Everything Trump Has Done Can Be Easily Reversed

Donald Trump has taken 75 executive actions. All of them can be reversed with the stroke of a pen from the next Democratic president.

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A president’s first 100 days is an arbitrary metric that came from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who took office during one of the greatest domestic crises in American history, and his rapid response, along with masterful mass media communication through radio, established the standard by which all future presidents are judged.

The first 100 days can be insightful into a presidency's potential strengths and weaknesses. The first 100 days don’t always reveal the fate of a presidency.

Both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama had rocky first 100 days. Both of those presidents went on to be successful two-term presidents that defined their respective decades.

Presidents who get off to slow starts don’t always recover. Sometimes, the slow starts are due to dysfunction or fundamental flaws within a new administration.

This week, Donald Trump will pass one-quarter of the way through his first 100 days, and while the Trump administration has tried to create an impression of effectiveness and activity, they have so far embodied the idea of being full of sound and fury but what have they really done?

Axios reported, “President Trump has signed over 75 executive orders, memos, and proclamations during his first 22 days in office — a far faster pace than his predecessors.”

Trump is signing lots of orders, memos, and proclamations, but what has he really done?

The short answer is not much.

Trump has signed 16 things related to foreign policy, 14 related to reorganizing the government, 12 on immigration and national security, 10 are miscellaneous, 7 each on DEI, energy/climate and technology, 4 each on trans rights, and declaring holidays/months, 3 on faith, and 2 on abortion.

Executive orders, memos, and proclamations are not laws. Executive orders and memos only apply to policy implementation in the Executive Branch of the government.

Trump has only signed one major bill into law, and that was the Laken Riley Act.

It seems like Trump is doing so much because the media coverage hypes everything, but the reality is much different.

Trump Is Accomplishing Nothing Lasting