What has Trump done during his first 100 days? His accomplishments and kept promises
President Trump has been criticized by both the left and right over his accomplishments (or for some, lack thereof) during his first 100 days in the White House. But has Trump truly been a do-nothing president?
Here is a look some of the major moves the president has made during his first few months in office.
Neil Gorsuch confirmed to the Supreme Court: President Trump himself recently called adding Neil Gorsuch to the supreme court the "biggest thing I've done." During the 2016 election, the president released a "Contract with the American Voter." And one of the signature promises on that list, which now seems uncharacteristically modest, was to "begin the process of selecting a replacement for Justice Scalia." Trump went beyond landing on a candidate and not only decided on Neil Gorsuch but also was able to have him confirmed and sworn in as the 9th Justice on the Supreme Court.
Click through top Trump controversies from his first 100 days:
Executive orders, executive orders everywhere: Some of President Trump's biggest wins since taking office have come in the form of executive orders. So far he's signed 30 orders during his first 100 days, which is 11 more than his predecessor former President Barack Obama. Here are a few of the major orders the president's signed so far:
Order reversing multiple Obama-era offshore drilling restrictions, review of limits on drilling locations.
Order directing a review of national monument designations from prior administrations.
Order freezing hiring for some federal government workers, excluding the military.
Orders reviving both the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.
Order issuing a five year-ban on officials becoming lobbyists after leaving government work, along with a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government.
Order mandating agencies abolish two regulations for ever new regulation introduced.
Explore Trump's other executive orders:
Increase of immigration enforcement: President Trump may have had his travel ban blocked multiple times by the courts, but the president has still had an impact on the border through stepping up deportations and increasing immigration enforcement. Since Trump took office, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has reported 35,604 "removals" in January and February of this year, slightly more than former President Obama compared to 35,255 in the first two months of 2017, According to The Guard.
Military action in Syria and Afghanistan: While many of President Trump's critics, and supporters, slammed the president for escalating conflict in the Middle East, Trump nevertheless did make moves that demonstrate substantial changes from the previous administration.
In response to a chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians in Syria, Trump ordered 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at an airbase that housed warplanes that carried out the chemical attacks.
A week later, President Trump dropped the United States' most powerful non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan. The massive bomb reportedly killed 92 ISIS militants.
