“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” —Article II, Section 1, Constitution of the United States (1787)

In his 2016 victory speech, Donald Trump declared, “No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.”

Eight years later, he returned to prove it.

On January 20th, Trump began a full-throttle sprint to the 100-day mark. The Demos were blindsided by Trump’s 2024 election, and they were caught flat-footed by the blizzard of his executive orders and actions and his stable of disruptors since he returned to town.

As their ideological flagship, The New York Times, headlined it, “Trump’s ‘Flood the Zone’ Strategy Leaves Opponents Gasping in Outrage.” And their record number of lawfare challenges to block Trump’s agenda is a full testament!

Trump’s commonsense approach has left Demos on the ropes, and a lot of their “gasping” has manifested as fratricidal infighting among the idiots who now form the vanguard of Demo Party protagonists. The result is softening support among young voters who are increasingly disillusioned, and Demos are losing ground in the digital media — a domain that they have long dominated.

Poor Bernie Sanders, the godfather of the Demo oligarchy, took a break from his “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) this week to lament, “What Democrats lack right now is a vision for the future.” Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) called Demos “weak and woke.”

Hilariously, Rep. Jamed Clyburn (D-SC) insists, “The problem we’ve got is that we have to depend upon the media to deliver [our message].”

So delusional are Demo leaders right now that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) asserted that Demos are Patriots: “There are but two parties in America right now — Patriots and Traitors.” Anyone with a modicum of discernment knows that the traitors to our Constitution and their oaths “to support and defend” it are Jeffries and his merry band of socialists. But, hey, if they are “patriots,” let’s sign ‘em up for The Patriot Post!

Moving forward, Tuesday marked Day 100 since Trump took office. That has been a place-marker since Franklin Delano Roosevelt referenced the first hundred days in 1933 as a benchmark for his administration’s (failed) response to the Great Depression.

We posted two good summaries of Trump’s 100-day accomplishments: Jack Devine’s ratings and Gary Bauer’s top 100 achievements.

Suffice it to say, Trump has done exponentially more in 100 days than Joe Biden did in his 1,460 days.

Notably, 1933 was the year that FDR issued 99 executive orders, making him the previous 100-day record holder until Trump eclipsed that total this year with 142 executive orders. Twenty-six of them came on his first day in office.

You can review those orders categorically here and chronologically in the Federal Register here. The EOs are a reflection of Trump’s promises kept to the American people.

However, the consequences of his 100-day EO blitz, combined with his tariff blitz and the massive cuts under Elon Musk and DOGE, have taken a heavy toll on his public approval ratings.

As I wrote two months ago, “My biggest concern about Trump’s fusillade of executive orders and actions is that the administration is at high risk for executive overreach, too much too soon, resulting in the slow erosion of public approval.” I also noted that organized chaos is Trump’s strategic specialty, but it can be very difficult to manage and can backfire if not managed at all levels well. A majority of American workers, investors, and voters prefer stability to chaos.

At the time, evidence of that erosion was emerging in Trump’s RCP job approval average, showing a three-point decline since he took office, from 51.5% to 48.8%, and a rise in his disapproval, from 43% to 47.5%. Today, his job approval average is at 45.1%, with disapproval at 52.5%. Trump is tracking slightly higher in his Rasmussen Job Approval, with 47% of likely voters approving.

In the latest Fox News polling, Trump is underwater on every issue but border security, and the Demos and their MSM publicists are working 24/7 to sink him on that issue. And Trump is at the bottom of job approvals since Dwight Eisenhower, when approval ratings were first being registered.

However, I think this polling slump was fully anticipated by Trump. In fact, given everything he has done and the apocalyptic response by the Democrat Party socialists and their Leftmedia publicists, the numbers could be much worse. The fact that they are not means they could get better well ahead of the 2026 midterms. Every Republican in the country hopes that is true!

