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Rob Crilly Chief US Correspondent
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The Trump I know and why he is different this time
The president has learnt the lessons of his first term and is more willing than ever to trust his political instincts
Donald Trump's first hundred days in office aren't just the worst in modern history. They're a masterclass in failure. It's not just that he's underwater. Man, he is lower than the lowest whale turd in the deepest part of the ocean! His first hundred days are so toxic they should come with a biohazard warning. The American people didn’t just sour on him. They gagged, spat him out, flipped the damn tables over, and walked out of the restaurant with both middle fingers raised. No president in modern times has face-planted harder, faster, or worse. This isn’t just failure — it’s the biggest, ugliest flop in presidential history! Trump promised greatness and delivered a steaming pile of chaos, cruelty, and criminality. And the numbers don’t lie. This is the real mandate Donald Trump’s getting from the American people — not a mandate to grab more power, but a mandate to pack it up and get the hell out.
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Executive orders. Trade wars. Elon Musk and DOGE. Donald Trump's second term has been nothing short of eventful. Bloomberg reporters recap Trump's first 100 days in a Live Q&A on May 1 at 11 a.m. EDT



In the first 100 days of his second term, President Trump has moved aggressively to fulfill his promise of retribution against an extraordinary range of individuals and organizations, targeting political opponents, news organizations, former government officials, universities, international student protesters and law firms.
An NPR review has found that the administration is using a vast array of government powers to launch criminal investigations, sweep people into ICE detention, ban companies from receiving federal contracts, revoke security clearances and fire employees.

WHAT HAS TRUMP DONE IN HIS FIRST 100 DAYS?
By Lisa Desjardins, @LisaDNews
Correspondent
Neither the Constitution nor U.S. law see a president’s first 100 days as particularly special.
But in modern politics, it is critical.
A president’s power is generally strongest in the first year. And the first 100 days set the tone for an administration. Cabinets are born and presidents project how they intend to work with — or not work with — the other branches of government.
In these past 100 days, Trump worked feverishly to rewrite American policy on immigration, dismantle and restructure many government institutions and exert an amount of executive power that is unprecedented in recent times.
It has been a blur of activity on nearly every major front in American government.
Let’s clear up the haze. Here is a look at what Trump has done in three key areas.
Trump promised to end inflation and “make America affordable again” by making groceries cheaper, passing tax cuts for workers and levying tariffs that his administration says will boost American manufacturing.
Inflation
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Core inflation last month saw its lowest increase in nearly four years. That is a big deal — economists see that as a key predictor on where inflation may be headed.
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But food prices are still steadily rising. Grocery prices were notably up last month, and spiking in some places. Moreover, the Agriculture Department predicts food costs will rise faster than the historical average this year.
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Voters have noticed. Although the president repeatedly promised to lower prices on Day 1, the higher grocery bills are eating into people’s household budgets.
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A key poll finding: 64 percent of Americans say they think grocery prices will rise in the next six months, including 64 percent of independents and 89 percent of Democrats.
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Spending cuts: Government spending cuts initially eased pressures in the bond market and led to February drops in mortgage rates. But his tariff policy wiped those out and now mortgage rates are up and down.
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Tax cuts
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Trump’s tax cut plan is moving in Congress, where it is not yet clear which Americans will benefit and how.
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Republicans have an everyone-wins vision. They want to extend current cuts they say will benefit low- and middle-income households and add new tax cuts, especially for workers, too. (This includes Trump’s “no taxes on tips” promise.)
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Opponents say this vision will add to the debt, could lead to program cuts in Medicaid and could disproportionately benefit some groups more than others.
Tariffs
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Trump launched sweeping tariffs on his own, without Congress, contrary to a past stump speech where the idea was to pass legislation to do this.
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Yet: There is debate over whether his cuts are in fact “reciprocal.” It’s too early to tell the full scope of the president’s actions on tariffs, but the initial results have been economically jarring.
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The tariffs currently include steep 145 percent tariffs on China, in place now, and 25 percent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods that are not covered under the North American trade pact currently in effect.
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Meanwhile, other initial results have included: retaliatory tariffs, stock market turmoil, warnings of empty shelves ahead, a massive drop in consumer confidence and turbulence in relationships with America’s greatest allies. The White House says it is negotiating new trade deals with scores of countries.
