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Governor Sarah Palin joined CNN’s Jake Tapper for an interview one day after her visit and dinner with President Trump at the White House. Palin related how the invitation came about, with Trump phoning her to "get to DC" and asked if she would "invite a couple of friends". "I invited my buddies Kid Rock and Ted Nugent, bold, courageous, all-American dudes who I knew would have good conversation with the President and get to express a lot of good, middle-class, work ethic type issues and policy proposals that they could all relate to, and that’s what happened at the...

Prior to entering the White House, Donald Trump pledged an energetic “100-day action plan to Make America Great Again.” How much will he be able to accomplish, and how will his accomplishments compare to his promises? To shed light on these questions, we survey President Trump’s executive orders and other actions as president in the following chronology, updated daily.

I don’t know anyone who is doing “well” right now. Have we entered an era of perpetual anxiety and deep uncertainty? Is this the beginnings of what some historians are calling the rise of an authoritarian regime in the US? Having been in power for less than two weeks, Trump has already reinstated the Global Gag Rule, pledged to revive the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines, banned federal agencies and scientists from publicly reporting their findings, halted immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, pledged to build a wall on the Mexico border and much more. Like many of you,...

No need to wait until the beginning of May to assess the first 100 days of President Trump. It already happened. No other President has come close to causing as much change in his first week of office as President Trump.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed ways to boost the fight against terrorism and extremism on Monday and the new American leader underscored his commitment to bilateral ties, the two countries said. Trump told Sisi in a telephone call he appreciated the difficulties faced by Egypt in its "war on terror" and affirmed his administration's commitment to supporting the country, Sisi's spokesman Alaa Youssef said in a statement. "The U.S. president also expressed during the call his looking forward to the president's awaited visit to Washington which is being prepared for through...

Barack Obama has pledged to bring change to America in his first 100 days. Here the Daily Telegraph monitors his progress: His first phone calls as president were made to leaders in the Arab world.

By Wallace Bruschweiler and William Palumbo It’s been less than two weeks since Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton for the sought after presidency, but already the courtesan media, the paid-off Democrat party, and their militant activists are aggressively attacking President-Elect Donald J. Trump, Mike Pence his V.P.-Elect, and their Cabinet picks. So much for the advertised “honeymoon” period. The snakes and jackals already want warm blood. Our modest advice to President-Elect Trump is simple and direct: Ignore them! A Man of the People at Large You, Donald J. Trump, were elected by the people of this nation (not by the...

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Well, that was the easy part. All Trump had to do was vanquish people too stupid to pick up the thousand-dollar bill lying on the sidewalk -- smug, smirking, out-of-touch establishment drones. 

(Snip) "Donald Trump's Contract With The American Voter." What follows is my 100-day action plan to Make America Great Again. It is a contract between myself and the American voter — and begins with restoring honesty, accountability and change to Washington Therefore, on the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC: * FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress; * SECOND, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce...

The federal government requires structural reform. Because it is very expensive and time-consuming to fire anyone, bad behavior is not just tolerated but propagated. Civil Service protections originally intended to guard against a politicized bureaucracy have now become guarantors of the high-handedness and lack of accountability we saw with Lois Lerner, now retired with a six-figure pension after pleading the Fifth Amendment. Government employee unions have become a mainstay of the Democratic Party, with employee dues, harvested from taxpayers via salaries, laundered into the party’s coffers. So the Democrats will fight like hell, up to and including a filibuster, mass...

DONALD J. TRUMP CONTRACT WITH THE AMERICAN VOTER What follows is my 100-day action plan to Make America Great Again. It is a contract between myself and the American voter – and begins with restoring honesty, accountability and change to Washington Therefore, on the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue the following six measures to clean up the corruption and special interest collusion in Washington, DC: FIRST, propose a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress;SECOND, a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce federal workforce through attrition (exempting...

SACRAMENTO, California (Reuters) – California lawmakers on Friday approved a state budget filled with spending cuts and creative accounting to fill a $19.1 billion deficit, 100 days after a spending plan should have been in place. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said he hoped to sign the budget package as soon as Friday evening, but critics fear his successor, to be elected on November 2, will immediately face a new shortfall as rosy revenue assumptions prove unfounded. That's a familiar story for California, which has seen its revenue plunge in recent years due to recession, as well as turmoil in financial and...

Today is the last day to vote in CNN's National Report Card: Second 100 Days of President Obama. http://reportcard.cnn.com/

10. Challenged Kim Jong-Il to "fisticuffs." 9. Learned where the Middle East is. 8. Declared that he is "more popular than Jesus." 7. Was told that, despite his adamant beliefs, that the United Kingdom was no longer an Absolute Monarchy. 6. Watched more of the NCAA Basketball Tournament than he watched the situation in Pakistan. 5. Realized that "Checks and Balances" had nothing to do with money or banks.

Future historians might well look back on events of the last week and see a milestone of decline in the waning saga of American freedom. The bridge between the free market and a command economy was likely crossed when, at government demand, thousands of car dealerships all across the country were put out of business. They were profitable, they were legal, they were useful, and the White House ordered them closed. A presidential panel, comprised of everyone except car-industry experts, demanded that Chrysler and GM cut off a third of their dealers’ heads. Hundreds of thousands will lose their jobs....

Neal Boortz @ May 13, 2009 8:32 AM The Media Research Center did an analysis of the lamestream media's coverage of Obama's first 100 days. Guess what? Turns out that they have done a great job of sending tingles up their legs but a lousy job acting as watchdogs. MRC analysts looked at all 982 broadcast evening news stories about Obama and his administration from Inauguration Day (January 20) through April 29. Here are some of the interesting, though not surprising, things that they found: - Obama's first 100 days were defined by massive spending, aggressive intervention in the private...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. employers cut 539,000 jobs last month, the fewest since October, according to government data on Friday that signaled the economy's steep decline may be easing. The unemployment rate, however, soared to 8.9 percent, the highest since September 1983, from 8.5 percent in March and job losses in March and February were a combined 66,000 steeper than previously estimated, the Labor Department said. A big 72,000 jump in government payrolls tempered the overall job-loss figure. Private sector employment fell by 611,000 in April after a 693,000 job decline in March.

‘Remake America?’ No thanks, Mr. President By Luke Boggs For the Journal-Constitution Friday, May 08, 2009 On his 100th day in office, President Barack Obama renewed his inaugural address vow to “remake America.” While the grandiose phrase made me cringe in January, my reaction this time around was far more acute. Why? Because now we know he’s serious. This nation —- the greatest and freest the world has ever seen —- most emphatically does not need to be remade, despite our imperfections. What would we think of an artist who declared his intent to remake the Mona Lisa or the...

The American media has just released an avalanche of reports assessing President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office. Ignore it all. It doesn’t matter. The revealing part of his presidency hasn’t begun yet. At about this point in his presidency, George W. Bush had, with the help of his secretary of state, Colin Powell, just won the release of the crew of a U.S. spy plane from China, leading the world media elite to declare Bush a pragmatic president in foreign affairs, and Powell his most important advisor. As for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, it was said that he...