100 days of payback
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Noelle King, host of Today Explained. We're here at 100 days of Trump part two. They say they like to flood the zone. And boy, did the zone feel flooded.
Can you remember everything?
Oh my gosh.
Liberation Day. Backing off Liberation Day.
Greenland.
Canada. Canada. Ukraine. The Oval Office meeting with the yelling.
Thank you. The penny. They were going to get rid of the penny. I think I still see pennies. Showerheads. Showerheads. Immigration. Daylight savings. I think we still have that too. Deporting some people who are citizens. Fighting with the courts. Withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords. Doge.
aid project esther and anti-semitism everything is computer going after harvard rewriting history you did a show on that donald trump said there are two genders the pope's funeral yep the eggs are still pricey a weird number of sig heils today i think we focus on one main theme how about that yeah which one revenge sean revenge coming up on today explained
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I'm Andrew Prokop, senior correspondent, Vox, covering politics.
All right. So we're talking today because President Trump has now been in office for a thousand days. How would you say the first thousand days have gone?
Time flew. I didn't really realize that it was the year 2028.
100 days in. For clarity, what are sort of the big themes of the second Trump administration?
I've been thinking about it as I tried to, you know, rise above the day-to-day headlines and focus on the recurring stories, things where big things have happened already that have made a difference. And I think there are really four stories of that nature so far. The first is the economy and tariffs.
It's a big deal. It's a big deal. This is the beginning of making America rich again.
The second, I would say, is immigration, as Trump attempts to impose his mass deportation agenda, as he is making the U.S. a less welcoming place for foreigners generally. All sorts of big, high-profile battles and showdowns, and we're probably just at the beginning of that.
I'd like to go a step further. I mean, I say—I said it to Pam. I don't know what the laws are. We always have to obey the laws. But we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways that— hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat.
The third, I would say, is Elon Musk and Doge and this general agenda of kind of dismantling government, cutting government spending.
This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.
firing federal workers. But the fourth, I think, and one in which in some ways is the most ominous, is what I view as Trump's agenda of retribution.
I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution. I am your retribution.
He has been more willing than any other president in recent memory to use the power of the federal government against people who he views as his political enemies or people who are viewed as being on the left.
There's a strong argument that no one should be surprised by this, because when President Trump was candidate Trump out on the campaign trail, he repeatedly said he was going to go after people, places, things, institutions. Is what we are seeing, I know you were watching that carefully, is what we are seeing what Trump promised?
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