Trump’s 100-Day Triumph – The American Spectator | USA News and PoliticsThe American Spectator

The 100-day marker has arrived for President Trump. And he’s winning.

Which is driving his critics crazy.

Be that as it may, over there at the Hill, the Washington-centric outlet reported:

President Trump’s first 100 days of his second term have seen an administration moving at breakneck speed to fundamentally alter the federal government in ways he previewed on the campaign trail.Trump, largely through executive action, has moved to quickly deliver on a number of prominent campaign promises on immigration, tariffs and culture war issues.

And deliver he has.

From the border and halting the Biden-era flood of illegal immigration to inflation to using tariffs to restart the American advantage on trade to those pesky transgender issues and on to minor if symbolic issues like cutting off the security details for former officials or investigating ex-administration officials who are accused — correctly, it would seem in this space — of trying to sabotage his administration from within, on all of these issues and more the president has run up a considerable winning streak in his second term. (RELATED: Trump’s First Quarter Resiliency)

The first “100 days” marker originated with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR took office in March 1933 while what has become known as the “Great Depression” raged. Roosevelt swung into immediate action, rushing 15 bills through Congress in that time, as well as declaring a “bank holiday” to prevent a run on the banks with panicked Americans withdrawing their money. Eight days later, FDR broadcast his first “Fireside Chat” to the nation, using the then-relatively new medium of radio to address the nation on his actions to get the country on the road to economic recovery.

Ever since, the “first 100 days” has become a standard marker for a new president of either party, whether a self-descriptive term from the president himself or a measure of progress from the media.

Years after FDR, Democrat John F. Kennedy, newly elected, felt the pressure as a Democrat to mention the 100-day marker, but did it in terms that didn’t hold him strictly accountable to the FDR standard. Right off the bat, literally in his inaugural address, JFK said:

All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

Newsmax has quoted Trump on this issue as follows: “President Donald Trump has called out liberal media pollsters for pushing anti-Trump narratives aimed at tarnishing his legacy at the 100-day mark.”

One can excuse the president if he thinks that was exactly the purpose of the Washington Post, with the left-wing anti-Trump paper headlining anti-Trump poll numbers: “Trump approval sinks as Americans criticize his major policies, poll finds.”

The real fact here is that the “first 100 days” marker is not only artificial, it quickly vanishes as other events no one can foresee appear out of the blue to swing the always short-attention span of the media to a new headline story and a new one after that. By the time the 2026 congressional elections arrive or the 2028 presidential battle arrives, Trump’s first 100 days will be something only political groupies and either Trump fans or Trump detractors will be discussing. Most Americans will have long returned to the tasks of everyday life.

But at this moment? With those Trump “first 100 days” in the can, as it were? As Sean Hannity noted on his radio show, Trump has done a world of good in those first 100 days. The border is infinitely more secure, illegal migrant criminals are being rounded up, the new tariff policy has been put in place to keep the U.S. from being ripped off in the world of trade, inflation has started to drop and, yes, the radicals who run Iran are now busying themselves talking to the American government. The same can be said for China.

As Hannity has also pointed out, the Left’s first 100 days have not gone well. Over at the Root, the story reported:

Over the weekend, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and N.J. Sen. Cory Booker organized a 12-hour sit-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. Dozens of folks showed up with signs, songs and testimony in hopes of preventing Republicans from passing a budget bill, which will cut $1.5 trillion in federal spending, according to the Guardian.

In other words, the first 100 days of the second Trump term have been an unmitigated Trump triumph.

And while Trump has spent his first 100 days getting things done?

Democrats in Congress have responded with a silly sit-in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, where “dozens of folks showed up with signs, songs and testimony in hopes of preventing Republicans from passing a budget bill.”

If one is a Democrat? Not good. Not good at all.

Stay tuned.

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