Althouse: Trump does a First-100-Days rally

April 29, 2025

Trump does a First-100-Days rally — in Michigan.

It's still going on as he nears the 1-hour mark, but you can scroll back and start at the beginning:

23 comments:

rehajm said...: …aaaand all that leftie work to get his poll numbers down for the budget fight goes up in smoke…; 4/29/25, 5:52 PM
FormerLawClerk said...: Took the Trump team 100 days to figure out that Kamala Harris' wife Doug Emhoff is sitting on boards of the US government.

They finally fired him today.

How many other Biden/Obama leftovers are still ensconced in the bowels of our Federal government and still getting paychecks?

They can't even do open source intelligence correctly.; 4/29/25, 5:53 PM
Jamie said...: FLC, it's been years since I've done database stuff, but what would the search have been? How do you define "everyone involved with or related to anyone at this rank or above in the Obama or Biden administrations employed at or on the board of any federal government agency at any level"? I'm sure it's technically doable, but given what we now know about the state of government databases, how realistically doable is it ?

This is a real question - as I said, my last real database experience was some twenty years ago.; 4/29/25, 6:02 PM
R C Belaire said...: I watched for about 1/2 hour. The guy is a natural, with apparently boundless energy.; 4/29/25, 6:05 PM
Josephbleau said...: “ They can't even do open source intelligence correctly.”

No, you can’t use these things up all at once, you have to save them. If you are lucky a judge will issue a tro saying he can’t be dismissed. You can’t get a Wisconsin judge to aid and abet every news day. You need some filler.; 4/29/25, 6:06 PM
Jimmy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 4/29/25, 6:38 PM
Leland said...: How do you define "everyone involved with or related to anyone at this rank or above in the Obama or Biden administrations employed at or on the board of any federal government agency at any level"?

Indeed. Last week they got rid of Susan Rice off a DoD advisory committee. One of the other problems is how many of these administrative committees and advisory boards did the government need? You know most of the papers they wrote were mostly never read, and if read, never followed. If was just grift. If your only bitch is it took 100 days before they fired, consider they were drawing a paycheck for years, and would still be there if anybody else had been elected. Not just Harris, because another Republican President would have just made sure the committee was "bipartisan".; 4/29/25, 6:51 PM
Jimmy said...: "Took the Trump team 100 days to figure out that Kamala Harris' wife Doug Emhoff is sitting on boards of the US government." The board, singular, was the US Holocaust Memorial council.

But then TDS means you never miss a chance to twist the truth, and never miss a chance to slag Trump. Sad; 4/29/25, 6:52 PM
Achilles said...: The people trying to stop Trump are making a real mistake now and are ignoring the mood of the public.

Trump's policies are overwhelmingly popular. We are talking 70/30 splits on all of the main points.

The Democrats of today are doing exactly the same things as the Democrats of the 1850's. But the Democrats in the 1850's had more support and were geographically contiguous. Todays Democrats inhabit little urban cloisters surrounded by Union sympathizers.

Personally I hope they keep pushing. Obviously trying to thwart Trump and MAGA on border and economic policy when you are the 30% is not a bright idea.

Most of the country cannot contain their anticipation to see more scumbag judges thrown in jail. Karen too. Fuck Karen.; 4/29/25, 7:17 PM
planetgeo said...: Trump's first 100 days have been the most action-packed and consequential of any President in my lifetime. And specifically the incredibly fast closing of the border is one of the most strategic and effective presidential actions of all time. Not only was it shockingly quick, but it also demonstrated once and for all how deceitful and deliberate the abandonment of the border was by Biden and the Democrats.

I also expect other benefits of his executive orders to become evident in the ending months despite the obstructing and delaying actions of the Democrats. But regardless, this first blitz of 100 days has been exactly what I voted for.; 4/29/25, 7:33 PM
planetgeo said...: ...ensuing months...; 4/29/25, 7:35 PM
Boris Badenov said...: Reportedly, the count of attorneys leaving the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ is now over 100 since Harmeet Dhillon was sworn in 2-3 weeks ago. Good work!

