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Is actually anybody shocked?
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No, it’s not an April Idiot’s joke ⏤ Marjorie Taylor Greene is incorrect once more. And this time the Georgia rep’s exaggerations are reaching heights nobody has ever seen earlier than. Ever. Bigly.
50-year-old Greene ⏤ set to be 51 in Might ⏤ lately tweeted that 2025 has to date seen “one of the best 100 days in historical past!” Sure, that is coming from an elected official and allegedly educated particular person. The 100 days she’s referring to, in fact, are those which have seen Donald Trump’s return to the White Home be not simply an absolute disaster, however a prepare wreck in painfully sluggish movement. We could go misstep by misstep?
An financial system operating on fumes
For one factor, Trump schlepped again into workplace promising to convey again “the best financial system the world has ever seen.” As an alternative, he’s introduced the US hovering inflation, stagnant wages, and a inventory market that appears to be on a rollercoaster run by malfunctioning AI. The Dow Jones plummeted 12% in his first three months, largely because of his erratic financial insurance policies and commerce wars with, nicely, everybody. Talking of commerce wars, bear in mind when he insisted that tariffs have been the easiest way to punish China? Because it seems, they’re punishing People as an alternative. Costs on shopper items have shot up as firms move the additional prices onto consumers. In the meantime, his so-called “middle-class tax reduction” has but to materialize. However billionaire tax breaks? Honey ⏤ these rolled in actual quick. Don’t even get me began on his federal firings fetish.
Border chaos, Trump model
For a person who campaigned (once more) on stopping unlawful immigration, Donald Trump has someway made the disaster on the border worse. His administration’s harsh new deportation insurance policies have led to mass confusion and record-high backlogs in immigration courts. And that’s not all — his weird govt order trying to restrict birthright citizenship was so unconstitutional, even conservative judges needed to shut it down. Who might have seen that coming? (Trace: Anybody who’s learn the 14th Modification.)
Healthcare: guarantees made, guarantees damaged
Bear in mind when Trump swore up and down that he’d repeal and substitute Obamacare with “one thing lovely” and “manner higher?” Quick ahead to at the moment, when thousands and thousands of People are nonetheless ready for that plan to seem. As an alternative of increasing healthcare entry, his administration has doubled down on dismantling protections for preexisting circumstances, leaving susceptible People scrambling to maintain their protection. And let’s not overlook the prescription drug value hikes. Trump had promised to decrease prices, but underneath his management, insulin and life-saving drugs have grow to be much more costly. Apparently cozying as much as Huge Pharma lobbyists isn’t precisely a good way to convey costs down.
Govt orders galore, and authorized nightmares to match
It’s grow to be clear that Trump loves a very good govt order, a lot in order that he’s signed over 100 is his first 100 days, breaking all trendy information. Sadly for him, many of those orders are legally doubtful at finest and outright unconstitutional at worst. Up to now, 140 lawsuits have been filed towards his insurance policies, with federal courts blocking a variety of his extra outlandish strikes (like gutting environmental protections, and his failed try to fireside hundreds of presidency staff en masse). Much more terrifying is the truth that Trump has managed to lose extra courtroom circumstances in his first 100 days than most presidents do in a whole time period. However certain, Marj, that is the “finest” 100 days ever.
International relations ⏤ er, retaliations
Trump’s second-term overseas coverage is already an absolute mess. His administration has reignited tensions with NATO allies by demanding that they “pay up” or else, and he’s additionally made headlines by reigniting his bizarre obsession with shopping for Greenland, forcing Denmark’s prime minister to publicly reject him — once more. Let’s not even discuss his diplomatic catastrophe within the Center East, the place his reckless method to alliances has alienated key companions. Oh, and in case you have been hoping for a peaceable worldwide stage? Suppose once more. His bungled dealing with of relations with China and Russia has solely escalated tensions, making the world a much less secure place. However hey, a minimum of he nonetheless has a fan in North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, proper? ‘Cuz no matter relationship he had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is out the window.
Trump’s first 100 days vs. Joe Biden’s
Let’s check out some stats, lets? In Joe Biden’s first 100 days in workplace, he signed 11 payments into legislation, together with the numerous $1.9 trillion coronavirus reduction package deal aimed toward offering financial help in the course of the pandemic. He issued 41 govt orders, specializing in pandemic response, local weather change, and reversing prior administration insurance policies, and he maintained a excessive approval score. Donald Trump, in the meantime, enacted 28 legal guidelines, lots of which concerned repealing earlier rules, with 13 using the Congressional Assessment Act to roll again Obama-era guidelines. He targeting deregulation, immigration insurance policies, commerce points, and tweeting ⏤ no, actually. Practically 500 tweets and Fact Social posts in lower than 100 days? That has undoubtedly helped Make America Nice Once more. Oh, and his approval score is plummeting. Which means it’s happening, Marj. Bigly.
Time for a actuality verify, Marj
Marjorie Taylor Greene would possibly assume Donald Trump’s first 100 days because the forty seventh President of the US have been the stuff of MAGA goals, however in actuality, they’ve been a cataclysmic mess. The financial system is struggling, healthcare is in shambles, immigration coverage is a catastrophe, Trump’s govt orders preserve getting blocked, and his overseas coverage is one embarrassing blunder after one other. The man can’t even spell “stolen” accurately, but he desires a 3rd time period. At this level, the one factor historic about his presidency is how rapidly he’s managed to disappoint anybody who thought, “Hey, possibly he’ll shock us.” However hey, it’s nonetheless early. There’s at all times time for issues to get even worse. Oh, and Marj? If that is what you take into account the “finest in historical past,” I’d actually hate to see what you assume failure seems to be like. Although I think it rhymes with “Democrats.”