do anything too crazy.
0:16:12 > 0:16:14That's true, sir.
0:16:14 > 0:16:16So, quick question. Are they gone?
0:16:16 > 0:16:19- Yes. - Send in Steve Bannon.
0:16:19 > 0:16:22DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:22 > 0:16:23APPLAUSE
0:16:27 > 0:16:29Hello, Donald, I have arrived.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Hi, Steve. You look rested.
0:16:32 > 0:16:33Thank you.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38Comedians have found this White House a gift.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Today, when he entered the room the crowd
0:16:40 > 0:16:43greeted him with a standing ovation which
0:16:43 > 0:16:46lasted a full 15 minutes
0:16:46 > 0:16:48and you can check the tape on that.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50Everyone was smiling.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Everyone was happy.
0:16:53 > 0:16:58It's the most bafflingly incompetent group of people
0:16:58 > 0:17:01in the White House who I've ever, ever seen.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06Robert Reich is a professor of public policy who has served
0:17:06 > 0:17:09under three presidents, including as Bill Clinton's
0:17:09 > 0:17:11Secretary of Labour.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14What we see in this White House is not only people
0:17:14 > 0:17:17who have no experience of governing,
0:17:17 > 0:17:22but also something of a disdain for the institutions of government.
0:17:22 > 0:17:27Bannon, Kushner and their spats have been a storyline all their own
0:17:27 > 0:17:30in President Trump's White House reality show.
0:17:31 > 0:17:33I have seen a lot of chaotic White Houses,
0:17:33 > 0:17:37I've worked in fairly chaotic White Houses.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41I've never encountered or viewed a White House
0:17:41 > 0:17:45that is quite as chaotic as Donald Trump's.
0:17:45 > 0:17:47Thank you very much.
0:17:48 > 0:17:50People are confused about their jobs.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54They are at each other's throats.
0:17:54 > 0:17:58They are leaking information like mad to the press.
0:18:00 > 0:18:03Trump's supporters, of course, see it differently.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08He brings the skills of business to public life,
0:18:08 > 0:18:12making bureaucracy understand action.
0:18:12 > 0:18:13Even in the Trump Organization,
0:18:13 > 0:18:17in his private company of some scale, he managed
0:18:17 > 0:18:20on the basis of chaos.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23He likes to have different pockets or centres of power,
0:18:23 > 0:18:26that actually rival each other, and then he makes
0:18:26 > 0:18:27the determination.
0:18:27 > 0:18:30So the White House is not dissimilar in some ways
0:18:30 > 0:18:31from the Trump Organization.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34How much of that is a good thing, how much of
0:18:34 > 0:18:36it is too much, is probably still to be determined.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40It's an unorthodox approach, but then Trump
0:18:40 > 0:18:43was elected to shake up Washington.
0:18:45 > 0:18:46"Protection of the nation
0:18:46 > 0:18:51"from foreign terrorist entry into the United States."
0:18:53 > 0:18:54Big stuff.
0:18:54 > 0:18:58When it came to one of his most noteworthy campaign promises,
0:18:58 > 0:19:00though, that lack of traditional process
0:19:00 > 0:19:02led the president to come a cropper.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05PEOPLE CHANT
0:19:05 > 0:19:08We got there at about 3:30pm.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12When we got there, there was maybe about 400 to 500 people there.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17By, like, 4:15pm there was friends of mine that were coming
0:19:17 > 0:19:19to the airport - it was taking an hour to get there.
0:19:19 > 0:19:22People started parking their cars on the side and just walking.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Ended up being well over 10,000 people that were there.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26And it was nice to see the Muslim community,
0:19:26 > 0:19:29the Jewish community, the Christian community,
0:19:29 > 0:19:32the LGBT community, the Black Lives Matter community,
0:19:32 > 0:19:36it's like everybody stood together, and everybody was, like, standing
0:19:36 > 0:19:39together for one sake, like, pretty much saying,
0:19:39 > 0:19:41"He might be coming after the Muslims today,
0:19:41 > 0:19:43"but is he going to be coming after you tomorrow?"
0:19:43 > 0:19:47The so-called Muslim travel ban was an executive order
0:19:47 > 0:19:50issued in Trump's first week in office.
0:19:50 > 0:19:53It banned entry to the US for people from seven
0:19:53 > 0:19:59mainly-Muslim countries, including permanent US residents.
0:19:59 > 0:20:03Why? Apparently to prevent America becoming "a horrible mess".
0:20:06 > 0:20:10The city of Dearborn, Michigan, is home both to the headquarters
0:20:10 > 0:20:13of the Ford Motor Company,
0:20:13 > 0:20:16and to the largest mosque in America.
0:20:23 > 0:20:27Hussein Dabajeh is an entrepreneur and owns a downtown shisha bar.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31I hold it in my mouth and then blow it out.
0:20:31 > 0:20:32This is tobacco, is it?
0:20:32 > 0:20:34This is, yeah, it's flavoured tobacco.
0:20:34 > 0:20:37It's tobacco and it's kind of like in molasses.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43Dearborn's population is around a third Arab-American,
0:20:43 > 0:20:46which landed it a starring role in the cable reality show,
0:20:46 > 0:20:48All American Muslim.
0:20:49 > 0:20:52But after Trump's executive order, the city's residents
0:20:52 > 0:20:55were back in the spotlight with the suggestion that
0:20:55 > 0:20:57being a Muslim was un-American.
0:21:03 > 0:21:05I feel like he's separating.
0:21:05 > 0:21:09We were all diverse here, and we were all getting along.
0:21:09 > 0:21:13And then here comes Trump and basically now
0:21:13 > 0:21:15the eyes are on Muslims.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17'Noorhan is an A&E nurse.'
0:21:17 > 0:21:20I'm from Iraq. I was born there.
0:21:20 > 0:21:21- You're Iraqi, you would say? - Yes.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23- OK, you're here as a refugee?- Yes.
0:21:23 > 0:21:27I went to the refugee camps in Saudi Arabia
0:21:27 > 0:21:34and we moved here in 1995, so I was about four years old.
