By the Associated Press
President Trump plans to use a key address Wednesday to try to convince Americans he can make housing more affordable, but he’s picked a strange backdrop for the speech: a Swiss mountain town where ski chalets for vacations cost a cool $4.4 million.
On the anniversary of his inauguration, Trump is flying to the World Economic Forum in Davos — an annual gathering of the global elite — where he may see many of the billionaires he has surrounded himself with during his first year back in the White House.
Trump had campaigned on lowering the cost of living, painting himself as a populist while serving fries at a McDonald’s drive-thru. But in office, his public schedules suggest he’s traded the Golden Arches for a gilded age, devoting more time to cavorting with the wealthy than talking directly to his working-class base.
By Jim Puzzanghera, Sam Brodey, Julian E.J. Sorapuru, and Tal Kopan, Globe Staff
President Trump spent the first year of his second term pushing – and in some cases obliterating – the limits of presidential authority. He goes into his second year hardly chastened, set to build on areas in which he’s been successful and push back against the obstacles that judges and an often-reluctant Congress have erected.
The most visible front of his efforts has been on immigration enforcement, a continued focus from his first term.
His administration has sought sweeping terminations of visas while freezing new ones. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have descended upon American cities from Boston to Los Angeles in high-profile shows of force to round up undocumented immigrants. Those efforts have often been met with protests, most recently in Minneapolis, where a local motorist, Renee Good, was fatally shot by an ICE agent after a confrontation.
After Trump’s attempts to deploy the National Guard in so-called sanctuary jurisdictions were stymied by courts, he is threatening to invoke the rarely used Insurrection Act to send the military to respond to the Minnesota protests.
But while immigration clashes have drawn the most attention, the Trump administration has taken aggressive actions in other key facets of American life. From bending Congress to his will to remaking the federal workforce, here are four areas in which Trump broke the mold in 2025 — and is set to keep going this year.