From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro.

This is the Daily.

On Tuesday, the second Trump presidency officially reached the 100-day mark.

100 days of transformation, tariffs, retribution, firings, and deportations, the likes of which

America has never before seen.

Today, I asked three of my colleagues, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, and Charlie Savage to assess that record.

It's Wednesday, April 30th.

Maggie, Jonathan, Charlie, welcome back. It's been a while.

Thanks, Michael, for having us.

Great to be back. Yeah.

That's what you've got, Charlie, yep.

Charlie, welcome back.

Thanks for having us back.

We're talking to you all on Tuesday, which is, although there's been a little bit of dispute on our team, the 100th day of the Trump second term.

And I want to start with a very basic question of why it is we talk so much about the first 100 days.

It's a totally artificial metric as anyone in the Trump administration will tell you, even as they are touting it and looking at it because they know other people are.

It is how presidents for a while now have measured the success of their agenda.

How much have they accomplished in that period of time? And it's a way

to compare apples to apples to what previous presidents have done. I don't want to be like the

Australian talking about American history here, but obviously... But here you are. Yeah, yeah. I mean,

obviously the benchmark is FDR's first hundred days where he pushed, I think it was 15 major bills through Congress,

and created a legacy that we still live with. So ever since then, presidents have used this,

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