Trump Made A Lot Of Promises About His First Hundred Days...

DONALD TRUMP HAS A LITTLE MORE THAN A WEEK UNTIL THE SYMBOLIC
100 DAYS IN OFFICE MARK IS REACHED, AND ALREADY BEFORE HE
EVEN REACHED IT HE DOESN'T SEEM HAPPY ABOUT IT.
HE TWEETED THIS
--
I THINK HE MEANS THE SUPREME COURT PICK --
THEY REALLY ARE THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE, THEY ARE
KILLING PEOPLE NOW.
HE SAYS 100 DAYS AS A STANDARD IS RIDICULOUS, I SAY TO HIM
WHY DID YOU USE IT?
BECAUSE HE HAS, HE RELEASED A VIDEO NOT LONG AGO LISTING
SOME ACCOMPLISHMENTS HE INTENDED TO GET IN THE FIRST 100
DAYS, IT BEGAN LIKE THIS.
TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WITH AN
UPDATE ON THE WHITE HOUSE TRANSITION AND THE POLICY
PLANS FOR THE FIRST 100 DAYS.
WEIRD.
HE ALSO TWEETED THIS -- TRUMP LAYS OUT POLICIES FOR
FIRST 100 DAYS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
THAT WAS AN ARTICLE BUT
HE GLADLY RETWEETED, APPARENTLY HE THOUGHT IT WAS OKAY WHEN THE
NEW YORK POST WAS USING THAT STANDARD.
WE PULLED OUT A FEW
REPRESENTATIVE ONES WHERE HE REPEATEDLY TWEETED ABOUT THE 100
DAY STANDARD.
HE'S REFERENCED IT IN SPEECHES, IT DOESN'T REALLY
MEAN ANYTHING, I HAVE A FEELING IF BEN MANKIEWICZ WAS HERE HE
WOULD HATE THE FACT THAT AS WE USE 10 AS AN IMPORTANT NUMBER,
THAT 100 DAYS MATTERS AT ALL, BUT IT IS A STANDARD TRUMP
HIMSELF HAS USED.
WE WILL EVALUATE WHETHER IT WAS A
SUCCESS OR NOT, BUT WE ALSO HAVE SEAN SPICER WHO WAS ASKED
EARLIER TODAY ABOUT THIS.
WE INCLUDED THE QUESTION AND I WANT YOU TO CAREFULLY
LISTEN TO HOW THE QUESTION IS FRAMED AND THEN EVALUATE
HOW SPICER CHOOSES TO RESPOND.
LOOKING AHEAD TO THE 100 DAY MARK, SETTING ASIDE EXECUTIVE
ORDERS, CAN YOU SAY WHAT SINGLE PIECE OF LEGISLATION YOU
ARE PROUDEST OF THAT YOU GOT THROUGH CONGRESS THAT WAS
ON THE PRESIDENT'S AGENDA?
A FEW THINGS, NUMBER ONE WE ARE NOT DONE, WE'VE GOT A LITTLE
WAYS BEFORE THE 100 DAY MARK, I THINK WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN OUT OF
THIS WHITE HOUSE IS A ROBUST AGENDA OF ACTIVITY.
THERE ARE A
LOT OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS I THINK THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN PLEASED
WITH, NOT ONLY WHAT THEY'VE DONE OR WHAT THEY WILL DO, BUT WHAT
THEY'VE DONE, WHEN YOU LOOK AT IMMIGRATION IN PARTICULAR WE SEE
A SIGNIFICANT DROP AT THE BORDER.
I THINK ON JOBS THERE
HAS BEEN A LOT OF ACTIVITY WE'VE BEEN PROUD TO SEE AMERICAN
MANUFACTURING AND JOB CREATION, BUT THERE ARE PIECES LIKE WHAT
WE DID TODAY THAT I THINK IF YOU ARE A VETERAN WHO SERVED OUR
COUNTRY, TO KNOW THAT YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL OPTIONS FOR
HEALTHCARE IN A TIMELY MANNER, OR NOT JUST -- BUT A
GEOGRAPHICALLY FRIENDLY MANNER, SO YOU ARE NOT DRIVING HOURS, IS
HELPFUL AND A STRONG SYMBOL OF HOW WE TREAT VETERANS.
THERE ARE
A LOT OF THINGS I THINK THE PRESIDENT HAS DONE ON VETERANS,
ON IMMIGRATION, ON REGULATORY REFORM, WE ARE AT A DOZEN
CONGRESSIONAL REVIEW ACT PIECES OF LEGISLATION THAT I THINK IT
HAD A POSITIVE IMPACT ON JOB CREATION.
AND I'VE NOTED BEFORE
THAT ONLY ONE HAD EVER BEEN SIGNED IN HISTORY, THAT'S A
SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENT FOR THIS PRESIDENT, AND OBVIOUSLY WHEN
YOU LOOK AT THE CONFIRMATION OF NEIL GORSUCH TO THE SUPREME
COURT THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT ONE, BUT I THINK WE ARE PLEASED
WITH WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS ACCOMPLISHED.
