Trump mired in the 'briefest honeymoon in White House history' as chaos reigns: columnist

Due to "ignorance, error and wilful blindness," whatever goodwill Donald Trump may have brought with him as he began his second stint in the Oval Office has dissipated as his administration is buffeted with increasing pushback.

That is the opinion of the Guardian's Simon Tisdall, a longtime political observer and former White House correspondent, who wrote that the world is witnessing what he called the "briefest honeymoon in White House history" as his foreign initiatives struggle to take hold and his growing trade war roils economic markets.

On Sunday he wrote that Trump is being buffeted by the "unintended consequences" of his actions that is leading to market crashes and an increasing belief that a recession is on the horizon.

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Writing, "Trump won a mandate to make America great again, not greater," the columnist called out Trump's quixotic desire to take over Greenland and make Canada the 51st state that have fallen flat and have instead led to reviving "the fortunes of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal party. Under the new 'elbows up' leadership of the former Bank of England chief Mark Carney, it has a good chance of winning this year’s election on an anti-Trump platform."

He then added, "That was not the plan."

"As Trump careers uncontrollably towards the 100-day mark, his approval ratings slide. He is already less popular than Joe Biden was at a similar stage. His honeymoon is history," he wrote. "Before November’s election, he claimed, falsely, that America was in an unprecedented mess. Such exaggeration is what [sociologist Robert K] Merton, who coined the phrase, called a 'self-fulfilling prophecy”' Now, unintentionally, it’s coming true."

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