Trump 2.0’s First 100 Days

Authoritarian Gains and Consolidation
A collage of hand-drawn signs protesting ICE and fascism against a purple background
Collage of protest signs at protests against the detention of Mahmoud Khalil and ICE raids. (Credit: PRA)
Political Research Associates
June 12, 2025
The Public Eye, Summer 2025

In just the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, we’ve witnessed a sweeping escalation of authoritarian attacks. As the administration moves quickly to dismantle the administrative state by gutting the public sector, consolidating power in the executive branch to expand the president’s authority, and slashing social programs—all while targeting immigrants and political dissidents, and rolling back LGBTQ rights and access to gender-affirming healthcare—the gravity of this moment is undeniable.

Many of us in movement spaces had anticipated some of these moves—signaled clearly in plans like Project 2025, The America First Agenda, and Project Esther—but that hasn’t made the impact any less painful. From the assault on trans and immigrant rights, to attacks on racial justice, government services, and the movement for Palestinian freedom, the onslaught’s speed and intensity has been staggering. Other attacks—like Elon Musk’s DOGE initiative, which puts key state functions in the hands of a private entity with little accountability—have shocked even experienced organizers with their boldness and brutality.[1]

These forces haven’t just taken the White House; they’ve captured the judiciary, Congress, and the majority of U.S. state legislatures.

In these analyses of the First 100 Days, we offer our clearest assessment of the authoritarian practices now taking hold in a few key areas, tracing today’s threats back to decades of strategic organizing by right-wing movements and institutions, while recognizing that their power comes from their ability to exploit shifting political and economic conditions.

Our team brings decades of experience researching the forces now consolidating power: White nationalists and ethnonationalists, the Christian Right and Traditionalists, and corporate and tech oligarchs. We are also tracking newer forces gaining ground, including Silicon Valley’s techno-futurists and neoreactionaries, the Hindu Right in the U.S.,[2] and a growing multiracial Far Right.[3]

In a moment when the Far Right holds substantial government power, how can we sharpen our strategies, defend communities under attack, and build a path forward? We invite you to reflect with us, to challenge us, and to let us know how PRA’s research can better serve our shared struggle for a truly multiracial, feminist, religiously plural, and democratic future.

Christian Zionism

The Trump administration has lent enthusiastic backing to Israel’s ongoing genocidal bombardment of the Gaza Strip, including by supplying Israel with advanced weaponry and proposing the ethnic cleansing of Gaza’s two million Palestinian inhabitants towards a permanent U.S. occupation of the enclave.[4] Within the MAGA coalition, the Christian Zionist movement remains a powerful bloc well-positioned to lobby for deepened support.

Christian Zionism refers to a movement of mostly Charismatic and evangelical Christians whose interpretation of the Bible mandates their political support for an expansionist version of the modern state of Israel.[5] Christian Zionists hold key roles in the new Trump administration. This includes Israel ambassador Mike Huckabee, who has claimed Trump will bring changes of “Biblical proportions” to the Middle East; Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who has lent fervent support to Israeli hardliners; and White House Faith Office Senior Advisor Paula White-Cain, who is part of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) movement.[6]

The evangelical movement’s powerful networks of pastors and operatives command the most dominant and loyal bloc within the MAGA base, numbering in the tens of millions. They are well-positioned to further advance a broad Christian nationalist policy agenda, which includes support for Israel alongside relentless attacks on LGBTQ and reproductive rights and other culture war priorities.

