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Chapter 1: What has President Trump achieved in his first 100 days?
ranging from his attempts to inject Pete Hegsath, the Secretary of Defense, in order to fix all the problems at the Pentagon, to Doge, which is going through all aspects of government spending with Elon Musk and attempting to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. He has issued more executive orders in his first 100 days than any president in history. He's been incredibly vulnerable.
effective in terms of pushing forward many parts of his agenda. With that said, the polling right now for President Trump is not good after 100 days in. And that is a reflection of sentiment specifically regarding the economy. So if you look at President Trump's brand new poll numbers, they're a bevy of polls and they're all telling the same story 100 days in.
According to a brand new Washington Post, ABC News, Ipsos poll, President Trump's approval rating is down from February. It was 45% in February. It's down all the way to 39% today, which is very, very low. And again, that is all before the main effects of the tariff war that he has declared on the world, also on China, kicks in.
That is lower than any other president at this point on record in his first term or in his second term, actually. President Trump historically has not pulled particularly well. If you look at his first term, 100 day point, also fairly low. President Trump has always had a very high floor and a very low ceiling in terms of his polling data, meaning that his floor is usually 38, 39%.
He rarely goes below that. At the same time, he rarely gets above 45, 46% in the opinion polls. With that said, he has dropped fairly significantly. in these opinion polls, in many of them, and it's not just one, This is particularly rooted in the economy. Now, again, when it comes to the Democrats, the good news for President Trump is he's blessed by his enemies. His enemies are awful.
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Chapter 2: How is President Trump's approval rating trending?
And the American people hate the people that President Trump faces down even more than they dislike President Trump. So, for example, the same poll showing President Trump at a 39 percent approval rating shows that seven in 10 Americans say the Democratic Party is out of touch. Six in 10 say that about Trump. Nearly seven in 10 say that about the Democratic Party.
So whatever the American people think of President Trump, they think even worse about the Democratic Party. By the way, there is a good reason for that, which is that the Democratic Party is so unbelievably unhinged. They are so incompetent at this, truly incompetent. It is amazing.
As we'll see, it's a target rich environment for Democrats out there, particularly on the economy, but they cannot help themselves because they're constantly running to the radical left of their own base. They're saying idiotic things on a daily basis. So over the weekend, for example, J.B. Pritzker, the rotund governor of Illinois, who has to be lowered into the Illinois Capitol by Crane,
He was giving a speech in which he suggested that basically anybody who is a supporter of Trump ought to be harassed on the streets, a la Maxine Waters several years back. Here was J.B. Pritzker doing this routine.
Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now.
These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace. They have to understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have. We must castigate them on the soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box.
So Democrats are unhinged. So instead of them just sitting there and saying, listen, President Trump isn't doing the job Americans want him to do, which would be the smart way to actually approach this, they've decided instead that they're just going to go psychotic.
Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, would-be House Speaker, yesterday, he was in the middle of a protest, and he started quoting Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War, suggesting that America could break down between patriots and traitors. Presumably the traitors would be Republicans.
Reminds me of the letter that Ulysses Grant wrote was said to have sent at the start of the Civil War, of course, the great general who subsequently became president. And at that moment of great turmoil in the country, the country literally tearing itself apart, Grant wrote that whatever my prior political positions have been, my prior opinions have been up until this point,
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Chapter 3: What challenges is Trump facing with the economy?
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Plus, Burna is trusted by hundreds of police departments and government agencies worldwide. Well, President Trump over the weekend, he continues and his administration continue to give mixed signals about the tariff war. So on the one hand, Scott Besson, every time Scott Besson talks, the market goes up, the Treasury Secretary, because he's trying to quiet the market.
He's trying to tell the markets everything's going to be OK. We're going to come to trade deals. We're going to get off of this tariff train. So Scott Besson was on ABC News this week and he was asked about President Trump suggesting that a bunch of tariff negotiations were taking place. The deals were going to be cut. And here was his answer.
Let's talk about the Time interview with President Trump. He said that he has made 200 deals on tariffs. 200 deals? Who has he made deals with? Is there actually any deal at this point?
I believe that he is referring to sub-deals within the negotiations we're doing. And, Martha, if there are 180... But those aren't actual deals. Martha, if there are 180 countries, there are 18 important trading partners. Let's put China to the side, because that's a special negotiation. There are 17 important trading partners, and we have a process in place over the next 90 days to...
negotiate with them. Some of those are moving along very well, especially with the Asian countries.
Okay, so that is not 200 deals that are being done, obviously. So there's still confusion. And here is the problem. When it comes to these trade deals, they usually take a significant amount of time to negotiate. It's not like you can snap your fingers and the trade deals magically get done. There are lots of details. Some of them have to be approved by Congress.
And meanwhile, President Trump went on Truth Social yesterday and decided to talk up the tariff war. Quote, when tariffs cut in, many people's income taxes will be substantially reduced, maybe even completely eliminated. Focus will be on people making less than $200,000 a year. Also, massive number of jobs are already being created with new plants and factories currently being built or planned.
It will be a bonanza for America. The external revenue service is happening. So, again, this is sort of a talking point that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has retailed is that we're going to replace the income tax with tariffs. That is not going to happen. We're not going to raise the amount of money in tariffs that would compensate for the loss of the income tax, for example.
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Chapter 4: How are tariffs affecting American businesses?
