Trump’s 100 Days to Hell & Back

First One Hundred Days of Trump II saw soaring achievements on border control & expensive regulations cut even deeper than popular tax proposals. Yet did No. 47’s “tariff & EO tsunami” help trigger a self-inflicted defeat out of jaws of total victory to the delight of Dems & MSM allies? Is a "reset" possible?

WSJ columnist Kimberley Strassel suggests as much as the April 30th 100 day anniversary looms in her “Trump’s 100-Day Opportunity." She writes: “The opening two months of this administration were mold-breaking, the policy equivalent of shock & awe. Day after relentless day, his team flooded the zone with new policy directives and reforms – cutting waste, killing regulations, imposing accountability. The initiatives were a mix of considered and chaotic, but they mostly benefited from having the feel of creative destruction – something voters, weary of Washington waste & indolence, were happy to see … Not so much now. The past month has seen the Trump team on the back foot, and it’s mostly self-inflicted … It was Mr. Trump who decided to turn the threat of tariffs (a powerful negotiating tool) into a real, live bomb and the center of his economic policy – rather than his powerful deregulatory actions, his economy-boosting tax cuts or his promising plan to make America the world’s energy powerhouse."

Concludes Kim: “The result: daily market swoops & swoons, daily economic warnings [and] speculation as to the fate of Fed Chairman. It was the president’s team that chose to elevate deportations into a standoff with the judiciary, giving Dems their new ‘due process’ mantra.” Yet, she argues, all Trump needs for a “reset” is to get back to & refocus on his applauded “promises made, promises kept” theme during the campaign along with “tamping down his tariff threats,”  ending the Fed Chairman melodrama & waiting patiently for the Supreme Court to (again) override those rogue Dem trial judges trying to stall his reform agenda, which he already appears to have done this past week.

Davd Soul