Growing up in the Balto-DC area back in the '70s, the joke used to be:
There are so many lawyers in DC, if you lined them up end to end on Interstate 95... it would be a good thing.

And that was how they were regarded, many decades before 'lawfare' became a word in the vocabulary.; 4/29/25, 7:45 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Donald Trump softens car tariffs as he visits industrial heartland in Michigan ~ FT

'Executive order comes after industry voiced concerns that US trade war would raise costs'

Trump seems to be negotiating quite a few deals………with himself. Brilliant way to highlight the problem he created.

Another day, another retreat. How can any American company or consumer make plans? And why would any country enter negotiations with Trump rather than just wait until he concedes defeat once the economic downturn hits?; 4/29/25, 7:53 PM
boatbuilder said...: Planet Geo--And specifically the incredibly fast closing of the border is one of the most strategic and effective presidential actions of all time. Not only was it shockingly quick, but it also demonstrated once and for all how deceitful and deliberate the abandonment of the border was by Biden and the Democrats.

Agreed.

Note that the debate is not about whether Trump's closing of the border was "cruel" or "inhumane" or "illegal" (!?). The border is being closed to illegal entry, and that is how it should be in a sane country.

The current debate is about whether the tats on the illegal alien deportee who has been identified as a criminal gang member by multiple judges are really gang tats or just expressions of love for his mother, and whether he would be safe from gang violence in a different jail.

The Overton window is not where it was 6 months ago.

I for one am not tired of winning. Keep it up, Mr. President.; 4/29/25, 8:02 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Politicians should put a priority on getting things done and making use of their time in office. Sometimes the longer-term political calculation is the right move. e.g. in 2009, Obama's support for a rescue of the auto industry looked like the wrong move politically, but in 2012 that policy action alone is a big part of the reason he won re-election.

In Trump's case, however, the motivation is less about "reshoring manufacturing" or helping the economy. He is just leveraging his office because he wants to become the world's first trillionaire. If Trump's goal was actually to re-shore industry, he needed to have funding and a plan for an industrial strategy. Instead of doing any of that work, Trump is in the process of doing damage to our existing industrial base (still the second largest in the world).; 4/29/25, 8:07 PM
Achilles said...: Kakistocracy said...
Politicians should put a priority on getting things done and making use of their time in office. Sometimes the longer-term political calculation is the right move. e.g. in 2009, Obama's support for a rescue of the auto industry looked like the wrong move politically, but in 2012 that policy action alone is a big part of the reason he won re-election.

This is just stupid. The auto bailouts were just more crony capitalist handouts for the state/corporate alliance that Obama was forming on the road to National Socialism.

Obama won because the GOPe forced Romney on us. The only issue in the election that mattered was Robamneycare and the GOPe wanted it to stay. Mitt Romney was the only person that could have lost to Obama and the traitors running the Republican party knew that.

The real turning point was when the globalists lost control of the Repulbican party in 2016 and Trump actually started doing what we wanted.; 4/29/25, 8:16 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Tariffs and high deficits and debt are going to "structuralize" inflation into a new and difficult permanence that is going to eviscerate Republican approval numbers. Historians will be able to point to Carter, Biden, and Trump and show that inflation is the incumbent killer that it is. The persistence of the coming Trump inflation is going to be viciously pernicious on American politics. And when it's over, America will still not have passed effective and constructive immigration legislation.; 4/29/25, 8:22 PM
Original Mike said...: "The auto bailouts were just more crony capitalist handouts for the state/corporate alliance that Obama was forming on the road to National Socialism."