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Some Americans have changed their habits already. Nearly half of the U.S. adults in our poll — 49 percent — said they have either delayed or sped up purchases as a result. Those figures are far higher for Black (70 percent) and Latino (71 percent) adults.
The Border
On immigration, Trump has promised to “seal the border,” undo every Biden-era border policy, and execute the largest deportation operation in U.S. history.
Border security
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This is arguably Trump’s greatest success so far. Crossings at the U.S. southern border have plunged, per multiple independent news reports.
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Trump’s border czar Tom Homan told reporters Monday that border crossings in the previous 24 hours were down to 178. The Wall Street Journal wrote that illegal crossings at the southern border are at a near standstill, a big drop, but also part of a downward trend that started before the election.
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Added difficulties for asylum seekers: Families waiting for the asylum process have been divided in some cases and cut off from options in others. Trump rolled back some Biden-era border policies, ending the use of the CBP One App for asylum seekers and reinstating some of his previous policies, including “Remain in Mexico.”
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A “national emergency.” Trump, who has repeatedly described an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border, deployed military troops to the border to aid in immigration enforcement.
Mass deportations
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On Day 1, Trump signed an executive order directing increased removal and detention of undocumented immigrants.
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About 139,000 people have been deported so far under this Trump administration, Homan told reporters Monday. The New York Times in March reported that deportations have not surged.
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Yet: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its allies have said they need more money to truly launch “mass deportations.”
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Meanwhile, Trump officials have strongly emphasized that people in the U.S. illegally should “self-deport.”
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The immigration crackdown has also faced court scrutiny. The Trump administration turned to the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act, used in times of war, to deport a group of people the administration described as members of a Venezuelan gang. The Supreme Court temporarily blocked this move, stopping some of these deportations.
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A high-profile case. The deportation of Marylander Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia to an El Salvador prison has raised questions about the administration’s moves to forego due process. Courts have ruled the White House must take steps to return him to the U.S., but they refuse.
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A key poll finding: In our poll, just 35 percent approved of how the Trump administration has handled the deportation of Abrego Garcia, with a clear divide along partisan lines.
Refugees admissions
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Trump has shut down access to asylum, refugee and other status programs for those fleeing threatening situations. He has indicated he wants a wider travel ban on some yet-to-be named countries. (A draft list of recommendations was reported in March.)
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On Day 1, Trump signed an executive order laying out a ban on travelers from nations where proper vetting is difficult. This could be more broad than the bans he attempted in his first term in office, The New York Times reported.
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Also: Trump suspended asylum indefinitely, virtually ended all new refugee settlements and revoked the temporary legal status of migrants from Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Cuba who were granted humanitarian parole. All of those cases are working through the courts.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Trump has sought to aggressively remove “rogue bureaucrats” by shrinking a federal workforce he says is “bloated.”
Firing federal workers
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Trump has taken unprecedented action, far exceeding any specific campaign pledge, to shrink the federal workforce.
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Tens of thousands of employees across the federal government have been fired, placed on leave or taken voluntary buyouts, led by the Department of Government Efficiency and its efforts to eliminate waste, fraud and inefficiency. Many more could be fired in the coming months.
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Trump is also reclassifying large groups of workers as “Schedule F,” making them far more easy to dismiss. This is being challenged in court.
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Targeting worker protections. Trump has also targeted the structures that protect federal employees. He fired the chair of the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board, a politically appointed position. When the three-member board lacks a quorum, it prevents the group from issuing decisions on appeals.
Funding cuts
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Trump has frozen funding for a wide variety of programs across the government.
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Savings from these cuts are disputed. Elon Musk’s DOGE claims it has cut approximately $160 billion, though its figures have been hard to verify. PBS News and others found some claims of savings to be baseless.
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At the same time, these funding freezes have led to instability for programs in and out of government, including Head Start, foreign food aid and many others.
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Congressional Democrats are attempting to track this, estimating cuts or freezes on at least $430 billion in appropriated funds.
Reshaping federal agencies
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Trump has moved to eliminate a few regional, outside-Washington offices for several agencies.
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Those include: Half of the regional offices for the Department of Health and Human Services, five Head Start regional offices, and the State Department is looking to close 10 embassies and 17 consulates.
