As I have observed before, we can forget the old FDR-era 100-Day yardstick for this term of the Trump Administration, which I have observed before looks and feels much more like a first term than a second term. And in fact I suspect that future historians will make a big deal out of how Trump serving non-consecutive terms made a huge difference in everything.
In one respect Trump is on course to overtake FDR’s 100 days—executive orders:
Bruce Mehlman’s “Age of Disruption” breaks it down for us:
The second Trump Administration launched with an unprecedented volume of executive orders & actions starting day one, a shock-and-awe, flood-the-zone strategy based on lessons learned from 2017-2020 and four subsequent years of planning. Trump 2.0’s 70 EO’s in just 30 days exceeds those in the first 100 days of every President since 1933. Tom Joyce of MUFG securities finds 21% of Trump new EO’s deal with operations of the federal government, 15% with DEI, 14% foreign affairs, 10% border/immigration, 8% trade/tariffs, 8% healthcare, 8% climate/energy, 5% defense, 4% science / tech and 7% “other.” (Data shows OpenAI Deep Research report on EO’s in first 100 days based on Federal Register data).