That includes members like Chip Roy of Texas and Andrew Clyde of Georgia. Meanwhile, you have people who are concerned that there will be some sort of changes to Medicaid. Because that health insurance program does have a bunch, it's a means-tested welfare program. There are a bunch of people on it who probably don't necessarily need to be on it.
But there are a lot of Republicans in purple districts who are afraid that any Medicaid cuts whatsoever means their seat goes away. Such members, according to the journal, include Representatives David Valadao of California, Rob Bresnahan of Pennsylvania. Those are both in battleground districts. And again, you have a bunch of senators also who are in sort of purplish states.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of Trump's trade policies?
The biggest recipients, Harvard, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, UPenn, MIT, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Yale. So all the top schools. Okay, so President Trump has been fighting these schools. All that's really important. On immigration, President Trump has been fighting the good fight.
It remains the bright spot of his administration in terms of the polling data, despite all the attempts by the media to simply lie about President Trump's immigration policy, to suggest that he's deporting innocent people, innocent two-year-olds, for example. They just lie about what exactly he is doing. The latest example of this, by the way, a judge over the weekend
is raising alarms the Trump administration deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with, quote, no meaningful process, even as the child's father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country. U.S.
District Judge Terry Dowdy, a Trump appointee, said the child appeared to have been released in Honduras earlier Friday along with her Honduran-born mother and sister, who had been detained by immigration officials earlier in the week. Well, it sounds from this article as though this kid was just basically randomly, but US citizen randomly deported with mom.
Okay, except that mom wanted the child to go with her. That's the actual story here. Trump administration officials pointed out the mother told ICE officials that if she was deported, she wanted to take her two-year-old with her, which is a perfectly natural thing to do. Most people don't leave their two-year-olds behind in a foreign country.
The filing from the Trump administration included a handwritten note in Spanish that was claimed was written by the mother and confirmed her intent. So again, the media tried to report that as the Trump administration kind of stealing away in the dead of night two-year-olds. That's not happening. And meanwhile, the left wing has been very, very bothered and hot over the arrest of a judge.
That judge's name is Hannah Dugan. Hannah Dugan is a Wisconsin judge. And she was arrested for obstructing justice. By the way, she deserved it. This is the part that actually is hilarious. So here's Chuck Schumer, for example, suggesting a constitutional crisis has arrived because a judge in Wisconsin has been arrested by the FBI.
What Trump, Biondi, and the whole Justice Department are trying to do is push that judge, threaten that judge, so the judge is no longer impartial. It is outrageous in both cases. In both cases, you can't believe what they said. You know, in the case with the two-year-old girl summit, they're saying, oh, the mother wanted to take her. Well, she's entitled to due process.
The father says that's not true. And I don't believe ICE or anything they say because they've made up things so many times in the past. This is a constitutional crisis. You cannot have a democracy without an independent judiciary, and they're trying to clip the wings of that independence.
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Chapter 6: Are Republicans united behind Trump's agenda?
Chapter 7: What role does public opinion play in Trump's presidency?
Let's say she did escort this guy out the door. If a federal enforcement agencies come to your courtroom and you help a guy escape, That is two things. One, it strikes me as maybe something illegal, but it also strikes me as something heroic. And in times of trouble, then people are sometimes called to do civil disobedience.
And in my view, when people do civil disobedience, they have to pay the price. That's part of the heroism of it, frankly. And so you can both think that she shouldn't have legally done this and that morally protecting somebody against, or maybe not even in this case, but in other cases, Frankly, a predatory enforcement agency. Sometimes civil disobedience is necessary.
Okay, again, if they think this is heroic, then good luck for them in the polls. Again, if the American people are focusing on immigration, President Trump is popular. It's the economy that is sinking him right now. President Trump put out a truth over the weekend saying, quote, we need courageous justice in our country.
If the courts don't allow what we've been allowed to do for 250 years, America can no longer be the same. Crooked Joe Biden will have destroyed our country with his open border madness and allowing criminals of every type to enter. With no attribution, murderers, drug dealers, gang members, even the mentally insane will make their home in our country wreaking havoc like we've never seen before.
It's not possible to have trials for millions and millions of people. We know who the criminals are. We must get them out of the United States and fast. Again, that is a popular position with the American public. He is doing important things along these lines, which is why he needs to fix the economic turmoil ASAP so we can get back to business.
Meanwhile, President Trump does look like he is shifting on the war in Ukraine, as he should. The fact of the matter is that the Russian government has shown little desire, predilection, interest in an actual end to this war. Over the weekend, more drone attacks across Ukraine, four dead in those drone attacks. That's after President Trump actually asked Putin to stop multiple times.
He literally last week said, Vladimir, stop after a gigantic drone and missile assault on Kiev, among other areas of the country. Well, President Trump put out a statement on Truth Social, literally saying that he is tiring of Vladimir Putin playing around He said, with all of that being said, he has a long thing about how it was Biden's fault that the war happened, which is true.
But then he says, with all of that being said, there was no reason for Putin to be shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns over the last few days. It makes me think maybe he doesn't want to stop the war. He's just tapping me along and has to be dealt with differently through banking or secondary sanctions. Too many people are dying.
Well, I mean, there's a third way that he could be helped along, and that would be increasing the amount of military aids Ukraine's put actual military heft behind any sort of secondary sanctions. Russia economically has escaped many of these sanctions by selling oil to the Indians or the Chinese. They've created their own sort of shadow banking system.
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