Pro-Israel evangelical leaders have signaled their unparalleled access to the halls of power by leading worship services and praying over President Trump in the White House in recent months.[7] In February, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his first visit to the U.S. under the new administration. He did not meet with American Jewish leaders, but held a 90-minute gathering with key evangelical leaders, underscoring the Christian Zionist movement’s importance.[8]

Many of these leaders have formed a new umbrella organization, the Conference of Presidents of Christian Organizations in Support of Israel, to coordinate advocacy and mobilization across federal, state and local levels. “God has given Israel a blank check with the election of Trump,” celebrated Pastor Mario Bramnick, head of Latino Coalition for Israel and an important player in the NAR, at the Conference’s Israeli launch in March.[9]

Another key Latino evangelical leader, Pastor Samuel Rodriguez, visited Israel on a faith delegation in February. A longtime Israel advocate, Rodriguez works closely with White-Cain’s White House Faith Office and is head of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, which claims to represent over tens of thousands of evangelical churches as the “largest Hispanic Christian advocacy organization in America.” Rodriguez expressed hope that the “Latino community emerges as the most pro-Israel, pro-Jewish community on the planet.”[10] Indeed, support for Israel may help strengthen an expanding multiracial, multiethnic MAGA coalition.

The attitude among Christian Zionist leaders, and their partners on the Israeli Right, is that the advances of the first Trump administration—including moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and launching the Abraham Accords[11]—were a good start, but didn’t go far enough. This time, Trump has taken on a “new mantle” from heaven, proclaimed Bramnick at the Jerusalem Prayer Breakfast—a gathering of influential Christian Zionist, Israeli and U.S. Jewish leaders held at Mar-A-Lago this January—“we’re in a tipping point moment.”[12]

Christian Zionists are working to pressure Trump to declare support for full Israeli annexation of the West Bank, a longstanding demand of the Israeli Right.[13] In February, prominent evangelical organizations including the National Religious Broadcasters and American Christian Leaders for Israel passed resolutions endorsing annexation. Meanwhile, White-Cain has met with Israeli Right legislators and activists in the White House and released a lengthy interview with Netanyahu for U.S. Christian audiences, further cementing the ‘special relationship’ between the Religious Right in both countries.

Under the pretext of combating antisemitism, Christian Zionists have also lent backing to the administration’s brutal repression against the Palestine solidarity movement.[14] Bramnick and others are leading a Heritage Foundation-developed task force on antisemitism, whose Project Esther report recommended deporting non-citizen student activists, intimidating universities, and more.[15] “We know that a lot of the efforts of the task force that we launched are now being implemented by the Trump White House,” Bramnick celebrated on a prayer call with NAR leaders in February. The executive order announcing the White House Faith Office charged the office with “combatting anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, and additional forms of anti-religious bias,” signaling that White-Cain may help lead these efforts from within the White House.

Enforced Disappearances and State Repression

As Israel annihilates Gaza with U.S. support, decades of White Christian nationalist policy and rhetoric[16] has aligned with Zionist, Jewish nationalist ideology to render the figure of the “brown Arab Muslim terrorist” as an explicit political target to be removed and exterminated in the United States. But today’s targeting of dissidents is not new—it is part of a long tradition of U.S. state repression that has enjoyed bipartisan support while covertly targeting racial, ethnic, and religious minorities—especially those at the center of the Global War on Terror. These repressive policies have now found a champion in the current administration.

On March 10, the White House posted to X a message that began with the words, “Shalom, Mahmoud.”[17] It appeared nine days after Donald Trump’s executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S.,[18] and its message was clear. Two nights before, a Palestinian graduate student at Columbia University, Mahmoud Khalil, was abducted by plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents waiting in an unmarked van outside his apartment building. Khalil’s abduction marked the start of a retaliatory crackdown on pro-Palestine student protesters, with the White House claiming that Khalil was “a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student” and promising that his was “the first arrest of many to come.” [19]

Some analysts and advocates contend[20] that Khalil’s forced disappearance is a “trial run” for future mass roundups inspired by the Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther,[21] but such efforts actually began decades ago and primarily targeted Black[22] and Arab[23] activists. Since 1969, U.S. institutions have engaged in unpublicized, bipartisan, anti-Arab and Islamophobic counterterrorism legislation and policy[24]—Heritage just gives it a name.

Still, while Khalil is not the first Palestinian or dissenter to be punished by authoritarian immigration policy and measures, he is the first individual the White House has publicly boasted about removing. The forced disappearance of political dissidents is a repressive tactic that both Trump administrations have used to punish protestors and make an example of them to the whole world.

