Have you ever wondered how the first 100 days of a presidency became such a focus? According to History.com, the first hundred days is “a symbolic window to set the tone, push key policies and demonstrate leadership. It represents a kind of political version of a first impression”. The first 100 days initially became a big deal in 1933 with the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He had to take swift action to calm the financial panic that was crippling the country and begin rolling out the programs that eventually made up the New Deal, including passing 15 major pieces of legislation in 100 days. It became a kind of standard for the presidencies that followed.
Last Tuesday marked Donald Trump’s hundredth day in office. In the days leading up to this now so-called benchmark, the media pulled out all of the stops trying to convince the public that Trump is failing; and those who voted for him, with the exception of only the staunchest MAGA devotees, are turning away from him in disillusionment. They cite numerous polls as evidence and aggressively promote the fantasy that he should have already accomplished many of the things he promised. The American people understand that 100 days are just a tiny fraction (6.8%) of the 1,460 days in a four-year term. What makes Trump one of a kind is being unafraid to publicly commit to essential, sweeping changes that will rebalance the country and the world in ways that will “make America first” and his aggressive promise-keeping that began with his first day in office.
Donald Trump didn’t sit idly by and let the media or his political adversaries define his performance in the early weeks. He launched his own brilliant counter-offensive spanning all of last week with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appearing on the Sunday talk circuit, early morning press briefings on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, and a raucous voter rally in Michigan on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Trump opened a Cabinet meeting to the press and had each of his secretaries speak to the work they are doing. It’s no surprise that CNN and MSNBC did not cover these live events. When the American people use their own good judgment to evaluate the performance of the Trump Administration these first hundred days, it robs the media of their power to shape the narrative.
The extensive detail shared about the first 100 days of the Trump presidency leaves no doubt it has been “the most monumental and historic” ever as Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt described it. A snapshot of the work barely scratches the surface.
The border is the most secure it has ever been. Through April 1 just 9 illegal aliens have been released into the country compared with 184,000 under Biden in the same period. Would be illegal entrants into our country have gotten the message they should not come. In March 2024, there were 140,000 encounters under Biden and in March 2025 there were 7,000 under Trump. 85 miles of new border wall have been started and 75 miles of temporary walls erected. Drug cartels have been designated foreign terrorists and arrests and deportations are underway in partnership with local law enforcement. 22 million fentanyl pills and 3,400 kilos of fentanyl have been seized by the Drug Enforcement Agency.
There have been 345,000 new jobs added during the first 100 days; 9,000 of them in manufacturing. A policy of getting rid of 10 regulations for every new regulation added is resulting in $900 billion in savings for American families. Commitments companies have made to reinvest in manufacturing in the United States have reached $8 trillion.
When Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was confronted by Martha Raddatz on ABC with “the polls have Trump underwater on the economy” and “shelves could be empty in a matter of weeks”, he took the strong position that the perceptions are “media created” and consumer behavior is in conflict with the reporting. He described the process he is leading with “18 important trading partners” as very productive. He went on to say that when countries come to the table offering what they are willing to do to level the playing field on trade, he finds himself disgusted that our country ever allowed American workers to be disadvantaged in this way.
Bessent went on to describe our economy as a “barbell” with hi-tech and advanced finance at one end and natural resources led by energy at the other. In the center, middle America got left behind and Trump is determined to correct that wrong. He described it this way, “America first is not America alone. It means leadership.”
The military started Trump’s term with a massive recruitment shortfall and is now exceeding recruitment goals in all branches. 47 Americans who were unlawfully detained by other countries have been released and returned home.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio reported that for 30 years we had a foreign policy based on what was good for the rest of the world. We are now making foreign policy decisions based on whether they make us stronger, safer or richer. We have stopped issuing student visas to people who want to come to the United States to create disruption and the State Department has eliminated a department that existed to monitor the social media of American citizens for “disinformation”. Rubio stressed that he makes no apology for the fact he is actively negotiating with other countries to take some of the worst criminals here illegally when we deport them. “We want to get them as far away from here as we can send them.”
