Opinion | “Donald Trump will not be president for four years.”

At a live event that was recorded on Tuesday in the Brooklyn Public Library, the deputy editor of Stepy, Patrick Healy, was accompanied by the columnists Michelle Goldberg, M. Gessen and Bret Stephens to discuss how President Trump's second term redesigned America in just 100 days.

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Patrick Healy: I want to start with a premise and a provocation to start our conversation. My premise is the following: last year American voters knew exactly what Donald Trump was capable of as President that Trump told us pretty much what he would do if he was re -elected. It led to an editorial project by My Time's Purchase colleagues entitled “Believe him”, and Trump won a free and fair choice last November.

So my provocation is: America receives the disruptive, destructive presidency that millions of our fellow citizens wanted, and that Trump used them for the first 100 days to comply with a mandate from the multitude of voters in November. In other words, this is a presidency for which more Americans have voted than voted against them.

And Michelle, I will go to you first because you are a columnist based in Brooklyn. Michelle, have you been a president for the past three months who presents a mandate to work?