This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Saturday, April 29th, 2017.

I'm Caleb Brown.

President Trump talked about taking dramatically different steps with respect to foreign policy when he was on the campaign trail.

So why is his foreign policy in so many ways so conventional?

Trevor Thrall, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses the President's first 100 days of foreign policy.

100 days doesn't actually mean anything.

There are many 100 day periods left for a president to do the things that he or she would like to do.

So as we mark this moment in time, why care about it?

I think there are a couple of reasons to care.

The first is that Trump himself, when he was campaigning,

made a big deal out of how good his first 100 days would be, how much he would get done.

And so it's an opportunity to see how he's doing.

And the second is that the, although it's not the only 100 days in his term, certainly the first 100 days gives us enough time to start

to see whether Trump the president looks anything like Trump the candidate and

maybe to start doing a little bit of predicting about where the arc of his presidency is headed.

All right, so as far as your policy areas are concerned, how well is he performed?

You know, you have to give him sort of an incomplete on a few things because the main thing that people were thinking Trump was going to bring was radical change to foreign policy and you know the America first doctrine or vision that he spelled out as a

candidate was the most radical departure from traditional American foreign policy

positions since World War II and people expected a lot of change.

He talked about a lot of stuff, pull out of NATO, make friends with Russia, rip up trade deals, all this sort of stuff.

The very interesting thing about his first hundred days is just how little of that vision

he has brought to pass.

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