0:21:34 > 0:21:38When I heard Trump was president, I didn't take it well,
0:21:38 > 0:21:41especially because I don't have my citizenship.
0:21:41 > 0:21:45And I'm a legal resident here, but me travelling
0:21:45 > 0:21:49outside was going to give me problems, so I didn't
0:21:49 > 0:21:51take it really well.
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Do you think he's changed America?
0:21:53 > 0:21:55For the worse? Yeah.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57Cos we're going back to...
0:21:57 > 0:22:00Like, basically history's repeating itself.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04What do you mean? He says he wants to make America great again.
0:22:04 > 0:22:06Do you truly believe that?
0:22:10 > 0:22:14As the ban was an executive order, it bypassed Congress.
0:22:14 > 0:22:18But even then, Trump couldn't have everything his own way.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23Within 48 hours, the third branch of Government, the judiciary,
0:22:23 > 0:22:26had started blocking his ambitions.
0:22:27 > 0:22:30He responded, well, pretty typically.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39'The ban polarised America.
0:22:39 > 0:22:40'For Trump's supporters,
0:22:40 > 0:22:44'it was exactly what they'd voted him in to do.'
0:22:44 > 0:22:47I came here as an immigrant from Iraq, and I went to school.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50I became a pharmacist.
0:22:50 > 0:22:51I married a surgeon.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53He came here the same way.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56We came legally here.
0:22:56 > 0:23:01We went through all the paperwork that any country would go.
0:23:01 > 0:23:04The biggest misconception was that Donald Trump
0:23:04 > 0:23:06hates Muslims or that he hates Arabs.
0:23:06 > 0:23:09I think the mainstream media tried to twist his words
0:23:09 > 0:23:12into making it seem like he was against religious freedom
0:23:12 > 0:23:14and that he was a racist.
0:23:15 > 0:23:17'Three months on, that executive order is still
0:23:17 > 0:23:19'caught up in the courts.'
0:23:20 > 0:23:24Turns out you can run the White House like your own corporation,
0:23:24 > 0:23:26but to run a country,
0:23:26 > 0:23:29you need the other branches of government to play ball.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33It was a crucial lesson for the new president,
0:23:33 > 0:23:34but would he learn it?
0:23:37 > 0:23:40While Trump was pushing for restrictions
0:23:40 > 0:23:43on America's new enemies, everyone else wanted to know
0:23:43 > 0:23:46what he'd been up to with the old rival superpower.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50Did anyone from your team communicate
0:23:50 > 0:23:53with members of the Russian government or Russian intelligence?
0:23:53 > 0:23:58Can you say definitively that nobody on your campaign had any contacts
0:23:58 > 0:23:59with the Russians?
0:24:01 > 0:24:03Throughout this first 100 days,
0:24:03 > 0:24:07the one story that hasn't gone away is Russia.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10Even if no-one is quite sure what that story is.
0:24:11 > 0:24:16'Senator Dick Durbin is the deputy Democrat leader in the Senate.'
0:24:16 > 0:24:20What we know is that some 1,000 Russian - we call them trolls -
0:24:20 > 0:24:24sitting at computers in some building somewhere in Russia,
0:24:24 > 0:24:26maybe in Moscow, were doing their level best
0:24:26 > 0:24:29to break into every computer base they could find.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Trump had only been in office a fortnight
0:24:36 > 0:24:40when the US national security services - the CIA, FBI and NSA -
0:24:40 > 0:24:43released a joint report.
0:24:43 > 0:24:45Its conclusion?
0:24:45 > 0:24:48That Putin and the Russian government aspired to help
0:24:48 > 0:24:52President-elect Trump's election chances when possible.
0:24:54 > 0:24:58It is the first time we can point to in the history of our nation,
0:24:58 > 0:25:02when a foreign country has tried to influence the outcome
0:25:02 > 0:25:03of a presidential election.
0:25:03 > 0:25:06It wouldn't be surprising, though, would it?
0:25:06 > 0:25:10I mean, any government looks at what's going on in a country in
0:25:10 > 0:25:14whom it has an interest, and wishes an outcome, and there is no
0:25:14 > 0:25:18evidence that they did influence the outcome of the election, is there?
0:25:18 > 0:25:21Well, I can't tell you that they didn't influence the outcome.
0:25:21 > 0:25:24We know the Russians did not have a direct impact on my casting
0:25:24 > 0:25:29a ballot or it being counted, but they did their level best.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33During the campaign, Trump had to ditch his campaign manager
0:25:33 > 0:25:35over his Russian connections.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38As president, he then had to fire Michael Flynn,
0:25:38 > 0:25:42his pick as National Security Adviser, for allegedly
0:25:42 > 0:25:45discussing sanctions with Russia before Trump took office.
0:25:45 > 0:25:48And somehow, his Attorney General, Jeff Sessions,
0:25:48 > 0:25:52who would have overseen the investigation into Russian
0:25:52 > 0:25:54interference, failed to disclose that
0:25:54 > 0:25:59he had, er, twice met the Russian ambassador. Whoops.
0:25:59 > 0:26:03I have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign,
0:26:03 > 0:26:07and I did not have communications with the Russians.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09And I'm unable to comment on it.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12Unlike Flynn, Sessions didn't step down,
0:26:12 > 0:26:16though he did beg off the investigation, so that's OK, then.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22Evan McMullin is a former CIA field operative turned
0:26:22 > 0:26:24senior Republican policy adviser.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29Donald Trump and his advisers have had close contact with Russians
0:26:29 > 0:26:33here in the United States, and the Russian government, for years.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36I think the real issue is that Donald Trump would like to
0:26:36 > 0:26:39prioritise his relationship with Vladimir Putin,
0:26:39 > 0:26:44which is one that I think is founded at least on an ideological
0:26:44 > 0:26:49sympathy, over the ideals of the West, which are liberty,
0:26:49 > 0:26:53equality, liberal democracy, self-rule.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55These are not things that Donald Trump embraces.
