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I know things about Trump's first hundred days that they're not telling you. Do you want to know? Do you want an advantage? Good. Let's get after it. I'm Chris Cuomo. Welcome to the Chris Cuomo Project. Everybody's marking the first hundred days. Why? Why not? It's a short term metric to see if an administration's gotten its self gathered, gotten its legs underneath. It has kind of developed its reason why, absent an obvious exigency. Right? Meaning like a war, somebody attacks you, that kind of thing, coming in during a time of crisis. Now, with Trump, we have crises of his own making, but there are things that aren't being discussed in all of the reviews, not mine, on News Nation, but that was about a broad perspective and looking at it. Everybody else is motivating an agenda with how they see the first hundred. So first the definition and then an adage, okay, the definition, the definition of power, okay, is the amount of energy applied over a period of time. Keep that in your mind in assessing Trump's power early on in this administration. The amount of energy delivered over a period of time. Remember that definition. I'll point out why the adage, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. To me, that is the current theme of this administration in terms of its analysis. Okay, that comes. That quote is from Saint Bernard. And why? Because merely having good intentions is not enough if you don't know how to put them into practice. And that's the problem with Trump. Some of his ambitions are good. Shifting the balance of economic power from just the few with the top to the many in the majority. Not that it's central planning, not that it's socialism. It's coming from fricking Trump. Right? It must be capitalistic in its tendencies. And yet he understands that the people who put him in office, right, he's supposed to be a populist president. How can he keep pandering to the top? Even though I would argue we're seeing a lot of evidence that he's doing exactly that. So that is a good intention. But how he's gone about it has taken us down right now, 100 days in. So let's look at the 100 days in ways that you're not hearing. The first is what has been the clear boogeyman in this administration. It's not tariffs, it's not immigration, it's executive power. The one proof of Project 25 of Trump following a script other than his own, but it just seems to accommodate his own wants. Every president will take any power you give them. Okay. Takes a very special person to walk away from power. Okay. But Trump in particular believes that a president should be able to do whatever they want. Part of that is ignorance. Part of that is arrogance. Either way, that's where we are. Now, how do we see this project 25? Well, first of all, the idea of the unified executive is right out of Project 25. And I don't mean it as a boogeyman. I mean it as a practicality. Conservatives seem to want presidents to get really close to being a king, and I don't understand why, when they were so constitutionally driven and it was so clear that the Founding Fathers wanted checks and balances among the three branches of government. But you see that Trump has gone all in on the executive at this point. In his first term, he had signed 30 executive orders. Right now he's at 135. Okay? We also see this in the Trump 2028, Stu. Now, I dismiss it almost entirely as Trump and his people, specifically Steve Bannon, trying to get into your head rent free. Don't make it so easy. Okay? And again, you also seem the. You see the major symptom of Trump's own derangement syndrome, which is his inability to plan, his inability to strategize. See, he's all obvious tactic and sell, very short on strategy. Selling is a part of strategy, but it's really the delivery mechanism as opposed to the good. If you think about it, instead of the product, it's the delivery mechanism. All right? He is a great communicator of a sell, but his product as a function of strategy and planning is not there. 2028 is a point of proof of that. How are you going to do 2028? Bannon has nothing for you. We're working on it. We got a lot of different ways. Somebody who says they have a lot of nondescript ways of doing something has no way of doing it, okay? A lot of different things. That means you have nothing. Okay? So this kind of disease in this administration of an inability to plan, an inability to strategize, is plaguing them on every front. Look, Steve Witkoff is the President's main emissary. Google Steve Witkoff and see what his portfolio is that would make him the right person to talk to. Putin, the Middle East, China. I mean, because he's a businessman. You see what I'm saying? Trump has taken a step backwards from where he was in his first term in terms of the level of people around him. Now, don't get me wrong. He Had a lot of stinkers in that first term, but he had some generals, he had some tacticians, he had people in and out who understood what was going on. I mean, he doesn't even have a Mick Mulvaney in his midst right now. Somebody who understands how the machinery of getting things done works as a function of a plan. Another point of proof, 100 days in five pieces of legislation. I mean, that is the least of any modern presidency. And the legislation itself, I mean, you may like it, but they're niche