Trump's first two weeks met with backlash across media, called 'most damaging' in history

President Donald Trump's archetypal mates of weeks successful bureau person been described arsenic chaotic and damaging by members of the media pursuing respective enforcement actions directed astatine authorities spending, immigration, and more.

"No president successful past has caused much harm to the federation much quickly. As we participate Week 3 of President Donald Trump’s 2nd term, the chaos and disruption of his archetypal look quaint by comparison. The state survived Trump 1.0. Now, it faces a existent menace that the harm helium inflicts during his 2nd word volition beryllium irreparable," The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus wrote.

Trump signed a bid of enforcement orders successful his first 2 weeks successful office, aimed astatine migration and the borderline crisis, threatened tariffs connected Mexico and Canada, and took steps to destruct DEI offices successful the national government. Trump's medication has besides taken steps to standard backmost USAID.

"None of this is normal. Little of it is legal. All of it is misguided, and that’s a mild term. The harm to the national workforce is incalculable. Years of expertise down the drain. The quality to enlistee talented employees: same. Why would anyone articulation an cognition that treats its workers this way?" Marcus wrote of Trump's aboriginal moves, specifically with respect to national workers.

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The Washington Post's Ruth Marcus slams Trump's archetypal 2 weeks successful office.  (Screenshot/WaPo/Getty/(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images))

Marcus warned that Trump's "damage" would beryllium hard to reverse.

"The entity is thing little than the translation of the American presidency," she wrote. 

The Post's Drew Goins titled his sentiment newsletter, "The worst 2 weeks successful American governance, ever."

The New York Times editorial board besides accused the president of crossing lines. 

"The archetypal 2 weeks into his 2nd circuit successful the White House person seen truthful galore lines crossed successful the pursuit of his docket that anyone who believes successful the Constitution and honorable governance should beryllium worried: Many of Mr. Trump’s archetypal assertions of enforcement powerfulness blatantly transcend what is legally granted," the editorial committee wrote. 

The Times added that the president was "testing Washington and the American radical to spot however acold helium tin spell successful accumulating authority." 

"It is simply a trial the Constitution cannot spend to lose," the editorial said. 

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U.S. President Donald Trump, his woman Melania, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance with his woman Usha, Tiffany Trump and Eric Trump be the National Day of Prayer Service astatine the Washington National Cathedral successful Washington, U.S., January 21, 2025.   (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

The Times' David French said the president was not conscionable "enacting policies; he’s launching a law revolution." 

Meanwhile, the paper's clime newsletter deemed Trump's archetypal weeks successful bureau arsenic chaotic.

"Trump’s First Two Weeks Have Thrown U.S. Climate Spending Into Chaos," the newsletter read.

The Los Angeles Times besides published a study connected the commencement of Trump's 2nd word that described his archetypal mates of weeks arsenic "chaotic."

The Trump White House did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reply questions during a associated property league successful the East Room astatine the White House successful Washington, February 4, 2025. ( REUTERS/Leah Millis)

Trump has besides said the U.S. would take implicit the Gaza strip, pursuing a ceasefire woody betwixt Hamas and Israel, which prompted criticism.

The announcement was met with rebukes from media pundits, including MSNBC's Joy Reid, who was visibly shocked by the breaking quality that aired during her show, repeatedly referring to Trump's comments arsenic "stunning."

"Donald Trump is off-roading here, and helium has nary thought which absorption is north," Reid's MSNBC workfellow Alex Wagner reacted. "When thought of the benignant of catastrophic iterations of Trump 2.0, this is the benignant of worldly that radical imagined."

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MSNBC's Chris Hayes accused Trump of "backing explicit taste cleansing" and warned viewers to instrumentality him seriously.