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Zorro

(17,262 posts)
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 10:39 AM Friday

Trump is wrapping up 100 days of historic failure

America has seen ruinous periods, but never when the president was the one knowingly causing the ruin.

By any reasonable measure, President Donald Trump’s first 100 days will be judged an epic failure.

He has been a legislative failure. He has signed only five bills into law, none of them major, making this the worst performance at the start of a new president’s term in more than a century.

He has been an economic failure. On his watch, growth has slowed, consumer and business confidence has cratered, and markets have plunged, along with Americans’ wealth. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that “growth has slowed in the first quarter of this year from last year’s solid pace” and that Trump’s tariffs will result in higher inflation and slower growth.

He has been a foreign-policy failure. He said he would end wars in Gaza and Ukraine. But fighting has resumed in Gaza after the demise of the ceasefire negotiated by his predecessor, and Russia continues to brutalize Ukraine, making a mockery of Trump’s naive overtures to Vladimir Putin.

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Trump is wrapping up 100 days of historic failure (Original Post) Zorro Friday OP
This person should NEVER be in such a high position! young_at_heart Friday #1

young_at_heart

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1. This person should NEVER be in such a high position!
Fri Apr 18, 2025, 11:36 AM
Friday

The incalculable harm he has caused and continues to cause on a daily basis is truly horrifying..... and yet nothing stops him!

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