The Worst First 100 Days

The Lincoln Project

Society & Culture, Daily News, News, Politics

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In this week's Friday episode of the Elephant in the Room, Rick recaps Trump's first 100 days in office. From the corruption to the chaos to the skyrocketing costs to the coercion to the cruelty to casting aside the constitution, Trump's damage to our country is utterly unbelievable. And we are only 100 days in. What do the next 100 days look like? ・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・ Follow Rick Wilson at @TheRickWilson on X and @therickwilson.bsky.social on Bluesky, and subscribe to his Substack at therickwilson.substack.com. Join the fight with the Lincoln Project at www.lincolnproject.us and follow LP on X at @ProjectLincoln. If you'd like to help us continue our critical work, visit https://action.lincolnproject.us/helplp to make a difference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Your task will not be an easy one.
0:02.4	Your enemy is well trained, well equipped, and battle-hearted.
0:06.2	There is not a liberal America and a conservative America.
0:09.9	There is the United States of America.
0:14.5	Good night and good luck.
0:16.9	The elephant in the room today is the next hundred days.
0:24.5	Look. The elephant in the room today is the next hundred days. Look, this first hundred days of this administration has been in every conceivable measure,
0:30.6	a parade of corruption, of chaos, a nightmare for this country.
0:36.4	It has demonstrated time and time again that Donald Trump is mentally unstable, that he's
0:40.3	morally unfit, that the country, at least a large number of people in this country, voted
0:45.3	for someone who has set us on a path of destruction.
0:48.3	And I mean that in every possible way.
0:50.3	He is absolutely committed to the things we warned you about. I know you get bored hearing.
0:56.9	Oh, Donald Trump is terrible and he will destroy us all and the world will burn. I know.
1:01.0	A lot of you get tired hearing that, particularly my old friends in the Republican Party and on the
1:05.7	right, they say, oh, you're just exaggerating. It's all just this and that. Donald Trump just did in 100 days more damage
1:13.6	to this country at home and abroad
1:16.3	than any other president in our history.
1:20.3	There has literally never been a period of time
1:23.2	in which greater corruption defined a presidency.
1:26.5	We'll start there. Donald Trump is hawking Bitcoin. His son
1:30.0	Uday, Don Jr., has set up a thing called the executive branch. It's a new service that Don Jr.
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