Trump’s First 100 Days – 12 Ways He’s Making America Great Again

100 days is less than a third of the year.

It’s roughly 14 weeks or just over three months.

A hundred days gets you through a little more than a third of your pregnancy – the part where you throw up a lot – just me? In Minecraft, 100 Days is about 33 hours in real time. Please don’t ask me how I know.

We’re officially 100 days into the big, beautiful second term for the Trump Administration. From where we sit, the first 100 days have been pure gold!

So much has happened, so fast, it’s been a challenge to keep up. Even sitting down to write this, I wonder how to fit it all in. We’ll try to hit the high points, knowing that even that is a heavy lift!

Beginning on Inauguration Day, President Trump took off like a rocket, signing executive orders, taking quick and decisive action on the nation’s most pressing issues while building his team to help with his meticulously strategized mission to Make America Great Again.

We picked out 12 things to highlight –

1. The Most Secure Border Ever

Biden/Harris made the false claims that securing the border was out of their hands – it had to have legislative action to secure it. Yet, within a few weeks, the border was closed, with migrant crossings down by 99.99% according to a Department of Homeland Security report. It turns out that we didn’t need legislative action; we just needed a new president who had the will to protect our nation.

2. Deporting Violent Criminal Illegals

The plan begins with removing the worst first, among the millions who are in the US illegally. The Department of Homeland Security, headed by Kristy Noem, with Border Czar Tom Homan, has boldly sought out murderers, sex offenders, violent and dangerous gang members, sending them away forever. Some of the worst have landed in the supermax prison in El Salvador per an agreement between President Trump and that nation’s President Nayib Bukele.

There have been raids in Virginia, Colorado, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, and other hotbeds for criminal activity among illegal aliens, much of it gang-related. In the first three months, 139,000 have been deported, with an additional 5000+ self-deporting.

3. Bringing Americans Home

Since taking office, Trump and his team have negotiated the return of 40 Americans who were held captive in other countries. These include journalists, scientists, a former CIA officer, and others held in places like Portugal, Turkey, Egypt, China, Uganda, and Afghanistan. Most recently, ex-ballerina Ksenia Karelina stepped on American soil after a US-led negotiation with Russia for her release. She had been sentenced to 12 years at a Russian penal colony for treason, all because she donated $50 through a US-based organization to help Ukrainians.

Also noteworthy – two astronauts were rescued after being stranded on the International Space Station for a body punishing 286 days, after a technical issue during their intended 8-day mission – thanks to Elon Musk and SpaceX.

4. Freeing US Political Prisoners

President Trump took quick action, freeing more than 1500 charged with crimes associated with January 6, 2021. Trump had referred to those incarcerated as “hostages,” and accounts have since surfaced of forced confessions, inhumane treatment, and unfair trials. Individuals were given harsh sentences for merely walking through the Capitol that day, unaware of the gravity of their actions. The prosecution lacked proportionality and impartiality. It’s given the whole affair a stench of politically motivated persecution.

Likewise, the President saw to the release and pardon of 23 pro-life protesters, some of whom were given stiff jail sentences for praying in front of abortion clinics – a practice that has been common since the tragic Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 began the death march for more than 63 million of our tiniest citizens.

5. Bringing Down Fuel Prices and More

Within the first couple of weeks of taking office, his rivals and the media began a campaign to blame President Trump for the price of eggs. You may have seen them in local grocery stores for north of $9.00 – it was crazy! But was it Trump? Of course not. Simple logic explains why their attacks didn’t do much to persuade Trump voters to turn on 47.

In the first 100 days, fuel prices, which had ballooned under Biden’s restrictive energy policies, have begun to fall. As gas prices have slipped, the price of some groceries and goods is also starting to decrease. We’ve also seen travel costs and mortgages decline.

With more time and Trump’s message to “drill baby drill,” the administration expects energy companies to soon deliver even more good news at the pumps. Given the back-breaking inflation we saw during the past four years, it’s a welcome change.

6. Protecting Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security

President Trump has promised to protect Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Though the Democrats have claimed that DOGE and the “big, beautiful bill” will slash benefits for needy Americans, it’s simply not true.

It’s an overused, but effective part of the Democratic playbook to make this claim despite the facts.

Though DOGE has proposed cuts to waste and fraud in those programs, what Americans should understand is that any “cuts” proposed are to benefits that illegal aliens are currently – and wrongly – receiving. Open border Democrats used our tax dollars to lure the masses to our border. The nation should rest easy, assured that qualifying citizens will still receive their checks.

Don’t fall for the spin.

7. Tariffs and Reordering Global Trade

Trump’s tariff strategy has been a hot-button issue. The markets have roller-coasted at his announcements about impending tariffs, deadlines, and the idea that he would upend the world markets. It’s becoming clear that his comments and actions were not haphazard. So far, the administration reports that eight trillion dollars in new investment is coming to America, bringing thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of jobs around the nation. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick has championed the recruitment of companies to bring their businesses to the US. He refers to the tariff strategy as the “external revenue service.”

 “When the net result of the global trading system is that all the manufacturing goes to Asia and other places, that’s a system you have to replace,” explained Jamison Greer, US Trade Representative at the President’s recent Cabinet Meeting.

