100 Days of Decrepitude

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Who knew 100 days could last so long?

The first 7 percent of Trump II: Electric Fuckaroo has been more of everything — more alarming, more cruel, more autocratic, more inept — than even the most cynical of us could have imagined.

I thought it would be fun (instructive? depressing?) to look at Il Mango's second first 100 days by the numbers, Harper's Index style.

Donald Trump net approval rating on January 20, 2025: +11.7
DJT approval rating on April 30, 2025: -9.1
Approval rating of Brussels sprouts: +62

Laws passed by Congress during FDR's first 100 days: 77 [1]
Laws passed by Congress during DJT's first 100 days: 6 [2]
Days Trump spent golfing during his first 100: 24
FDR golfing trips: 0
Estimated cost of taxpayer-funded golf trips through April 7: $26 million

Executive orders signed by Trump during his first 100 days: 142
Executive orders undoing EOs issued by other presidents: 111
Lawsuits filed challenging the legality of Trump Administration actions: 258

Times Donald Trump has mentioned Joe Biden in his speeches, talks, or social media rants since Jan 20: 580
Times he's mentioned Melania: 0

Growth of US economy in Q4 2024, in percent: +2.4
Growth of US economy in Q1 2025, in percent: -03
Wealth lost from S&P 500 two days after "liberation day" tariff announcements: -$5 trillion
Average effective US tariff rate across all countries as of April 2025, in percent: 28 [3]
Impact of tariffs on the cost of shoes in the US, by percent: +87

Episodes of The Simpsons aired since its debut on December 17, 1989: 786
Episodes of The Simpsons since it predicted the presidency of Donald Trump: 543

Number of days Trump said he'd need to end the war in Ukraine: 1
Days since Trump failed to end the war in Ukraine: 100
Days since Elon Musk first declared Tesla cars would be fully autonomous: 4,223

Savings claimed by the Department of Government Efficiency: $160 billion
Verifiable DOGE cuts, based on BBC analysis: $61.5 billion
Change in federal spending since Jan 20: +$140 billion
Change in national debt: +$44 billion

Money Elon Musk spent trying to buy the 2024 election for Donald Trump: $277 million
Value of federal contracts, loans, and tax credits received by Tesla and SpaceX over the last 20 years: $38 billion
Change in Elon Musk's personal wealth since December 2024: -$150 billion
Musk's net favorability rating among Americans: -15.4

Estimated number of Elon Musk's children with four different women: 14
Amount Musk offered 26-year-old Instafluencer Ashley St. Clair to keep quiet over their illegimate son, Romulus: $15 million
Children Errol Musk (Elon's biological father) sired with his stepdaughter, Jana Bezuidenhout: 2
Age difference between Errol and Jana: 42 years
Average distance an acorn falls from an oak tree, in inches: 10

Number of reporters for The Atlantic accidentally included on Pete Hegseth's classified Signal group chats: 1
Number of Atlantic reporters accidentally butt dialed by Trump: 2
Original cost of makeup studio to be installed in Pentagon for Hegseth's media appearances: $40,000

Amount budgeted by DHS to run advertisements thanking Trump for "closing the border": $200 million
Percent of Americans who disapprove of Trump's immigration policies: 53
Days Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been illegally detained in an El Salvadorian prison after an 'administrative error': 45
Cost of Trump's proposed 'Gold Card' for instant US citizenship: $5 million

Federal prosecutors in New York's Southern District who have resigned rather than drop the criminal charges against corrupt NYC Mayor Eric Adams: 10
Number of interim IRS Commissioners named since Jan 20: 4 [4]
Shortfall in expected federal income tax collections for 2025: -$83 billion
Americans assigning Trump a failing grade for his first 100 days, in percent: 45

There are two stats in here I made up. Can you spot them? Share your guesses in the comments or email me: [email protected].

[1] FDR's 77 laws included 15 "landmark" pieces of legislation, such as the Securities Act, the Emergency Banking Act, and establishing the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Public Works Administration.

[2] Three were laws undoing accomplishments achieved under Biden, one was a stopgap funding measure, one was an immigration detention law that was passed before he took office, and another (still unsigned) prohibits non-consenual porn.

[3] The highest since 1901, when McKinley was still president and not just a denamed/renamed mountain.

[4] Or, to quote Rolling Stone: "The administration is going through acting IRS Commissioners faster than Spinal Tap went through drummers."