0:26:55 > 0:27:00Are you really saying that he admires some thug like
0:27:00 > 0:27:04Vladimir Putin more than he admires fellow democracies?
0:27:04 > 0:27:05Absolutely.
0:27:07 > 0:27:08As in all love affairs,
0:27:08 > 0:27:12Donald and Vlad have had their differences, notably over Syria.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17Right now, we're not getting along with Russia at all.
0:27:17 > 0:27:22We may be at an all-time low in terms of relationship with Russia.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Yet, just hours later,
0:27:25 > 0:27:27Trump was telling us everything was great again.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38It wouldn't be long, though, before Russia was looking like the
0:27:38 > 0:27:41least of Trump's foreign policy concerns.
0:27:43 > 0:27:47The Russia controversy did, however, bring Trump's talent for
0:27:47 > 0:27:50speaking direct to voters back to the fore.
0:27:50 > 0:27:54He started out by defending his beleaguered Attorney General.
0:27:58 > 0:28:02But as tweets came thick and fast,
0:28:02 > 0:28:05Trump's mood turned from defence to attack.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13In less time than an episode of The Apprentice,
0:28:13 > 0:28:18Trump had cast himself as the victim of an Obama-ordered wiretap.
0:28:24 > 0:28:27Two weeks later, Press Secretary Spicer fingered the guilty party,
0:28:27 > 0:28:32who had, allegedly, acted on Obama's behalf.
0:28:32 > 0:28:34He didn't use the NSA, he didn't use the CIA,
0:28:34 > 0:28:38he didn't use the FBI, and he didn't use the Department of Justice.
0:28:38 > 0:28:40He used GCHQ. What is that?
0:28:40 > 0:28:44- It's the initials for the British intelligence spying agency.- What?!
0:28:44 > 0:28:47The sound of jaws dropping in Whitehall must have been
0:28:47 > 0:28:49audible in Washington.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54In intelligence, the Anglo-American relationship is the most
0:28:54 > 0:28:57important either country has.
0:28:59 > 0:29:02You look at this stuff and you just think,
0:29:02 > 0:29:05"Where on Earth did this rubbish come from?"
0:29:07 > 0:29:10In this case it wasn't the intelligence agencies,
0:29:10 > 0:29:12it was cable television.
0:29:12 > 0:29:17Trump's spokesman cited the claim and did attribute it.
0:29:17 > 0:29:20Last, on Fox News on March 14th, Judge Andrew Napolitano
0:29:20 > 0:29:21made the following statement,
0:29:21 > 0:29:24quote, "Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News..."
0:29:28 > 0:29:32Andrew Napolitano is better known as Judge Nap,
0:29:32 > 0:29:35a pundit on the right-wing Fox News.
0:29:37 > 0:29:41Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that
0:29:41 > 0:29:44President Obama went outside the chain of command,
0:29:44 > 0:29:47he didn't use the NSA, he didn't use the CIA,
0:29:47 > 0:29:51he didn't use the FBI, and he didn't use the Department of Justice.
0:29:51 > 0:29:55He used GCHQ. What the heck is GCHQ?
0:29:55 > 0:30:00That's the initials for the British spying agency.
0:30:00 > 0:30:05Fox News then said it couldn't confirm Napolitano's story.
0:30:05 > 0:30:08So did the White House apologise? Fat chance.
0:30:08 > 0:30:11I didn't make an opinion on it.
0:30:11 > 0:30:15That was a statement made by a very talented lawyer on Fox,
0:30:15 > 0:30:19and so you shouldn't be talking to me, you should be talking to Fox.
0:30:19 > 0:30:21So, there you have it.
0:30:21 > 0:30:25Weeks of speculation, one accusation of illegal wiretapping against
0:30:25 > 0:30:27a former president,
0:30:27 > 0:30:31and a totally unproved accusation from a distinguished legal mind
0:30:31 > 0:30:34that the British were involved in such a thing.
0:30:34 > 0:30:39The Trump presidency is a little bit like the 1966
0:30:39 > 0:30:43Spaghetti Western called The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.
0:30:43 > 0:30:46I mean, it's good inasmuch as he's doing exactly what he said
0:30:46 > 0:30:48he would do.
0:30:48 > 0:30:54The bad is that he's actually coming to grips with how to operate
0:30:54 > 0:30:59in Washington, which is a political situation and not a business one.
0:30:59 > 0:31:03Then there's ugly part, which I think does have to do with all this
0:31:03 > 0:31:06back and forth with the media and the way that he's being
0:31:06 > 0:31:07pictured and coloured.
0:31:10 > 0:31:15Alongside that stand-off, there were campaign pledges to deliver on.
0:31:15 > 0:31:18One of the most contentious was immigration and
0:31:18 > 0:31:20a certain "beautiful" wall.
0:31:22 > 0:31:28As soon as Donald Trump was elected, we started to prepare for the worst.
0:31:30 > 0:31:35Solange Altman is a lawyer at El Concilio in Modesto,
0:31:35 > 0:31:39a Northern Californian town with a large Latino population.
0:31:39 > 0:31:43Many are migrants who've lived and worked here for decades.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46Everybody wants to be a citizen, right?
0:31:46 > 0:31:49Why do you want to get your citizenship?
0:31:49 > 0:31:51HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH
0:31:52 > 0:31:56Because this country has given you what your country didn't.
0:31:56 > 0:31:59HE SPEAKS IN SPANISH
0:32:00 > 0:32:03"So I won't have any problems crossing the border."
0:32:03 > 0:32:06If he travels back to his home country,
0:32:06 > 0:32:09he may not be able to return.
0:32:09 > 0:32:12A lot of Americans think that getting status is like going to
0:32:12 > 0:32:14apply for a library card.
0:32:14 > 0:32:17You go in and you just fill out the paperwork and you get it the
0:32:17 > 0:32:20same day. It's expensive, it's time-consuming.
0:32:20 > 0:32:23And people are under the stress, fearful that they're not
0:32:23 > 0:32:27going to be approved and...it's really hard on families.
