The First One Hundred Days

THE TIME IS NOW, Saturday, April 29, to celebrate the first one hundred days of the Trump administration, meaning that there are only a few hundred more to endure. First, the hundred day milestone was important to Trump, then it wasn't, then...The president claims a great deal has been accomplished. He has successfully installed a right wing Supreme Court justice, that having been made possible only by sustained unconstitutional behavior by the rigidly constitutional conservative members of Congress, but..what else? Other than an anti-environmental and pro mega bank executive order or two, perhaps not much. Obamacare is still standing, and shows no sign of going away soon. Same for the Paris climate change treaty, from which Trump vowed to withdraw the United States, and same for the nuclear reactor treaty with Iran, which Trump also promised to trash. Then, we come to the great wall of Trump, the one which, you may recall, was slated to be paid for by Mexico. Turns out that we the American people will foot the bill, as we suspected all along. Mexico, it is claimed, will remunerate through taxes at the Rio Grande border, but, how will they ever get inside the United States? Trump's love affair with Vlad Putin may be on the rocks, and his ranting about unfair Chinese trade practices has mellowed, considerably. The greatest success of the new administration seems to be in the elevation of alternative facts to a higher level of acceptance, and the successful melding of Trump enterprises to foreign policy, conflict of interests by damned. Then too, you have to to appreciate the entertainment value of the daily Trump tweets. May they never cease. to be President is different than to be a presidential candidate, but for our present President, it seems not to matter; all outcomes are totally terrific in the great fun house that is Trumpest America.