April 30th will mark the 100th day of this Trump presidency. I am allocated about 750 words to digest it. Let’s go.

The Gulf of Mexico is now the Gulf of America. Photos of the Enola Gay were purged. If only Harry Truman had sent a heterosexual bomber to annihilate Hiroshima.

The world’s wealthiest human took a kitchen slicer and dicer to one federal agency after another. While Donald Trump “won” his umpteenth club championship, all at golf courses he owns.

Tariffs have come and gone, and no one can keep them straight. In the week following Trump’s Liberation Day announcement, $11 trillion of world wealth was wiped from the boards.

A planeload of deportees headed to a Salvadoran gulag included one legal U.S. resident in what was acknowledged to be an “administrative error.” Still, no one in the administration was the slightest bit moved to lift a finger to secure his return despite unanimous Supreme Court insistence.

Last used to intern Japanese Americans 80 years ago, the Alien Enemies Act was invoked to enable the President to avoid due process requirements.

Signalgate saw a high-school-worthy text thread containing details of a coming attack on Yemen’s Houthis shared with a magazine editor.

Up is down and down up. Many of our allies view us with scorn while enemies greet us with delight. Canada is estranged. The takeover, forcible or otherwise, of Greenland has gone from presidential fantasy to the center of serious discussion.

Hungary’s Orban is a role model while the Canadian premier is subjected to taunts and insults. Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky received an Oval Office dressing down while Putin’s Russia was spared even token tariffs.

The Associated Press was banned from the White House press pool before another judicial intervention. Trump wants the FCC to revoke CBS’s broadcast license. Law firms have been coerced into backing down from adversarial cases and ponying up for Trump’s benefit.

Colleges and universities have been threatened with all manner of sanctions and the loss of billions of federal research dollars. Campus protestors have been targeted for deportation. This administration holds a very different view of the First Amendment, especially disagreeable speech.

Pete Hegseth runs the Pentagon; Pam Bondi heads Justice; and Kash Patel reigns over the FBI. Instead of “The Best and the Brightest,” the definitive historical account of this crowd will be called “The Sick and the Sycophants.”

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has commissioned a study on the causes of autism, with results due by September. The cost-savers at DOGE must have let that one slide. Vaccines will undoubtedly be the subject of particular censure.

Trump has taken over the Kennedy Center and is gunning for the Smithsonian. So much for any reverence for arts, culture, and history.

Federal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams were suddenly dropped. Even a resident Gotham rat could sniff out that quid pro quo.

Ed Martin, interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, somehow neglected to disclose his 150 or more appearances on Russian state media.

Despite Iranian assassination threats, protection details were withdrawn from first-term officials Mike Pompeo and John Bolton, who had been insufficiently obsequious to dear leader. Investigations were launched into two senior national security officials who had the temerity to dispute Trump’s election fraud claims.

Trump continued to peddle the fiction that the 2020 election was stolen. Before inauguration day was out, he granted blanket clemency to all those convicted of Jan. 6 offenses, nearly 1,600 hoodlums in total.

NOAA’s funding was put on the chopping block. Who needs weather forecasting or climate research?

Birthright citizenship was eliminated by executive decree in contradiction of the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court will get the last word.

Speaking of that pesky Constitution, Trump continues to toy with ways he can remain in office despite the 22nd Amendment’s limitation of two terms. Notwithstanding the lack of any presidential jurisdiction, another executive order overhauled major parts of American elections.

All the while, Congress hibernates and avoids its core functions. Trump’s team explores every way of ignoring adverse court orders. Border czar Tom Homan articulated his idea of Constitutional deference and the rule of law. “We are not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think.”

 Modest as always, Trump proclaimed the start of this term the best in presidential history, superior to even George Washington’s. You, my readers, can measure whether all this constitutes the promised restoration of American greatness.

Eric Sondermann is a Colorado-based independent political commentator. He writes regularly for ColoradoPolitics and the Gazette newspapers. Reach him at EWS@EricSondermann.com; follow him at @EricSondermann