0:32:29 > 0:32:33Trump says he'll triple the deportation manpower of ICE,
0:32:33 > 0:32:36America's immigration and customs force.
0:32:36 > 0:32:41What Solange's clients fear has already become reality for some.
0:32:41 > 0:32:43Within a fortnight of Trump's order,
0:32:43 > 0:32:48the first widely reported deportation became a media circus.
0:32:48 > 0:32:53Though liberals predictably get fired up about Trump's policies,
0:32:53 > 0:32:56presidents of all stripes have targeted criminal,
0:32:56 > 0:32:58illegal immigrants.
0:32:58 > 0:33:01But the wall potentially changes everything.
0:33:04 > 0:33:10On day one, we will begin working on an impenetrable,
0:33:10 > 0:33:13physical, tall, powerful,
0:33:13 > 0:33:17beautiful southern border wall.
0:33:17 > 0:33:18CHEERING
0:33:20 > 0:33:24It's been mocked by Game Of Thrones geeks.
0:33:24 > 0:33:29We have no border, we have no control, people are flooding across.
0:33:29 > 0:33:31We need to build a wall.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33And it has to be built quickly.
0:33:35 > 0:33:37And by the former president of Mexico,
0:33:37 > 0:33:40a man with a turn of phrase that shocked his interviewer.
0:33:44 > 0:33:46I have to say we are not,
0:33:46 > 0:33:50I am not going to pay for that fucking wall, I am not!
0:33:52 > 0:33:56But there's a reason Trump's pursuing the policy.
0:33:56 > 0:34:00Lots of people love it, his supporters in Modesto prove that.
0:34:00 > 0:34:04They felt Trump got their frustration with the system.
0:34:04 > 0:34:08These county Republicans meet monthly in an office downtown.
0:34:08 > 0:34:12There's no journalistic integrity at all any more.
0:34:12 > 0:34:17The left side, the spin, fake news, it is just outright lying.
0:34:17 > 0:34:20They dislike the mainstream media as much as their leader does,
0:34:20 > 0:34:24not least for its lazy assumptions about who thinks what.
0:34:24 > 0:34:26You get a lot of this, you think you can box them up,
0:34:26 > 0:34:29but just because a group's Latino or whatnot,
0:34:29 > 0:34:32that you're all going to, say, vote left or vote liberal or be
0:34:32 > 0:34:36against Trump, that kind of thing. But I work with a lot of Latinos.
0:34:36 > 0:34:39Frankly, the more that are working, a lot of them are small
0:34:39 > 0:34:43business owners, a lot of them share conservative ideas.
0:34:43 > 0:34:49He's not just for the white, rich elite, he's for everybody. And...
0:34:50 > 0:34:53..I think that's what we need to do, is that he's there to,
0:34:53 > 0:34:58I know it's the coined phrase, to make America great again.
0:34:58 > 0:34:59Something's got to change.
0:34:59 > 0:35:04I don't think it's right that our state has to imprison
0:35:04 > 0:35:06illegal, alien criminals.
0:35:06 > 0:35:10Why should we allow American citizens to be corrupted by
0:35:10 > 0:35:11these dangerous people?
0:35:11 > 0:35:14We get all kinds of promises, you know, during a campaign.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17This is going to change and that, nothing ever does.
0:35:17 > 0:35:20But Trump is just going down the checklist of the things
0:35:20 > 0:35:23that he campaigned on and is following through
0:35:23 > 0:35:25on every one of them.
0:35:26 > 0:35:30My administration has answered the pleas of the American people
0:35:30 > 0:35:35for immigration enforcement and border security.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37We want all Americans to succeed.
0:35:37 > 0:35:42But that can't happen in an environment of lawless chaos.
0:35:42 > 0:35:45As we speak tonight, we are removing gang members,
0:35:45 > 0:35:49drug dealers and criminals that threaten our communities and
0:35:49 > 0:35:53prey on our very innocent citizens.
0:35:53 > 0:35:56Bad ones are going out as I speak,
0:35:56 > 0:35:58and as I promised throughout the campaign.
0:36:01 > 0:36:06There are bad people out there, and sometimes bad people do bad things.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09My heart goes out to those families that were hurt by immigrants,
0:36:09 > 0:36:10but by and large,
0:36:10 > 0:36:14immigrants do not commit more crimes than the general population.
0:36:16 > 0:36:20He uses it as a way to scare people. That's what Donald Trump does.
0:36:22 > 0:36:26Through his hyperbole and his repeated accusations and
0:36:26 > 0:36:29misstatements, people begin to believe that it's the truth.
0:36:32 > 0:36:36The president's beef with migrants isn't racist, his supporters say,
0:36:36 > 0:36:41it's about safety and, crucially, it's about protecting American jobs.
0:36:41 > 0:36:45By finally enforcing our immigration laws, we will raise wages,
0:36:45 > 0:36:49help the unemployed, save billions and billions of dollars,
0:36:49 > 0:36:54and make our communities safer for everyone.
0:36:54 > 0:36:58And Donald J Trump, entrepreneur and presumed billionaire,
0:36:58 > 0:37:01though it's hard to tell, when he still won't release his tax
0:37:01 > 0:37:07returns, is taking a distinctly personal interest in job creation.
0:37:07 > 0:37:11Thank heavens for Trump. Unless he's just taking the credit.
0:37:11 > 0:37:12Since my election,
0:37:12 > 0:37:16Ford, Fiat Chrysler, General Motors,
0:37:16 > 0:37:20Sprint, SoftBank, Lockheed, Intel, Walmart
0:37:20 > 0:37:24and many others have announced that they will invest billions and
0:37:24 > 0:37:28billions of dollars in the United States and will create tens of
0:37:28 > 0:37:32thousands of new American jobs.
0:37:32 > 0:37:34APPLAUSE
0:37:35 > 0:37:38This was our first 3-D model, Jeremy.
0:37:38 > 0:37:42And this is hand-carved Styrofoam.