Secretary of Health and Human Services Bobby Kennedy reported toxic food dyes have been banned from our food supply and he is going after why there are 10,000 ingredients in our foods while there are just 400 in Europe’s food supply. Major studies are underway to identify the root causes of the skyrocketing incidents of autism and chronic illness in our children.
The Department of Government Efficiency has identified more than $160 billion in savings to date with the promise of much more to come.
The week ended on a high note with a much stronger than expected jobs report of 177,000 jobs created in April and unemployment holding steady; China indicated it may be ready to begin talking a trade deal and Ukraine signed a rare minerals deal with the US that will begin to repay some of the billions American taxpayers have spent supporting their war with Russia.
The legacy media pressed hard all week in their search for evidence to support their narrative. Trump is failing; chaos is disrupting American lives; and the people are afraid. We had to look no further than our own backyard for a classic example of the unholy alliance between dirty politicians and corrupt “journalists”.
Cavalier Johnson, the 38-year-old Mayor of Milwaukee with a track record of no accomplishment, was invited on CNN by Jake Tapper to talk about the lead poisoning currently plaguing Milwaukee Public Schools. Johnson briefly described the situation as a number of children with high lead levels and school closings to undertake assessment and abatement and then flipped immediately into blasting Donald Trump as the problem. In his view, the Federal government through the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) should be providing resources and the “slash and burn mentality of the Trump Administration” is responsible for illness in Milwaukee’s children. His appearance quickly devolved into a diatribe of the liberal talking points on how Trump is destroying the country. Liberal Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin and Congresswoman Gwen Moore have written a letter to Secretary Bobby Kennedy demanding he reinstate lead experts at the Federal level in the CDC.
Tapper, like so many of his peers, showed himself to be morally vacant and devoid of any of the investigative curiosity that would lead a jounalist with integrity to pursue the truth. With a few basic questions he would have learned that Milwaukee has known about its lead problem for more than 25 years. Prior to 1978, when lead was banned from paint, most homes were built using lead paint. 88% of the homes in Milwaukee were built before 1978 and the Health Department “assumes lead paint exists in any building in Milwaukee that was constructed before 1978”. Milwaukee Health Department data shows 1 in 5 children tested positive for elevated blood lead levels between 2018 and 2021.
The Milwaukee Public School System has 100 buildings built before 1978 and recent findings of high lead levels in some children have put renewed focus on the schools. In a 2024 report to the state legislature, the district disclosed it deferred more than $265 million in maintenance funds targeted for the schools, part of a much larger financial mismanagement problem that has been a source of local concern for months.
Tapper had no probing questions for Johnson. He was more than content to provide a forum for the mayor to deflect accountability and make the long-standing Milwaukee lead problem a consequence of Trump’s first 100 days.
The behavior of the so-called legacy media is, to my way of thinking, treasonous. They are driven by their rabid zeal to contribute in any way they can to the destruction of Donald Trump’s presidency and, in the process, they are willing to harm the country and the American people without restraint. CNN’s Phil Mattingly last week exposed that they know exactly what they are doing when he said, “Perception that things are going to get really bad in a consumer driven economy can lead to that happening.” They have been doing everything they can think of to drive the perception that things are going to get really bad.
The comprehensive, coordinated strategy the Trump Administration has unleashed in these first hundred days is unlike anything we have ever seen. As Bessent described it they are doing peace deals, trade deals, tax deals, deregulating and achieving energy independence. What the media and Democrats ignorantly call chaos is the aggressive, simultaneous tackling of big, complex problems. They are incapable of recognizing it…or they choose not to.
America’s legacy media is a real and growing threat to our freedom. They have shown themselves to be irredeemable. In our free market economy, their uselessness to the consumer has created a vacuum that is being rapidly filled by new age media and the Trump Administration has wisely set a place for the new media at the table. It’s well past time for those who have existed in a protected political bubble to face one of the realities of the real world. That which cannot be repaired must be replaced.
