The first 100 days of Trump's presidency: historical accomplishments or failure

April 29 will mark exactly 100 days of President Donald Trump's 45th term in office. Historically, analysts and the media sum up the successes of the new administration by this date. On Day 99, April 28, Congress must pass a new funding plan for government agencies and government agencies. If this does not happen, government work will be suspended. The Trump administration did its best to prevent this from happening.

«Medusa"tried to understand the first 100 days of the president.

The 100 presidency days are a very conditional measure of the success of a head of state. The first 3 with a small month in power is too short a time period to judge the achievements or failures of the 4-year (or even 8-year) presidential term. The most important 100 value of the day is given by journalists, for whom this is a convenient way to remind the new president of his election promises and to compare with reality the loud statements of the times of the presidential campaign. However, the politicians themselves are trying to use the favorable conditions of the first months in power in order to set the pace for their presidency - practice shows that in the future both public opinion and political support of comrades will decrease.

The benchmark for the success of the first months of the presidency are 100 days of Franklin Roosevelt. 32 th president of the United States promised to defeat the Great Depression in 100 days, and during that time he succeeded in adopting 15 laws aimed at fulfilling his pre-election promise. Since then, no one president of the United States has managed to come close to this result, and Roosevelt has achieved it in very specific circumstances. Donald Trump, ceded Hillary Clinton by the number of votes of American voters, there was neither such broad support in society, nor the ability to unite around the country, or at least the political elite.

As a result, Donald Trump faced considerable difficulties in fulfilling a large part of his election promises, and simply refused some of them (this concerns, first of all, foreign policy).

For example, in the first week in power, Trump signed a decree on the abolition of health care reform, adopted by Barack Obama, but in the following months, Republicans in Congress and failed to protect new reform bill. Donald Trump’s first big defeat jeopardized his other projects: the money saved on cancellation ObamacareIt was supposed to be used to fulfill other points of the election program, including a sharp tax cut and the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico.

The failure of health care reform is also important because the new bill was prepared within the Republican Party, which constitutes a majority in Congress, that is, Donald Trump had every reason to hope for its adoption. In other areas - first of all, in immigration - the matter did not reach Congress at all. Since January 2017, Trump has issued 3 presidential orders designed to tighten migration legislation, and all 3 have been locked by the courts.

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In the White House, the first months of Trump’s presidency are called “100 days of historic accomplishments.” As an example of success, the statement says that for the first 100 days he signed 30 presidential orders, and Obama signed 19 in total. However, it is important to understand that orders can hardly serve as a measure of efficiency as president: with their help, the head of state can only begin some kind of transformation that cannot be done through Congress. During the election campaign, Trump repeatedly accused Obama of impotence, stating that he endlessly signs presidential orders because he cannot force Congress to pass the necessary laws. Now he finds himself in a similar situation.

Against the background of the presidential administration's statements about its historical achievements, most of the American media called the first 100 days of the Trump presidency a failure. The Washington Post points out that during the month of 3, Trump did not even manage to fully fill key posts in ministries and departments. Indeed, some of Trump's candidates have hardly gone through the approval process, and some of those already appointed have been forced to resign.

One of the most notable deeds of Trump was deposition missile attack on Syria on April 10 (made, as has been repeatedly noted, in violation of election promises).

Since then, Trump has repeatedly commented on his decision - and these comments illustrate another important fact that determined the 100 days of his presidency. Donald Trump got into politics at 70 age, without any experience of government. In an interview Reuters April 27 Trump admitted that he had no idea how difficult it was to be president.

According to many experts in the United States and in Russia, the main result of the attack on Syria was the strengthening of Trump's position inside the United States - the operation was a response to domestic failures. Another answer might be beginning of tax reform - The draft was submitted to the April 26 Congress. The date the bill was introduced made many media write that with its help the Trump administration hopes to have time to launch a large-scale political project before the end of the first 100 days of presidency.

In general, the American press, whose relations with the new president are developing rather badly, does not want to hand out any advances to Trump. So, Buzzfeed noted Donald Trump's 100 days with material on 100 cases when the 45 president lied or distorted facts. Another noticeable episode is a fragment. cartoon series "The Simpsons"100 dedicated to the days of his presidency. The cartoon depicts Trump and key figures of his entourage, while Marge Simpson ends up packing antidepressants for the hundredth day, which should have been enough for all 4 of the year. This episode is also important because “The Simpsons” are on TV. Fox - according to some sources, Trump's favorite channel.

Edition Vox generally stated that the main outcome of Trump’s 100 presidency days is the risk of interrupting government work. The fact is that 28 April is the deadline for financing the federal government. If the congressmen do not accept the new program until midnight on Friday, the government will stop working on Saturday, and government employees will be sent on unpaid leave.

Such a situation cannot be called customary, but the suspension of the government’s work is not something extraordinary for the United States - it happened for the last time in 2013 under Barack Obama. Shatdaun lasted 2 weeks, with most of the most important services and departments (police, fire, army) continued to work. However, the suspension of government work on the 99 day of the Donald Trump presidency would be a bad illustration of the “period of historical achievements” that the White House writes about. Probably therefore from the April April 25 government spending project brought out the cost of building a wall on the border with Mexico - after that, the chances that the congress would approve the funding program increased significantly.

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