The second administration’s practice of forced disappearances picks up where the first one left off. In 2017, a leaked FBI report labeled those it called “Black identity extremists” as domestic terrorists.[25] In 2020, federal agents used unmarked vans to abduct protesters during the George Floyd protests in Portland, Oregon[26] and New York City[27] after surveilling them for days. These disappearances were part of an effort to protect police and law enforcement who comprise a necessary component of U.S. authoritarianism, regardless of which political party is in power.  Whereas the pretense for expanding the security state has consistently been framed around claims of protecting “law and order” by “reducing crime,” now it also includes combating antisemitism.[28] The administration will likely fulfill its promises of more violence, such as deporting citizens to El Salvador,[29] now that it controls an emboldened security state built with bipartisan support.

In April 2025, ICE abducted four more students: Leqaa Kordia, Rumeysa Ozturk, Alireza Doroudi, and Mohsen Mahdawi[30]—all of whom are foreign nationals from Muslim-majority countries. Momodou Taal, a graduate student at Cornell University, self-deported after the State Department revoked his student visa and sent ICE agents to surveil and abduct him from his home. Although Taal sued the administration[31] over executive orders that labeled pro-Palestine activism as antisemitism and revoked pro-Palestine activists’ visas, he left the U.S. before the case was heard in court. Taal claims that he left of his own volition, stating that he “lost faith that a favourable ruling from the courts would guarantee [his] personal safety and ability to express [his] beliefs.”[32]

The administration has kept its promise of revoking more student visas. On March 27, Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed that he had already revoked 300 student visas.[33] While pro-Palestine activists are the main target, other movement leaders are also being targeted, such as Alfredo Juarez Zeferino, a Mexican activist farmworker who successfully secured better working conditions for farmworkers. These enforced disappearances inadvertently make political violence visible by exposing the authoritarian state’s insecurities. Solidarity is a necessary posture to disrupt such attempts to create suspicion, instill fear, and silence dissent. As of April 24, Rubio’s State Department had revoked over 1,800 student visas.[34] On April 25, although the administration said it would temporarily restore the legal status of thousands of students whose records had been deleted from a federal database, following major legal pushback, immigration officials also warned of future removals.

Such efforts are no longer a “trial run” for something more authoritarian or fascistic—this is our reality for the foreseeable future. It’s also an opportunity to strengthen our communal and movement networks to develop meaningful, world-building power in the shade of a dark future.

Immigration Enforcement

In addition to disappearances and visa revocations, the federal government is weaponizing centuries-old laws like the Alien Enemies Act and grossly expansive interpretations of anti-terrorism laws against immigrants—undocumented and documented alike.[35] Citing a supposed “invasion” to claim emergency authority and further militarize the U.S.-Mexico border, the government is functionally eliminating due process protections for many and ushering in a new era of overzealous law enforcement and political repression.[36] Hundreds of immigrants, many with legal status, have been renditioned to a notorious Salvadoran prison, and government officials are openly discussing plans to send U.S. citizens there as well.[37] In this climate, many are placing faith in the judiciary to uphold civil protections. But even when those rights are upheld, the Trump administration is ignoring court rulings that would constrain their practices[38] and has arrested a judge who refused ICE access to her courtroom, presumably to intimidate judges who might challenge the administration.[39] While settling the contradictions between the administration’s actions and courts’ orders may well take months or even years to resolve, there is also an effort concurrently happening in states and local municipalities to ensure the expanding architecture for mass deportation will outlast the current president’s time in office.

