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Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries Responds to Trump 100 Days of Chaos
Wed, 30 Apr 2025
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas interviews Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries on his reaction to Donald Trump’s first one hundred days and Leader Jeffries does not hold back. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: How Does Hakeem Jeffries Grade Trump's First 100 Days?
I'm joined by Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries. Leader Jeffries, I got to ask you, now that we're 100 days into this Trump presidency, how do you grade it?
Chapter 2: What Are the Main Failures of the Trump Administration?
The only question to be asked is whether Donald Trump should be given a D for disaster or an F for failure. I'm going to give him an F for complete and total failure.
Chapter 3: Is Donald Trump Perpetrating a Fraud on the American People?
or I'm gonna give him an F for complete and total fraud. I mean, do you believe that he's perpetrating a fraud right now on the American people when he says, look, just give me a little more time. Tariffs are working so good. I'm gonna eliminate all of your taxes because we're getting so rich. And by the way, Trump gold cards, everybody.
I mean, when he keeps doing that, doesn't that look like how he ran his businesses into the ground in the 90s?
Chapter 4: How Are Trump's Business Failures Reflecting on His Presidency?
That's correct. We know that he bankrupted at least three different businesses, including bankrupting a casino, which is like impossible to do. The House always wins unless the House, in terms of the casino, is being run by Donald Trump. Now he's actually trying to bankrupt the United States of America, crashing the economy and driving us toward a recession.
Chapter 5: What Is the Impact of Trump’s Tariffs and Economic Policies?
And you are absolutely correct that the whole thing is fraudulent. and House Republicans spent all of last year on the campaign trail promising to lower costs on day one, to bring down inflation, and to make life more affordable. That was their central promise to the American people. They lied. There was never any intention to do it. And we now see that costs aren't going down. They're going up.
Tariffs are actually adding thousands of dollars of additional costs to hardworking American taxpayers. They think that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Actually, Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme. The Trump administration has turned into a Ponzi scheme. They promise one thing and they deliver a disaster.
Chapter 6: Why Are Trump's Approval Ratings Declining?
And you see Donald Trump's approval is plummeting across all polls, whether it's Pew, whether it's Ipsos, and whether it's Fox. Donald Trump now attacking the pollsters also, saying they're enemies of the state. Also, consumer confidence is at its lowest since COVID. Even if you go back from that, a lot of these things are the lowest since these polls have been taken.
So it seems to be registering now, though, amongst the American people. Do you think that's what's happening?
Absolutely correct. In fact, Donald Trump is now the most unpopular president in terms of his public approval in the first 100 days in modern American history. He broke his own record. And We now have seen polling that has him in the high 30s. At best, he's in the low 40s. That's abysmally low.
But it's because the American people have seen the assault on the economy, the assault on Social Security, the assault on Medicaid and health care, the assault on veterans and the assault on. the rule of law, the American way of life, and democracy itself, and the American people aren't feeling it, which is why his poll numbers are plummeting.
Chapter 7: What Can Congress Do to Stop Trump's Extreme Agenda?
And so the only question then is when will House Republicans stop being a rubber stamp for his extreme agenda. We only need four Republicans in the House or four Republicans in the Senate to partner with us as House Democrats or Senate Democrats, and we can stop these bad things from happening legislatively.
Thank you.
Chapter 8: Are There Concerns About Trump's Cognitive Abilities?
leader jeffries you know i'm not trying to mock donald trump when i say what i'm about to say but i think it's a valid question that just needs to be asked right now after the first 100 days and do you think more needs to be discussed about his cognitive abilities and i mean this sincerely i mean he's saying that he did 200 deals there's not 200 countries he's saying he's having conversations with world leaders and these conversations are not happening he's putting tariffs on penguins
And when you see him like you see him in Rome, whether he's sleeping at the ceremony and and just, you know, not following the dress code. You know, there seems to be issues when I watch it just as somebody, you know, known people in their life, whether it's I won't even go there. It's just it's there's concern there. And I just don't think it's being discussed.
I don't know what you think about that.
Donald Trump spent the last year and a half questioning the cognitive ability of President Joe Biden, notwithstanding many of the legislative accomplishments that Donald Trump could only wish he got over the finish line.
And so I think it's fair that a lot of Americans across the country that I run into are questioning whether Donald Trump is actually fit at this point to be able to carry out the duties of the United States of America in terms of being the president, and the commander in chief. Then again, we know that this is someone who has spent a lifetime lying
in every aspect of his life, and he lies seamlessly. And so you just wonder whether the other explanation is that some of this is just his willingness to try to consistently lie to the American people in the same way that he lied about Project 2025 on the campaign trail, acted like it didn't exist.
And then all of the extremism, all of the parade of horribles, this whole flood the zone strategy, which we are consistently pushing back against in Congress, in courts, and in communities across the country. But it's all centered around Project 2025, which he said to the American people he was unaware of and acted like it didn't exist.
And that, of course, fundamentally, like the willingness to continue to lie to the American people is quite unfortunate. But the American people aren't buying it, which is why you are seeing his public approval crash. And in poll after poll after poll, the generic ballot, who would the American people rather have in charge?
Republicans in Congress who are a rubber stamp or Democrats who will be a check and balance on an out of control executive branch. Poll after poll after poll have said we want to put Democrats in charge so you can actually do the bidding of the American people, not simply bending the knee to Donald Trump, which is what the Republicans in the Congress are doing right now.
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