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WASHINGTON (AFP)
After 100 days in office, Donald Trump is set to celebrate with his supporters on Tuesday at a public rally.
To mark the symbolic milestone in his second term, the US president is visiting the site of one of his last campaign events, in Michigan, a battleground state that swung his way in November's election.
"The first time, I had two things to do -- run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys. And the second time, I run the country and the world. I'm having a lot of fun," he said in an interview with The Atlantic magazine.
Surrounded exclusively by loyalists, Trump since January 20 has unleashed in terms of tariffs, foreign policy, and political revenge.
In the grand entrance hallway of the White House, he has moved a portrait of Barack Obama, America's first Black president, to make way for a painting of himself surviving an assassination attempt.
And in the Oval Office, he has filled the historic room with golden ornaments.
Pushing the limits of presidential power, Trump has already signed over 140 executive orders. In the process, he has called birthright citizenship into question, attacked universities and law firms, rolled back environmental policies, entrusted Elon Musk with dismantling large parts of the federal bureaucracy, and launched a protectionist trade offensive before partially retracting it.
Many of his executive orders have however been blocked by judges.
Opinion polls have been unanimous in noting a particularly sharp slide in his approval ratings, fueled by concern about tariffs and his attacks on the institutional order.
According to a poll published Sunday by the Washington Post and ABC News, only 39 percent of Americans approve of how Trump is conducting his presidency.
With the exception of Bill Clinton and now Trump, US presidents dating back to Ronald Reagan have had an approval rating topping 50 percent after their first 100 days in office, according to the Pew Research Center.
