4.28.25 -- C&C News
“First 100 Days – Trump’s Amazing Progress”
By Jeff Childers, practicing attorney and well-known author
Excerpts from this article:
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt promised “More American greatness is on the way.”
… Before pivoting to the unknowable future, let’s pause to take in WHAT JUST HAPPENED.
Trump’s first 100 days defy description.
…In our modern era, second presidential terms usually open with drift and damage control— cabinet shuffling, diplomatic pageantry, and let’s be honest, SCANDAL MANAGEMENT.
…But President Trump’s second term shattered the mold…
THE WRECKING BALL
Trump roared back into office at 90 m.p.h. —not weakened but emboldened— and moving with a rushing political velocity unparalleled in living memory.
In just 100 days, amidst a record-shattering flood of carefully drawn and coordinated executive orders, Trump has seized operational command of the federal government in a way no president ever has before:
• embedding DOGE teams deep inside resistant agencies
• sidelining bureaucratic inertia
• pruning payrolls with a political chainsaw
• beginning the long-called-for-but never-started Sisyphean [immense] task of restoring direct executive control over the administrative state.
…In other words…TRUMP HAS ALREADY RE-DEFINED THE PRESIDENCY ITSELF.
TRUMP’S AMAZING SPEED WITH THE WRECKING BALL
…Trump’s presidency is a historic inflection point.
All future presidents will be measured against the new standard set by this fledgling term.
This term’s opening act wasn’t merely an extension of Trump’s first-term battles.
Instead, it baptized the start of a methodical, agency-by-agency, regulation-by-regulation restructuring -- with Congress and the press scrambling to comprehend WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
Much remains in motion, and the most ambitious reforms still lie ahead…
Substantively speaking, Trump has ALREADY achieved early victories once thought politically impossible.
RESULTS SO FAR
Upending the usual dynamics, he’s rapidly confirmed a stellar cabinet of loyalists who can fight for themselves and who form a protective phalanx around HIM.
The Department of Education has begun a rapid disassembly— literally fulfilling conservatives’ wildest dreams.
USAID — a rogue, “untouchable” agency that for decades pursued a covert and alien foreign policy — has been unplugged and SHUT DOWN FOR GOOD.
Dozens of entrenched advisory boards and patronage offices have been dissolved.
SAVING US TAXPAYERS HUGE SUMS OF MONEY
Through DOGE, Trump has launched the first serious federal “clawback” effort in modern memory, targeting wasteful grants, sweetheart contracts, Social Security fraud, and regulatory overreach.
These are not merely symbolic gestures: billions are being “clawed back” into the Treasury.
The Executive branch is getting a long-overdue slap in the face, forcibly reminded that it serves the president, not vice versa.
Even the permanent government’s ancient allies in media -- who ten minutes ago predicted soaring gas prices (down) and $20 egg cartons (down) -- have been left sputtering and dumbstruck by falling energy costs and grocery prices that stubbornly refuse to rise.
Biden falsely promised to “build back better.”
MUST DEMOLISH FIRST BEFORE BUILDING NEW
Trump is proving that building anything real starts with DEMOLITION.
You must first prepare the job site and scrape off the existing decrepit structure.
Only then can you pour a new foundation designed to last.
…Trump isn’t just slowing that decaying process — he’s trying to break it in two.
Eliminating entire agencies, unspooling decades of bureaucratic self-dealing, and restoring direct executive oversight isn’t just reform; it’s a counter-revolution.
Where past presidents trimmed around the edges, Trump is pulling bureaucracy out by the roots…
Trump knows exactly what he’s risking: EVERYTHING.
NOT CHAOS – CAREFULLY PLANNED
His funny “Fork in the Road” memos offering federal workers generous severances were more than tongue-in-cheek HR [Human Resources] strategy; they were also a much bigger metaphor.
It’s not just a “fork in the road” for bureaucrats.
With ruthless clarity, Trump’s first 100 days have described a “fork in the road” for AMERICA and for all of us.
AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS
The choice could not be clearer: either America reasserts control over its own government, or it will soon become a managed province in SOMEONE ELSE’S EMPIRE.
The first 100 days delivered no victory lap. They were a signal flare.
Trump is not just governing; he is challenging the foundational assumptions underpinning American decline for half a century or more.
Whether the coming fight leads to triumph or to another bloody crossroads remains to be seen.
But either way, the second Trump administration is no ordinary presidency.
It is an all-in bet — and perhaps our last, best hope — that a free people can still govern themselves.
… I predict that, if anything, the pace will only pick up speed.
As Trump’s new cabinet officers and agency heads get their sea legs, the “deep state” will begin to suffer a horrible death by a thousand cuts.
SNAP CORRUPTION
Following Trump’s February executive order, the Department of Agriculture last week required states to crack down on illegal immigrants improperly using food stamps (SNAP).
Although illegal immigrants are already banned from SNAP benefits, the Administration is forcing states to verify applicants more aggressively — using DHS’s SAVE system, Social Security death file cross-checks, and other federal tools — to root out waste, fraud, and abuse.
Don’t miss the historic nature of this; before Trump, Social Security refused to freely share its death master file, citing privacy for dead people.
I know you are probably wondering, HOW COULD THERE POSSIBLY BE WASTE, FRAUD, OR ABUSE IN THE FOOD STAMP PROGRAM?
… apparently there’s quite a bit of fraud going on in some places. (…BLUE STATES)
Indeed, new Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins also announced that ARRESTS for SNAP fraud have already started.
“We’ve already made arrests in Minnesota, New York, and Colorado, and we’re just getting started,” Brooke said.
“We’re going to be extremely, extremely aggressive,” the Secretary promised.
…it seems obvious this SNAP crackdown is part of Trump’s comprehensive immigration agenda, intended to provide another reason for illegals to self-deport.
Compared to Mexico and South America, as we all know, life in the United States is EXPENSIVE.
AMERICA WILL WIN IN MULTIPLE WAYS
Without thousands of monthly dollars of free grocery and restaurant budget [from SNAP], living off the grid might become unworkable [for illegals].
All the pieces are designed to work together.
…Trump assembled the machine under withering incoming fire during the first 100 days, while he was doing everything else, too.
He is giving himself MULTIPLE WAYS TO WIN.
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