Trump reliably generates headlines, but what has his second administration done in the first 100 days that’s really consequential? In this episode, we take stock of Trump I and Trump II, with special emphasis on immigration, university funding, and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. Our guests, Colin Moore and Nick McLean, provide a clear-eyed assessment of what matters and what doesn’t–and what Trump II means for the future of governance and democracy.

Colin Moore is a political scientist, Director of the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, and an Associate Professor at the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization (UHERO).

Nicholas McLean is an assistant professor of law at the William S. Richardson School of Law. He previously served as a Deputy Solicitor General in the State of Hawaiʻi Department of the Attorney General.  

Robert Perkinson (moderator) is an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and director of the Better Tomorrow Speaker Series.

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