Donald Trump has been president for five weeks now. In light of the blizzard of executive orders, funding and hiring cuts, endless nominations and appointments, and above all the nonstop controversial policy declarations on every imaginable topic (and some of which literally are unimaginable), it seems like months or even years.

It’s already clear that President Trump intends to change, not only how Washington and the United States work, but how the whole world works.

No president has ever started with this much activity, for better and for worse. The American custom is to wait to the hundred-day mark to assess the launch of a new presidency. But all this frenetic and even radical activity justifies an earlier stocktaking. 

To do that, the Tällberg Foundation recently convened a webinar. Alan Stoga, Tällberg’s chairman, engaged in an extended conversation with Aziz Huq, professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago, and Scott Miller, a leading strategist for businesses, politicians, and governments in the U.S. and globally.

Do you think Donald Trump is good for the United States, your country, or the world? Please tell us what you think here

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ABOUT OUR GUESTS

Aziz Z. Huq
Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law

Aziz Z. Huq is a scholar of US and comparative constitutional law, focusing on democratic backsliding and AI regulation. His award-winning work appears in top law, social science, and political science journals, as well as major media outlets. He has an active pro bono practice and serves on the boards of the American Constitution Society, the Seminary Coop, the New Press, and the ACLU of Illinois.

Previously, Huq was director of the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Project, litigating cases in the US Courts of Appeals and Supreme Court. He also worked on constitutional design in South Asia and clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He graduated first in his class from Columbia Law School and summa cum laude from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Scott Miller, a strategic communications expert, co-founded the Sawyer/Miller Group, advising global leaders, corporations, and over 40 U.S. political campaigns. Clients included Corazon Aquino, Vaclav Havel, Boris Yeltsin, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, and Apple.

He later co-founded RealLeader.com and worked on messaging strategies for political initiatives, including the 2016 Trump campaign. He co-authored several books on leadership and branding and was featured in Alpha Dogs. Miller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the Tällberg Foundation.