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Also: Weeks after DOGE indicated that dozens of Social Security offices could close or end their leases, the agency put out a memo saying no offices are now slated to close permanently.
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The move by DOGE to end federal leases across the country has raised questions about scores of other offices potentially closing.
These are just three areas. There are more sweeping ways Trump’s first 100 days have sent waves across systems in this country.
Among them: The president’s aim at legal structures and repeated refusal to comply with judicial rulings, and his reworking of foreign policy and (unfulfilled) work to end the Ukraine War.
We’ll have more Trump 100-days takeaways and analysis on air and online. We’ll continue to closely watch the steps the administration is making.
More on Trump’s first 100 days from our coverage:
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Read: Trump gets an “F” on his first 100 days from plurality of Americans, our poll finds.
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One Big Question: Given Trump’s latest polling results, is there an opening for Democrats to channel the public’s frustration? NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter discuss.
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A Closer Look: Breaking down the first 100 days of Trump’s second term and the effects of his agenda.
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Perspectives: People with disabilities explain how Medicaid cuts could impact their lives.

It’s been 100 Days of chaos. 100 Days of hate, bigotry, and cruelty. 100 Days of polluters over Creation. 100 Days of tax breaks for billionaires and massive tax increases in the form of tariffs for middle and low-income Americans. 100 Days of cuts in food assistance for children. 100 Days of attacks on public schools and higher education. 100 Days of assaults against democracy. 100 Days of sinful disregard for the common good. 100 Days of failed stewardship of the presidency by Donald Trump. Just like his first term. We must resist.
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This image sums up Trump’s presidency better than any attack ad ever could.
“Declassified the JFK files.”
Cool, so did every president since Clinton — it’s required by law.
“Ended federal support for paper straws.”
Ah yes, the brave war on biodegradable drinkware. Truly Churchillian stuff.
“Ended production of the penny.”
Spoiler: He didn’t. The penny is still being minted — this is just another lie to make headlines.
Meanwhile, under Trump in 2025:
• Women lost civil rights protections.
• Journalists and judges are being threatened with arrest.
• Ukraine aid was sabotaged to appease Putin.
• ICE is raiding military housing and hospitals.
• And our allies can’t tell if America is still on their side.
But hey… paper straws.
This isn’t a presidency. It’s a performance.
A deeply unserious man doing deeply unserious things — while dismantling democracy one petty, performative move at a time.
Trump’s first 100 days: ‘an all-out assault on democracy'
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Just 100 days into his second term, President Donald Trump has launched near-daily efforts to expand his power and has threatened fundamental principles like due process and the separation of powers. One political scientist Democracy Docket spoke with called it “an all-out assault on democracy.”
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Trump has sought to rapidly alter the country largely by decree. He’s signed on average almost one-and-a-half executive orders or memorandums each day since his inauguration, using them in his efforts to rewrite the plain language of the Constitution, to assault civil society and target free and fair elections.
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Source: Daily Docket (see links below)

US dollar down nearly 10% in trump admin first 100 days:

Just so we’re clear, DOGE is not only incredibly destructive, it has failed to do what it was supposed to do. In fact, the cuts to revenue generating agencies such as the IRS are expected to cost us half a trillion in lost tax receipts.


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100 Tage Donald Trump: Eine Chronik des Zerfalls
Es waren 100 Tage, die sich anfühlten wie eine Ewigkeit.
100 Tage, die länger dauerten als ganze Generationen von Hoffnung. 100 Tage, die schwerer wogen als jedes Buch, das je über den Zerfall der Zivilisation geschrieben wurde. In diesen 100 Tagen herrschte keine Politik – es herrschte Verachtung.
Verachtung gegenüber dem Volk, das ihn wählte. Verachtung gegenüber dem Volk, das ihn ertragen musste.
Wirtschaftliche Verwirrtheit, verkleidet als Patriotismus, streifte durch die Straßen wie ein verwirrtes Tier. Zölle wurden verkündet, als seien sie Geschenke, während Lebensmittelpreise explodierten und einfache Menschen sich in den Supermarktgängen für das Überleben verschuldeten.
