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Brian Laird on WNYC Studios. So here we are at the Trump administration's Day 100. You've probably

been hearing about the many polls, the Fox News poll included, showing Trump at historically low

approval numbers for a president at 100 days and with majority disapproval on every issue,

except sealing the border.

But those polls also show most people who voted for Trump still approve of almost everything he's

doing. And CNN analyzed their poll that came out yesterday as saying, yes, Trump's approval on the

economy tanked by many points, but voters in that poll still said they

trusted Republicans more than Democrats when it comes to economic management. And it's only

a hundred days, right? Other presidents, Bill Clinton, for example, have bounced back from a very

rocky public opinion start. So we'll see. On this show, we've been covering many first 100 days issues,

but emphasizing two areas,

a climate and health section of the show on Tuesdays,

which we will get to,

and a focus on democracy versus authoritarianism,

basically every day.

We will do one of each here on day 100, democracy versus authoritarianism basically every day. We will do one of each here on day 100, democracy versus

authoritarianism first. David Remnick is with us, editor of the New Yorker and host of the New Yorker

Radio Hour here on the station. In a first 100 days article, he wrote for the New Yorker, David's

premise is that Trump's first term attempt at what

David calls authoritarian primacy was amateur hour, a fitful rehearsal, he wrote. So it may surprise

you that the title of the article about this term is 100 days of ineptitude. Certainly many

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