Today’s notice: 100 takes for 100 days — well, not really, but interesting people talking about what comes next. Also: What Tim Burchett is making for Tulsi Gabbard in his spare time.
Why This First 100 Days Is Different
In most recent presidencies, the 100-day mark is essentially meaningless, a rhetorical flourish to declare the end of the beginning of a term. But this First 100 Days is worth paying close attention to.
Both sides of the political debate believe they’ve learned enough in the opening months of Donald Trump’s striking second term that the next 100 days will belong to them.
The president will make a big show of his accomplishments today in Michigan, amid sagging poll numbers that suggest many of those accomplishments still have a sales problem. Trump is setting about doing that as he usually does: attacking polls as fake and pollsters as “enemies of the people.”