Trump Wants It Known: Grading 100 Days Is 'Ridiculous' (but His Were the Best) - The Ne... - 0 views
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“As with so much else, Trump is a study in inconsistency,” said Robert Dallek, the presidential historian. “One minute he says his 100 days have been the best of any president, and the next minute he decries the idea of measuring a president by the 100 days.”
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Mr. Trump has already told supporters not to believe contrary assessments, anticipating more critical evaluations by journalists, not to mention partisan attacks by Democrats.
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Others were less weighty, like one officially naming a veterans’ health center in Butler County, Pa., the “Abie Abraham V.A. Clinic.”
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To the extent that he is being held to a measurement he disdains, he has no one to blame but himself.
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“It is hard to judge any of these other presidents after that, and I think all of them are cursing the idea that this got started,” said Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of “No Ordinary Time,” a book about Roosevelt. “That’s the one thing they might all agree on, the post-F.D.R. presidents: ‘No way; this isn’t fair.’”
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“I don’t think the first 100 days are by themselves that important,” he said. “The first year is critically important, and the first 100 days set the tone for the first year.”
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I think there is a confirmation bias in Mr. Trump's argument. He was quoting the previous presidents to suggest that the first 100 days of presidency is not important. However, what the previous presidents meant by saying "100-days" is not a fair grading mark is because the time is too short to show anything. It's not that it is not important. I think Mr. Trump himself is not even convinced with that since he tried so hard to make his first hundred days look good. Quantity does not equal quality. --Sissi (4/25/2017)