issues. Lake and Riley act. The Take It Down Act. Take it down is like about deep fake porn. Lake and Riley is about immigrants who kill people, illegal immigrants. I mean, these are big culture war things. They are very, very small agenda items in terms of what this election was supposed to be about. Okay? So once you start looking at the lens of what he wants in these first hundred days, you see executive power all over it. It's all about him and what he can do. Even his immigration. He's allowed to be co opted. His signature issue, his biggest achie achievement, his stronghold is immigration. Maybe the only category where he's above water, above 50% it may be. And yet he is undermining his effectiveness there by playing this game of how much can he do by himself. So he's not going to use his House and the Senate to push through comprehensive immigration reform and change the rules, which is what we need most. He's not going to do that. Right. Why? No strategy. And he wants to show that he can do it himself. That's why you get the awkward Alien Enemies act and him trying to ignore court orders and him trying to do it other ways. He wants to prove that he can do it alone. That's the fight he wants to have. And he's hoping the Supreme Court will rubber stamp it so far, not there. Now there's an opportunity in this because he is kind of stepping on his own pee pee on immigration when it comes to how he wants to do it all himself. There's an opportunity for Democrats to resurrect themselves on this issue. Now most strategists will tell you no. Democrats have to stay away from immigration. Man, they were too wrong for too long. I don't believe in that in politics. I believe that you got to be in the business of better and they should get in there and start advocating for the rule changes that the people who do the job on the border so desperately need. Our articulated standard of what asylum is, our ways of what we adjudicate and how and Other rules that we'll get into another time about what they need in terms of how to process immigration. There's space there that's unoccupied because president's not doing comprehensive immigration reform. He's just trying to find a way to unilaterally kick out 10 million people, which again, I want you to know I am against. Okay? I do not believe all illegal entrants are the same bad hombres. Fine. It's a no brainer. You want to kick out gang members, knock yourself out. Just don't kick out a beautician and say that he's a gang member. And don't assume that the people who are in all of our communities working hard, often enticed to be in this country, often underpaid on purpose because they are not part of the system and employers taking advantage of them them In a time of economic okay, need. The immigrants are not our problem. All right? They could be part of the solution. The immigrants did not take your job. They may be sinking the pay in your job sector. They may be, but that's because they're illegal and people exploit them on the employment, on the employer side and they are tanking the wages for that entire class of low skilled labor. I don't like calling it that, but that's what they call it in the, in the demographics. Another reason why you should think about finding a legitimate way for them to be here so they can pay taxes and pay for the services that they need and become part of the system. No, they have to go. They came in the wrong way. I just. 10 million people. 10 million people. I just. I don't know how you do it. Neither does Trump. You see what I'm saying? No plan. You're going to see that plaguing him. So if power is the amount of energy delivered over a period of time, I think we're seeing chaos. I don't think we're seeing power. I don't think that. I think it's too scattershot. And you'll see as we go through everything, support comes from. Prolon fasting is all the rage these days. Just one problem, you don't get to eat. Everybody's trying to figure out how to make it work for themselves. But you can't forget fuel. That's where prolon comes in. Prolon has a five day fasting mimicking diet. You see what I'm saying? Mimicking how so Means you get to eat. But you eat in a way that your body recognizes in a way that will boost metabolism Prolon has been shown to support biological, age reduction, metabolic health, skin appearance, fat loss and of course energy. 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Why am I seeing all this stuff on, on social media, on Twitter, from Elon? Go to Congress if you have all these savings. Hasn't happened. Lack of planning. Lack of planning. Immigration Again, still no plan to change the rules that matter the most in controlling the flow and in terms of getting people out of here, if you don't do it with Congress, I don't know how you're going to do it. You're not going to do it with some act from 1798. No plan. No plan. Now the no plan is hurting him on immigration. Creates an opportunity for Democrats that they'll probably stay away from. That's okay. Look at the next one, the big banana, the big enchilada. Why don't you hear about gas prices? What happened to drill, baby, drill, drill, drill. What happened to it? Let's listen for it. Nothing. You hear anything? You know why? As I was saying to you and everybody was saying, who knows anything as long as they don't have a red hat on gasoline, even though