To analyze these 100 days of the Trump administration, we now welcome international studies professor Danny Shaw. Hello, Danny, it's a pleasure, as always, to have you in From the South.
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00:00We continue with today's topics, analyzing this 100 days after Trump administration.
00:05And for this, we now welcome International Studies Professor Danny Scho.
00:09Hello, Danny. It's a pleasure, as always, to have you here from the South.
00:13Thank you, Belen. An honor to be here.
00:16So, Danny, it's been 100 days since Trump took office, 100 days that have quite literally rocked the world.
00:24It's hard to think about any aspect of geopolitics that have remained untouched by Trump's internal and external policies or statements.
00:32How would you characterize the beginning of this administration in terms of what we expected could happen and what actually did happen?
00:41I think first we have to begin by recognizing how many lies Trump has told.
00:47He campaigned, supposedly, to end this horrific proxy war on Russia, a war that has cost us, the American people, us taxpayers dearly.
01:03Some $350 billion of our money has gone, disappeared with the oligarchs and the bureaucracy of Zelensky.
01:12And Russia is advancing. Russia is stronger.
01:17Russia has now announced publicly that they have had troops from Pyongyang, from the Democratic Republic of People's Korea, North Korea,
01:27which I think signals that the BRICS nations, the multipolar nations, are standing up stronger than ever to U.S. unipolarity, U.S. dominance and hegemony.
01:42Trump is threatening more war every day.
01:48There's already a war on the people of Iran.
01:52We've seen all types of suspicious sabotage against Iran, whether it was under the Biden regime or the Trump regime.
02:01Our constitutional rights here are dwindling every day.
02:06Yesterday, there was a horrific incident where an innocent family in Oklahoma City, their doors were busted down by immigration officials.
02:17And they're going after anybody.
02:19We've seen innocent people deported to what some are calling Trump's first concentration camp, which is Bukele's maximum security dungeon.
02:29Trump is a xenophobic, racist individual.
02:35He's not a strategist.
02:36He thinks he's free to do whatever he wants.
02:39So we're seeing big protests across the country with May 1st, May Day tomorrow, International Workers' Day.
02:47But it's certainly a moment for maximum mobilization and maximum unity from working class forces across this country against the Trump regime.
02:59Now, you were just mentioning the protest and Trump arrives to this 100 days with a mark in its approval, with a dip in his approval across the country with tariffs and migration policies.
03:12Some you were just mentioning being among the most evaded topics.
03:16How would you say that these policies have impacted the life of everyday citizens within the U.S.?
03:21Everyday people who are black and brown, who are immigrants, live with an incredible fear.
03:31We saw this weekend the immigration officials raided a club in Colorado.
03:39Some 200 people were taken into custody.
03:42And afterwards, the Bukele's, the Trumps, the Elon Musk, they just brag.
03:47They think they can, they're even floating the idea of deporting American citizens to this dungeon in El Salvador.
04:01The tax policies are regressive.
04:05They're against working class people.
04:07Well, Trump and his cronies, his cabinet of billionaires, the Jeff Bezos, the Elon Musk, they have more power every day.
04:18So this is naked, raw class warfare on the American people.
04:23We're seeing, first of all, we never had democracy in this country.
04:28So it's not that there's a democracy that's being shredded, but the limited vestiges, the remnants of whatever democracy we had.
04:37We see the attacks on the Department of Education.
04:41We see the attacks on all types of different social programs.
04:45More and more threats against social security.
04:48How many of our parents and grandparents and elders depend on social security?
04:53And this is not going to stop.
04:55As Trump says and brags, this is just the first 100 days.
04:59So he's saying he is just getting started.
05:03So more important than ever to have united resistance.
05:07Now, there's a lot to cover in terms of international politics, from the trade war with China, to deportations, to third countries that have called for unconstitutional claims and also threats regarding other countries' soberanities.
05:20For example, the case of Panama and its canal, what do you think is the most relevant shift that Trump's coming to power means for world politics?
05:29As an international analyst, Danny, what are you particularly looking at?
05:34What I'm looking at is how in the military realm, it's too early for us to talk about a true multipolar resistance.
05:43If we truly had a strong, robust, united multipolarity, then the genocide would be halted against the Palestinian people.
05:54The Israeli Western colonial project would be halted.
05:59The Israelis continue to receive more weapons than ever from Germany, from the U.S., from England.
06:07All of these colonial powers are complicit, not just complicit, they're the ones coordinating this colonial holocaust.
06:16But certainly the Korean troops being in the theater of war in defense of Russian sovereignty is some type of step forward.
06:25I don't think we've really seen that in this way.
06:28And the Russians are now saying it publicly.
06:30The Russians are saying, well, if you can have all of your mercenaries and you can occupy Haiti with your Kenyan mercenaries and you can try to throw the combined military might of the entire capitalist collective west against Russia in Ukraine, then the multipolar nations can also stand up.
06:51We have to look at this trade war.
06:54What is the actual effect of the trade war?
06:57It means that the Asian countries are consolidating.
07:02They're going to China is going to find Japan.
07:05Japan is going to find Korea.
07:06They're going to continue to find one another so that they can avoid these preposterous, massive tariffs.
07:13And who's going to most suffer from the tariffs here in the U.S.?
07:17It's us.
07:18We're not going to be able to buy many products that before were cheaper for us.
07:22It'll take some time to see exactly how it impacts us.
07:25But often Trump is all bark and no bite.
07:28He's had to walk back a lot of these tariffs.
07:31But we do see China and Russia leading on the international stage, even if us here in the American public, we hear nothing but a demonization campaign against all of these different countries.
07:44But these countries are establishing more and more unity every day.
07:49And this is to the chagrin of the U.S. ruling class.
07:53Thank you so much, as usual, for joining us in From the South and giving this comprehensive perspective, both on the interior scenario and also at global politics, regarding this first 100 days of the Trump administration.
08:08It's been a pleasure to have you here.
08:11Thank you, Belen.