{"id":21256,"date":"2017-04-25T21:17:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21256"},"modified":"2017-04-25T21:17:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:17:18","slug":"100-days-real-or-phony-benchmark-for-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21256","title":{"rendered":"100 days: real — or phony — benchmark for POTUS?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald John Trump now calls the 100-day threshold for presidential performance a phony standard.<\/p>\n

That’s not what he was saying, however, while he was running for the office in 2016. He said repeatedly — and loudly — that he would do more than any other president in U.S. history during his first 100 days in office.<\/p>\n

How has he done?<\/p>\n

Repeal of the Affordable Care Act? Nothing.<\/em> Tax reform? Zip.<\/em> Infrastructure renovation? Forget it.<\/em> The Wall on the southern border? Ha!<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes, the president has signed a lot of executive orders. I like a few of them; most of them are clunkers.<\/p>\n

Legislative accomplishment? The president has come up empty.<\/p>\n

That means the 100-day report card — when it comes due — is going to record a pretty dismal job performance. Unless, of course, you’re Donald Trump, who’s been saying in consecutive breaths that he’s done more than any president in history and that the 100-day benchmark doesn’t mean a damn thing.<\/p>\n

Trump’s victory in the 2016 election rewrote the political calculus on so many levels. He wasn’t supposed to win; he didn’t know anything about government; he insulted too many key political demographic groups.<\/p>\n

Despite all of that he won the Electoral College by a comfortable — if not a massive<\/em> — margin over Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

He’s parlayed that changing political dynamic into some sort of success in his own mind.<\/p>\n

I’m not buying\u00a0the president’s\u00a0version of success. And, yes, the 100-day marker for first-term presidents does<\/em> matter, no matter what the current president might think publicly about it.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald John Trump now calls the 100-day threshold for presidential performance a phony standard. That’s not what he was saying, however, while he was running for the office in 2016. He said repeatedly — and loudly — that he would do more than any other president in U.S. history during his first 100 days in … Continue reading 100 days: real — or phony — benchmark for POTUS?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[7059,74,131,1424,3700,4523,4784],"class_list":["post-21256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-100-days","tag-2016-election","tag-aca","tag-donald-trump","tag-presidency","tag-tax-reform","tag-the-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21257,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21256\/revisions\/21257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}