AND AS HE NOTED YESTERDAY IN WISCONSIN, THE AMOUNT HE'S
DONE OVERALL HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT.
THE QUESTION WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT EXECUTIVE ORDERS, WHAT ONE
PIECE OF LEGISLATION CAN YOU POINT TO.
HE IMMEDIATELY SAID WE
AREN'T DONE, WE STILL HAVE TIME, AND HE SMILED IN A WAY THAT HE
KNEW WHAT HE WAS SAYING, THEN HE LISTED A NUMBER OF EXECUTIVE
ORDERS, HE REFERENCED THAT THEY GOT SOMEONE ON THE SUPREME
COURT, WHICH IS TRUE, ALTHOUGH WE SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEY
HAD TO USE THE NUCLEAR OPTION TO DO IT, THAT SEEMS RELEVANT, THEN
HE TALKED ABOUT EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE
WAS A SINGLE PIECE OF LEGISLATION REFERENCED.
EVEN
WENT ON TO SAY THAT COMPANIES ARE DOING WELL, ECONOMIC
ACTIVITY, GOING TO THAT THING OF TRUMP WHERE IF A COMPANY SAYS
THEY WILL INVEST OR HIRE PEOPLE, EVEN IF THEY ANNOUNCED IT TO
YEARS AGO THAT'S HIS NOW THAT'S WHAT THEY POINTED TO.
OCTOBER 24, DONALD TRUMP TWEETED OUT, MY CONTRACT WITH
THE AMERICAN VOTER WILL RESTORE HONESTY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND
CHANGE TO WASHINGTON, AND HE PUT OUT HIS 100 DAY PLAN.
MIDDLE-CLASS TAX RELIEF AND SIMPLIFICATION.
NOT DONE.
AMERICAN ENERGY AND INFRASTRUCTURE ACT.
NOT DONE.
SCHOOL CHOICE ACT.
NOT DONE.
REPEAL AND REPLACE OBAMACARE --
I GUESS THAT WAS DONE, RIGHT?
AFFORDABLE CHILDCARE AND ELDER
CARE ACT, AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, HE LISTED ALL THESE
THINGS.
THEY HAVE LISTED THEM AS THE DAYS WENT ON, THIS WAS
BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED, AND NOTHING.
EXCEPT EXECUTIVE
ORDERS, WHICH TODAY, WE WILL PROBABLY GET TO IT LATER, HE
TURNED INTO EXECUTIVE MEMORANDUM, WHICH ARE SORT OF
INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM EXECUTIVE ORDERS.
100 DAYS, HISTORIANS
HATE IT, IT DOESN'T MAKE MUCH SENSE, BUT WHEN YOU RUN ON IT
AND TALK ABOUT IT FROM DAY ONE YOU ARE HELD TO IT.
IT MAKES SENSE, BECAUSE EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT THE
PRESIDENT DOES ON THE 101ST DAY DOESN'T COUNT.
OF COURSE IT'S AN
ABSURD STANDARD, THE MEDIA GETS TOO HYPED UP ABOUT IT, HE TRIED
TO KILL OBAMACARE, HE COULDN'T. THEY WILL TRY AGAIN.
IF YOU ARE
HIS SUPPORTER AND HE DOES IT ON DAY 107 AS OPPOSED TO 98, DO YOU
REALLY CARE?
BUT ON THE ISSUE OF HYPOCRISY, ALL THE THINGS
MICHAEL LISTED WERE ACTS THAT TRUMP SAID HE WOULD DO, HENCE
LEGISLATION.
THAT GOES PARTLY TO INCOMPETENCE, HE WAS GOING TO BE
A DEALMAKER AND GET THIS LEGISLATION PASSED, THEY TRIED
AND FAILED ON ONE THING, THE OTHER NINE TO MY UNDERSTANDING
THEY HAVEN'T EVEN TRIED ANY OF THOSE.
THEY ARE GETTING CLOSER ON TAXES BUT NOT YET.
BUT MNUCHIN THIS WEEK SAID WE AREN'T GOING TO GET TO IT
BEFORE THE AUGUST RECESS.
THEY ARE NOT CLOSE.
TODAY HE SAID SOMETHING IS COMING NEXT WEEK, WE DON'T KNOW
WHAT THAT WILL BE.
BUT TO YOUR LARGER POINT, ON THAT HIT LIST
OF 10, HE HASN'T HIT THEM ALL, BUT LET'S GIVE CREDIT TO WHERE
CREDIT IS DUE, IT'S NOT THE BORDER WALL, BUT WHEN IT COMES
TO IMMIGRATION ITS SORT OF DEATH BY 1000 CUTS.
A LOT OF POLICIES
THEY PUT IN PLACE HAVE HAD THE KIND OF IMPACT HE WANTED
WHEN IT CAME TO BORDER SECURITY.
FURTHER CREDIT TO TRUMP IF YOU ARE IN HIS CAMP, NOT ONLY THE
CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION BUT HE GOT RID OF REGULATIONS ON
CORE MINING.
