Reagan used humor to deflect attention from his age-in 1984, he promised not to “exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” Trump favors a different strategy: for months, his advisers promoted a theory that his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, who is sixty-eight, has a secret brain illness and is unable to climb stairs or sit upright without help, and, in speeches, Trump asked whether she had the “mental and physical stamina” for the Presidency. If he wins the election, he will be America’s oldest first-term President, seven months older than Ronald Reagan was at his swearing-in. It's still nothing compared to FDR's 99 executive orders at the height of the Great Depression.On the morning of January 20, 2017, the President-elect is to visit Barack Obama at the White House for coffee, before they share a limousine-Obama seated on the right, his successor on the left-for the ride to the Capitol, where the Inauguration will take place, on the west front terrace, at noon.ĭonald Trump will be five months short of seventy-one. Trump, who has signed more than any president in recent history, according to the Federal Register.
That is where executive orders come in for Mr. Even when the House, Senate and White House are of the same party, unity can be troublesome. "I don't think there's really any way to say that with a straight face."īut critics' claims that he is the least successful president thus far aren't very accurate either, mostly because presidents don't tend to have monumental accomplishments in their first 100 days, Benedetto said. "The notion that he's accomplished a great deal is just obviously not true," said David Greenberg, professor of history and journalism and media studies at Rutgers University. Two of the laws name VA clinics - one in Pago Pago and another in Pennsylvania.Thirteen of the laws he signed repeal Obama-era regulations, dispensing with them quickly under the Congressional Review Act.The legislation Roosevelt signed included creating the Tennessee Valley Authority, starting massive public works projects to end the Great Depression, establishing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - as Politifact notes, 15 of those laws were major pieces of legislation. Trump has signed more pieces of legislation than most recent presidents, but paling in comparison to Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) and Harry Truman. Trump recently said he didn't think any president has accomplished more in the first 100 days than his administration has, but that's hard to square, presidential historians said. "It hasn't been that much different - it's been more controversial more tumultuous because he's not only battling with his political opponents, whoever he perceives to be his political opponents, he's battling with the press," said Richard Benedetto, an adjunct journalism professor at American University who covered four presidents as a White House reporter.
President Donald Trump has signed more laws and executive orders than recent presidents in his first 100 days, but he hasn't been remarkably more - or shockingly less - successful than most past presidents, according to experts in presidential history.
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