Greer continued, “They said you wouldn’t be able to do global tariffs – we did it. They said everyone would retaliate. No one retaliated outside of China. They said no one would come to negotiate. We’re talking to dozens of countries. They said no one would have offers – we have dozens of written offers.”

The markets are up, and while some businesses have suffered because they were purchasing goods from China, others, like the auto industry, are beginning new and unprecedented growth.

8. Military Might Returns

Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth bears the dubious distinction of being given a perfect 100% negative coverage from legacy left-leaning media.

However, those who salute him from within the military have a much different take. He shared that the military is seeing a “recruitment renaissance” with Trump as Commander-in-Chief, explaining that the number of those who want to enlist in the last hundred days has been almost overwhelming.

Hegseth has called for America’s military to return its focus to lethality and effectiveness, away from DEI and woke programs that had previously permeated each branch. Soldiers and officers who lost their positions when they refused to take the experimental COVID vaccine have been invited back. Hegseth promises the President that America’s war fighters will be a force that is “fit, not fat,” and free of policies that diminished its effectiveness in the past.

Also, reportedly, police and fire departments, ICE, and the border patrol have all seen skyrocketing numbers of new applicants.

9. DOGE Delivers

In a previous blog, we shared more extensively about DOGE’s discoveries of fraud, waste, and the widespread abuse of taxpayer money. This team, headed by Elon Musk, has found $160 billion in needed cuts and restructuring of agencies to streamline our agencies to somehow return misused funds to Americans.

As Elon Musk steps away from the full-time leadership role he’s played with this effort, DOGE continues, and we are thankful for this brilliant group dedicated to giving government waste a much-needed trim.

10. The White House Press Office

President Trump is easily one of history’s most open and transparent world leaders. He is almost daily available to the media, answering questions from friend and foe. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has shown herself to be up for the task and ready to discuss almost any topic. She usually doesn’t need to look at notes – or consult a binder as she articulates the President’s position on most matters the press raises. If some more jaded media members thought they could push her around because of her youth, they clearly had another thing coming.

The administration has taken control of the official Press Pool, comprised of those with greater access to the President in the Oval Office and Air Force One. The Associated Press temporarily lost its spot because of the editorial decision not to call the Gulf of America by its proper name.

Meanwhile, Leavitt added a seat in the White House press briefing room to allow new media outlets to participate. Given that audiences have largely shifted away from traditional news, favoring podcasts and social media news sources, it seems appropriate for the times.

Ironically, traditional media sources have complained about the inclusion of these new media sources, claiming that they are usually “pro-Trump,” which brings so many questions to my mind. Are they suggesting it’s worse than their own anti-Trump spin of every story? Surely, they are not lobbying for only unbiased reporters to be given access. We could end up with Leavitt speaking to a nearly empty room!

11. Rooting Out Racism, DEI, and Cancerous Ideologies

This continues to be a gargantuan task as the rot of these damaging ideologies can be found in almost all of our national and regional institutions. Out of the gate, in his executive action, “Restoring Names that Honor American Greatness,” President Trump set the tone for a new culture of patriotic fervor by changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico, to the Gulf of America, and restoring the name of Mount McKinley after our 25th President’s name was stripped away by President Obama.

He then affirmed that the US would recognize only two genders – the biological ones, and then he took action to save women’s sports from men who wish to gain an unfair advantage by competing against biological women.

Mutilation of children in the name of gender ideology has also been banned by executive action. It is being rooted out of education and healthcare. Strangely, some still support the idea of this practice, which often leaves its young victims disfigured, depressed, and sterile.

DOGE has uncovered billions spent on DEI departments throughout the government, including the military. These funds are being refocused as these efforts are shut down in dozens of agencies.

Another sign of sanity returning was when Washington, DC’s “Black Lives Matter Plaza” North of the White House was removed, jack-hammering the massive 50-foot-long street painting of the slogan that was painted there in 2020.

The President fired board members for the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and took the helm of that board, promising to move the organization away from woke culture. Trump wrote on Truth Social, “Just last year, the Kennedy Center featured drag shows specifically targeting our youth – THIS WILL STOP.” Instead, the President’s vision is for a “golden age in arts and culture” is coming into view.

12. Religious Freedom Returns

This is another accomplishment that Trump’s team has embraced, which we recently shared in great detail. Check out this blog to learn more about how President Trump is championing the return of religion in America, expressing his faith in the God we trust and credit with this great nation’s existence and prosperity.

If this were a report card, it would only be the mid-term grade. After 100 days of grueling work, amid vehement opposition, how would you score the Trump team?

For me, it’s a solid A. We’ll move that to an A++ once the big, beautiful bill is passed by Congress. That’s when we’ll see the most significant tax cut in history and the slashing of regulations that will unleash business and prosperity as never before. Stay tuned for the next 100 days. And keep praying for this consequential time, and this team of world-changers headed by President Donald J. Trump.

Podcast Note:  We had the opportunity to discuss President Trump’s first 100 Days with some White House officials who are in the thick of all the action, Senior Policy Advisor May Mailman and Principal Deputy Press Secretary Harrison Fields. Click here to watch the blog.

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