Helen Walters

joy and fun and the things that you kind of want from being a human on earth with the reality of, you know, living under aggression from Russia.

And it was a great talk that I recommend you watch.

Ian, it is always a pleasure, an eye-opening pleasure to talk to you.

Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom with us.

And I am glad that we will be able to be back here again soon where you can do the same again.

Thank you so, so much.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome, and thank you for joining.

I am Helen Walters.

I am head of media and curation at TED.

I am so happy to be here on April the 29th, 2025, the 100th day of the Trump presidency.

Now, the White House is touting this as the most productive and consequential start to any presidency.

Others have a different take, with a series of new polls indicating that the president's approval rating has dropped precipitously.

conflicting interpretations how very 2025 so who else but ian bremer to help us make sense of it all he's the founder and president of eurasia group ian helps us to process signal from noise ian thank you so much for being here and hello helen wonderful to be with you all right so we're going to think of this as some form of evaluation of the first 100 days of this administration and a look forward to what we should be expecting next now

We asked our community to share their burning questions that they want you to make sense of.

And far and away, the topic that they want to understand better is about the economy.

So Trump's so-called Liberation Day happened on April the 2nd.

The president described it as one of the most important days in American history.

What's your verdict?

What are we watching?