The first 100 days of a presidency became a measuring stick in the media’s eye when FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) assumed office in 1933 with the Great Depression raging. In that light, one could says Donald J. Trump entered office in 2025 with the Great Deception raging.
The first component of the Great Deception was, of course, the cover-up of Joe Biden’s mental disease and senility, but it was more than that. We still don’t know who actually ran the White House and the country while Biden slept in until 10 after hitting the hay at sunset.
It was no doubt a bunch of Barack Hussein Obama proto-communists. They quickly seized upon Biden’s signature contained in a transportable autopen. Which brings up another question: How many executive orders issued by Joe Biden were actually the work of anonymous moles using the autopen?
Anyway, all that aside, today marks Trump’s 100-day anniversary of his second presidency. He’s in Michigan to hold a rally, probably focusing on his one great achievement, which was to close the border and chase down illegal immigrant gang members for deportation.
I asked my AI friend Gemini to recouint the 100-day achievements of FDR and then of The Donald. Here’s what I gleaned from my friend Gemini, recounted in a bullet-point summary of my creation:
First, as mentioned, FDR was elected to combat the Great Depression. All that would really have been needed was to cut taxes and interest rates and spend your way into prosperity. The Federal Reserve kept rates high and FDR did nothing to lower taxes, but here’s some of what he did do:
- Proclaimed a banking holiday and passed the Glass-Steagall Act to separate investment from commercial banking and create the FDIC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Created the Civilian Conservation Corps *CCC) to put some unemployed to work on government jobs; made $500 million available to states and localities to fight unemployment through the Federal Emergency Relief Act
- Passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) to pay farmers not to farm and thus raise prices on farm products to increase income
FDR thus trumped Trump in actual legislation passed, but here’s a Trumpian rundown:
The first achievement not mentioned by Gemini but added by me was that Trump managed to keep the Liberal Party in power in Canada through his tariffs and trolling about Canada’s becoming the 51st state. When Trump came to office, the Conservative Party was 20 points ahead in the polls. Poof, no more as of April 28, 2025 — liberals hold on to fight Trump.
That aside, herre’s the Gemini list, which the AI agent termed “hypothetical:”:
- Signed various executive orders regarding immigration, the economy, education, national security, trade and more
- Start a process of dergulation — taking back or modifying already-issued regulations
- Created DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, to weed out waste, abuse and corruption in the federal system
- Raised tariffs, first on Canada and Mexico, and then on the rest of the world on April 2, “Independence Day,” to seek freer and fairer worldwide trade
- Through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Director Robert F. Kennedy Jr., banned petroleum-based dyes in food products
- Removed men from women’s sports through executive action, but some entities (including the state of Maine) ignored his order
- Began massive deportations, first of criminal and gang members but with an eventual emphasis on all illegal immigrants
- Started to disband the Department of Education (DOE) and return its functions and funding to the states
- Undertook initiatives to solve the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine
Anyway, you can make your own comparisons and draw your own conclusions, but to me it seems like FDR prolonged the Great Depression throug his actions (and inactions), leaving it to one Adolph Hitler to solve the Great Depression through worldwide war.
As for Trump, his tariff gambit may reshape the postwar world and bring it into modernity, or it may create the second Great Depression. Jury is still out,