Impact of Trump’s first hundred days in office

With an approval rating of 44%, Donald Trump is the only post-World War Two American president to have less than half the public's support after 100 days in office.

In just a hundred days, Trump's approval ratings have declined to a historic low due to his tariffs, which are expected to cause economic and political pain both at home and abroad.

In 1933 amid the Great Depression, United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the test of the first 100 days in office.

He expanded the central government's role in favor of the lower classes by working with Congress to pass major bills and new laws.

A century later, after the Great Recession and COVID chaos, returning President Donald Trump has had an almost equally impactful first 100 days.

• Trump’s approval ratings at 100 days lower than any president
  

  Poll: Trump’s approval ratings at 100 days lower than any president

  After 100 days Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any president ever.

However, Trump is trying to shrink the role of government, which lessens the economic responsibility of the upper classes, having issued 99 executive decrees so far.

Since day one, it's just been executive order, after executive order, after executive order. 

Member of Public 01

Trump's approval ratings began to tumble when he announced unprecedented tariffs which mark the end of the Western neoliberal order.

The tariffs are expected to cause short-term pain, both economically and for Trump's popularity.

• EU calls Trump tariffs ‘major blow to world economy’
  

  EU calls Trump tariffs ‘major blow to world economy’ as China vows retaliation

  The European Commission president warns the new tariffs by the US will be a major blow to the world economy.

However, the only other party, the Democrats, have the worst approval ratings of either party for almost four decades.

They need to step the game up. They need to do what they have to do to get back into office, because this, this is really terrible way we are doing right now.

All the other countries are looking down on America because of the policies that Trump is making.

Before he got into office, we were number one country in the world, but not anymore.

Member of Public 02

The nation's elite civil war has reached a heightened level.

• US Federal workers rally against workforce cuts in Washington
  

  US Federal workers rally against workforce cuts in Washington DC

  Federal workers in Washington D.C. rally against Trump

Trump has responded to four years of legal attacks with a major purge of Democratic Party cadres and officials, axing entire ministries, shadowy NGOs and over 300,000, mostly middle class, federal jobs.

Polls show that about half the country is bitterly partisan, but many Americans say the changes are so fast, so sweeping, and so likely to be overturned, that they have tuned out of politics.

God has made a plan and it has a purpose, even if it's the way that I don't see it, or I don't like to see it, so I just, I don't know.

I think that just brings me comfort in the knowing, like no matter what, ultimately, there's a bigger picture, even though we can't see past what's happening right now.

Member of Public 03

On the foreign policy front, Trump still sends almost as many weapons to Ukraine as his predecessor, and has increased arms and support to Tel Aviv for the ongoing US Israeli genocide.

• Trump rush to drastically downsize US government
  

  Trump blitzkrieg to drastically downsize US government

  The Trump administration

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