From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

So we have arrived at a familiar journalistic peg, the hundredth day of a new White House.

It's not especially meaningful, unless we make it so.

And we, the media, and we the media do.

Thus, presidents do too.

Donald Trump will tweet that it's a ridiculous marker and then do all he can to ensure that we know his hundred days were huge.

I don't think that there is a presidential period of time in the first 100 days where anyone's done nearly what we've been able to.

Seen what we've accomplished in a very short period of time, the White House is running

so smoothly, so smoothly.

Achievement, I think I'd give myself an A, because I think I've done great things.

That is, aside from a travel ban shot down twice by judges across the nation,

a failed attempt to change our health care system and dismal approval ratings.

But as reporters, we get fixed on facts and underrate the power of the story the president

tells to cement his base, which polls suggest still holds firm.

When we talk about actual achievement, do we merely preach to the converted?

That may be, but it's our job to soldier on. As does the president,

who brings years of experience to the war over perception. Luz, call it a win, move on quickly.

This is something he has been doing his entire adult professional life. Michael Cruz, a senior staff writer for Politico, wrote this week about how Trump has long

managed to succeed without actually succeeding.

In the mid-80s, he failed as the owner of United States Football League, New Jersey

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