100 Days of Donald Trump

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Today marks President Donald Trump’s 100th day in office. What to make of this dizzying first hundred days? As Bret Stephens put it: “I’m hard-pressed to think of a more disastrous first 100 days of any presidency in American history. . . all of the wounds are self-inflicted.” Even some of Trump's most ardent supporters are struggling to understand and support his actions. As Rod Dreher wrote for The Free Press last week: “MAGA tempts the same sorry fate that conservatives like me suffered over Iraq. Do we hate our enemies more than we love liberty? More than we care about prudence and common sense? If the cost of victory is trashing the jobs and businesses of ordinary Americans with a reckless and unstable tariffs policy, abusing the Constitution, pointlessly sabotaging America’s allies, and replacing a domestic woke-left system with a woke-right one, MAGA risks destroying itself.” On the other hand, there are people like Victor Davis Hanson, who see Trump as waging an existential counterrevolution, "a social, political, military, and economic shake-up to see if he can reboot the country. . . In other words, each day he is trying to stage a counterrevolution against the prior left-wing, neo-socialist, DEI, and green revolutions of the Obama-Biden years.” Suffice it to say, the reaction to Trump’s policies has been a stark split screen. Today, we have two Honestly favorites to discuss these first 100 days: Free Press columnist Batya Ungar-Sargon, and Democratic strategist and Free Press contributor Brianna Wu. Bari asks them about Trump’s war on globalized trade, elite campuses, illegal immigration, plus the wars in Ukraine and Gaza. Bari, Batya, and Brianna debate if Trump’s actions are what his base really wants, and most importantly, Bari asks about the reach of Trump's power, and the lengths he is willing to go. Visit clearme.com/honestly for two months free! Go to groundnews.com/Honestly to get 40% off the unlimited access Vantage plan and unlock world-wide perspectives on today’s biggest news stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	From the free press, this is honestly and I'm Barry Weiss.
0:04.0	Today, marks President Trump's 100th day in office.
0:08.1	And what are we to make of this dizzying first 100 days?
0:11.8	As my friend and former colleague at the New York Times, Brett Stevens put in,
0:16.2	I'm hard-pressed to think of a more disastrous first 100 days of any presidency in American history.
0:23.4	All of the wounds are self-inflicted.
0:26.8	Indeed, even some of Trump's most ardent supporters are struggling to understand and support
0:32.2	a lot of his policy actions. As Rod Dreher wrote for the free press last week,
0:39.5	MAGA tempts the same sorry fate that conservatives like me suffered over the Iraq war. Do we hate our enemies, Rod writes,
0:45.5	more than we love liberty, more than we care about prudence and common sense. If the cost of
0:51.4	victory is trashing the jobs and the businesses of ordinary Americans
0:55.7	with a reckless and unstable tariff policy, abusing the Constitution,
1:01.0	pointlessly sabotaging America's allies,
1:03.7	and replacing a domestic woke left system with a woke right one,
1:07.8	well, then MAGA risks destroying itself.
1:12.8	But on the other hand, there are people like Victor Davis Hansen, a historian who sees Trump as waging an existential and necessary
1:20.0	counter-revolution in Washington, a cultural, social, political, military, and economic shake-up
1:27.0	to see if he could reboot the country.
1:30.1	In other words, writes Hansen, each day he is trying to stage a counter-revolution against
1:36.4	the prior left-wing neo-socialist DEI and green revolutions of the Obama-Biden years.
1:43.5	That's a mouthful.
1:44.8	So the other thing, Victor Davis-Hanson says, is simply this.
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