0:37:42 > 0:37:46'Gene Dickerson has worked in the auto industry for 40 years.'
0:37:46 > 0:37:50This sort of thing would have Jeremy Clarkson wetting his pants, I think.
0:37:50 > 0:37:53'You can take the man out from under the bonnet,
0:37:53 > 0:37:57'but not the petrol out of his heart.' Oh, here's the real thing.
0:37:57 > 0:38:02These are engineering mock-up body panels. They're lumpy and bumpy.
0:38:02 > 0:38:06This car will go approximately 180mph.
0:38:07 > 0:38:13Gene is sceptical of Trump's claim to be restoring auto jobs.
0:38:13 > 0:38:17And these are all what we call Tier 1 automotive suppliers.
0:38:18 > 0:38:23These are the companies that design and manufacture steering,
0:38:23 > 0:38:27brakes, engines, transmissions. Here in the suburbs...
0:38:27 > 0:38:30They all ought to be rooting for Donald Trump, shouldn't they?
0:38:30 > 0:38:34Because he says he's going to bring all the motor business back here.
0:38:34 > 0:38:37Well, yeah, he says that, he's clearly not done his homework.
0:38:37 > 0:38:43The business decisions were made four years ago on what's going to
0:38:43 > 0:38:48be manufactured automobile-wise and where it's going to be manufactured.
0:38:48 > 0:38:50And...
0:38:50 > 0:38:55those decisions have been made and they are not going to be
0:38:55 > 0:38:59changed lightly, based upon what Trump asks them to do.
0:38:59 > 0:39:04When Donald Trump says that he has already started transforming
0:39:04 > 0:39:09cities like Detroit, bringing American automobile jobs back
0:39:09 > 0:39:13to America, is he living in the past, or what?
0:39:15 > 0:39:18Yeah, I think he's delusional.
0:39:41 > 0:39:45Detroit was once one of the powerhouses of America,
0:39:45 > 0:39:48the centre of the country's motor industry.
0:39:48 > 0:39:52It's also had its own home-grown Donald Trump figure in the
0:39:52 > 0:39:55form of a man called Hazen S Pingree,
0:39:55 > 0:39:59a self-made businessman who ran for political office,
0:39:59 > 0:40:04promising to clean up corruption, and got elected mayor four times
0:40:04 > 0:40:08and died known as, "the idol of the people".
0:40:10 > 0:40:14Trump hopes to be as popular as Pingree.
0:40:14 > 0:40:17He's deploying both of his presidential superpowers,
0:40:17 > 0:40:22that supposed business acumen and a genius for direct communication,
0:40:22 > 0:40:25to try to make it happen. So, will they be enough?
0:40:27 > 0:40:31How is Donald Trump, the businessman president, doing?
0:40:31 > 0:40:34Certainly there are parts of his agenda that the business
0:40:34 > 0:40:39community, at the broad-strokes level, is wildly supportive of.
0:40:39 > 0:40:40The tactics, however,
0:40:40 > 0:40:43you know, cause a significant amount of concern.
0:40:43 > 0:40:47So we're hoping we can get the reform without some of the
0:40:47 > 0:40:48histrionics.
0:40:50 > 0:40:54Sandy Baruah is boss of the Detroit Chamber of Commerce.
0:40:54 > 0:40:57He was Assistant Secretary of Commerce in the last
0:40:57 > 0:40:58Republican administration.
0:41:00 > 0:41:04When he says that he has brought many jobs back to
0:41:04 > 0:41:07a place like Detroit, is he telling the truth?
0:41:07 > 0:41:10I will give him a little bit of credit here,
0:41:10 > 0:41:12for the following reason.
0:41:12 > 0:41:17It is hard to determine what decisions a company
0:41:17 > 0:41:20has made based on political rhetoric.
0:41:20 > 0:41:23But some of it might be due to currying favour with the
0:41:23 > 0:41:26existing administration, I don't doubt that.
0:41:26 > 0:41:30Now, if that turns to be a long-term trend, and if that leads to
0:41:30 > 0:41:34more employment in the United States, that will be a good thing.
0:41:34 > 0:41:38And now he's claiming credit for trillions of dollars...
0:41:40 > 0:41:44..being generated during his time in office on the stock market.
0:41:44 > 0:41:46When you look at the performance of the stock market,
0:41:46 > 0:41:51clearly there is something that has happened with Donald Trump's
0:41:51 > 0:41:56election that has made the stock market accelerate its growth.
0:41:56 > 0:41:59I think Donald Trump can claim some credit for that.
0:41:59 > 0:42:05He is flying in the face of quite a long process of globalisation
0:42:05 > 0:42:09and transfers of capital and multinationalism.
0:42:09 > 0:42:12What he is doing is that he is channelling the very real
0:42:12 > 0:42:18fears that many Americans have about their future.
0:42:19 > 0:42:22We are now moving, I feel,
0:42:22 > 0:42:26from a conversation of left versus right, you know, political
0:42:26 > 0:42:30left versus the political right, to a kind of winners and losers.
0:42:33 > 0:42:35Donald Trump is my president.
0:42:35 > 0:42:37I may not have voted for him, but he is my president.
0:42:37 > 0:42:39And I want him, desperately, to succeed.
0:42:39 > 0:42:42Because if he succeeds, it means our nation is succeeding.
0:42:52 > 0:42:57Detroit became a byword for American urban decline.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00Something that Donald Trump seized upon.
0:43:02 > 0:43:05We financed and built one global project after another,
0:43:05 > 0:43:08but ignored the fates of our children
0:43:08 > 0:43:12in the inner cities of Chicago. Baltimore, Detroit.
0:43:13 > 0:43:18Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities.
0:43:19 > 0:43:24Rusted-out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape
0:43:24 > 0:43:27of our nation.
0:43:27 > 0:43:31He struck a chord with the millions across America who are struggling.
0:43:31 > 0:43:36His campaign put the forgotten man and woman at its heart.
0:43:37 > 0:43:40It's a dark vision and one that,
0:43:40 > 0:43:45he says, inspires his presidential ambition.