Die Ukraine blutete weiter. Keine Friedensmission, keine ernsthafte Diplomatie – nur hohle Sätze, bedeutungslos wie die abgenutzten Versprechen auf alten Wahlplakaten.
Im Innern des Landes begann der Raubzug: Das Sozialsystem geplündert, das medizinische Netz zerrissen, Behörden in Knebelorgane verwandelt. Ein Präsident gegen sein eigenes Volk, ein Dirigent des sozialen Niedergangs.
Fake News, wohin das Auge blickte – aus den höchsten Ämtern der Nation selbst verbreitet. Gerichte bedroht, Richter:innen eingeschüchtert, die Unabhängigkeit der Justiz wie ein morsches Holzstück zerbrochen unter den Stiefeln der neuen Macht.
Menschen, unschuldig und schutzbedürftig, wurden aus ihren Häusern gerissen, deportiert unter Gesetzen, deren Namen sich hinter patriotischer Rhetorik versteckten. Und als man ihn mit der Wahrheit konfrontierte – der Unterschrift unter dem Alien Enemies Act, veröffentlicht am 20. März 2025 im Federal Register –, da wich er aus wie ein Dieb, der bei der Beute ertappt wird.
Ein Präsident, der sich selbst feierte, während die Welt ihm den Rücken kehrte. Ein Präsident, der die Vergangenheit anbetete, als wäre sie ein goldenes Kalb – und in Wirklichkeit nur verrostete Ketten hervorbrachte.
In jedem Ministerium, bei jedem Personalentscheid schien ein Plan zu walten: Nicht die Besten zu finden, sondern die Treuesten – gleich, wie unfähig sie waren.
Und während draußen Eier doppelt so viel kosteten wie vor seiner Amtseinführung, während Freunde zerstritten und Familien verzweifelten, sang Trump das Lied seiner eigenen Größe. Ein Lied, das nur er hörte.
Es waren 100 Tage der Hybris. 100 Tage, in denen die Verfassung zerknüllt und zerbrochen wurde wie Papier unter den Händen eines Kindes. 100 Tage, in denen der Begriff „Demokratie“ mehr blutete als in mancher Revolution.
Doch die Verheerung endete nicht im Innern. Auch die Weltmärkte, einst sensibel, doch stabil, wurden in eine Schlinge aus Unsicherheit gezwungen. 100 Tage Börsenchaos.
100 Tage, in denen Aktienkurse wie aufgescheuchte Vögel taumelten, in denen Rentenfonds schrumpften und Zukunftsängste explodierten. Kein großer Zollvertrag wurde abgeschlossen. Kein umfassendes Handelsabkommen erzielt.
Nur Drohungen – Drohungen gegen Freunde, Drohungen gegen Verbündete, Drohungen sogar gegen die Natur selbst.
100 Tage, in denen nicht einmal die Pinguine sicher waren.
Denn in Trumps Welt scheint selbst die Antarktis unter Verdacht zu stehen, Handelsbarrieren und Zölle zu unterlaufen.
100 Tage, in denen wirtschaftliche Diplomatie durch Tweet-Salven ersetzt wurde. 100 Tage, in denen das Vertrauen der Weltwirtschaft nicht langsam zerbrach, sondern mit voller Wucht zerschmettert wurde.
Und während die Zölle als patriotische Akte verkauft wurden, vergaß man den einfachsten Grundsatz: Zölle sind Steuern.
Steuern, die das Volk zahlt – nicht die fremden Länder, die Trump beschuldigte. Eine Wahrheit, so alt wie der Handel selbst, doch in diesen 100 Tagen bewusst ignoriert.
Die Welt reagierte.
Reagierte mit Misstrauen, mit Stille, mit Fernbleiben.
100 Tage, in denen Amerikas Tourismusbranche fast 90 Milliarden Dollar Verlust verzeichnete. 90 Milliarden, verloren nicht durch Naturkatastrophen, nicht durch Kriege, sondern durch Worte. Durch Drohungen, durch Feindbilder, durch eine Außenpolitik, die mehr Mauern als Brücken baute.
