Trump live updates: President celebrates ‘very special’ first 100 days ahead of ‘achievement speech’ at Michigan rally

Just 100 days into his second, four-year presidency, Donald Trump has already delivered some truly meme-worthy moments.

Amongst the concerns for democracy and collapsing institutions, there have been impromptu car sales pitches, Oval Office bust-ups and renaming the Gulf of Mexico. What else will the remaining 1,360 days bring?

Mike Bedigan looks back at some of the most memorable moments from the Trump administration… so far:

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said negotiations around Donald Trump’s tax bill are going better than he anticipated, as Republicans sprint to wrap up the legislation.

“The tax bill is going much better than I would have thought when I took office on January 28 and that’s through President Trump’s leadership,” Bessent said.

The Treasury secretary criticized Amazon for reportedly planning to display how much product prices have increased on its website because of Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs.

“I just got off the phone with the President about Amazon’s announcement,” he said. “This is a hostile and political act by Amazon. Why didn’t Amazon do this when the Biden administration hiked inflation to the highest level in 40 years?”

Leavitt declined to speak on Trump’s relationship with Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos.

Bessent doubled down that the the U.S. is making progress on trade agreements with India, South Korea and Japan.

“Vice President Vance was in India last week. I think that he and Modi made some very good progress. So I could see some announcements on India,” he said.

“I could see the contours of a deal with the Republic of Korea coming together, and then we’ve had substantial talks with the Japanese.”

The Treasury Secretary doubled down with claims that he does not know if Donald Trump has spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping with the two nations locked in a bitter trade war.

“Caroline and I have a lot of jobs around the White House,” Bessent said. “Running the switchboard in one of them.”

Trump asserted over the weekend that tariff talks with China were under way.

Leavitt claimed that Donald Trump has secured more investment in the U.S. in 100 days than his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, did in his entire term.

“At this point, President Trump has secured more investments in the United States of America in 100 days than Joe Biden did in four years,” she said.

“President Trump is America’s businessman-in-chief, and that’s why these trillions of dollars in investments are flooding to our country.”

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt began Tuesday briefing by hailing Trump’s first 100 days in office as the “most historic start” of any U.S. president.

“Today officially marks 100 days of promises made and promises kept by the president,” she said besides Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

“This has truly been the most historic start to a presidency in American history after building the greatest economy in the world in his first term as president, President Trump is in the process of doing that all over again.”

It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration that first used the arbitrary yardstick of 100 days to measure its early achievements, writes author and commentator Gabriel Gatehouse. In the teeth of the Great Depression, FDR rammed 15 major pieces of legislation through Congress, acts that became the backbone of the New Deal.

He supercharged the power of the federal government and used it as a defibrillator to shock the American economy back to life. Roosevelt’s first 100 days were a whirlwind.

The New Deal – and the Second World War – set the stage for the rise of America as the world’s preeminent superpower. For almost the next 100 years, the United States bestrode the world as an unrivalled global behemoth of liberalism, both economic and social. Somewhere in these first 100 whirlwind days of Trump’s second term, it feels like that era ended.