A recent article by Blasting News about Trump's first 100-days referred to the President scoffing at the 100-day standard that has traditionally been used as a marker for the success of a presidency. It even explained that while he said he didn't care and that it was a ridiculous standard, he is still rushing to complete some form of legislation before the deadline. It also notes how Republicans are looking to move quickly in order to help him get something done.

Really, the reality of the difficulties the White House has found itself in has resulted in some pressure they can only alleviate by not caring about legislating or what is said about them.

In the process, President Trump will have shown some consistency in at least one accomplishment to his credit, which is that he's effectively been able to piss everyone off. It's quite clear that the administration is instigating a government shutdown next week - with a White House official expressing some excitement, that they're designed to aggravate and upset as many Americans as they can and not care about the backlash because, to them, there is no such thing.

Weekends at Mar-a-Lago

One thing that seems to have irritated quite a few Americans for instance, is the fact that President Trump has spent just about every weekend traveling to his Mar-a-Lago resort using Airforce One, spending millions of taxpayer money on the trip and security for himself and his extended family, always golfing and/or hosting foreign statesmen away from the White House.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has defended the President's expensive and frequent trips saying that he was carrying out his duties as president by working around the clock. But if this is the case, then why does he not have legislative accomplishments? Why use the bully pulpit of even force to hammer his agenda on Congress and make absurd and forceful demands if it wasn't that he was rushing to improve his image?

It's because he's used to getting what he wants and will do it through intimidation of the office to gain the upper hand.

Won't take the Presidency seriously

Jeff Zeleny of CNN said in a panel discussion on Washington Week on Friday that while he was covering Trump in Wisconsin, he noticed that the President liked the trappings of the White House and Mar-a-Lago and so it's quite clear that in the first 100-days of his presidency, he enjoys the image of being president.

But being ignorant of legislation and in the meantime, pushing through his agenda using brute force appears to be what substitutes governing. It's been mentioned that he seemed to be taking to some of the presidential duties in the office when he allowed Steve Bannon to be pushed out of the National Security Council, or when he found himself in the same precarious position that former President Obama was in with trying to do something about Syria. But he hasn't taken to reducing his weekend sprints to the Florida resort.

Using military to bully the world

While the list of how many people, places, organizations the Trump administration has pissed off is long, it's important to point out the obvious; that his access to the military and his determination through his budget proposal to pump more money into it and take funding away from humanitarian programs is the obvious move of a brute.

Within the first 100-days, he's been able to use the military to threaten other governments without knowing the risks and really, not caring. Without enabling a State Department to present the administration's policy, without using the national press as a platform for what the U.S. stands for and keeping them in the dark, he's treating Americans just as he treats the enemy. And really what's even worst is that this could reveal another accomplishment and that is that he's been able to pull this off without even being presidential. And yet even with that, he still won't have any legislative accomplishments.
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