Furthermore, as Spectator media editor James Johnson notes, “The pollsters who are showing the worst numbers for Trump are the ones who got the election most wrong.” In effect, adds Roger Kimball, the legacy media is polling themselves. No doubt the MSM’s “pollaganda machine,” using skewed polls as propaganda to influence public perception, is working well.

Moreover, Trump has boldly stepped behind Leftmedia enemy lines where few Republicans dare to go. He gave compelling 100-day interviews to TIME magazine and ABC News. He gave The Atlantic’s most vociferous Trump hater, Jeffrey Goldberg, an interview this week and sat down with leftist Bill Maher two weeks ago.

In an effort to bolster public approval, the Trump administration has touted a running list of the now $5+ trillion in new investments across the nation. Its job stats report notes 345,000 new jobs since Trump took office in January.

But the economic news on Day 100 was not good, with equity markets having their worst 100-day performance since Richard Nixon. The Dow dropped 6.8%, the S&P 500 was down 7.3%, the tech-heavy Nasdaq was down 11%, and the Russell 2000 gauge of smaller company stocks was down 13.2%.

Those markets are a reflection of business and consumer confidence, and as noted previously, Americans prefer stability to Trump’s trademark chaos.

Today, the Commerce Department reported that the U.S. economy contracted in Trump’s first quarter. GDP grew 2.4% in the last quarter of 2024 but contracted by 0.3% in the first quarter of 2025. Part of that contraction was domestic companies stocking up on foreign goods because they anticipate shortages due to tariffs.

That notwithstanding, House and Senate Republicans lauded Trump’s 100-day mark.

For his part, Trump received an enthusiastic welcome in Michigan yesterday for his remarks on his administration’s record. (You can watch his remarks in full here.)

In typical Trump bravado, he declared, “I’m here in the heartland of our great nation to celebrate the most successful 100 days of any administration in the history of our country.”

He said: “We are taking back our jobs and protecting American autoworkers and all of our workers. We are restoring the rule of law. We are ending the inflation nightmare. Getting lunacy and transgender insanity the hell out of our government. We are stopping the indoctrination of our children, slashing billions of dollars in waste, fraud, and abuse. And above all, we’re saving the American Dream, we are making America great again, and it’s happening fast. … We are ushering in the golden age of America.”

He touted his considerable success reestablishing border security: “The number of illegal border-crossers released into the United States is down. Listen to this, please: 99.999%. … I stand before you today and can report to you that we have achieved the safest border in American history.”

He talked about the painful tariffs but made clear why we must endure: “China has taken more jobs from us than any country has ever taken from another country. … Their tariff now is at 145%. That’s a big difference between that and zero. I think it’s going to work out. They want to make a deal. We’re going to make a deal. It’s not going to be a deal where we lose $1 trillion a year like they did with Biden.”

As for the war in Ukraine, we did not get word until today that the U.S. and Ukraine signed the minerals deal that Trump promised was coming. The implications of this deal, American personnel and interests harm’s way, fired a loud shot across Vladimir Putin’s tyrannical bow.

He mentioned other important initiatives, including “executive orders to abolish critical race theory and transgender insanity from our schools, and from our military,” and restoring integrity to our elections. He added, “I ended all of the lawless so-called Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion bulls*** all across the entire federal government and private sector.” And of course: “I banned men from competing in women’s sports. They say that’s an 80-20 issue. No, I’d say it’s about a 97-3 issue.”

His message ultimately was: “We’ve just gotten started. You haven’t even seen anything yet.”

The esteemed Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, concludes: “No prior modern Republican president has sought to launch a counterrevolution aimed at reversing the economic, political, cultural, social, and military progressive trajectory of the modern era. Trump has done just that — and in his first 100 days — in a comprehensive fashion that perhaps surpasses the ambitious agendas of even the first three months of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal or Ronald Reagan’s efforts to unleash the American free market and win the Cold War. The counterrevolution is only beginning.”

I’m all in!

(Footnote: The Free Press collected a mixed bag of observations from across the political spectrum, which is worth reading for a broader perspective.)

Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis
Pro Deo et Libertate — 1776

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