Have you followed Trump’s 100-day disaster? Try this quiz!

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1.Alaska’s Republican senator Lisa Murkowski recently acknowledged that Republican lawmakers are terrified of expressing any opposition to Trump and his administration. “We are all afraid,” Murkowski admitted, noting the chilling atmosphere of intimidation that Trump and his enablers have created. “The retaliation is real.” In response, Murkowski’s Republican colleagues in the Senate have:
2.More than 800 law firms have signed an amicus brief supporting Jenner & Block’s and WilmerHale’s lawsuits against Trump’s executive orders accusing the firms of actions that “threaten public safety and national security, limit constitutional freedoms” and “undermine bedrock American principles”. (Jenner & Block is specifically accused of hiring two former federal prosecutors who participated in the Mueller probe into suspected Russian interference in the 2016 election. WilmerHale is accused of announcing they were “thrilled” to rehire Andrew Weissman, an architect of the case against Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, who was convicted of fraud and witness tampering and sentenced to six years of prison – before being pardoned by the president.) Which prestigious firm, among the nation’s 10 wealthiest, with partners on average earning well over $5m a year, has not signed the brief?
3.CBS and its parent company Paramount Global is facing a $20bn lawsuit brought by Donald Trump alleging that 60 Minutes engaged in deceptive editing of an interview with Kamala Harris that aired during the 2024 presidential election. Last week, Bill Owens, a 37-year CBS veteran and only the third executive producer in 60 Minutes' 57-year history, resigned from the venerable weekly news program. He did so because:
4.In looking to settle with Trump rather than challenge him in court, Paramount appears to be following the approach of other media giants. In December 2024, ABC News and its parent, the Walt Disney Company, settled a defamation lawsuit brought by Trump by agreeing to donate $15m to Trump's future presidential library. And in January 2025, Meta agreed to a $25m settlement over a lawsuit filed by Trump concerning his suspension from Facebook following the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack. These giant corporations agreed to settle because:
5.Trump has also brought suit against The Des Moines Register and its parent company Gannett, seeking “unspecified damages." The suit alleges that shortly before the presidential election, the newspaper:
6.In a recent presidential memorandum, President Trump singled out Christopher Krebs, who served as the head of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) during Trump’s first term, as a “significant bad-faith actor.” In ordering a Justice Department into “disgraceful” “misconduct” that “violate[d] the First Amendment and… undermin[ed] the strength of our democracy itself,” Trump accused Krebs of:
7.After the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the government must facilitate the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a notorious Salvadoran prison and effectuate his return to the US, Stephen Miller, Trump’s trusted Homeland Security advisor, responded by:
Sheepishly appearing before reporters and contritely mumbling, “my bad.”
Solemnly acknowledging that Abrego Garcia had been improperly deported, and with President Trump and Vice President Vance nodding vigorously in agreement, saying, “Yes, we’re serious about getting a grip on illegal immigration, but, by golly, we’re also serious about respecting judicial decisions.”
Insisting that the Supreme Court had unanimously ruled in the administration’s favor, while calling the government’s own lawyer, who had admitted in court that the deportation represented an “administrative error,” a “saboteur.”
8.Gleichschaltung is a German word that means “coordination” or “bringing into line”. It specifically refers to the process by which Hitler worked to suppress opposition and consolidate total control over German life, and more generally describes the attempt of any authoritarian system to enforce total conformity through coercive means. These measures typically involve:
9.All said and done, however, people have no reason to fear the present US administration, since in the first hundred days of his second term, Trump has shown himself to be a: