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posted by martyb on Tuesday May 02 2017, @09:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-exactly-like-Ted-Williams dept.

The Center for American Progress reports

On [April 29], Donald Trump marks the 100th day of his presidency, and finds his approval ratings much lower than any of his modern predecessors.

One reason for this could be perceptions about his accountability. To become president, Trump made a lot of promises to a lot of people--663, in fact. In just 100 days of what would be 1,461 days of a first term, Donald Trump has broken 80 promises he made before he was sworn in.

[...] A close analysis of the 663 promises Trump made on the campaign trail shows how few he has kept, and how many more he has broken.

Trump's promises about what he would accomplish in his first 100 days are not the first vows pegged to a key milestone that were summarily ignored or broken. As a candidate, Trump made several pledges about the first paper he would sign, as well as what would he would do during his first minute and first hour as president. He kept none of them. On his first day in office, Trump failed to keep 34 different promises of what he said he would do on Day One in the White House--and fulfilled just two.

In total, during his first month in office, Trump broke 64 promises. He kept just seven of his promises in that first month.

Including those from the first month, Trump has broken 80 promises and kept seven in the first hundred days. Three promises have been addressed with some caveats in a separate category below.

[...] When the AP's Julie Pace asked Trump about the 100-day plan, Trump replied, "I'm mostly there on most items."

The reality shows the opposite.

[...] Trump promised he won't let countries steal our jobs anymore.

"We'll put our people back to work, we will not let other countries steal our jobs. It it is not going to happen anymore." Worcester, MA, 11/18/15 [Video]

According to a ThinkProgress analysis of Labor Department data, at least 11,934 American jobs have been lost or are in the process of leaving the United States since Inauguration Day.

In going to a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to celebrate his amazing string of accomplishments over the last 100 days, Trump avoided the White House Correspondents Association dinner where he was sure to have been the butt of about a billion squarely-on-target jokes.

As for Trump's claim that "No administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days", Politifact notes

The 15 major bills [which Franklin Roosevelt signed in his first 100 days] included those that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the Tennessee Valley Authority (both of which still exist) and the Home Owners Loan Corp. He signed the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which established farm subsidies, and the National Industrial Recovery Act, which started public-works efforts to reverse the Great Depression. He signed legislation to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer and wine, and he issued executive orders to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps and to effectively take the United States off the gold standard.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:54PM (2 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday May 02 2017, @11:54PM (#503307) Homepage

    Groan. A "Two Minutes' Hate" submission.

    Oh well, there've been plenty of opportunities for us to have our own towards Grand Emperor-for-Life Baraq Hussein Soetoro and Hillary "poopy-spillary-in-her-diapery" so the best we can do is sit back and roll our eyes.

    I think what's more interesting is that we have all these violent protest groups coming out of the woodwork, and not in a natural organic fashion. The "color revolutions" used against Eastern Europe have now finally found their way to the American mainland, although in their case they're serving to divide and distract rather than completely subvert.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:06AM

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:06AM (#503319)

    I should have put an explicit /sarc ...

    Note that, outside of the Putin "allegations" (being investigated by Republican-controlled Congress), everything else on that 100-days list was actual, if silly, topics brought forward by the man himself.
    It is therefore quite a stretch to equal them to the Nigerian-Obama-dictator-for-life baseless fantasies from the same time 8 years ago, which brought us the quite colorful Tea Party political revolution.
    Apple meet unicorns.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:45AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:45AM (#503355)

    Groan. A "Two Minutes' Hate" submission.

    The irony, it burns! It burns!