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The most important lesson of Trump’s first hundred days

Robert Reich
Apr 29, 2025
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Friends,

Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first hundred days, “the first hundred days” of a presidency has become the first test of presidencies.

It’s been assumed that, like FDR, a successful president in the first hundred days gets a lot done and aggregates lots of power to do it.

Trump has now revealed the fatuousness of that view.

No modern presiden…

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