President Trump at 100 Days: The Most Consequential in American History
President Donald Trump’s second term has marked one of the busiest first 100 days of any president in recent memory, with the commander-in-chief issuing a slew of executive orders and pursuing a litany of initiatives designed to radically overhaul the federal government, upending the four-year legacy of his predecessor. He has since achieved the most successful first 100 days of any Administration in American history
Bryon York: ….in one specific area, Trump has been a smashing success, and that is in stopping the massive flow of illegal border crossers into the United States. Poll after poll in the run-up to the 2024 election showed that the border disaster was among the top two or three issues of the campaign. And just like that, Trump fixed the problem. Illegal crossings have now virtually disappeared. In his March 4 address to Congress, Trump said, “The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation. ‘We must have legislation to secure the border.’ But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.” When he said that, he was telling the truth (Washington Examiner).
Only nine illegal immigrants released into US during Trump’s first 100 days — 99.99% drop in same period under Biden.
In 100 days, President Trump has slashed illegal immigration to historic lows through decisive action to shut down the border and enable Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents to enforce our laws. Here are the numbers:
– U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions at the Southwest border plummeted 94% in February 2025 compared to February 2024.
– Nationwide, daily apprehensions have averaged a record-low 330, the lowest in Customs and Border Protection history.
– Known “gotaways” dropped over 90%, restoring control to our agents and reducing national security risks.
DHS summarizes the successes on what is now “the most secure border in American history”:
- S. Customs and Border Protection now has total control of the border.
- Daily border encounters are down by 93%.
- Encounters with gotaways – the top threat to public safety – are down by 95%.
- And migrant crossings are down by 99.99% (DHS).
Tom Homan: Promises made. Promises kept (X). The White House: This morning, images of the worst of the worst criminal illegal immigrants arrested since President Donald J. Trump took office were placed on the lawn of the White House for the world to see — highlighting the Trump Administration’s unprecedented effort to secure our homeland and send these vicious criminals back where they belong (White House).
Video from the White House: President Trump was able to do in 100 days what the Biden administration couldn’t — or wouldn’t — do in four years (X).
NEW: The Trump-hating media blasted President Trump with 92% negative coverage during his first 100 days.@elonmusk, @PeteHegseth, and @RobertKennedyJr were smeared with 96%, 100%, and 89% negative coverage, respectively.
Meanwhile, when Joe Biden took office, he was showered… pic.twitter.com/xv2b0bCmtB
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) April 28, 2025
- President Trump has created 345,000 jobs since taking office in January.
- 188,000 (54%) of these were in non-government and government-adjacent sectors. This is a dramatic improvement from the last two years of the Biden Administration, when three-fourths of all new jobs were in government or government-adjacent sectors.
- 2,000 of which were mining and logging jobs.
- 27,000 of which were construction jobs.
- 9,000 manufacturing jobs were created (compared to the 6,000 manufacturing jobs lost per month from Jan 2023 to Dec 2024).
- At the same time that there were large private sector job gains, 15,000 federal government jobs were cut.
- 188,000 (54%) of these were in non-government and government-adjacent sectors. This is a dramatic improvement from the last two years of the Biden Administration, when three-fourths of all new jobs were in government or government-adjacent sectors.
- The labor force participation rate for those without a high school diploma is up by 0.7% since President Trump took office.
- The veteran unemployment rate is down from 4.2% in January to 3.8% in March.
- 228,000 jobs were created in March alone, well above expectations.
- This was the fourth best month in the last two years for private payroll growth.
- Remote work among federal employees has fallen over 16 percentage points from March last year to March this year, showcasing the success of President Trump’s initiative to bring federal workers back to the office.
- Federal telework numbers are now in-line with the private sector.
Inflation Statistics:
- Prescription drug prices are down over 2% since President Trump took office.
- Last month’s drop in the price of prescription drugs was the largest ever recorded.
- Gasoline prices, as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), are down 7% since President Trump took office.
- Energy prices are down 2% since President Trump took office.
- Wholesale egg prices down are about 50% since President Trump took office. Most consumers have seen relief in prices on the shelf, but all consumers should see it within the next month or two.
