The honeymoon is over for Trump, whose every unwitting misstep brings chaos and strife | Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
Sat, 15 Mar 2025 19:00:03 +0200

After just a few weeks in the White House, the selfappointed peacegiver has stoked war, accelerated the nuclear arms race and alienated US alliesIf Robert K Merton, the founding father of American sociology, were alive today, hed be fascinated by the Donald Trump phenomenon.
Scarcely more than 50 days into his second presidential term, hapless Trump provides daily proofs of Mertons universal law of unintended consequences.Rooted in ignorance, error, wilful blindness and selfdefeating prediction, Trumps rash actions produce contradictory, harmful and often opposite results to those he says he wants.
The ensuing chaos characterises what may become the briefest honeymoon in White House history.
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