President Trump's administration has reached the 100-day milestone! What a momentous occasion... for the mainstream media that is. The 100-day mark is the Hallmark card holiday of political gauges. It's like Valentine's. No one asked for it, but we're all expected to act like it's a big deal. If you listen to the alarmist leftist press, which is gorging itself on the latest polls (the worst First 100 days survey in 80 years!), Americans are furious, the economy is crashing, the sky is falling and Trump had better pack it in because his White House goose is cooked. Sixty percent of voters in a Washington Post poll feel Trump is out of touch with their concerns, 72 percent fear that he's driving the country into recession and 99 percent believe that Kennedy is the most beautiful and intelligent woman in America. Now, I understand that I number among the blabbering political punditry, but that doesn't mean that I'm incapable of independent thought. So, instead of focusing on the polls (because when are they ever wrong?) and a manufactured media festival, let's look at some measurable achievements of Donald's second term. In a controversy-rich climate, nothing is more of a hot button than Elon Musk's DOGE. The baby-making billionaire pledged to cut federal agencies by 'at least $2 trillion' before revising his estimate by 50 percent. But Elon and his merry band of nerds are still stealing from the bureaucracy and giving back to Americans, saving at least $150 billion by 'cutting fraud and waste.' Their bushwacking targets include a $2.9 billion migrant facility in Texas, a shady $1.9 billion IRS IT contract and a nearly completely useless, unaccountable and, frankly, anti-American government agency. USAID doled out grants by the hundreds of millions for everything from Iraqi Sesame Street to dance classes in Wuhan and handouts for Syrian terrorists. Now, DOGE's rankled foes are furious that Elon is both cutting and not cutting enough, got it. They quibble with how much taxpayer money he's re-claimed yet decry the loss of every misspent penny. If anything, DOGE's disinfecting sunlight is shining a much-needed light on the dark underbelly of the bloated federal government. And Elon - and Trump - deserve our thanks. Shutting 'un-shuttable' border It didn't take Trump 100 days to secure the open southern border. He sealed that leaky deal of a campaign pledge on Day One. One year ago this month Droopy Joe Biden claimed that he didn't have the authority to halt the endless throng of caravans and asylum seekers bum-rushing every point of entry from Nogales, Arizona to Eagle Pass, Texas. 'We're examining whether or not I have that power,' mumbled the Tripper-in-Chief. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas even had the stones to say, 'The border is closed.' Sure, if by 'closed' you mean WIDE OPEN. Dork. The political backlash to that obvious and damaging lie landed Trump in the White House for a second time. Now Customs and Border Protection data show a 94 percent drop in nationwide, single-day border apprehensions. One White House official I spoke to poo-pooed the polls and pointed to the staggering decline, telling me, 'This is the President's marquis issue. Republicans have been campaigning on it for decades. Most administrations don't achieve their prime objective in four to eight years. We accomplished it in 100 days.' But while the snapped-shut border may have happened quickly, trade is a more perplexing puzzle that my White House buddy promises, 'will be solved within the next 100 days.' Tricky Trade War Even Trump's tall tale-tellers admit people will have to be a little more patient with this one. Unfortunately, if there's one thing a combative press and struggling Americans have very little of, it's patience. With a volatile stock market and 145 percent tariffs on China, it's easy to slam trade hawks like Peter Navarro who foolishly promised '90 deals in 90 days.' What about the small businesses that might go bankrupt if they make their goods in China and have no way to find alternate manufacturing? The White House pointed to me a bike manufacturer setting up shop in my ancestral home of Seymour, Indiana. Guardian Bikes will start making their frames in the southern part of the Hoosier state, crowing it is, 'a significant step in reshoring a critical industry that was once a cornerstone of American manufacturing but has been nearly offshore for decades.' Well, if the point of this trade war is to bring bike manufacturing home – then they've made great strides. But I suspect that the real goals are a bit grander. Even handsome Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had loudly admitted to reporters that a tariff tit-for-tat with China is 'not sustainable.' But no one ever claimed that overhauling the world economy would be an easy lift. Perhaps, putting an arbitrary 100-day grade on the historic re-alignment of trillions of dollars in global commerce is a bit preposterous? Culture wars won Of course, you don't hear the Left harping about certain polls. Take, for instance, a recent New York Times survey on whether transgender people should compete against biological women in sports. The poll showed 79 percent of voters now oppose former dudes spiking women on volleyball courts and in pools. Given the lopsidedness of these issues, you'd think that progressives would be forced to come around... but no. They're still leading their party around by the boa and Democrats have chosen to die on this silly hill. Forty-five lefty senators voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act in January, but that didn't stop Trump's Education Department (which he hopes will soon be abolished) from slapping the University of Pennsylvania with a Title IX violation this week for allowing Lia Thomas to compete against bio-gals in swimming. The Department of Ed is requiring Penn president J. Larry Jameson (sounds like a snob) to vacate and erase any trans female awards and records 'or similar recognition for Division I swimming competitions', which means Lanky Lia would have to give back her she-medals. Smoldering Ceasefire After that tender Vatican moment shared between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Pope's funeral last weekend, Mad Vlad Putin has sheepishly called a three-day ceasefire. Trump is a long way from realizing his campaign trail pledge to end the war in 24 hours, but it does look like progress. Perhaps, all it took was a good tongue lashing from Trump who told Putin, 'Stop shooting, sit down and sign a deal.' (Putin adores being bullied, so this should end well.) The frustrated White House wants to make this short-term token permanent, and they're applying new pressure to the sociopathic Russian leader to stop the nonsense and give peace a chance. But Trump once again has backed himself into a corner, bragging this week that he wants a deal in 'two weeks or less' and his administration is turning up the heat on both sides, suggesting that America will walk away. Even if Trump comes somewhat close and achieves what for his predecessor would've been unthinkable, he won't get the credit. Critics aligned against this administration would rather give Ukraine another unaccounted for $200 billion and prolong the killing and destruction than allow this president a political win. It's callous and disgusting. But it's the truth. Pony up, Saudi Arabia One clear a bright spot, the flow of foreign investment into the US, will die in darkness in America's newsrooms. This is a victory for American manufacturing as well as the global economy, but you won't hear more than a peep about Saudi Arabia pledging $600 billion in investments over the next 4 years or UAE investing more than double that in the next decade. Japan and India, already reportedly rushing to make trade deals, are also pledging well over $1 trillion that will hopefully result in thousands of new American jobs. Some of these anti-Trumpers are downright prudes, but I find this stripe of good news to be very sexy. This all comes in addition to private companies like Oracle, Open AI, Nvidia and Hyundai - to name a few - rounding out the global behemoths who are happy to make a splash in the consumer-rich, contiguous American economy. So far, the full tally comes in at around $5 trillion. Who knows what the next 100 Days will bring, but you can count on a weaponized, left media bringing you fewer of the wins and more of the fails of an administration that is damned if they do and double damned if they don't.