Today is Friday, April 18, 2025, a day before another massive protest against the Dump administration takes place in our streets. In the wake of this would-be tyrant’s closing in on his first 100 days in office – which increasingly appears like years, not days – Dana Milbank delivers his analysis of the autocrat’s less-than-100-days in office. It’s an opinion piece published online in The Washington Post and it’s entitled “Trump is wrapping up 100 days of historic failure: America has seen ruinous periods, but never when the president was the one knowingly causing the ruin.”

The opening line reads thusly: “By any reasonable measure, President Donald Trump’s first 100 days will be judged an epic failure.” Then he lists all of the ways his first 100 days will be judged a failure. No one in his or her right mind could dispute Milbank’s evidence here, and if he or she thinks otherwise, he or she has to be as deluded as the president is concerning how successful he has been since his inauguration.

On the economic front, Milbank writes he has been an economic failure. “On his watch, growth has slowed, consumer and business confidence has cratered, and markets have plunged, along with Americans’ wealth.” Even Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell [whom this asshole president said he wants fired immediately because he’s telling the truth about Dump’s failed economic policies] said yesterday that “growth has slowed in the first quarter of this year from last year’s solid pace.” He also determined that Drumpf’s tariffs would result in higher inflation and lower growth.

On the foreign-policy front, Dump can be viewed as a failure too. Dump said he would end wars in Gaza and Ukraine. However, those were just empty promises, as you would expect, since fighting has resumed in Gaza after the demise of the ceasefire negotiated by his predecessor, and Russia continues to brutalize Ukraine, making a mockery of Drumpf’s tame overtures to Vladimir Putin.

Dump is also a failure in the eyes of friends, or allies, “having launched a trade war against Canada, Mexico, Europe and Japan; enraged Canada with talk of annexation; threatened Greenland and Panama; and cleaved the NATO alliance.”

The ignorant president is also a failure in the eyes of foes, “as an emboldened China menaces Taiwan, punches back hard in the trade war, and spreads its global influence to fill the vacuum left by Trump’s retreat from the world.”

On the constitutional front, Dump has been a failure as well. “His executive actions, brazen in their disregard for the law have been slapped down more than 80 times already by judges, including those appointed by Republicans. He is flagrantly defying a unanimous Supreme Court, and his appointees are facing contempt proceedings for their abuse of the legal system.

Even on the public opinion front, he’s a failure too. The most recent polling finds Dump with a 52 percent disapproval rating, which is a 16-point swing for the worse since the disastrous start of his second term.

For those who really care, Dump’s 100th day in office will be on April 30, and I’ll be away then. I will not celebrate it in any way, that’s for sure!

A very resonant point Milbank makes about this president’s horrible agenda: that “we’ve been through ruinous periods before, but never when the president was the one actively and knowingly causing the ruin.” Can you believe this?

During past upheaval, historian David Greenberg of Rutgers University said, there “wasn’t this sense that the White House, the president, is directing the destruction of 250-year-old American values.” Let’s ponder this awhile before we plow through the next 1,360 days of his second term.

Tomorrow I hope to participate in the second massive protest against the policies of this very unpopular administration. It’s scheduled for 12 this time. The location is the same: Bryant Park. But we march in a northerly direction this time.

I’m not sure if I will be here tomorrow night. So far, I’m not going to see a play like I did the last time.

Have a great weekend. Happy Easter to those who observe.

And so it went!