It wasn’t the waltz, he expected the first 100 days of his reign to be. It was more like forward, backward, side-step, cha-cha-cha. But King Donald was having a ball as he rocked and ro(i)lled the world.
Signing a record 142 executive fiats – 26 of them on day one – he had upended every facet of American life, taking the chainsaw to the federal workforce, challenged the courts, launched an unsparing massive deportation drive, and unleashed a global trade war.
For the “never surrender” POTUS, there were some stunning reversals too — from climbing down on his beautiful tariffs to backing down from firing Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell to restoring the visas of thousands of international students.
Yet sitting in his Oval throne room — redecorated in “Louis XIV Overripe Casino style,” as that “sleaze-bag” editor from The Atlantic, who had written “many fictional stories about me,” would later describe it — he proclaimed pompously, “I run the country and the world.”
“The first time, I had two things to do—run the country and survive; I had all these crooked guys,” he told three very “unfair” scribes. “And the second time, I run the country and the world.”
“The failing New York Times with a non-curable case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME,” too, had acknowledged in a banner headline, “There have never been 100 days like this” — even if it wasn’t meant to be complimentary.
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The Times’ suggestion that driven by vengeance and fuelled by “his self-authored narrative as a man of destiny, saved by God to save America,” he was taking the country towards “a new dark age of autocracy, repression, and upheaval” instead of the promised “golden age” too left the Donald unfazed.
He also unloaded on that “‘Liddle’ Peter Baker, the very biased and untalented writer for The Times,” for suggesting that instead of playing honest broker, he was pleasing Putin with a whole lot of goodies — pressure on Ukraine to surrender territory to Russia, promise of sanctions relief and absolution from invading Ukraine.
“This is Sleepy Joe Biden’s War, not mine. It was a loser from day one, and should never have happened, and wouldn’t have happened if I were President at the time,” he claimed. “I’m just trying to clean up the mess that was left to me by Obama and Biden, and what a mess it is.”
But what’s Putin playing at? Days after his blunt ‘Vladimir, STOP!’ message, he was still shooting missiles into civilian areas, cities and towns, Trump mused, acknowledging for once, “that maybe he doesn’t want to stop the war, he’s just tapping me along.”
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Yet as he got the Ukraine-U.S. minerals deal he was hankering after to receive future revenue from Ukraine’s natural resources in return for possible continued U.S. support, the White House crowed, “ART OF THE DEAL!” hailing the leadership of President Trump.
And as his approval rating tanked with a new poll from The Washington Post, ABC News and Ipsos showing it falling to 39% amid concerns about the economy and his aggressive use of tariffs, threatening to mar his 100-day bash,Trump hit out at “fake polls.”
“The polls from the fake news are, like the news itself, fake! We are doing GREAT, better than ever before,” he assured the faithful from his pulpit on Truth Social and demanding, “These people should be investigated for ELECTION FRAUD.”
Finishing his victory rally in Michigan with his “Trump dance” to “celebrate 100 Days of winning!” Trump wrote, “and we’re nowhere near tired of winning. To the haters: we’re just getting started. AMERICA FIRST FOREVER!”
Again downplaying concerns about potential economic trouble, he told NBC News everything would be “OK” in the long term, even if the U.S. economy experienced a recession in the short term. “This is a transition period,” he asserted. “I think we’re going to do fantastically.”
But he didn’t lose the chance to deflect the blame on ‘Sleepy Joe’ for the 0.3% shrinkage in the first quarter of 2025, a reduction largely driven by a fall in exports and a boost in imports ahead of Trump’s expected tariffs.
“That’s not Trump. Because we came in on January, these are quarterly numbers,” he said at a cabinet meeting Wednesday, conveniently ignoring the fact that he had gloatingly attributed the upsurge in stocks after his inauguration to “Trump bump.”
He then resurrected Christopher Columbus “back from the ashes,” complete with a picture of himself with the discoverer of the Americas in identical goggles — perhaps to explore the “WHOLE NEW WORLD” created by “the most consequential American leader of the 21st Century, and that’s an understatement” with a new Trump vision!
Trump had assured the Atlantic that he has not tasked the Justice Department to look into the legality of running for a third term despite a constitutional bar, but left the door wide ajar. “That would be a big shattering, wouldn’t it?” Trump said with a laugh. “Well, maybe I’m just trying to shatter.”
“I’m having a lot of fun, considering what I do. You know, what I do is such serious stuff,” he said, agreeing with an ally’s observation that this time he was blowing up Washington “with a twinkle in his eye.”
But apparently, he is not having enough fun as the ruler of America and the world and would like to extend his realm to the temporal world too. “I’d like to be Pope,” he quipped when asked whom he would like to see as the next Pope. “That would be my number one choice.”
Everyone thought he was joking until at 9.29 pm on Friday night, he posted a seemingly artificially enhanced photo of himself depicted as the Pope on Truth Social — without a caption or comment — flipping out media critics aghast at the idea of Pope Trump — as if King Donald was not enough!