0:43:45 > 0:43:49One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores,
0:43:49 > 0:43:54with not even a thought about the millions and millions of
0:43:54 > 0:43:57American workers that were left behind.
0:43:59 > 0:44:05From this day forward, a new vision will govern
0:44:05 > 0:44:06our land.
0:44:06 > 0:44:11From this day forward, it's going to be only
0:44:11 > 0:44:14America First.
0:44:14 > 0:44:16America First.
0:44:18 > 0:44:21America First is at the heart of Trump's
0:44:21 > 0:44:23plan for his country.
0:44:23 > 0:44:25But not everyone here believes it's possible
0:44:25 > 0:44:27or even desirable.
0:44:27 > 0:44:30I don't know about this president trying to
0:44:30 > 0:44:33restore any kind of spirit of America.
0:44:33 > 0:44:36I think, if anything, he is destroying the spirit
0:44:36 > 0:44:37of America.
0:44:37 > 0:44:40Because the spirit of America is about free people
0:44:40 > 0:44:44and not people that you can buy by your money.
0:44:45 > 0:44:49Detroit already has a hero for dark times.
0:44:49 > 0:44:52In a workshop downtown, he's taking shape.
0:44:52 > 0:44:54RoboCop is back.
0:44:57 > 0:45:00This statue's been in the works from long
0:45:00 > 0:45:02before Trump was elected.
0:45:02 > 0:45:06But its creators feel that RoboCop's time has come.
0:45:06 > 0:45:08It's more about showing the strength of
0:45:08 > 0:45:10the people of Detroit,
0:45:10 > 0:45:15because we happen to be some of the toughest but
0:45:15 > 0:45:20again the hardest working middle class in the United States.
0:45:20 > 0:45:22And Detroit will have RoboCop.
0:45:22 > 0:45:24We're a tough town.
0:45:24 > 0:45:26We need a tough guy, you know.
0:45:35 > 0:45:37Maybe if RoboPrez makes good on his promises
0:45:37 > 0:45:40to the inner cities, they'll warm to the
0:45:40 > 0:45:41tough-guy-in-chief.
0:45:46 > 0:45:48But some areas won't be easily won.
0:45:48 > 0:45:52Donald Trump has a unique capacity to turn
0:45:52 > 0:45:54the stomachs of West Coast liberals.
0:45:56 > 0:45:58California is playing a really interesting role
0:45:58 > 0:46:00in the resistance here in the US.
0:46:00 > 0:46:02But it's been really inspiring to see it's
0:46:02 > 0:46:04not just a California thing, it's not just a New York thing.
0:46:04 > 0:46:06This is a national movement and we're
0:46:06 > 0:46:08seeing it all over the place.
0:46:08 > 0:46:10This is what democracy looks like!
0:46:10 > 0:46:12This is what democracy looks like!
0:46:13 > 0:46:14Hold that thought.
0:46:16 > 0:46:19Democrats angry at the outcome of the last
0:46:19 > 0:46:21democratic election?
0:46:23 > 0:46:25So they're determined to make sure it goes
0:46:25 > 0:46:27their way next time.
0:46:27 > 0:46:31Miriam, Matt, and Maria are leading a movement
0:46:31 > 0:46:32called Swing Left,
0:46:32 > 0:46:35targeting swing districts nationwide for
0:46:35 > 0:46:39the 2018 elections to the House of Representatives.
0:46:39 > 0:46:41Some of them are in very vulnerable districts,
0:46:41 > 0:46:43so if we can really focus our energy there,
0:46:43 > 0:46:45that's going to be
0:46:45 > 0:46:47the way we can flip the US House of Representatives,
0:46:47 > 0:46:49which can then have an actual body of Congress
0:46:49 > 0:46:51willing to stand up to Donald Trump.
0:46:51 > 0:46:54For them, this fight isn't just political, it's personal.
0:46:54 > 0:46:56I came to the United States with my family
0:46:56 > 0:47:01when I was six years old, from Colombia, and I never felt like
0:47:01 > 0:47:04this wasn't my country and my country didn't want me.
0:47:04 > 0:47:07I knew nothing except progress, I knew nothing
0:47:07 > 0:47:08but having a society
0:47:08 > 0:47:11that is inclusive and welcoming to people,
0:47:11 > 0:47:16and so for me when Trump won, my entire world was shaken
0:47:16 > 0:47:18to its core.
0:47:18 > 0:47:20I don't have an option to sit back.
0:47:20 > 0:47:22The Democrats are not in power,
0:47:22 > 0:47:24I don't have Obama, who's my all-time saviour,
0:47:24 > 0:47:25for example and I, I need
0:47:25 > 0:47:29to be the voice of the resistance.
0:47:30 > 0:47:32Is it possible that Donald Trump could be
0:47:32 > 0:47:34the saving of liberal America?
0:47:34 > 0:47:37I think that Barack Obama really did
0:47:37 > 0:47:38galvanise liberals.
0:47:38 > 0:47:42People really resonated with his messages of hope and change.
0:47:42 > 0:47:44But I think eight years passed and a lot of us
0:47:44 > 0:47:48got really complacent, so unfortunately I do
0:47:48 > 0:47:52think there's some truth to the fact that Donald Trump is
0:47:52 > 0:47:56inspiring people to act, maybe who hadn't, who have never
0:47:56 > 0:47:58acted before or who haven't acted in a long time.
0:48:00 > 0:48:03But will their efforts even matter?
0:48:03 > 0:48:06After all, Trump has promised to finish off the system.
0:48:10 > 0:48:14We are going to drain the swamp in Washington DC!
0:48:14 > 0:48:15CHEERING
0:48:19 > 0:48:22- CROWD:- Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
0:48:22 > 0:48:24Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
0:48:24 > 0:48:27Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
0:48:27 > 0:48:30Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
0:48:30 > 0:48:33Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp!
0:48:33 > 0:48:35It's a great slogan.
0:48:35 > 0:48:37But time and again in these first 100 days,
0:48:37 > 0:48:41what he calls the swamp has sucked Trump down.
