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The first few days of Donald Trump's presidency have seen a flurry of executive orders. He's given the go-ahead to two controversial oil pipelines, withdrawn the US from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, and repeated his warning that companies choosing to make their goods outside America, will face a hefty 35% tax if they try to import them. President Trump's inauguration speech described the state of the US in 2017 as "carnage". He painted a vivid picture of mothers and children trapped in poverty, in a country beset by crime, drugs and gangs. The 麻豆约拍's Mike Johnson reflected on the presidency so far with one of our regular commentators, the US economist Irwin Stelzer of the Hudson Institute. He started by asking what Dr Stelzer thought about the inauguration speech.

(Picture: Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Picture credit: Getty Images.)