^Thank you, The Economist, for doing this math.
100 days ago, almost to the minute, President Trump was inaugurated to serve his second term. He came in vowing to install major changes in U.S. policy, but the world wasn’t prepared for just how extensive those changes would be.
Here are seven figures that quantify those changes:
142 executive orders, breaking the record for the most executive orders by a president in the first 100 days. Former President Franklin D. Roosevelt held the record with 99 executive orders — and that was to tackle the Great Depression. If you add proclamations and memos to that figure, Trump has issued 211 executive actions.
123 active lawsuits against Trump’s agenda, per The New York Times’s tracker.
5 bills signed into law, per NBC News. That’s fewer than any president’s first 100 days since at least the 1950s. For context, former President Obama signed 14 bills into law during his first 100 days, former President Biden signed 11 and Trump signed 30 during the first three months of his first term.
7.9 percent is how much the S&P 500 has dropped since Trump took office, per CNBC. This is the second-worst record, only trailing former President Nixon’s second term. For context, the S&P 500 usually rises around 2 percent in the first 100 days of a new administration.
-9 points is Trump’s net approval rating, according to The New York Times’s daily tracker of dozens of polls — and the Silver Bulletin.
12 of 14 weekends Trump has spent at one of his properties, per NBC News’s tracker, nine of which were at his Mar-a-Lago resort. In total, Trump has partially spent 40 days on his own properties.
4,149 words a week posted on Truth Social and X, per The Economist. That’s nearly 70 percent more than during his first term. It also drastically overshadows his predecessors, who averaged between 441 and 534 words a week on social media.
^ For context: That’s roughly the word count of writing three full 12:30 Reports every week.
Oh, and 2 is the number of known group chats in which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has shared sensitive information about military plans. FWIW, Hegseth says the messages were “informal” and “unclassified.”
