Chennai, Feb. 20 -- If Donald Trump's political resurrection and return as the 47th president of the US was dramatic, his first few weeks in office have been extraordinary. Armed with a strong mandate, a governing 'trifecta' with control over the White House, Senate and the House of Representatives, and an absolute sway over the Republican Party, he is on steroids.

In his first month, he upended global trade with a rash of punitive tariffs on the country's largest trading partners, rounded up and deported illegal immigrants, sought takeover of other countries and attacked bureaucracy like never before, terrifying thousands of federal workers. And that is not all. He has unsettled European allies through his efforts to end the Ukraine war...