we create a tremendous amount, here is a world market. You are not changing your prices at home in any easy way. Okay? It was true when Trump was telling you otherwise and it's true now when he's not saying anything about gas prices. It's a world market. America cannot drill or pump or refine its way into some, you know, amazing low gas price not going to happen. Drill, baby, drill. It can happen, but it takes time and planning and he doesn't have it. So he just fades into something else. That's the opportunity in terms of being better than Trump, not attacking Trump, not hammering Trump, not using gotchas or owning Trump. That has exhausted itself already. Everybody who is going to be for anyone else but Trump already is. Already is. If anything, we've seen people peel off the I hate this guy into the but I'll give him a try because everybody else is just crazy. And that's a really sad commentary when Trump is less crazy than what the Democrats have to offer. But this lack of planning creates an amazing opportunity for people who want to be in the business of better Democrats, Independents, anybody. Now, the big place to see it is, of course, on the economy. He got elected in a big way because he exaggerated the nature of inflation, the reasons for inflation, the amount of inflation and where it was going directionally. Okay? He exaggerated it. Now he owns an exaggerated premise. Okay, well, we used to call in logic a strawman fallacy. Okay? He created a false premise that everything was tanking because of Biden, and now he owns the same situation. And it has gotten worse. And it's gotten worse. Unlike with Biden, by his own hand, Trump did this. And it is the one move that he made that I do not hammer him for because I respect the good intention. I do believe this was done, at least in part, to change the benefit structure of our economic activity in this country. I do believe that there is a tinge of populism to it. But whether Trump is a populist is totally the jury is out on that, because everything that he's done that he's had to undo or change, he's undone or changed for the rich because they've been telling them to. So if it's a populist policy, but there's going to be some pain, and the pain is going to be disproportionately paid by the rich. Why would you back off? Why would you back off? Why'd you do it in the first place? One, you did it in the first place because you had a tactic, not a plan, not a strategy. Failing to plan is planning to fail. Okay, now you're backing off because the rich people are telling you to. I don't know what's worse, not having a plan in the first place or scuttling what you say was your plan to please the people who are supposed to have some of the burden shifted to them instead of all the Benefit again. There's an opportunity in that. There's an opportunity in that. The tariffs have now led us to a place that can't be undone by Trump. He started it, now he can't stop it. Why? Because if you look at the imports, they went from like 16 billion to like 300 billion in recent recently, which has created a huge trade deficit. Now we got a massive trade deficit. Why? Because people who import things to this country have stocked up because of the tariffs. Now what else do we see? Shipments here have dropped dramatically. Why? A balance of two reasons. One, they pre ordered all this stuff, they front loaded their inventories. Okay. The second thing is that there's uncertainty about how much to buy with the tariffs going forward. So they don't need as much right now because they've stocked up. But there's also a hesitancy and China is of course pulling back. So what happens when the inventories go. This is where Trump's Guy Besant is not being honest with you. Oh, I expect some elasticity. That means prices moving up and down. That's what that means. That's a fancy word for prices going up and people not liking it. Okay. I don't know that they go back down anytime soon and then they blame it on China when they want to stop this warfare. Well, they. You started it and you didn't have a plan. And there was phenomenal opportunity in that. And again, this is the space that he was supposed to own. Lower prices. Gas and groceries. Remember Bill O'Reilly banging me over the head on News Nation all the time. Gas and groceries. Gas and groceries. And I used to always go back at him. Oh, those are complicated issues. They're world markets, they're multifactorial. But if you're explaining, you're losing in politics. And when things are complicated, whoever makes them seem more simple to the voter wins. So that's where we are now. He owns it. And now it's going to take time. It's going to take time. That's what they all say. We're not giving that to Biden. It's more complicated than that. It's not going to be so easy to bring down prices. Oh, now you can say that, right? Why? Because my father said it very eloquently, if borrowed from Edmund Burke, the British political philosopher. You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. The way I see it, in our current crude way of living in America. You when you want to vote and then you don't do once you get in. You when you want their vote and Then you don't do once you get in. That's the new campaign of poetry governing Prose 2.0. That's where we are. He talks about the economy and bringing down prices and now he can't do about