President Donald Trump's Final Days...

So today, Donald Trump officially became the 45th president of the United States. As is traditional to do in the U.S., all attention will now be paid to his first one hundred days, of his first term, as president.

The guidelines are the same, people measure how successful the new president’s power and influence is during those first one hundred days, to sort of measure or feel out whether or not the new president, and his policies, will have any impact at all, positively or negatively, for the remainder of the next four years, both domestically and abroad. It will also help demonstrate whether or not the president will even be able to get anything done in those first one hundred days, given the make-up of the Congress. In this case, Donald Trump will go in with a Republican dominated House of Representatives and Senate. However, cohesion among the Republicans in Congress and President Donald Trump remains uncertain, based on past actions and rhetoric between the two sides. How well they can behave, whether they (the GOP) will be an automatic rubber stamp for the Trump presidency and his legislation remains to be seen.

Unlike his modern-day predecessors, Donald Trump ran a most unusual campaign, even all up until his inauguration, that focused on brash (his staunchest of opponents would say vitriolic) “straight talk”, twitter wars, and ardent promises he said he would keep (the repealing and replacement of the Affordable Care Act being one of his strongest platforms). He was also the first presidential nominee, in modern time, to run a campaign based on overt skepticism towards American institutions like the FBI and CIA.

Many of Donald Trump’s positions have been impulsive; often times he’d adopt then abandon a position and vice-versa. So what will people (most assuredly the media, but also the American public) be looking for during the first one hundred days? One thing people will be looking for is how he will handle immigration (the whole “wall” rhetoric seeming to die down as time passed since his win), as well as whether or not he truly will have a more heavy hand (i.e. vetting process) when it comes to dealing with immigration from so-called Muslim nations. They will be looking for his overall economic plan (which he has often touted as “great”, but never gone truly in-depth on), how he will deal with the Federal Reserve, NAFTA, The V.A., climate change related legislation and regulations, the still on-going war on terror, his tax plan, the aforementioned so-called Obamacare, trade, manufacturing jobs, and so on and so forth. In terms of other nations, people will be looking at how he deals with China, an often popular punching bag for him during the campaign. Given the shadow that Russia (whether apropos or not, but much talked about, nevertheless) also played, people will look to how he and his administration behave towards Russia, but more specifically Vladimir Putin.

So once again, today, January 20, 2017 begins the first one hundred days of the Trump presidency. It concludes on April 29, 2017. I dedicate this thread to chronicling the many twists and turns of the new administration, that are undoubtedly certain to come with the new president, because much like Guantanamo Bay, President Trump’s mouth will not close. As for his Twitter, we’ll wait and see. Please share any and all opinions, stats, facts, polls, miscellaneous information you’d like on any topic involving the new administration, all throughout these first one hundred days.


NOTE. There are other great political threads on this forum, The Quest For The Presidency threads being one, as well as the Current or Modern U.S. Politics. I don't want to take anything away from those threads, but they are generally more-so to talk about overall politics in the U.S. as well as ideological discussions. I want this thread to focus solely on Trump's first 100 days, his legislation, his actions, and his administration overall. After the 100 days are up, this thread can archive itself away on its own if no one has anything else to lend to the conversation.