- February inflation (the month prior to the most recent data) showed the smallest annual increase in core inflation in over four years (since March 2021).
- Both of the last two CPI inflation prints came in below expectations.
- Last month’s (March) decline was only the second monthly decline in inflation (CPI) in the last two-and-a-half years.
- These price declines are in contrast to the persistently high inflation under President Biden, which reached the highest annual rate in the past 40 years. After suffering for years under Biden Administration inflation, consumers are now getting welcome relief. On Biden’s watch, grocery prices rose 23%, and energy prices rose 34%.
- As a result of biting inflation, real wages in President Biden’s term were down about 2.4%.
- Moreover, in the most recent inflation print from March, airfare, used motor vehicles, and motor insurance all saw price decreases.
- Prices for wholesale goods fell nearly 1% last month and prices for wholesale services fell 0.2% last month, which will eventually lead to lower consumer prices.
- Last month, retail egg price inflation continued to slow.
Misc. Economic Statistics:
- Real average hourly earnings for middle- and low-income workers are up 0.4% and up 1% for workers in the manufacturing sector since President Trump took office.
- The automotive sector is growing: under President Trump, we already had the biggest one-month increase in auto sales in March in more than a year.
- Mortgage rates have declined roughly four-tenths of a percentage point since President Trump took office.
- Assuming the most recent median home price in the U.S., a new homebuyer making a 20% down payment on a 30-year mortgage would save roughly $32,400 over the course of the loan, or about $1,080 per year.
- Industrial production was at the seventh-highest monthly level ever recorded in March. The only higher monthly levels occurred during the first Trump Administration in 2018 and in February of this year.
- Since the beginning of the Trump Administration, at least $5 trillion in new investment in the U.S. has been pledged from both foreign governments and private companies.
Economic Policy Wins:
- Upon taking office, President Trump immediately blocked all unfinalized Biden-era rules, saving Americans over $180 billion — $2,100 per family of four over the next decade — and launched a bold, multi-agency effort to roll back existing federal regulations that drive up the cost of living. This effort is projected to yield significant cost savings in the coming months, including the EPA’s rollback of tailpipe emission rules for light-duty and medium-duty vehicles ($667 billion in total savings) and the Department of Transportation’s latest Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards ($88 billion in savings). These two efforts alone yield $755 billion in total savings or over $8,800 per family of four over the next decade. The combined savings from all of these actions equal just over $935 billion or nearly $11,000 per family of four over the coming decade.
- The Trump Administration has implemented an aggressive 10-to-1 deregulatory initiative, which requires that whenever an agency proposes a new rule or guidance document, it must eliminate 10 existing rules or guidance documents. This effort builds on the successful deregulatory initiative introduced in President Trump’s first term, which required the repeal of at least two existing regulations for each new rule, and in practice eliminated 5.5 rules for each new significant rule.
- To date, President Trump has issued over 20 significant deregulatory presidential actions (i.e., executive orders, presidential memoranda, and presidential proclamations).
Charts:
As of Monday, Trump had signed 137 executive orders since retaking the White House. By comparison, he signed a mere 30 during the same period of his first term. The scope and nature of those orders have varied widely, though many of them were day-one retractions of Biden-era policies or reinstatements of his own first-term orders.
On immigration, Trump declared a national emergency at the southern border, reinstated his “Remain in Mexico” policy, ordered the end of catch and release, overhauled vetting of entrants to the U.S., cracked down on drug trafficking, and moved to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens.
He was similarly aggressive in dismantling the federal bureaucracy, implementing a federal hiring freeze, creating the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), reducing federal worker protections to allow for substantial staff reductions, and moving to eliminate entire agencies.
Trump has also pursued the elimination of the Department of Education, moved to reform the higher education accreditation system, and frozen federal funding for institutions that he deems have failed to address discrimination on campus, particularly the rabid antisemitism at Harvard and Columbia Universities.
The Pentagon has perhaps witnessed one of the most dramatic transformations, with Trump directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to root out “wokeness” in the form of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, critical race theory (CRT), and other divisive ideologies from the service. He also moved to ban transgender service members from the military, reinstated personnel who had to leave the armed forces over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and fired a host of senior officers, many of whom were DEI proponents.