Nicht nur im großen Weltgefüge, auch im Kleinen zeigten die Menschen, dass sie nicht jede Lüge schlucken. 100 Dollar pro Stimme – so hoch war der Preis, um einen Richterwahlkampf in Wisconsin auf Trumps Linie zu bringen. 100 Dollar für geplante Einflussnahmen pro Wählerstimme, 100-mal mobilisierte Wut – und doch: nichts als Niederlage. Ein Monument des Scheiterns, bezahlt mit der Münze des Größenwahns. Und so erhob sich Applaus: 100-mal Applaus für die Wähler:innen, die dem Wahnsinn die Stirn boten.
100 Tage, in denen unschuldige Tourist:innen eingesperrt wurden. Menschen, die kamen, um Amerika zu sehen – und Amerika sah sie nicht als Gäste, sondern als Bedrohung.
100 Tage, die die Beliebtheit der Vereinigten Staaten auf das Niveau Nordkoreas sinken ließen. Ein Land, einst bewundert für seine Freiheit, wurde zur Karikatur seiner selbst, eine Weltmacht im Niedergang, bestaunt nur noch mit Entsetzen. Und während draußen das Land ächzte, verirrte sich der Präsident in bizarre Nebenschauplätze:
100 Tage, in denen er erneut versuchte, Grönland zu kaufen – als könne man ein Land wie eine Golfanlage erwerben. 100 Tage, in denen er Dekrete erließ, um stärkere Wasserdüsen für Duschen vorzuschreiben – aus Angst, dass seine eigenen Haare nicht genügend zauberhaft fielen.
100 Tage absurden Regierungstheaters über Transgender-Mäuse und erfundene kulturelle Kriege. Während reale Probleme loderten, schuf man künstliche Feindbilder – um von eigenem Versagen abzulenken.
100 Tage offener Respektlosigkeit gegenüber Bildung, Wissenschaft und Universitäten. Die Orte, an denen Wissen wächst, wurden verteufelt, verspottet, beschimpft – als wären sie Feinde, nicht Stützen einer freien Gesellschaft.
100 Tage blanken Rassismus. Nicht mehr verkleidet, nicht mehr versteckt – sondern offen, brutal, stolz hinausgeschrien in eine Welt, die es besser verdient hätte.
Man könnte noch weitere hundert Dinge aufzählen. Hundert Demütigungen, hundert Irrtümer, hundert Schandtaten.
Doch nein – danke. Es ist erschütternd genug.
Ein Albtraum, der keine Fortsetzung verdient, und doch täglich neue Kapitel schreibt.
Und während in Washington die großen Worte verklangen, kehrte in den Staaten das Unrecht zurück: In Florida wurde Kinderarbeit wieder salonfähig. Eine Nation, die einst stolz war, die Schwächsten zu schützen, öffnet nun die Türen für neue Formen der Ausbeutung – mit dem Segen jener, die von Freiheit sprachen und doch Knechtschaft meinten.
Dies sind nicht einfach 100 Tage einer Präsidentschaft. Dies sind 100 Tage einer Warnung, die über den Kontinent hallt:
So darf eine Welt niemals sein.
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100 Days of Donald Trump: A Chronicle of Collapse
It was 100 days that felt like an eternity. 100 days that lasted longer than entire generations of hope. 100 days that weighed heavier than any book ever written on the downfall of civilization.
In these 100 days, there was no governance - only contempt.
Contempt for the people who elected him. Contempt for the people who had to endure him. Economic confusion, disguised as patriotism, roamed the streets like a bewildered beast. Tariffs were announced as if they were gifts, while food prices exploded and ordinary people fell into debt just to survive another week at the grocery store.
Ukraine continued to bleed. No peace mission, no serious diplomacy, only hollow sentences, as meaningless as the worn promises on old campaign posters.
Inside the country, the plundering began: The social safety net was gutted, the medical system shredded, public agencies transformed into instruments of coercion. A president against his own people, a conductor of social decline.
Fake news, wherever the eye turned — propagated from the highest offices of the nation itself. Courts were threatened, judges were intimidated, the independence of the judiciary shattered like rotting wood beneath the boots of a new power.
Innocent and vulnerable people were dragged from their homes, deported under laws cloaked in patriotic rhetoric. And when confronted with the truth — the signature under the Alien Enemies Act, published on March 20, 2025, in the Federal Register - he slipped away like a thief caught at the scene.
A president who celebrated himself while the world turned its back on him. A president who worshipped the past as if it were a golden calf - and in reality, produced nothing but rusted chains.