0:48:41 > 0:48:43As he learned with his travel ban,
0:48:43 > 0:48:45or with his failed attempt to dismantle
0:48:45 > 0:48:47Obama's health care scheme,
0:48:47 > 0:48:50when he couldn't even take his own party with him,
0:48:50 > 0:48:52slogans are easy -
0:48:52 > 0:48:53but governing is hard.
0:48:53 > 0:48:55You need friends.
0:48:55 > 0:48:58This man believes, quote, in the "art of the deal".
0:48:58 > 0:49:01He wrote the book. OK? I want to see the deal.
0:49:01 > 0:49:04Shouldn't you be giving him a measure of support?
0:49:04 > 0:49:07I'm ready to. But he's got to step forward and say, "Let's get
0:49:07 > 0:49:09"into the world where we can
0:49:09 > 0:49:11"sit at the table in a respectful way and deal
0:49:11 > 0:49:12"with the problem."
0:49:12 > 0:49:15Do you want to rebuild the infrastructure of America?
0:49:15 > 0:49:17I'm pulling up a chair right now.
0:49:17 > 0:49:20He talked about draining the swamp.
0:49:20 > 0:49:24Do you not fear that you may be a swamp creature?
0:49:24 > 0:49:27As a person who's been in Congress as long as I have,
0:49:27 > 0:49:29I'm suspect to start with.
0:49:29 > 0:49:32But when you look at his cabinet, a cabinet of billionaires
0:49:32 > 0:49:35and bankers, you just wonder, you know, why
0:49:35 > 0:49:37we're still swimming
0:49:37 > 0:49:39in this swamp and making it a little murkier.
0:49:39 > 0:49:42And you'd like to see more swamp creatures in the cabinet?
0:49:42 > 0:49:44Not necessarily. What I would like to see are people...
0:49:44 > 0:49:46- Career politicians? - Not necessarily that either.
0:49:46 > 0:49:48People who take their job seriously, have
0:49:48 > 0:49:50a background in public service.
0:49:50 > 0:49:52For instance, our new Secretary of State,
0:49:52 > 0:49:54a very successful businessman.
0:49:54 > 0:49:56And a good fellow, let me tell you, just based
0:49:56 > 0:49:58on one meeting I've had with him.
0:49:58 > 0:50:00Background in public service - virtually zero,
0:50:00 > 0:50:03understanding of diplomacy - virtually nothing.
0:50:03 > 0:50:06Now that, to me, is not where you should turn to
0:50:06 > 0:50:09when you want leadership on diplomacy.
0:50:11 > 0:50:15So where does Trump turn for leadership on diplomacy?
0:50:15 > 0:50:19What's the Japanese for, "Give me my hand back?"
0:50:21 > 0:50:24At times, Trump seems to make it up on the spot...
0:50:24 > 0:50:28I'm looking at two-state and one-state and I like
0:50:28 > 0:50:31the one that both parties like.
0:50:31 > 0:50:33..with several rounds of golf...
0:50:33 > 0:50:35discreet hand-holding...
0:50:35 > 0:50:38and some rather shouty phone calls with fellow
0:50:38 > 0:50:40world leaders.
0:50:40 > 0:50:42When you hear about the tough phone calls I'm having,
0:50:42 > 0:50:44don't worry about it.
0:50:44 > 0:50:46Just don't worry about it. They're tough.
0:50:46 > 0:50:47We have to be tough.
0:50:47 > 0:50:49It's time we're going to be a little tough, folks.
0:50:49 > 0:50:51We're taken advantage of by every nation in the
0:50:51 > 0:50:53world, virtually.
0:50:53 > 0:50:56It's not going to happen any more. Thank you.
0:50:56 > 0:50:58At first, these freewheeling moments
0:50:58 > 0:51:00were seen as inexperience.
0:51:01 > 0:51:03Though, if Boris Johnson can get away with
0:51:03 > 0:51:05gaffes, why not?
0:51:07 > 0:51:10I think part of it is just he's a complete
0:51:10 > 0:51:12novice at diplomacy
0:51:12 > 0:51:15and governance and I think he doesn't truly
0:51:15 > 0:51:19understand the implications of things he says,
0:51:19 > 0:51:22especially not as President of the United States.
0:51:22 > 0:51:25And I also think that he's somebody who's chiefly
0:51:25 > 0:51:29concerned with himself, and so when you're a neophyte
0:51:29 > 0:51:32and you're mostly, if not entirely, concerned
0:51:32 > 0:51:35with yourself, and you're President of the United States,
0:51:35 > 0:51:38then that can be a dangerous combination.
0:51:41 > 0:51:42Dangerous for whom?
0:51:45 > 0:51:48When campaigning, the America First candidate Trump
0:51:48 > 0:51:51contrasted himself with "hawkish Hillary".
0:51:52 > 0:51:54But then this happened.
0:51:58 > 0:52:03Tonight, I ordered a targeted military strike
0:52:03 > 0:52:09on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched.
0:52:11 > 0:52:12Trump said his missiles
0:52:12 > 0:52:16were retaliation for a Syrian government gas attack
0:52:16 > 0:52:17on its own citizens.
0:52:17 > 0:52:19Even many liberals approved.
0:52:20 > 0:52:22And you see these beautiful kids that are
0:52:22 > 0:52:24dead in their fathers' arms.
0:52:24 > 0:52:30When you see that, I immediately called General Mattis.
0:52:30 > 0:52:31I said, "What can we do?"
0:52:33 > 0:52:36In sending cruise missiles into Syria,
0:52:36 > 0:52:39Trump did something Obama didn't dare to do.
0:52:39 > 0:52:43And it made him look moral and presidential.
0:52:43 > 0:52:46It's one thing, though, to face down dictators.
0:52:46 > 0:52:49The question is, does Trump have a strategy
0:52:49 > 0:52:51for the world?
