Trump 100 days: delusions of monarchy coupled with fundamental ineptitude

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Trump also pledged to end birthright citizenship and proposed "gold cards" for millionaires to purchase US citizenship.
56% : On his first day in office, Trump pardoned virtually everyone who took part in the 6 January 2021 insurrection.
50% : As the Democratic party tries to regroup, Trump could find his second 100 days heavier going than his first.
48% : Trump has wasted no time in trying to remake the US in his image - with results that are sweeping, vengeful and chaotic He has blinged it with gold cherubs, gold eagles, gold medallions, gold figurines and gilded rococo mirrors.
48% : You have Russ Vought [director of the office of management and budget] and the Project 2025 folks who clearly had a blueprint for action ready to go and yet you also see this pattern of dysfunction running through agencies like the Department of Justice and Department of Defense.
48% : " He added: "We're in DefCon 1 in a democracy where the president is radically consolidating power, politicising non-partisan agencies, attacking civil society and private firms, and literally disappearing people from our streets.
47% : Trump is seeking to remake the US in his image at frightening speed.
43% : In three months Trump has shoved the world's oldest continuous democracy towards authoritarianism at a pace that tyrants overseas would envy.
43% : Patrick Gaspard, a former official in the Barack Obama administration, said: "Donald Trump has been radically successful in demonstrating that in 100 days you can destroy a brand that's been built up over nearly 250 years.
42% : A good politician takes office and tries to expand beyond his base; an average politician tries to reward his base; Trump is the first politician who's screwing his base, betraying his base.
40% : In 100 days Donald Trump has turned the Oval Office into a gilded cage.
39% : Having promised so much winning, Trump is losing.
38% : Trump believes he is infallible.
37% : He tapped Musk to lead the "department of government efficiency", or Doge, aimed at reducing government waste with a Silicon Valley-inspired "move fast and break things" mentality.
35% : " Trump and his allies had four years in political exile to plot and plan a disruptive agenda laid out in Project 2025, a set of proposals by the rightwing Heritage Foundation thinktank in Washington.
35% : Trump, who promised be a dictator only on "day one", has signed more than 135 executive orders, well ahead of any other president in their first 100 days, bypassing Congress.
31% : " In keeping with his campaign promise, Trump has implemented some of the hardest-line immigration policies in the nation's history, driving a sharp decline in illegal border crossings.
30% : For the first time Trump is even under water on his signature issue of immigration.
28% : Trump, 78, told the Atlantic magazine: "The first time, I had two things to do - run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys.
23% : Even Richard Nixon, who kept an enemies list and was full of anger and and resentment, couldn't hold a candle to Trump.
22% : Trump is also waging a culture war.
20% : In 2021 Sabato, the University of Virginia political scientist, told the Guardian that history would remember Trump as by far the worst president ever on the basis of his first term.

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