it. And what he did do is going to raise prices and create an economic chaos that he did. And he can't even explain to you why because he didn't have a plan. This was just one blunt tool. Everything's a nail and he's a hammer. Okay, and now what can his supporters say? Some of them Sotovoche quiet voice yeah, I don't like that he did these tariffs. Animals, you know, I don't know about this. I don't know about this. And what are they saying out loud? Well, we got to bring back manufacturing. We got. No, no, no. Yes, bring back manufacturing. What kind Americans don't want to stitch sneakers? And by the way, we don't have enough people to do it. We need more workers and we need better skills. That's investment. And by the way, not getting rid of all your immigrants. Okay, we have 500,000 open jobs in manufacturing right now. How? When we don't manufacture anything? We are the number two maker of things on the planet behind China. And by the way, it's only like 10, 15% of our output. We are a service driven economy now. Well, what does that mean? Google, Netflix, Amazon, that's what it means. These dominate the world market. What he has done by not having a plan, he says he's getting all these trade deals done. First of all, ask yourself, are they done because of the tariffs or despite the tariffs? Were these negotiations a phone call away? And he put us through this economic chaos when he didn't need to. How scary will that be? Second, he says he's making deals. Who else is making deals? Because remember, we're making most of our money from what we export and others buy in our service sector. So who's making deals now with China and each other to limit their exposure to what we export to them in terms of services? Because they want to get away from this kind of control mechanism by the United States. He's not talking to you about those deals. Nobody is. This is a huge opportunity, a huge opportunity to be in the business of better. Trump doesn't have a plan. That's why he can't speak to you about it. That's why their numbers are all over the place. And that's why the markets are going up and down, because they know that there's nothing to know. And I Do not like that. Supposedly, a populist agenda was retarded by the rich and the elite, who went in and talked to Bessant, who's one of them, and Trump, who's one of them. They may not like him, but he's one of them. And then they backed off before he was able to get anything out of China. That's the truth. Foreign policy, very hard. He shouldn't have promised anything here, but he did, because that's who he is, and he's got to pay the price for it. He's got nothing done on either front. He's got the Ukraine, Russia situation completely bass backwards, completely bass ackwards. He's painting Zelensky as the bad guy. He's saying it's okay that Russia took Crimea. They're not ending the war. They're not any closer to it. Russia has been more intense in its military activity. China and North Korea are now giving them bodies. You know, one step sideways. Can you believe how the people in power lied to us about how powerful Russia is during the Cold War? These guys can't beat Ukraine. And I'm not disrespecting Ukraine. You know, I've been there a couple of times, actually, several times, but, you know, to cover conflict. And, I mean, the fact that they're standing up to him, Bravo for Ukraine, but, I mean, other than nukes and wanting to start Mutually assured destruction, Russia is a feeble fighting force because Ukraine should have been overwhelmed by them. It's like 10 to 1, the population or whatever it is. I mean, they have a huge population advantage, and yet they are getting all they can handle from Ukraine and then some. They got the Chinese and North Koreans helping them, but Trump had no plan there. Turns out Putin doesn't respect him and will do what he says because nothing's gotten done. Three months. Supposed to be day one now he says, well, I made that figuratively. I know, but you. You kept saying it like it wasn't right. Because you're supposed to be different when you say you do it. No, you're as much as anybody else. Israel, since the ceasefire. How have we done since the ceasefire? 2,000 dead Palestinians. That's how we've done since the ceasefire. Oh, and, oh, yeah, the hostages aren't all returned. Remember? Hell to pay. Hell to pay what? Held to pay. You know who's paying hell? The Palestinians. The wrong ones, too. Steve Witkoff. There. Steve Witkoff, Russia. Steve Witkoff, China. Who is Steve Witkoff? Let's look up. Let's look up Steve Witkoff pedigree. Okay, look it up. I'll do it right now in real time. And this is who our country has doing all of its most important negotiations. Not all, but is involved with all of the most important negotiations. Steve Witkoff. And again, I hear good things about him. Okay. Bio. He's a real estate investor, an attorney currently serving as the United States Special Envoy to the Middle East. 