One year into Trump 2.0: Here’s how much America has radically changed on his watch

World U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Monday, capping a year of drastic changes he initiated in government.(Alex Brandon/The Associated Press) Construction workers, atop the U.S. Treasury at bottom right, watch as demolition continues on the White House's East Wing in October to make room for a new ballroom.(Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press) New signage — The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts — is unveiled on the Kennedy Center last Friday in Washington.(Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press) President Donald Trump displays an executive order reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug in the Oval Office of the White House last Thursday.(Evan Vucci/The Associated Press) One year into Trump 2.0: Here’s how much America has radically changed on his watch 'He really is the unprecedented president,' historian says of Trump's revolutionary return to the Oval Office U.S. President Donald Trump has been a disruptive force since he burst onto the political scene a decade ago - but the pace of change in the first year of his second presidency is unlike just about anything seen before in the nearly 250-year history of the American republic. Since his inauguration in January, Trump has upended the global trade order with a sweeping new tariffs scheme, radically curtailed immigration while deploying enforcement agents to round up migrants en masse and issued pink slips to federal public servants at a scale unmatched in the modern era. Trump has waded into global conflicts, wielding economic threats to try and bring conflicts to a close - sometimes successfully, as he claims was the case in the Middle East . He has used his bully pulpit to do everything from goading Texas into redistricting its congressional maps for his benefit to shaming the late Hollywood star Rob Reiner for his liberal views mere hours after death. While his legislative agenda has been relatively light, Trump’s party passed a turbocharged One Big Beautiful Bill, omnibus legislation that slashes taxes and cuts federal health programs while dismantling climate-friendly initiatives. USAID is a shell of its former self and the federal body that helped support public broadcasting was shut down after Trump, in what has become an unusual presidential manoeuvre, encouraged Congress to claw back previously approved funding. Trump has initiated a partial takeover of Washington, D.C. , ramming through massive structural changes to the White House without the usual approvals, deploying National Guard troops to patrol the streets and directing local officials to clean up parks and clear out the homeless. And then there’s the Kennedy Center - the historic performing arts centre he commandeered, a place his hand-picked board just renamed in his honour. "This has just been a remarkable presidency. I'm not sure that you can compare it to any other in American history," Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and first-term Trump appointee to the State Department, said in an interview with CBC News. "I think you may have to go back to ancient Egypt,...

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