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April 26, 2017 11:34 AM UTC

Congratulations, You've (Almost) Made it Through 100 Days!

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by: Colorado Pols

As you may have heard, Saturday will mark 100 days in office for President Trump. We’re not sure when Trump will celebrate his 100th day in the White House — he’s spent about a quarter of his time visiting his Mar-a-lago resort in Florida — but Trump has nearly been the actual President of the United States for 100 whole 24-hour cable news cycles.

Trump is not a fan of grading Presidents on their first 100 days in office, a tradition that dates back to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Much of this consternation from Trump stems from the fact that his first 100 days have been pretty awful based on recent historical comparisons. As David Leonhardt writes for the New York Times, in fact, it’s not difficult to argue that Trump’s first 100 days are the worst of any President…ever:

Even if you forget about the content of his actions — whether they strengthened or weakened the country — and focus only on how much he accomplished, it’s a poor beginning. His supporters deserve to be disappointed, and his opponents should be cheered by how unsuccessful his agenda has been so far.

Before now, the weakest starts probably belonged to Bill Clinton and to John F. Kennedy. Partly as a result, neither of them ended up being as consequential presidents as, say, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama. And yet Trump’s first 100 days have been vastly weaker than Clinton’s or Kennedy’s…

How exactly has Trump fizzled in his first 100 days? Leonhardt breaks it down like this:

1. Trump has made no significant progress on any major legislation.

2. Trump is far behind staffing his administration.

3. The Trump administration is more nagged by scandal than any previous administration.

4. Trump has no clear foreign policy.

5. Trump is by far the least popular new president in the modern polling era.

If Trump were to grade himself on his first 100 days in office, he’d probably write something like this. For the rest of us, Trump’s first couple pf months in office are easy to encapsulate with a few minutes of late-night television. But while Trump is not being positively judged in the present moment, Leonhardt reminds us that history will likely be a much tougher critic:

Trump remains the most powerful person in the country, if not the world. It would be foolish for anyone to be complacent about what he can do. Yet by the modern standards of the office, he is a weak president off to a uniquely poor start.

It’s worth considering one final point, too. So far, I’ve been judging him on his own terms. History, of course, will not. And I expect that a couple of his biggest so-called accomplishments — aggravating climate change and treating nonwhite citizens as less than fully American — are likely to be judged very harshly one day.

We’ve made it through 100 days. Now there’s just…about 1,360 more left to come.

One thought on “Congratulations, You’ve (Almost) Made it Through 100 Days!”

MichaelBowman says:

April 26, 2017 at 12:00 pm

Meanwhile…while retired coal miners face losing their health insurance, the Republican House has just exempted their health insurance from any changes in the ACA.

Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff. A spokesperson for Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), who authored this amendment, confirmed this was the case: Members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping these Obamacare regulations. Health law expert Tim Jost flagged this particular issue to me.

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