The show that predicted Trump’s presidency 16 years ago (an episode that they later grew to regret) has offered its grim assessment of America’s 45th President in an season 28 episode mocking his first 100 days in office. Donald Trump is 6.8% through his first term and The Simpsons have counted up his accomplishments: lowering his golf handicap, increasing his Twitter following, and replacing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s seat on the Supreme Court with his daughter, Ivanka.
Trump has said that grading his progress after just three months is “not very meaningful,” “a ridiculous standard,” and 100 days is “an artificial barrier.” Robert Dallek, the presidential historian, has pointed to Trump’s hypocrisy.
“As with so much else, Trump is a study in inconsistency,” said Dallek. “One minute he says his 100 days have been the best of any president, and the next minute he decries the idea of measuring a president by the 100 days.”
Trump’s first 100 days in office have been anything but quiet. As the New York Times summarizes,
He nominated a Supreme Court justice and got him confirmed, abandoned the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, launched a missile strike against Syria and reversed many of Mr. Obama’s regulations, most notably on the environment.
He has signed a spate of executive orders — 25 are listed on the White House website — numerically surpassing most modern presidents, depending on how they are counted. But some of them are more aspirational: One, for instance, ordered a study on steel dumping without actually taking action on steel dumping yet.
Oh yes, and he left Marge Simpson shit out of luck with her Prozac subscription. Maybe try huffing kitchen products, Marge?