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From executive producer Isaac Saul.
Isaac Saul (1:38)
This is Tangle. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast. The place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking and a little bit of my take. I'm your host, Isaac Saul and Today is part two of our review of Trump's first 100 days in office. Yesterday, in case you missed it, we published part one of our review of Trump's first 100 days. There is a podcast and a newsletter version of that review. You can go back to yesterday's episode if you missed it, and I highly recommend that you do. Today we are going to cover some of the promises and controversies and stories that we didn't have space for in part one. And then we're going to share some arguments from the left and the right. And then I'm going to give my take on Trump's first 100 days. A quick reminder that today's episode is a members only episode. So you know, partway through this, the music will fade out, my voice will disappear into the ether, and you'll have to cough up some of that sweet American dollars to listen to the full thing. Which you should do because being a member gets you ad free podcasts, exclusive content like this, and it supports our work more broadly. All right, with that, we're gonna start with some of the stories that we missed from yesterday. Throughout Trump's first hundred days, there were plenty of big stories that broke on issues that were not centerpieces of his campaign. We didn't really know where else to share those stories of accomplishments or controversies or whatever else, so we decided to cover a few blurbs in a section titled Things We Missed. Where appropriate, we will reference promises Trump made related to the story. First up is Banning trans women and girls from women's girls in sports. President Trump centered criticisms of Democratic policies on transgender people in his campaign's final stretch, in particular trans women and girls participation in sports. In October, Trump suggested that if elected, he would take executive action to ban transgender athletes from competing on sports teams that match their gender identity. In February, he fulfilled that promise, signing an executive order prohibiting all participants who do not meet the government's definition of biological females from competing in girls and women's sports. On energy production, Trump promised to bring down the cost of energy and drill, baby, drill. Then, on his first day in office, he signed an executive order declaring a national energy emergency and directing department and agency heads to facilitate the identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining and generation of domestic energy resources, including but not limited to on federal lands. Battery storage and solar and wind energy were excluded from the order's definition of energy. Trump also moved to open 625 million acres for oil and gas drilling and has overseen the start of production on new oil ventures involving US Energy companies. However, uncertainty about the administration's trade policies has hindered some aspects of its energy agenda. Lastly, US oil prices have decreased over 20% to four year lows since January 20th amid lower oil demand growth forecasts. Next up is his executive orders on targeting DEI programs. President Trump and his campaign surrogates spoke out against diversity, equity and inclusion programs in government, schools and other areas of US Society. Additionally, the campaign planned to reinterpret civil rights era laws to address purported anti white discrimination and rollback government policies designed to aid minority groups. Broadly, Trump sought to cast his campaign as a rebuke of the left social agenda during President Biden's term, often used interchangeably with the dei. Trump has continued to center this issue in the early days of his administration signing a slew of executive orders that aimed to dismantle DEI initiatives across the federal government. One of his first orders called for the elimination of all DEI related mandates, policies, programs, preferences and activities within the federal government. An order issued on his second day revoked previous executive actions that promoted DEI and federal operations, eliminated a firm affirmative action requirements for federal contractors, and directed federal agencies to identify corporations, nonprofits and educational institutions that may be engaged in discriminatory DEI practices. Subsequent orders targeted issues like DEI and foreign service and subjects taught in K through 12 schools involving gender, ideology or critical race theory. Trump has also issued a slew of executive orders targeting law firms since February that he claims have engaged in conduct detrimental to critical American interests. The order suspended security clearances and access to government buildings for lawyers from the targeted firms and also called for a review of their federal contracts. Some of the firms have responded by making deals with the White House that include a commitment to pro bono work on behalf of the administration and acknowledgments of wrongdoing. Others have sued to challenge the orders, and federal judges have blocked large portions of them from going into effect while the cases play out related to January 6th pardons President Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of roughly 1500 people who had been charged in connection to the January 6, 2021 Capitol riots, fulfilling a campaign promise. A note Although Trump specified that he would pardon those wrongfully convicted, his pardon did not commute unrelated sentences of those who were pardoned for their January 6th participation. We also have to make mention of Signalgate and some of the controversies at the Pentagon. In March, the Atlantic revealed that Editor in Chief Jeffrey Goldberg had been inadvertently added to a Signal Group chat with Trump administration officials as they discussed impending military operations against the Houthis in Yemen. Goldberg published a partial transcript of the chat with details on military operations excluded, and then published the full transcript after the Trump administration challenged his story. In April, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who shared sensitive details about the Houthis strikes in the Signal chat, came under scrutiny after Defense Department officials who had been fired for allegedly leaking sensitive information criticized his leadership. Additionally, the New York Times reported that Hegseth shared sensitive information about the strikes in Yemen in a second Signal chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer. These incidents preceded an NPR report that the Trump administration had begun the search to replace Hegseth, but the White House denied the story. We'll be right back after this quick break.