New Delhi, April 29 -- In an unprecedented show of executive authority, US President Donald Trump has signed 142 executive orders in the first 100 days of his second term-nearly matching former President Joe Biden's total of 162 orders issued over four years. This pace has not been seen since Franklin D. Roosevelt's era. Trump signed 26 orders on his first day alone, surpassing the previous 100-day record of 99 orders held by Roosevelt.

On January 20, Trump's first day in office, he signed 26 orders. These included controversial decisions such as pardoning more than 1,500 people convicted for the January 6 Capitol riot, withdrawing from the World Health Organisation, and even renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America"-a move th...