In every ministry, with every appointment, a pattern emerged:
Not the most capable were sought, but the most loyal — no matter how incompetent they were.
And while outside, eggs cost twice what they had before his inauguration, while friendships splintered and families despaired, Trump sang the song of his own greatness. A song only he could hear.
It was 100 days of hubris. 100 days in which the Constitution was crumpled and broken like paper in a child’s hands. 100 days in which the word "democracy" bled more than in some revolutions.
But the devastation did not end within the country's borders.
Even the global markets, once sensitive yet stable, were thrown into a noose of uncertainty.
100 days of stock market chaos. 100 days during which stocks tumbled like startled birds, retirement funds shrank, and future fears exploded. No major tariff agreement was concluded.
No comprehensive trade deal was achieved. Only threats — threats against friends, against allies, even against nature itself. 100 days in which not even the penguins were safe. For in Trump's world, even Antarctica seemed under suspicion of breaching trade barriers.
100 days where economic diplomacy was replaced by salvos of tweets. 100 days where the trust of the global economy wasn’t gradually eroded - it was shattered in one brutal blow.
And while tariffs were sold as acts of patriotism, the simplest truth was ignored: Tariffs are taxes. Taxes that the people pay — not the foreign nations Trump blamed.
A truth as old as trade itself, deliberately forgotten over the course of these 100 days. The world responded. With mistrust. With silence. With absence.
100 days in which America’s tourism industry lost nearly 90 billion dollars. 90 billion lost not to natural disasters, not to wars, but to words. To threats, to scapegoats, to a foreign policy that built more walls than bridges.
Not only on the global stage, but also in small ways, people showed that they would not swallow every lie. 100 dollars per vote - that was the price to try to steer a judicial election in Wisconsin onto Trump's line. 100 dollars for planned influence per voter, 100 waves of mobilized anger - and yet: nothing but defeat. A monument to failure, paid for with the currency of delusion. And so came the applause: 100 rounds of applause for the voters who stood up to the madness.
100 days during which innocent tourists were detained.
People who came to see America, only for America to see them not as guests, but as threats.
100 days that sank the popularity of the United States to the level of North Korea.
A nation once admired for its freedom, reduced to a caricature of itself, a superpower in decline, watched with horror rather than awe. And while the nation groaned outside, the president lost himself in bizarre sideshows:
100 days in which he once again tried to buy Greenland - as if a country were a golf course to be acquired. 100 days issuing executive orders about stronger water pressure in shower heads - fearing that his delicate hair might not fall just right.
100 days of absurd government theater about transgender mice and fabricated cultural wars. While real problems raged, he created imaginary enemies - to distract from his own failures.
100 days of open disdain for education, science, and universities.
The very institutions where knowledge grows were vilified, mocked, ridiculed - treated as enemies rather than the pillars of a free society.
100 days of unmasked racism. No longer hidden, no longer disguised - but open, brutal, proudly screamed into a world that deserved better.
One could list another hundred outrages. A hundred humiliations, a hundred betrayals, a hundred crimes. But no - thank you. It is harrowing enough.
A nightmare that deserves no sequel — yet one that continues to write new chapters every day.
And as the grand words faded in Washington, injustice returned to the states: In Florida, child labor once again became acceptable. A nation once proud to protect its weakest
now throws open the doors to new forms of exploitation — with the blessing of those who spoke of freedom but meant servitude.
These were not merely 100 days of a presidency. These were 100 days of warning echoing across the continent:
This is no world that should ever exist.
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Written By: Rainer Hofmann


Trump’s disastrous first 100 days.
Historical Context: The 100-Day Tradition
- The tradition of evaluating a presidency's first 100 days dates back to FDR's landmark work during the Great Depression, marked by transformative legislation.
- Though the specific time frame holds symbolic significance, it is widely regarded as a critical window for advancing major initiatives.
**Key Themes and Assessments**
### **Economic Performance**
- Trump entered office amid an economy recovering under Biden, with cooling inflation and surging stock markets.