Measurable topline statisticsThe administration’s efforts thus far have yielded some quantitative results in an array of categories, especially on immigration-related matters. During Trump’s first 100 days, border encounters along the southwest land border fell by as much as 94% from the same time in the prior year.
As of late March, the administration has made at least 113,000 arrests and conducted at least 100,000 deportations. April data has yet to become public, but projecting the rate of deportations over four years could see the administration deport more than 2 million people in four years. Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem put the figure at more than 150,000 alien arrests, which would theoretically put the administration on pace for 2.2 million arrests in four years.
Trump has also secured foreign investment pledges from partner nations totaling roughly $3 trillion. That figure includes a $1.4 trillion pledge from the United Arab Emirates, a $600 billion pledge from Saudi Arabia, and a $1 trillion pledge from Japan. Several corporate entities have also announced 12-figure investment plans, including Apple ($500 billion), Nvidia ($500 billion), IBM ($150 billion), and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) ($100 billion). The White House’s running tally of investment pledges currently totals more than $2 trillion from corporate entities alone.
One of Trump’s biggest efforts involved drastically reducing the size of the federal government and has seen the administration eliminate tens of thousands of positions. The administration confirmed that 75,000 employees had accepted a voluntary buyout after the first round, the second of which is ongoing. A recent report from Challenger, Gray, & Christmas, Inc. put the figure at 216,670 job cuts from DOGE-related efforts.
Unsurprisingly, Democrats have vowed to resist and obstruct Trump’s policy changes, mostly through the use of lawfare. The Associated Press reports that 49 executive orders have been partially or fully blocked by the courts, 39 of the executive orders have been upheld by the judiciary, and 72 cases against his policies are still pending.
Much of that obstruction is laced with vitriol and unabashed hatred. “A rally a day keeps the fascists away,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D- Md., told The New York Times. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, posted a message on social media saying “It’s been a long day… but in short, bullies ain’t shit! I don’t care what title you hold! This isn’t some long gone reality tv show or failed casino….this is war!
Diplomatic effortsTrump made efforts to pursue a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war and to advance nuclear negotiations with Iran. While neither have yet yielded tangible results, Trump has managed to secure negotiations directly with the Russians and, separately, with the Ukrainians to attempt to bring the warring nations to the table. As a side benefit to the talks, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff secured the release of American history teacher Marc Fogel, whom Russian authorities convicted of marijuana possession and had imprisoned for years.
The Iran talks, however, appear to look unexpectedly promising, despite initial opposition to such a prospect from Tehran. In mid-April, Witkoff met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Rome, with Omani Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi moderating the discussion. The talks went well and the pair agreed to proceed to additional negotiations in Muscat, which took place over the weekend. The Americans, thus far, have expressed openness to permitting Iran to develop a civil nuclear program, but remain opposed to domestic uranium enrichment due to suspicions Tehran could quickly weaponize a civilian program.
TariffsAmong the most tumultuous of Trump’s policies was his declaration of “Liberation Day,” announcing “reciprocal” tariffs in early April. That declaration impacted nearly every country on Earth. Trump made good on his campaign promise with those actions, though he prompted considerable recoil from key American trade partners and some of his own backers in the financial sector.
The tariffs ignited a week of wild volatility in the stock and bond markets. The Standard & Poors 500 Index, a stock market index tracking the stock performance of 500 leading companies listed on stock exchanges in the United States, fell more than 10% in just three days.
Trump appeared to reverse course by announcing a 90-day pause on some of the steepest tariffs, except for those on China. In the interim period, Trump left in place a 10% baseline tariff while he pursued trade agreements with other nations. He is expected to announce several of these arrangements in the coming days.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has suggested that the tariffs set the stage for favorable agreements in a recent speech, saying “[t]here is an opportunity for a big deal here, that the US is looking to rebalance to more manufacturing, the identity of that would be less consumption.” White House advisor Peter Navarro, moreover, has teased the prospect of “90 deals in 90 days.”
Where Trump Has Been a “Smashing” Success: Securing the Border
Source: https://gellerreport.com/2025/04/president-trump-at-100-days-the-most-consequential-in-american-history.html/
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