0:52:51 > 0:52:54His ally Ted Malloch thinks the president's instincts
0:52:54 > 0:52:57and the experienced military advisers he picked
0:52:57 > 0:52:59have served him well.
0:53:00 > 0:53:03In the case of the Syrian filming, which was
0:53:03 > 0:53:08shown on any number of outlets, of children and babies
0:53:08 > 0:53:13being gassed to death, I think he acted quite appropriately
0:53:13 > 0:53:17and said, "This is inhumane, this is unacceptable".
0:53:17 > 0:53:19And frankly, many other world leaders said the
0:53:19 > 0:53:25same thing, but it was America that was able to put down that marker.
0:53:26 > 0:53:29There is a new sheriff in town, and his name is
0:53:29 > 0:53:31Donald J Trump.
0:53:33 > 0:53:36A few days later, the sheriff dropped this,
0:53:36 > 0:53:38the Mother of all Bombs,
0:53:38 > 0:53:42onto an Islamic State tunnel complex in Afghanistan.
0:53:44 > 0:53:46And then this.
0:53:46 > 0:53:48Trump set a course for confrontation that
0:53:48 > 0:53:51previous presidents have steered clear of.
0:53:52 > 0:53:55He ordered a fleet towards North Korea.
0:53:55 > 0:53:57Or so he claimed.
0:53:58 > 0:54:03Some find the idea of Trump tackling a nuclear power terrifying.
0:54:03 > 0:54:05Others think he's up for it.
0:54:07 > 0:54:09I'm worried about that 3am knock on the door to
0:54:09 > 0:54:11President Trump saying, "I'm sorry to wake you, but something
0:54:11 > 0:54:14"terrible has just happened and you have five minutes to make
0:54:14 > 0:54:15"a decision."
0:54:15 > 0:54:19So there's an old dictum in American foreign policy
0:54:19 > 0:54:23that you speak softly and carry a big stick.
0:54:23 > 0:54:27I would say Donald Trump is turning that a bit on its head
0:54:27 > 0:54:30and is using a large a megaphone and actually
0:54:30 > 0:54:32using the big stick.
0:54:35 > 0:54:38The world is a dangerous place, and I think
0:54:38 > 0:54:45you'll see Trump exercise American power in the next few hundred days.
0:54:47 > 0:54:50What are we doing right now in terms of North Korea?
0:54:50 > 0:54:52You never know, do you?
0:54:52 > 0:54:53You never know.
0:54:55 > 0:54:58Some people have called these the
0:54:58 > 0:55:00worst 100 presidential days in history.
0:55:00 > 0:55:02Well, they're not.
0:55:02 > 0:55:04Within his first few weeks, Abraham Lincoln
0:55:04 > 0:55:07had lost many of the Southern states.
0:55:07 > 0:55:10And by his 100th day, the ninth president,
0:55:10 > 0:55:14William Henry Harrison, had been dead for weeks.
0:55:16 > 0:55:19People who claim to know politics have belittled
0:55:19 > 0:55:22and underrated Donald Trump before.
0:55:23 > 0:55:27Donald Trump has been underestimated at every turn.
0:55:27 > 0:55:30Primarily by people like me.
0:55:30 > 0:55:32People who are part of the establishment.
0:55:32 > 0:55:35I lost many steak dinners during
0:55:35 > 0:55:37the course of the campaign.
0:55:37 > 0:55:40Donald Trump would never decide to run,
0:55:40 > 0:55:41Donald Trump would never be
0:55:41 > 0:55:43number one in the polls, Donald Trump would never be
0:55:43 > 0:55:46the presidential nominee, there's no way
0:55:46 > 0:55:49that Donald Trump would be elected President of the United States.
0:55:49 > 0:55:51I lost all those bets.
0:55:51 > 0:55:53Going to lose any more?
0:55:53 > 0:55:56I've stopped betting against Donald Trump.
0:55:57 > 0:56:00Trump has learned that he can bypass those
0:56:00 > 0:56:05nasty people in the media, to speak directly to his supporters.
0:56:05 > 0:56:09He's a genius in my eyes and I will always be for him
0:56:09 > 0:56:12and I want you to know that I agree with his
0:56:12 > 0:56:14make America beautiful and great again.
0:56:16 > 0:56:19And he's discovered exactly when he needs allies
0:56:19 > 0:56:23and when he can act alone, defying the enemies who detest him.
0:56:25 > 0:56:28He wants to intimidate his enemies.
0:56:28 > 0:56:29He wants to call them enemies.
0:56:29 > 0:56:32He wants the public to think of them as enemies
0:56:32 > 0:56:34of the people.
0:56:35 > 0:56:39And this is the strategy of a tyrant.
0:56:46 > 0:56:50The whole 100 days yardstick began in 1933
0:56:50 > 0:56:52with Franklin D Roosevelt,
0:56:52 > 0:56:55after America had been plunged into a financial crisis
0:56:55 > 0:57:00which began here, in the Guardian Bank in Detroit.
0:57:03 > 0:57:06During his first 100 days, Trump has had one of the most
0:57:06 > 0:57:10spectacular crash courses in government the world
0:57:10 > 0:57:11has ever seen.
0:57:11 > 0:57:14It's far too early to say whether he will ever
0:57:14 > 0:57:18achieve his ambition of making America great again.
0:57:19 > 0:57:24But if it doesn't all end in nuclear war tomorrow,
0:57:24 > 0:57:25we've four more years to go.
0:57:27 > 0:57:29Or have we?
0:57:29 > 0:57:31Do you reckon he's going to serve two terms?
0:57:31 > 0:57:33I do.
0:57:33 > 0:57:35And I think he does, himself.
0:57:37 > 0:57:39He's more or less announced that his 2020
0:57:39 > 0:57:44presidential campaign theme will be Keep America Great, which has
0:57:44 > 0:57:45a certain assumption to it.
0:57:45 > 0:57:48So, yes, within this first term, America will
0:57:48 > 0:57:50- be great again?- There you go.
0:57:52 > 0:57:54Thank you.
0:57:54 > 0:57:56Thank you. Thank you very much.