Trump also took an axe to the federal government, slashing jobs and hobbling the federal government’s ability to provide critical services, such as Social Security assistance and weather forecasting.
He also made good on his pledge to be a dictator, targeting law firms in an effort to scare the legal community out of trying to block his illegal actions and defend the enemies he’s trying to punish. And he’s thrust the country into a full-blown constitutional crisis by ignoring court orders.
There were broken campaign promises, dangerous economic instability at home and abroad, constitutional rights trampled by his immigration policies, and tanking approval ratings. But Trump personally and financially seems to be thriving.From his shady fraud-infused meme coin, to various other millions of dollars he’s bilked out of the billionaire class, Trump has done very well for himself—including billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Amazon paying over $40 million for the rights to a Melania Trump documentary.
Trump is also on a losing streak in the courts. A fourth federal judge blocked Trump's birthright citizenship order. Another federal judge blocked the Trump administration from banning transgender people from military service. A judge temporarily blocked Trump's order targeting an individual law firm, calling it a "shocking abuse of power." Another judge blocked Trump's freeze on climate and infrastructure grants.
The performance of the S&P 500 in the first 100 days of Trump's second term is worse than Biden and Obama's, and is only above that of George W. Bush.
Longtime Republican Karl Rove wrote about "Trump fatigue" in a Wall St. Journal op-ed, saying that every week the [Trump] White House throws its weight behind a new issue that went largely or entirely unmentioned during the campaign . . . Rename the Gulf of Mexico! Acquire Greenland! Take back the Panama Canal! Make Canada the 51st state! Americans find themselves asking, "Where did that come from?"
Trump has also
made huge cuts in food inspections, nuclear safety and health research.
The Trump administration has proposed sharp budget cuts for HHS,
slashing $40B to eliminate dozens of programs focused on various public
health challenges, such as autism, teen pregnancy, food poisoning, and
opioid addiction recovery. The FDA is making plans to end its routine
food safety inspections, sources told CBS news. The agency is also
halting food lab quality checks amid staff cuts. The
FDA's baby formula research has also been gutted-- even after RFK Jr.'s
safety pledge.
His approval numbers are abysmal. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow spent the first part of her Monday night show going through the relentless polling data showing that most Americans are “angry” and “furious” with President Donald Trump’s stewardship of our country in his first 100 days. “The country really, really does not like him and sees his first hundred days as a disaster,” Maddow explained. “He has had, in public opinion terms, he has had the most disastrous first hundred days of any president since the dawn of modern polling.” Whether it is the new Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll or NBC News polls conducted by SurveyMonkey, Trump’s cataclysmic first 100 days is a failure by virtually every metric one can apply. Maddow also noted that the disapproval of Trump is so comprehensive he is railing against polling in the most absurd ways. “He's ranting now. He's calling the polls fake. He says they're fake polls. And he says he wants pollsters investigated for election fraud. What election?”
“No president has ever botched the first hundred days more badly than Donald Trump has botched it,” Maddow continues. “And that's true not just for his approval rating generally and how people feel about him, it's for every single thing you ask the American public about in terms of what he has done. Do you like any of it? No.”
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