- **Trade war fallout**: Trump launched aggressive tariff policies targeting trading partners, such as Canada and Mexico, leading to:
1. A **9% stock market decline** during his first 100 days—contrasting with Obama (+8%) and Biden (+10%).
2. Multi-trillion dollar losses, described as the “dumbest trade war in history” by *The Wall Street Journal*.
- Consumer sentiment plummeted, and inflation remained a challenge, with food prices — especially meat, poultry, and fish — continuing to surge.
- Failed promises included:
- Lowering prices.
- "Rapidly" driving inflation down.
- Resolving trade and geopolitical conflicts (e.g., Russia-Ukraine).
### **Legislative Output**
- Trump passed only five laws, none of them major legislation, during this period.
- By comparison, Obama passed the $700 billion economic stimulus early in his first 100 days.
- Heavy reliance on executive orders — while quicker than legislation — weakened long-term policy impacts.
- Executive actions can easily be overturned by subsequent administrations or court decisions.
### **Immigration Policy Challenges**
- Despite promises, Trump's immigration agenda faltered under legal scrutiny:
1. Mass deportation operations faced court freezes and limitations on ICE powers.
2. Controversial deportations (e.g., Venezuelans, Maryland father) revealed administrative errors and backlash.
3. The Supreme Court blocked the misuse of war powers to enforce immigration laws.
- Actions targeting universities and law firms linked to free speech opponents raised further legal questions.
### **Approval Ratings and Public Sentiment**
- Trump's approval rating dropped to **39%**, the lowest at this point for any U.S. president in 80 years.
- Majority disapproval extended across nearly all policy areas except border security.
- Even core Republican constituencies expressed dissatisfaction with his focus and policy direction.
## **Legal and Institutional Conflicts**
- Trump's policies generated over **200 lawsuits** within the first 100 days, primarily targeting:
- Allegations of partisan abuse within institutions like the DOJ and ICE.
- Retaliatory actions against law firms and free speech advocates.
- Court challenges and Supreme Court decisions frequently blocked or narrowed his agenda, revealing significant constitutional concerns.
## **Broader Implications for Governance**
- Trump's early approach emphasized rhetoric and executive actions but often sidelined legislative collaboration and constitutional norms.
- The administration's economic strategy, trade wars, and immigration measures reflected high-profile failures and widespread dissatisfaction, shaping his presidency’s trajectory early on.
- **Public rejection** of his policies and governance style signaled significant hurdles ahead, amplifying scrutiny amidst legal and economic instability.
"Broad disapproval, economic turmoil, and judicial backlash defined Trump's tumultuous first 100 days, marking a stark departure from traditional governance benchmarks."
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An accurate compare and contrast. What is not accurate is the characterization of Trump in the cartoon. He no clown. HE is doing what he planned to do all along with the impact that he fully intended. I think he knew what the impact of tariffs would be ... and all the rest of it. He knows what he is doing, and getting the results he wanted.
That is not being a clown. It is being a fascist seeking to consolidates his hold on power. As such he has been effective ... hopefully to much having miss judge even his own political support. In the end I personally think he is most likely to defeat himself. Why? Because metaphorically FDR was more correct. But, also because what he appealed to most in his raise to power which is a "economic what is in for me" cultual mentality; Blaming "others" for keeping us from what we think we are entitled too; And, creating a backlash of what he sought to provoke to get us hating one another which is already starting to be re-directed toward him. Thus, the monster he and others created will gobble his hate. We will, of course, have a lot of good work to do to enable healing in the lives of others and our relationships with one another.
Maybe this is wiseful thinking. But, regards, really the only question I alone can answer is the question of "personal presences," ... Who do I chose "to be" in my desire to live into the love that god IS. It is that love I believe will have "The last word." I to be part of that in the here and now.

You Won’t Believe How Much Richer the Trumps Have Gotten This Year
How in the hell does he get away with this? Here’s the answer.
https://newrepublic.com/post/195068/trump-family-corruption-crypto-memecoin-richer
In Celebration of Trumps First 100 Days of his second term, let's show him EXACTLY how we feel
These have been a long 100 days, but thankfully Democratic AGs were prepared for Trump’s lawlessness. Here’s how they’ve fought back.




Whether it’s Day 1, Day 100, or Day 1,000 of this administration, we’ll be there every day to hold Trump and his team accountable for their unlawful actions.
On behalf of all people across the nation, we won’t back down.






