THAT MIGHT CREATE MORE POLLUTION AND MIGHT
ENDANGER THE MINERS BUT HE SAID HE WOULD DO IT AND HE DID, IF
YOU VOTED FOR HIM I GUESS YOUR HAPPY ABOUT THAT, BUT ONE
POSITIVE THING HE DID WAS FOR THE MOMENT PULL OUT OF THE
TRANSPACIFIC PARTNERSHIP.
BOTH RIGHT AND LEFT ARE HAPPY WITH
THAT.
I TEND TO THINK HE WILL GET BACK IN, BUT FOR THE MOMENT
BEING, CREDIT WHERE IT IS DUE.
BUT THAT'S ALSO NOT LEGISLATION.
THAT IS WHAT IS SO INTERESTING, THE LEGISLATION, AT
LEAST THE BIG-TICKET STUFF HE PROMISED, THAT WAS LABELED AS
POPULIST, HE WASN'T ABLE TO DO.
HE GOT THE SUPREME COURT BY ONLY
PERHAPS IRREPARABLY HAVING THE RULES CHANGED, HE'S DONE
EXECUTIVE ORDERS WHICH YOU CAN JUST DO, AND EVEN SOME OF HIS
MOST SIGNATURE ACHIEVEMENTS IN THAT ARE BEING HELD UP IN COURT
OR WERE ALREADY STRUCK DOWN BY JUDGES.
IT DOESN'T MEAN HE
HASN'T BEEN A SUCCESS, IT JUST DEPENDS ON FROM WHOSE POINT OF
VIEW YOU EVALUATE IT.
IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE CRAZY XENOPHOBES
SUPPORTING HIM YOU MIGHT BE SAID THAT HE HASN'T DONE MORE TO
BUILD A WALL AND SHUT OUT FOREIGNERS.
IF YOU BELIEVED THAT
HE WOULD MAKE THESE POPULIST ECONOMIC MOVES, IF YOU THOUGHT
GETTING RID OF OBAMACARE WOULD HELP PEOPLE, HE HAS NOT BEEN A
SUCCESS.
BUT IF YOU ARE A WEALTHY CEO OR ONE OF THE
RICHEST PEOPLE YOU ARE STILL LOOKING FORWARD TO TAX REFORM,
HE STOCKED HIS CABINET WITH PEOPLE FRIENDLY TO YOUR POINT OF
VIEW, SO THERE, ESPECIALLY WITH THE WAY THEY HAVE HAMSTRUNG
FUTURE REGULATIONS ON CORPORATIONS, HE MIGHT BE SEEN
AS A SUCCESS FOR SOME OF THE FAR-REACHING BUT LESS
PUBLICIZED EXECUTIVE ORDERS HE'S GOTTEN THROUGH.
IF YOU ARE A REPUBLICAN DONOR YOU ARE THRILLED WITH HOW TRUMP
IS DOING SO FAR.
HAS NOT NUKED ANY ONE OR DONE ANY TRADE WARS,
AND SO FAR HE IS PROMISING YOU A TON OF TAX CUTS AND HE ALREADY
GAVE YOU DEREGULATION, AND TODAY IN THE NEWS THERE IS EVEN MORE
DEREGULATION COMING.
AND THEN HE FILLED HIS CABINET WITH WALL
STREET BANKERS.
WALL STREET IS PROBABLY ECSTATIC AND
HIGH-FIVING ABOUT THE FIRST 100 DAYS.
AND LET'S JUST BRING UP GRAPHICS 7B, YOU WILL SEE THE
POPULARITY ROUGHLY AT THIS POINT IN PAST PRESIDENCIES, BY THAT
MEASURE HE'S NOT DOING WELL.
35% IS PROBABLY NOT WHERE HE SAW
HIMSELF ENDING UP, BUT I'M SURE HE WILL CONSOLE HIMSELF WITH A
BRIEF BROWSING OF RASMUSSEN, WHICH WILL BE MORE
FAVORABLE FOR HIM.
BUT TO BE FAIR WAS OBAMA MUCH BETTER?
HE WAS, 61%.
HE IS LOWER THAN CARTER, THAT WUSSY.
BUT TO BE FAIR, WERE OTHER DEMOCRATS, LIKE THE VERY
UNPOPULAR LYNDON JOHNSON -- 76%.
JIMMY CARTER, WHAT A WEAKLING --
72%.
BILL CLINTON IS STILL HIGHER THAN HIM THERE BUT WOULD
BECOME EVEN MORE POPULAR.
THERE WAS ALSO AN ERA WHERE PEOPLE LIKED THE PRESIDENT A
LOT, THEY WERE ALL POPULAR PRESIDENTS BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST
LIKE TO THE PRESIDENT.
NOT SO MUCH ANYMORE.
YOU SAY ERA, BUT THE LAST PRESIDENT WAS OBAMA AND HE WAS
AT 61%.
IT MIGHT ALSO
BE TRUMP.

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