100 days of Trump down, 1,360 to go
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🗓️ 29 April 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, The Washington Post's Libby Casey, Rhonda Colvin and James Hohmann are joined by White House reporter Emily Davies to discuss President Trump's first 100 days back in office – from his campaign-trail promises to his shock-and-awe campaign to change the federal workforce, immigration the economy. What has Trump delivered on? And where has he gone farther than voters expected or wanted?
Plus, how do Americans feel about Trump and his early policies – and is it what they voted for?
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| 0:00.0 | Look what happened. Is this crazy? We stand on the verge of the four greatest years in the history. |
| 0:08.5 | Make America great a good thing. How can you be against them? |
| 0:16.9 | Welcome to Sidebar from The Washington Post. I'm Libby Casey and I'm joined by Rhonda Colvin, |
| 0:21.8 | senior political correspondent James Homan, editorial writer and columnist and Emily Davies, |
| 0:27.4 | White House reporter as of yesterday. Prior to this, Emily's been covering the federal |
| 0:32.9 | workforce for the Washington Post. Usually when people get a stint on the White House beat, they get busier. |
| 0:39.7 | Emily, you can't get busier because you have been so busy covering Trump's impact on the federal |
| 0:44.4 | workforce. And we're going to talk a lot about that today because we're reflecting on 100 days of |
| 0:50.4 | this Trump presidency. We'll look at President Trump's promises, his actions, |
| 0:55.0 | and how Americans are feeling about Trump's shock and awe strategy. |
| 0:59.0 | Here's a brief summary of how the first 100 days have gone. |
| 1:03.3 | We're going to end Ukraine fast. |
| 1:04.6 | I'm going to end it fast. |
| 1:05.5 | I know both. |
| 1:06.1 | I know Zelensky. |
| 1:06.9 | I know Putin very well. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm going to get it ended. |
| 1:09.2 | Starting on day one, we will end inflation |
| 1:12.4 | and make America affordable again to bring down the prices of all goods. First full day, |
| 1:19.9 | as president, we're back. We are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the |
| 1:26.2 | Gulf of America. I think Canada would be much better |
| 1:29.4 | off being a 51st state. I rebuilt our military. A lot of it was given away to Afghanistan, |
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