287(g) agreements are one of the most visible examples of localities enmeshing with the deportation machine by allowing local law enforcement to assume some or all of a federal immigration agent’s duties. As of April 30, 2025, ICE has enacted 382 new or updated 287(g) agreements this year.[40] A substantial number of these new agreements are under the recently-revived “Task Force Model,” which allows local police to question and detain suspected immigrants on the street (the two other 287(g) models are limited to operations within jails). The Task Force Model was previously suspended in 2012[41] after legal challenges and documented instances of racial profiling.[42] Aided by anti-immigrant groups and the National Sheriffs’ Association[43], 287(g)agreements nearly quadrupled during Trump’s first administration. President Biden campaigned on ending all of those new agreements, but reneged on those promises.[44] This failure to meaningfully scale back the first Trump administration’s expansions of enforcement authority has facilitated the deportation machine’s recent rapid growth and reach across communities.

Local lawmakers and officials in states such as Florida[45] and Texas[46] are working to ensure their communities remain ensnared with the deportation machine. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis recently touted the results of Operation Tidal Wave, a statewide, multiagency enforcement action and “first-of-its-kind partnership” resulting in the arrest of over 1,100 people—the largest number of single-week arrests in a single state in ICE history.[47]

“I’ve insisted that Florida be the tip of the spear when it comes to state support of federal immigration enforcement,” said DeSantis, who promised to continue those efforts.

State-level efforts to criminalize and marginalize immigrants are not ending there.[48] These include, but are not limited to the following:

Such efforts follow a growing lobbying and organizing effort by the anti-immigrant movement to more directly influence state and local lawmakers. In February, leading anti-immigrant group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) hosted a group of sheriffs and state lawmakers in Washington DC to lobby Congress for additional border security measures.[52] The Heritage Foundation published multiple pieces of model legislation this year designed for local lawmakers to enshrine anti-immigrant policies in state law.[53] Policies that Heritage is encouraging states to adopt include requiring 287(g) agreements for local law enforcement, mandating employers to check workers’ immigration status, and eliminating state funds for individuals and organizations that provide legal services for immigrants.

The escalation of federal immigration enforcement that includes due process-free deportations to foreign prisons and the disappearing of Palestine solidarity activists is terrifying, but these actions are not occurring in a vacuum. Efforts to buttress this cruelty are being pursued in statehouses across the country. The deportation machine’s reach has been expanding for decades. The Right’s appetite for further growth—often enabled by centrists—will remain, regardless of who the next president is.

Reproductive and LGBTQ Rights in the U.S.

Behind the Trump administration’s attacks on reproductive and LGBTQ rights is a brutal strategy of systemic erasure. The administration launched a sweeping assault on bodily autonomy with a Day 1 executive order declaring recognition of only two, immutable sexes while rejecting gender identity as a legal category—effectively erasing transgender and nonbinary people from federal recognition. This agenda quickly escalated: pardoning violators of the FACE Act (greenlighting violence against abortion providers),[54] eliminating federal support for interstate travel for out-of-state abortion care, and weaponizing the federal bureaucracy to strip transgender Americans of legal protections as a pretext for gutting federal spending.[55] Together, these actions have emboldened the anti-gender U.S. far-right coalition’s relentless assault on bodily autonomy. These parallel assaults on reproductive care and LGBTQ rights share a common goal: enforcing a Christian nationalist vision[56] of public life using every lever of government power. But a closer look at these actions also reveals the Trump administration’s growing political vulnerabilities.

The Trump administration’s dismantling of reproductive healthcare follows Project 2025’s blueprint to replace secular public health infrastructure with “a pro-life task force” and its anti-abortion alternatives, leveraging religious conscience exemptions to defund clinics and funnel the funds to crisis pregnancy centers.[57] The move to freeze Title X funding—the sole federal grant program providing comprehensive reproductive healthcare, including birth control and cancer screenings— underscores its efforts to gut health care for low-income communities, disproportionately harming Black, Indigenous, young, and disabled people.[58] This funding freeze targeted providers for opposing racism or offering gender-affirming care, demanding an inordinate amount of paperwork to justify receiving funding. This sabotage parallels their anti-trans executive orders: sports bans weaponizing Title IX to exclude trans athletes (spurring NCAA overcompliance) and removing gender dysphoria protections under Section 504 disability protections—revealing how attacks on marginalized communities are mutually reinforcing.[59] By folding “accessibility” into its attacks on DEI programs, the administration is removing protections for disabled and trans communities, stripping legal recourse for trans people facing discrimination in health care, education, and housing by redefining civil rights as “special privileges.”[60]

