Wednesday Briefing: 100 days of Trump

April 30, 2025

	By Emmett Lindner

Good morning. We’re covering Trump’s 100 days in office and Mark Carney’s election victory in Canada.

Plus, the best advice on how to be happy.

President Trump, who is wearing a dark-colored suit and a red hat, walks toward a black car. It is a cloudy day.

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Trump’s first 100 days were like no other

It was President Trump’s 100th day back in the White House yesterday, and tariffs were top of mind. Trump traveled to Michigan to demonstrate his commitment to reviving American manufacturing. He also walked back some auto tariffs.

Trump’s tariff war has piled pressure on U.S. businesses. Toy retailers across the U.S. paused holiday orders as tariffs froze supply chains. After the White House press secretary attacked Amazon over a report that suggested it would highlight tariff-related price increases, the company said that was “not going to happen.”

Trump’s second term has been a chaotic blur of new initiatives and neck-snapping reversals. Here’s a deeper look at how and where he has made his mark.

Crypto: World Liberty Financial, Trump’s cryptocurrency firm, has shredded the boundary between private enterprise and government policy. A Times examination found a range of conflicts of interest.

What he said: Trump justifies his agenda with a barrage of falsehoods and distortions. We fact-checked his most-repeated claims.

After his victory, Carney took aim at Trump

Prime Minister Mark Carney struck a combative tone yesterday after his Liberal Party won a narrow victory in Canada’s parliamentary elections. He vowed to confront Trump’s threats to Canada’s economy and its sovereignty.

“As I’ve been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water,” he said in a speech in Ottawa. “President Trump is trying to break us, so he can own us. That will never happen.”

While the Liberals will form the next government, they are projected to have a minority in the House of Commons. They had 169 seats at the time of this send, three shy of a parliamentary majority with only one seat left to call. Here are the latest results.

Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative Party leader, lost his seat in Ottawa, a stinging defeat for a man who had seemed set to become the next prime minister just a few months ago. Here are takeaways from the election.

Soldiers walk in tall grass beneath low-flying helicopters during the Vietnam War.

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These Vietnam War photos still haunt the world

The Vietnam War, which ended 50 years ago this week, was the first “living room war,” and it continues to have an impact through the violent, intimate images produced by photographers on the ground there.

Those photographs shaped politics, amplified opposition to the war and changed how many Americans viewed their country. But what people on both sides saw wasn’t always the same. Take a look.

Traces of America: The buildings that Americans left behind when they pulled out of Vietnam have their own story to tell. Our Vietnam bureau chief wanted to hear those tales for himself.

Politics: The Trump administration eased a ban on senior diplomats attending events marking the anniversary of the war’s end.

MORE TOP NEWS

A red light from a fire or a blast is seen in a dark cityscape.

A Russian drone strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, yesterday. Gleb Garanich/Reuters

Ukraine

Drone attacks: Russia launched 100 drones across Ukraine, just hours after President Vladimir Putin ordered a three-day cease-fire starting on May 8.
Diplomacy: In an interview with The Times, President Alexander Stubb of Finland said Trump was running out of patience with Russia. Here are takeaways from the interview.
Blown apart: The residents of a Kyiv apartment building that was hit by a Russian missile last week formed a tight-knit community. “How can one survive here?” a resident asked.

Elsewhere

Syria: Clashes erupted in a suburb of Damascus with a large population from the Druse minority, killing at least 12 people, officials and a monitoring group said.
Europe: A day after blackouts hit Spain and Portugal, electricity had returned to most areas of both countries. The cause remained unknown.
Venezuela: A family is calling for a 2-year-old to be returned to her mother after the U.S. deported the mother to Venezuela without the child and sent the father to prison in El Salvador.
France: After the fatal stabbing of a Muslim worshiper in a mosque last week, critics said that officials have been slow to call it a hate crime or show concern.
Iran: Officials said they found false statements related to a cargo of dangerous substances that is believed to have triggered a port explosion that killed 70 people.
South Asia: India has again accused Pakistan of supporting terrorism following the attack last week in Kashmir. Here’s what to know.
Harvey Weinstein: Miriam Haley, one of three women who prosecutors say were victims of the producer, spoke at his retrial in Manhattan.
Conclave: Cardinal Luis Tagle of the Philippines is seen as a possible successor to Pope Francis. Read our profile.
Britain: A trial over the felling of a landmark tree near Hadrian’s Wall began in the northeast of England. Two suspects pleaded not guilty.
Netherlands: A Dutch municipality appears to have mistakenly thrown out nearly 50 artworks, including a valuable Andy Warhol screen print, an investigation found.

Sports

Soccer: Liverpool’s Premier League title party went until 3 a.m., was sound-tracked by Dire Straits and ended in a bike ride.
Tennis: Australia’s Max Purcell, last year’s U.S. Open men’s doubles winner, has accepted an 18-month suspension for violating antidoping rules.
F1: The helmet worn by Ayrton Senna when he helped rescue an unconscious rival from a crash in 1992 has sold for a record £720,000 at auction.

MORNING READ

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David Kaczynski turned in his brother, the Unabomber, to the F.B.I. in 1996. He spent nearly three decades trying to explain why — and attempting to visit the older brother he had adored one last time. In a series of interviews, David spoke in detail for the first time about his long correspondence with his sibling.

Lives lived: Beginning with a competition entry, the novelist Peter Lovesey wrote more than 40 mysteries. He died at 88.

CONVERSATION STARTERS

Beyoncé lounging in a giant horseshoe onstage, dressed in red.

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