Trump’s orders

US President Donald Trump will mark the end of his first 100 days in office with a flurry of executive orders, looking to fulfil campaign promises and rack up victories ahead of that milestone by turning to a presidential tool he once derided. White House aides said that Trump will have signed 32 executive orders by Saturday, the most of any president in their first 100 days since World War II. That’s a far cry from Trump’s heated campaign rhetoric, in which he railed against his predecessor’s use of executive action late in his tenure as President Barack Obama sought to manoeuvre around a Republican Congress. Trump argued that he, the consummate deal maker, wouldn’t need to rely on the tool.