KaKa is not big on capitalism. Witness: "If Trump's goal was actually to re-shore industry, he needed to have funding and a plan for an industrial strategy."; 4/29/25, 8:25 PM
Dave Begley said...: Trump sure loves rallies!; 4/29/25, 9:04 PM
Kakistocracy said...: The Trump vote is not that hard to understand. Most voters are habituated in their partisan preferences. The minute Trump secured a major party nomination he was able to lock in a solid 40-45% of the voting electorate. There is a large part of the electorate that does not vote, because of barriers to participation, indifference, or because elections are not competitive where they live.

The part of the electorate that votes in almost every election and is a genuine swing vote tends to do so largely as a referendum on the incumbent administration. If economic conditions are good to great, the incumbent is rewarded. If economic conditions are not good, the incumbent will take the blame. Voters are more willing to risk things getting even worse, if the status quo is also unacceptable (these voters are not just motivated by economic issues, but economic issues are usually the overriding issue for most swing voters).

In 2024, Trump benefited from this dynamic. In 2026 and 2028, Trump and the Republicans are likely to pay a price.

If you want to understand the dynamic, it also helps to understand the fact that the people who run the Democratic Party have contempt for a large part of their own voters. The Democratic Party leadership is in a never ending game with its voters -- when it wins power, it throws core constituencies to the wolves under threat that if the voters don't support them the next time, worse things will happen. Ideally, the political leadership would strengthen the core constituencies, but sometimes doing that requires antagonizing people with money. The people in charge always go where the money is first and are always willing to throw people to the wolves. Trump does not win election in an environment where the opposition party is doing a great job protecting their own voters.

The good news is that public is starting to recognize that Trump's second term is already a failure. The bad news is that the leadership of the political opposition believes that the years 1996/1997 have a perpetual existence. In their view, nothing consequential has changed in 25-30 years, and to the extent any recalibration is necessary, it means we should continue to chase Thatcher and Reagan's shadows to the right.; 4/29/25, 9:15 PM
Boris Badenov said...: That's a whole lot of words to say nothing.

Kind of a Kamala-ish word salad, only more intellectual sounding. Bald assertions presented as established fact. Wish-casting predictions that never come true. Why would anyone try to make sense of any of this?; 4/29/25, 10:16 PM
effinayright said...: Kaka said:
"Another day, another retreat. How can any American company or consumer make plans? And why would any country enter negotiations with Trump rather than just wait until he concedes defeat once the economic downturn hits?"
*************

So lame. Just the other day our old gas range died, so I went to buy a new one. I didn't fret over how much more, if anything, it would cost to buy a new one.

Millions will go through the same process every day---just as they did **when Biden printed money for years and spiked inflation, which also made us pay more.** Kaka thinks we don't remember that----but we do.

As for "why would any country...? Why would any country think that Trump's giving tariff relief to imports necessary for our national security means that he will jettison the tariffs for every import?

Also, you said today it would be easy to China's exporters to find other markets for their products. If if they're already getting measly proifit margins of only 5%, *as you claimed* they can't afford even a temporary lag of sales to keep their businesses going. And no bullshit, please, about how they can just turn to their domestic markets. Their domestic power runs at 220V/50Hz, while ours is at 110/60Hz. Good luck trying to sell a microwave meant for the US market in China!!!! That applies to many other electrical products.

Ditto the gazillions el-cheapo consumer products China offers us on Amazon. Take a t look at these stats:

GDP Per Capita (Nominal) (as of late 2024)

United States: ~$80,000-$85,000
China: ~$13,000-$14,000
Ratio: U.S. is approximately 6 times higher

GDP Per Capita (PPP - Purchasing Power Parity)

United States: ~$76,000-$80,000
China: ~$23,000-$25,000
Ratio: U.S. is approximately 3-3.5 times higher

Bottom line: The Chinese have a lot less purchasing power than the US. Exporter would have to reduce their selling pricesto sell in their homeland. With your claimed 5% margins, how can they do that?; 4/29/25, 10:41 PM
Original Mike said...: Why doesn't China focus on making products for their own people?; 4/29/25, 11:24 PM