Three giant challenges that will define Trump’s second term

The president-elect faces some huge shifting tectonic plates that have profound implications for the US administration and the world.

David Rowe’s cartoon, Good Morning America, was first published when Trump was first elected. David Rowe

Thomas FriedmanContributor

Nov 27, 2024 – 8.28am

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Donald Trump left the White House nearly four years ago. Given his self-confidence, I suspect he is now thinking: “What could be so different? I’ve got this.”

Well, I just travelled from a reporting trip in Tel Aviv, Israel, to a conference in the United Arab Emirates to a deep dive with Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence team in London, and I think the president-elect would be wise to remember a famous aphorism: There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.