These very attacks have exposed critical fractures in the far-right coalition. Trump’s executive order restricting federal recognition of gender identity aimed to erase trans people by stripping their self-determination, while also smuggling in fetal personhood rhetoric.[61] But his IVF executive order, positioned as “pro-family,” has drawn backlash from anti-abortion groups like Students for Life Action, who argue that it betrays their movement’s principles. The tension stems from Trump’s seeming political pragmatism (leveraging IVF’s broad popularity) versus the anti-abortion movement’s stance that life begins at conception, equating unused embryos with the loss of children and branding the practice morally unacceptable. Compounding that tension is Trump ally and tech billionaire Elon Musk who, having fathered most of his 14 children via IVF, promotes the technology as a solution to declining birth rates. Musk’s push for “smart people” to reproduce more while echoing “great replacement” anxieties to justify curbing immigration further reinforces racist and ableist hierarchies.[62]

These federal attacks have galvanized state-level offensives, resulting in a record-breaking 800+ anti-LGBTQ bills so far this year—but also resistance, and with it, some victories. Mass protests led some hospitals to reverse bans on gender-affirming care, and shield laws are protecting providers like Dr. Margaret Carpenter from interstate prosecution, proving that public and legislative support for reproductive care can combat compliance with Trump’s fearmongering tactics.

With every escalation, more contradictions are exposed—between the rhetoric and policies, between Trump and his base, between state and federal power. We’re not just surviving these assaults; we can exploit their weaknesses too.

Attacks on Reproductive and LGBTQ Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy

The Trump administration’s attacks on reproductive and LGBTQ rights extend well beyond U.S. borders. Cuts to foreign assistance have devastated access to vital reproductive and sexual healthcare for millions of people around the world while shuttering gender equality initiatives, from girls’ education programs to support for vulnerable LGBTQ groups.

Following his Day 1 executive order halting new foreign assistance,[63] Trump issued a “stop-work order,”[64] immediately cutting support for existing programs and services funded by USAID (United States Agency for International Development) and PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief). Within days, the 90-day funding freeze led to clinic closures and denials of care, including access to contraceptives[65] and HIV medicines.[66] U.S. contributions to UNAIDS (the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS) and the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) were defunded several weeks later, denying humanitarian aid to women and girls in crisis zones, including Afghanistan, Palestine, and Ukraine, while one February 2025 survey[67] found that the cuts had already forced LGBTQ organizations in dozens of countries to shutter their programs and/or lay off staff. While trenchant critiques have lobbied for the dismantling of the “humanitarian industrial complex,”[68] the second Trump administration’s actions amount to an organized abandonment of LGBTQ people, women, and birthing people rather than a just remedy for the structural failures of foreign assistance.

Like his GOP predecessors since 1984, Trump also reinstated[69] the Global Gag Rule[70] (the Mexico City Policy), which prohibits recipients of U.S. global health funding from providing or mentioning abortion. By threatening to withhold resources from providers, the policy steeply curtails access to preventative and life-saving health care, which accelerates morbidity and mortality for birthing people and infants—a pattern mirrored in the U.S. after Dobbs.[71]

Trump’s order prohibiting DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in foreign assistance further endangers LGBTQ recipients facing state criminalization and vigilante violence.[72] Meanwhile, the Trump administration is unlawfully deporting asylum-seekers without due process to contexts where they face a high risk of persecution, including LGBTQ asylum-seekers like Andry José Hernández Romero,[73] a gay Venezuelan man sent to the brutal CECOT prison in El Salvador on spurious allegations of gang involvement, where he faces a high likelihood of facing targeted violence.

