SPECIAL EDITION: Trump's first 100 days — Part One.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Since there’s so much to cover, we’ll be reviewing President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in a two-part edition. This edition is part one, and we’re sending it to all subscribers.
Today, we’ll examine Trump’s central campaign promises and the degree to which he has kept them. Consistent with past reviews of Biden and Trump, we’ll use a “promise meter,” a 1–10 scale measuring how well Trump has kept his promise (with 10 being the best score). This is not our judgment on any policy’s efficacy or value, it is only a judgment on how well Trump has kept each campaign promise. In other words, this edition will be an objective (as much as we can make it) overview of Trump’s stated goals and how well he has kept to them.
Tomorrow, we’ll release part two, where we’ll get into a more subjective overview of Trump’s term so far. In it, we’ll cover some actions and events that weren’t among Trump’s major campaign promises, share views from the left and right on his first 100 days, and then I’ll give “My take.” The full version of tomorrow’s Friday edition will only be available for paying Tangle members.
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| 0:44.7 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. It is Thursday, May 1st. Happy May, everybody. Today, we're going to be talking about Donald Trump's first 100 days in office. |
| 1:11.0 | This is a special edition, a little mega edition, breaking down all the stories that have kind of been central to the campaign. |
| 1:20.5 | We're going to do something that's very tangly in how we cover this, which I'll explain in a moment. |
| 1:26.4 | Before we do, though, I want to jump in with some quick hits. |
| 1:38.5 | First up, the United States and Ukraine signed a critical mineral rights deal |
| 1:42.4 | to give the U.S. preferred access to Ukraine's |
| 1:45.5 | mineral resources in return for the creation of an investment fund in Ukraine. |
| 1:50.0 | The agreement does not require Ukraine to reimburse the U.S. for past military aid, but will |
| 1:54.9 | count that assistance as a contribution to the investment fund. |
| 1:59.0 | Number two, a New Jersey judge ruled that activist Mahmoud Khalil can |
| 2:02.4 | argue his wrongful deportation case in federal court, rejecting the Trump administration's assertion |
| 2:08.0 | that the Immigration and Nationality Act prevented a federal court from hearing the case. |
| 2:13.0 | Number three, the Supreme Court heard arguments on a Catholic virtual charter school's attempt to |
| 2:17.4 | become the first religious charter school's attempt to become |
| 2:17.6 | the first religious charter school in the U.S. Justice Amy Coney-Barritt recused herself from |
| 2:22.8 | the case and a 4-4 split would uphold the Oklahoma Supreme Court's ruling blocking the school. |
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