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April 29, 2025 02:42 PM UTC

The Greatest 100 Days in the History of...Days!

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by: Colorado Pols

Today officially marks the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term in office. In order to celebrate this milestone, the White House and the rest of the Trump administration did what they do best: Make things up.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt opened her press conference today by reading through seven minutes worth of prepared remarks before turning things over to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for his own round of verbal fellatio. Here’s Leavitt making the argument that Trump is the single greatest mammal in the history of earth:

In order to properly gauge Trump’s ~~first~~ second 100 days as President, we thought it best to take it straight from the horse’s mouth (no offense to horses). Leavitt begins with what is perhaps the only accurate statement of the day:

LEAVITT: “This has truly been the most historic start to a presidency in American history!”

That might well be true, though not for good reasons. Trump’s approval ratings are currently the second worst of ANY other Presidential administration after 100 days. The worst: Trump (barely) after his first 100 days in 2017.

As NPR explains:

Twice as many people said President Trump deserves a grade of F rather than an A for how he’s handled his first 100 days in office, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.

Forty-five percent said Trump deserves the failing mark, compared to 23% who would pass him with flying colors. It’s understandable that partisans would have strongly polarized views of the president, but it’s also notable that half of independents said he deserves an F, and only a slim majority of Republicans would give him an A…

…Trump’s overall approval rating is down to 42%, including just 36% among independents. For context, when looking at Gallup’s numbers back to Harry Truman, this would be the second-worst approval rating for any president at the 100-day mark in those 80 years. The lowest? First-term Trump by a point.

Leavitt has a different take on all of this, starting with talking about how much Americans trust Trump because he has totally made the economy awesome:

LEAVITT: “After building the greatest economy in the world in his first term as president, President Trump is in the process of doing that all over again. The American people trust in President Trump.”

Here’s the thing: Americans really don’t trust the Dear Leader. Via CNN:

A 59% majority of the public now says President Donald Trump’s policies have worsened economic conditions in the country, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, up from 51% in March and on par with the worst numbers Joe Biden saw during his presidency.

Americans remain broadly unhappy with the nation’s economy, the survey finds, and there’s little enthusiasm for the White House’s sweeping new trade policies. With the impact of new tariffs still largely to come, 6 in 10 already say that Trump’s policies have increased the cost of living in their community, with just 12% saying his agenda has helped to bring prices down.

Maybe if you just keep saying that the economy is great then people will eventually ignore their bank accounts.

LEAVITT: “Since his first day in office, President Trump has focused on defeating the Biden inflation crisis, bringing down the cost of living, and making the United States the best place in the world to do business — invest, create jobs, and innovate.”

No, not working. Again, from NPR:

His economic numbers are even worse — just 39% approve of how Trump is handling the economy, his worst score ever, including during his first term.

Nearly two-thirds believe grocery prices will go up, almost 6-in-10 said placing tariffs on imports from other countries hurts the U.S. economy, and a strong majority said Trump bears responsibility for the current economic situation and it is not the result of an economy he inherited.

Hmm…maybe try tossing out an obscure, out-of-context statistic?

LEAVITT: “[Last month] was the fourth-highest month of private payroll growth in the past two years.”

Perhaps that will make people feel better about the fact that it has been more than two decades since the stock market dropped this much in a President’s first months in office.

LEAVITT: “The U.S. employment rate remains at historic lows.”

Did Leavitt mean to say “unemployment rate”? The unemployment rate in March was at 4.2 percent, but that was before Trump’s on again, off again tariff announcements roiled markets worldwide. Now things look different, as CBS News reports:

During his campaign last year, President Trump repeatedly attacked former President Joe Biden for his handling of the economy, vowing to boost economic growth and lower inflation. But 100 days into his second term in the White House, the president is struggling to deliver on those promises.

Mr. Trump’s signature policies on trade, immigration and government spending have not only failed to spark economic growth — they’re contributing to a sharp contraction in activity and threaten to re-ignite inflation, data shows. Economists also warn that the chances of a U.S. recession are rising.

Well, it’s a good thing the cost of groceries and other essentials are so low, right?

LEAVITT: Thanks to President Trump, Americans are seeing price relief for the first time in years.”

Not so much, says The Huffington Post:

While overall inflation has trended slightly downward since Trump took office, food inflation has not. In fact, not only have grocery prices increased each month since he took office, that inflation rate itself has increased in each of the three months since Trump’s return, so that the inflation rate for groceries is now at its highest point in nearly two years…

…“Groceries have come down,” he said in an Oval Office photo opportunity on Tuesday, and then focused on eggs in particular. “The cost of eggs have come down like 93, 94% since we took office.”

In fact, eggs got expensive under predecessor Joe Biden and then got even more expensive after Trump took office because of a bird flu epidemic. For Trump’s claim to be correct, eggs would have to be selling for about 35 cents a dozen now, which they clearly are not.

Eggs are still so expensive that people are buying chickens because they think it will be more cost-effective. But listen to Trump instead, who says, “If anything, the [egg] prices are getting too low.”

On Monday, Leavitt boasted to the assembled media that Trump had already signed 140 Executive Orders thus far, putting him on pace to soon surpass the number of EOs signed by President Biden in his entire four-year term in office. More always equals better for Trump.

But as The Washington Post reports, people really don’t like this…even Republicans.

The findings have been similar in other new polls released in recent days. A Pew Research Center poll, for instance, showed that 21 percent of Republican-leaning voters said Trump was doing “too much” by executive order. In a New York Times-Siena College poll, meanwhile, 16 percent of Republicans said Trump was “exceeding the powers available to him as president.”

Okay, but what about foreign policy? Trump may not be doing a lot of international travel, but he has visited a golf course on all but one weekend thus far. Trump recently returned from attending the funeral of Pope Francis, where he embarrassed America once again.

What is there that is good to say about Trump’s First 100 Days? The Atlantic refers to this as “The Unsustainable Presidency”:

Historians tend to rate presidencies by the breadth of their accomplishments, on a scale ranging from ineffectual to transformative. The classic measuring stick for 100-day achievements is the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The frenetic first stretch of the New Deal featured a raft of major legislation that established new financial regulations and ambitious public-works projects, helping the economy begin to recover from the Great Depression.

Judged against Roosevelt’s record, the first 100 days of the second Trump term can be deemed a miserable failure. The president has passed no major legislation, and his economic interventions have had the opposite effect of Roosevelt’s, injecting uncertainty into a healthy recovery and seeding an economic crisis. [Pols emphasis]

Even the right-wing Wall Street Journal opines that Trump’s second term has been a disaster.

Perhaps the best thing that can be said is this: We are 100 days closer to the end of this nightmare.

One thought on “The Greatest 100 Days in the History of…Days!”

JohnInDenver says:

April 30, 2025 at 5:38 am

100 done, 1361 to go until the 2029 Inauguration.

Stock markets – Marketwatch reported 3 major indexes gained at least half a percentage point yesterday, and even so

The U.S. stock market on Tuesday recorded its worst first 100 days of a presidency in over half a century.

The S&P 500 tumbled 7.3% since Inauguration Day on Jan. 20, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped 6.8% in the same period. Both indexes posted their worst first-100-day performance for a new administration since President Richard Nixon’s second term in 1973…. The Nasdaq Composite, meanwhile, fell 11% since Inauguration Day, and logged its worst first 100 days of a presidency since George W. Bush’s first term in 2001, according to Dow Jones Market Data.

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