The Trump administration is also using the disproportionate power wielded by the United States in shaping global governance systems and policy to actively erode commitments to LGBTQ rights and gender equality on the global stage. This undermining of the international human rights system’s bulwark against authoritarianism realigns the U.S. with the bloc of anti-rights countries and movements[74] within regional and global governing bodies. Days after Trump took office, for example, Secretary of State Marco Rubio instructed U.S. diplomats[75] to rejoin the international anti-abortion pact known as the “Geneva Consensus Declaration.”[76] And during the Commission on the Status of Women’s 69th session, U.S. diplomat Jonathan Shrier deployed anti-trans rhetoric[77] to oppose gender inclusion, echoing Trump’s anti-“gender ideology” executive order.[78]

Finally, Trump’s demonization of trans people and “gender ideology” has not only emboldened state-level offensives in the U.S. but those at a transnational level also. In 2025, global autocrats and private actors have escalated attacks on LGBTQ people and rights, displaying the mutual borrowing of “anti-gender” rhetoric, tactics, and strategies among transactional authoritarians like Tayyip Erdoğan, Viktor Orbán, Javier Milei, and Yoweri Museveni. LGBTQ organizations around the world have reported spikes in anti-LGBTQ violence,[79] like the murder of Muhsin Hendricks, an openly queer imam and well-known advocate for queer Muslims in South Africa, by two masked assailants in February 2025.[80] In Turkey, amid escalated anti-LGBTQ laws and censorship,[81] activists report a wave of vigilante violence and police attacks against LGBTQ people under Erdoğan’s authoritarian government.

And in Viktor Orbán’s[82] Hungary, which the Heritage Foundation heralded as a “model” and blueprint for authoritarian capture and consolidation,[83] the Fidesz party rammed through a Constitutional amendment in April 2025 that recognizes only two sexes (male and female), effectively bans any public LGBTQ event, and enables facial recognition surveillance to identify attendees and the suspension of citizenship of persons deemed a security threat. Weeks later, the United Kingdom’s Supreme Court issued a nearly identical ruling.[84] These moves not only echo Russia’s 2013 “gay propaganda law” and Florida’s copycat “Don’t Say LGBT” law[85] but also the language of Trump’s anti-“gender ideology” executive order and recent threats to suspend fundamental civil liberties[86] and citizenship rights,[87], providing clues about where the Trump administration’s next steps may lead.

Endnotes

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  12. Mario Bramnick, “JPB Trump's Mar A Lago 2025 Inaugural Lunch Mario Bramnick,” YouTube, February 5, 2025, 6:17, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4m3CSEpWpY.
  13. Ephrat Livni, “Christians Are Pressing Trump to Clear a Path for Israel to Annex the West Bank,” The New York Times, March 8, 2025, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/world/middleeast/west-bank-trump-evangelicals.html.
  14. Ben Lorber, “Conservatives Claim to Be Fighting Antisemitism. Don’t Believe Them,” The Hill, March 17, 2025, https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5198485-conservatives-claim-to-be-fighting-antisemitism-dont-believe-them/.
  15. Ben Lorber, “Heritage Foundation’s Christian Nationalist ‘Project Esther’ Won’t Combat Antisemitism — but It Will Weaponize Jews,” Religion Dispatches, October 22, 2024, https://religiondispatches.org/heritage-foundations-christian-nationalist-project-esther-wont-combat-antisemitism-but-it-will-weaponize-jews/.
  16. Allie Wong, "What Mahmoud Khalil's Detention Says About White Christian Nationalism and The Politics of Repression," Religion Dispatches, March 24, 2025, https://religiondispatches.org/what-mahmoud-khalils-detention-says-about-white-christian-nationalism-and-the-politics-of-repression/.
  17. The White House (@WhiteHouse), "SHALOM, MAHMOUD. 'ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of @Columbia University. This is the first arrest of many to come.' –President Donald J. Trump," X, March 10, 2025, https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1899151926777749618.
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  19. The White House, “SHALOM, MAHMOUD.”
  20. Adam Serwer, "Mahmoud Khalil's Detention Is a Trial Run," The Atlantic, March 11, 2025, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/mahmoud-khalil-ice-detention/682001/.
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