As President Donald Trump passes his 100th day back in office, some key features of this presidency are already coming into focus: the colossal amount of money he raised to celebrate his inauguration; his historic use of executive orders from Day 1 to quickly reshape government; the market slump in reaction to his tariff policies; and his 100-day approval rating, lower than any seen in nearly a century.
Here, in 10 charts, is a look at aspects of his second term so far.
Trump signed more than 140 executive orders as of Monday, far more than any American president in the same period. He is rapidly approaching the number that Barack Obama signed in his entire first term.
Trump’s orders are unprecedented not just for their volume, but also, arguably, for their scope. From attempting to shrink a federal department created by Congress to invoking the wartime Alien Enemies Act to deport immigrants, Trump’s orders have tested the limits of presidential powers. More than 200 lawsuits have already been filed against his administration, according to a Washington Post tally.
Trump is also using executive actions to attack perceived enemies, including the law firm that employs the spouse of his political opponent Kamala Harris. He has also targeted environmentally friendly paper straws and showerheads.
Thirty-nine percent of U.S. adults approve of Trump’s job performance, and 55 percent disapprove, according to the latest Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll. That’s the lowest 100-day approval rating of any U.S. president since polling began more than 80 years ago.
Most Americans said they disapprove of Trump’s actions in several key areas: immigration, managing the federal government, looking out for the interests of average Americans, the economy, foreign relations, tariffs and the stock market.
Trump still holds support from a majority of Republicans.
The U.S. stock markets took a hit in the first 100 days of Trump’s second term. It is the biggest drop seen this early in any presidential term in the last two decades. This follows Trump’s attacks on the head of the independent Federal Reserve — which his aides have urged him to soften — and uneven rollout of tariffs, including in an area mainly inhabited by penguins, which roiled the global economy.
So far, the Senate has confirmed more than 50 Trump political appointees, thanks in several cases to party-line votes cast by his Republican allies who control the chamber. Among recent presidents, only Barack Obama surpassed that figure, when Democrats led that chamber in 2009.
Trump has more than doubled the number of appointments he made in the same period in his first term, owing in part to a detailed plan for the beginning of his second term.
Party-line support in the Senate was crucial for getting Trump’s most controversial picks confirmed, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary and Pete Hegseth as defense secretary.
Trump raised $239 million for his 2025 inauguration celebrations, shattering the record he set in 2017 of $107 million. The next closest figure was $61 million, raised by Joe Biden.
Donors to this year’s fund included more than a dozen people Trump has nominated to a variety of roles in his administration, and tech and cryptocurrency companies fighting cases in federal courts.
One-million-dollar donations also came from Amazon (whose founder Jeff Bezos owns The Post); Google and Meta — which have cases before federal judges; and Nvidia, the chipmaker embroiled in Trump’s trade war.
Trump averaged more than five posts a day for the first 100 days of his first term. According to a Post analysis, Trump has published more than 1,700 posts on Truth Social, the platform he owns, in his first 100 days of his second term — an average of 17 posts a day.
“TRUTH (Social) is on ‘FIRE’ (in a positive way, of course!),” he wrote last month. “It is my Voice, and the Real Voice of America. Sign up TODAY, I have never let you down!”
Trump has stressed that to protect U.S. national security interests, the country needs to undertake territorial expansion.
On his first day in office, he signed an executive order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
A month later he proposed taking a “long-term ownership position” of Gaza and moving its residents elsewhere. That month Trump also warned the United States had to “take back the Panama Canal,” and he later told Congress that “we’re taking it back.”
In March, Trump dispatched Vice President JD Vance to Greenland, after having refused to rule out using military coercion to take control of the semiautonomous Danish territory. Meanwhile, Trump needled the U.S. neighbors to the north, saying they should become the 51st state — apparently without regard to the will of Canadian citizens, nor the overwhelming advantage it could accrue to Democrats.
International travel to the United States — which was, broadly speaking, trending downward — dropped further during Trump’s first 100 days back in office, according to data from the International Trade Administration, a part of the Commerce Department. The decline follows the Trump administration’s targeting of foreign nationals with opinions it opposes; deportation efforts that lack due process; and a confusing rollout of tariffs that have roiled global markets.
The decline comes as the United States prepares to host the FIFA World Cup next year, an event Trump announced last month he will take a leading role to facilitate.
Trump has spent nearly every weekend at a golf course, according to a review of his schedule, media reports and publicly available information.
In 2011, Trump complained that Obama “plays golf to escape work while America goes down the drain.” Later, Trump wrote, “Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf.”
In 2016, as Trump sought to make the leap from reality-TV celebrity to commander in chief, he told supporters in Virginia he “may never see” his golf courses and properties again. “Because I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go play golf.”
Federica Cocco, Adrián Blanco Ramos and Daniel Wolfe contributed to this report. Illustration by Álvaro Valiño; photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post.
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Federal workers: The Trump administration continues to work to downsize the federal government, eliminating thousands of jobs at agencies, including HHS, USAID, the IRS, the Social Security Administration, the Education Department, the Defense Department, the National Weather Service and the National Park Service.