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That's JoinDeleteMe.com Cuomo. Cuomo. Code Cuomo. The grade I give The Trump administration 100 days in is incomplete, and that's because I am a generous soul. All right? Incomplete, incomplete. Trying to do way too many things with way too little planning. And as a result, much, much too little power has been applied here. For all the want of power that Trump has, his desperation to do things alone, it has resulted in him having a less powerful presidency to date. Power is the amount of energy delivered over a period of time. He can't deliver it. The energy is being wasted because it's not finding its path, it's not finding its mark, because there's no plan, there's no strategy. And look, here's the easiest tell. They could say, oh, yeah, yeah, no, there's a plan. It's all going according to the plan. Now we're doing a plan. They're backing into it. They're backing into it. They're doing ready, shoot, aim. That's what they're doing. And here's the proof. They'd be talking to you about it in real time. Oh, no, we got to keep it hidden. No, you don't. The tariffs were all done overtly. They'd be telling you it in advance. They'd be walking you through it. He'd be bragging about it. Got a plan. Got a beautiful plan. The best plan. Now, here is the biggest opportunity. Trump is fueled not by reelection. Forget that 2028 bullshit. I don't even think he's that concerned about the midterms, because he really doesn't like his party, and he clearly doesn't see legislation as his path to progress. His legacy on his mind, presents him with one single question. Can you name a great American president who is remembered for being a divider? Not one who you found to be divisive. Because, of course, he'll say Obama, a man who is considered a great American president because he was a divider. None. Not on Rushmore, not on a coin, Nothing that you remember, ever. He has to find a way to be seen as a uniter if he wants to be seen as a great president, as his legacy. Now, O'Reilly and all these other apologists can say to you, oh, he doesn't give a damn about that. They're wrong. He just doesn't know how to do it. It's like saying he doesn't care about the press. He cares about the press. That's why he talks to us all the time. What he doesn't know is to how. How to get the things done that he wants to do. And you should not be surprised by that. This is a man who has never had a successful business other than selling himself as a successful businessman on television, as a celebrity Apprentice reality star. That's it. His casinos, know his fugazi schools and airlines and stakes and Thai, everything. It all was a bust. His real estate, it wasn't his money. He just puts his names on things. He's a branding guy and he's done very, very well for himself. But that doesn't mean he knows how to run a business. Okay? There is no plan, there is no strategy. And therefore there has been no application of power because he can't deliver the energy into an outcome. The tariffs are proof of it. Immigration now getting sidetracked because he won't go through Congress. That's too hard. Hey, hey, that's greatness. Figuring out how to do hard things, going alone is hard, too. You're subverting the Constitution. These are the opportunities that people aren't talking about to be in the business of better. What are the rule changes that would make our immigration illegal and legal better than it is right now? What are the policies that would create the kind of investment in the kinds of jobs of the new economy and the industries? AI oriented industries, robotics oriented technology. Stem. How do we invest to position our students, our workers and our businesses for that even more? So that's where you need a plan. There's an opportunity. What do you do with Iran? To create regime change? You want to be ambitious. That's an opportunity. Because Trump doesn't have a plan. Now Democrats to this point just want to bash Trump and say, look how bad everything's going. They still lose to him. When asked, who do you trust more to handle the issues in this country? What that tells you is going bad on Trump is easy, but it is not going to pay off the way you want. You have to be in the business of better. 100 days in this administration has been a lesson in underperformance. Why? Trying to do too many things without a plan on how to do anything. I give it the grade of incomplete. You can grade it any way you want. My point to you is I've pointed things out about what's happening here that you're not going to hear in a lot of other assessments. Why? Because they're just motivating. Trump sucks. Trump is the best. That's easy. It's all that space in between where you see what matters. If you're a critical thinker and there's an opportunity in this because our country is desperate for better, that's our common concern right now. Less bullshit from the parties. Less lies, less distrust, more progress. Things being done for the majority, not these pocket interests of fringe. There's opportunity. Who will seize foreign. Let's get after it. My friends, I'm Chris Cuomo. Thank you for subscribing and following. A hundred days in feels like a hundred years of solitude, but we got a long way to go. As long as we go together, I believe we get to a better place. Thank you for being with me here. If you don't like the ads, go to the sub stack. I do lives every week that are just going to be for the substack folks. You know, it's like 50 bucks for the year you can get in. It's like five bucks, seven bucks a month or something like that. You get the podcast ad free. You get philosophy walk and talks that I do about lessons I've learned in life that you won't get anywhere else. 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