President Donald Trump has been president for over 100 days and has notably rewrote American policy.
One hundred days in office for the president are not seen as important through law and constitution, however, it is important because the first 100 days set an example for how the rest of their presidency will go, according to PBS News.
Trump has signed 142 executive orders, which include shrinking the federal government, foreign policy, immigration, freezing foreign aid and banning transgender troops from the military, according to NPR.
Students shared how they feel about the Trump presidency with The Connection and how their lives have been impacted in these 100 days.
Jaylah Granderson, a 21-year-old art major, said she thinks that Trump hasn’t done anything and believes his bans are unnecessary.
“Well, he handled a lot of things poorly, so I don’t even know one thing that he handled well,” Granderson said.
Eleni Goetze, a 19-year-old film and media studies major, said she doesn’t think Trump has kept his economic promises.
“Prices on things haven’t really gone down,” Goetze said. “His tariffs haven’t really helped anything and I know specifically for me as a film major, he recently announced like 100% tariff on foreign films coming into the U.S.”
Ethan Bui, a 17-year-old political science major, said he thinks Trump kept his promises, especially with immigration, tariffs and the economy.
“The economy, I believe, is doing a lot better outside of California and for the most part, he kept his promises on many of these social issues especially on education,” Bui said.
Bui said we already saw Trump lay out plans for how he wants to dismantle the Department of Education and he thinks Trump is doing great.
“I think the most notable thing is his tariffs and his ability to not only control the global economy but to force other countries to the negotiation table,” Bui said.
Adam Crias, a 19-year-old economics major, said what stands out most is Trump’s complete disregard for the Constitution.
“He’s damn near a dictator,” Crias said. “I mean there’s checks and balances that have kinda mitigated a little bit with the deportation of citizens, stuff like that. The fact that it’s even brought to consideration is unacceptable.”
Crias said he dislikes Trump’s economic policy because it feels like we are turning into Russia with too much money in government and with Elon Musk playing a role in government.
Brooke Nakagawa, a 45-year-old law and film major, said she thinks there’s a lot of destruction and chaos. She said things seem and appear to be all over the place.
“A lot of people are being deported unfairly and unnecessarily and I just generally think that our global allegiances to humanity are being compromised by the decisions that are made on our behalf,” Nakagawa said.
Geotze said that for someone who’s queer like her, if the government doesn’t support them, what wonders what it means for other people.
Goetze said when she tried to take a transgender friend to get his social security card legally changed they were denied due to Trump’s executive order on gender in January.
“I just think the way he operates is not very wise,” Goetze said. “I don’t think it’s the way we should be going about things and I think making our country more isolationist isn’t the way we move forward as a society.”