DAY 101: EPILOGUE: The day after, and we're back to square one

Nobody has ever complained about the the 100-day benchmark for a presidency before. The first one to complain about it, even though he made a whole bunch of promises for his first 100 days was Donald Trump. And he only complained about it after it was clear he would not have any achievements to brag about by day 100.

He wasn't the only one, though. In an interview with The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, NBC anchor Katy Tur said on April 27, 2017, two days before day 100, that the 100 day benchmark is an "artificial construct."

I disagree. The first 100 days in office do paint a picture not only of what the new administration will be like, but how the new administration learns from its mistakes and how the administration is willing to fix those mistakes.

Trump inadvertently admitted he's a loser, then he blamed it on the media

This entry actually started yesterday evening, when Washington Post correspondent Philip Rucker said the following on air on MSNBC in regards to his recent interview with Donald Trump regarding his 100 days in office and making a reference to the fact that Donald Trump had given maps of the USA marked in red with the regions in which he won the electoral college to three reporters from Reuters:

"He actually did the same thing with me, he actually brought up the map, he said "aren't you impressed by this map? Are you surprised by this map?" He encouraged me to take it home to my colleages at the Washington Post and try to run it on the front page of our newspaper. So he cares a lot about the map, he cares a lot about these states."

I disagree. Trump doesn't actually care about those states. By trying to get the media to show that map on the story for his 100 days in office, Trump inadvertently admitted he's actually a LOSER. And since he has nothing to show as a win for his 100 days in office, he seems to be thinking that running that map will show him as a winner and not, as reality shows, as a huge failure in office.

But that's not the end of the story.

At day 100, Trump still has more disapproval than approval

According to Gallup, on April 29, 2017, day 100 of the Trump administration, Donald Trump has a 42% approval and a 53% disapproval, which is a record low for any president in modern history.

To put things in perspective, on day 3, January 22, 2017, Trump had a 45% approval and 45% disapproval rating. Five days later, the disapproval jumped and the approval sunk. Things have pretty much been the same in terms of approval in the Gallup poll.

Rodrigo Duterte, who admitted to killing people personally, got invited to the White House

Apparently inviting ruthless Egyptian dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to the White House wasn't enough for Donald Trump to show just how low his administration can sink. Today, Trump invited Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte. Duterte admitted IN ENGLISH that he committed murder and that he asked the police to commit murder by killing drug dealers instead of arresting them and applying the law by sending them to trial for their crimes.

Here's the invitation:

NEW: Readout of President Donald J. Trump’s Call with President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines pic.twitter.com/Cww6pHDDZQ

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) April 30, 2017

I'm not making this up, by the way. Duterte's admission in English can be found in a 2016 article published by the BBC here:

On his 100th day in office, Trump gets yet another huge protest against him

This morning thousands of people in several cities across America participated in a march against climate change that in reality was a protest against Donald Trump's environmental policies. According to The New York Times this is what happened in Washington D.C.:

Tens of thousands of demonstrators, alarmed at what they see as a dangerous assault on the environment by the Trump administration, poured into the streets here on Saturday to sound warnings both planetary and political about the Earth’s warming climate.

Starting at the foot of the Capitol, the protesters marched to the White House, surrounding the mansion while President Trump was inside on his 100th day in office. Once there, the demonstrators let out a collective roar, meant to symbolically drown out the voices of the administration’s climate change deniers.

Donald Trump's unpopularity made Congressional Republican's job more difficult

Today The New York Times published an article pointing out that Donald Trump actually made things worse for Republicans in Congress by means of Trump being historically unpopular.

Here's a quote from the article. The quote is actually from Sarah A. Binder, a professor of political science at George Washington University:

“If there is anything specific to Trump here,” Ms. Binder said, “it is his historic degree of unpopularity, which means there is very little hope or chance that he could provide cover for his own party to take controversial votes, and no chance in hell Democrats will take such a vote because the president has asked them to.”

DAY 100: Trump ends 100 days in office without Obamacare repeal, no border wall, and with 80% failure

Donald Trump ended his 100th day in office without an Obamacare repeal, as the Republicans had to withdraw it once again because even among Republicans in Congress they could not get enough votes to pass it.

In fact, according to CNN, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus tried for the last two weeks to pressure Republicans into approving the Obamacare repeal before the end of the 100 days.

The "100 Days" milestone approaching, Priebus was "aggressive" in his calls to Capitol Hill in search of converts on the controversial legislation, the sources said.

One source likened the chief of staff's efforts to securing a "100 Days" trophy for President Donald Trump, and a senior GOP congressional aide said "definitely Reince" when asked who has been the most aggressive in trying to whip up support for a vote.
"Priebus had really made the push to get the vote. To get this done. Just in terms of the political side -- the political win," a House GOP aide said.

But in the end, Trump failed to get the Obamacare repeal within his first 100 days.