Photo: Alamy | Op-ed by Summer Lane
President Trump’s first 100 days in office were impressively successful, and as he reaches 200 days in office this week, it’s safe to say that the historic winning has only gotten bigger and better.
With 200 days of leadership under his belt in this second term, President Trump has achieved the impossible on many fronts, working hard to fulfill almost all his campaign promises in a handful of months – a stunning achievement, especially when compared to past administrations that seemed to groan slowly along in terms of policy development and implementation.
In 200 days, President Trump has succinctly established his administration as the new standard of White House leadership. This term, this team, and this America First agenda have set the bar for any administration moving forward, and it’s hard to imagine that anyone else could do it even half as well.
Landmark legislation
On July 4, President Trump signed the “One Big Beautiful Bill” into law, codifying many integral campaign promises for generations to come. The bill delivers huge tax cuts for the middle-class, axes taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security. It also boosts small businesses in America by making the Trump Tax cuts permanent, funnels billions into ongoing border security and border wall construction, and fuels much-needed domestic energy production.
Rescuing the U.S. economy
Joe Biden left America in ruins, but President Trump has quickly turned that ruinous situation into a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. Under the president’s straightforward tariff policies, the U.S. has raked in $150 billion in tariff revenue so far in 2025.
To add to that, he has captured trillions of dollars in investment pledges for the United States by convincing massive manufacturers and tech giants to produce their goods in America.
Just this week, the president unveiled a whopping $600 billion manufacturing plan from Apple, as the company expects to build multiple plants, hire hundreds of thousands of new workers, and build its Apple protective screen glass exclusively in Kentucky.
A secure border and ongoing rescue operations
President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign was hinged massively on his promise to secure the U.S. border and bring law and order back to U.S. immigration processes. He has fulfilled that promise many times over.
The border is locked up tight, and deportations of illegal alien criminals began immediately after the president assumed office in January.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, border encounters are at their lowest level ever, and continuing to drop month to month. Additionally, for the third consecutive month in a row, July saw zero illegal aliens released into the interior of the United States.
It seems truly unimaginable that Biden allowed the border to become such a catastrophic mess, and that President Trump has been able to fix the problem so fast.
“President Trump didn’t just manage the crisis—he obliterated it,” said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem in a statement. “No more excuses. No more releases. We’ve put the cartels on defense and taken our border back.”
And, perhaps most importantly, the Trump administration has directed its federal agencies to prioritize rescuing hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children lost at the border under the Biden administration.
To date, Trump’s leadership has resulted in the rescue and location of 13,000 of 300,000 missing children, per DHS.
There can be nothing more important than the rescue and safety of innocent children.
Stopping radicalism and sticking to common sense
President Trump also ran his 2024 campaign on a platform of common sense: keeping men out of women’s sports, stopping transgender operations on children, and keeping radicalism out of the workplace.
The president, for example, signed an executive order banning child gender transition care, which has led to many universities and hospitals suspending such treatments, under threat of losing federal funding.
The president also signed an EO in February banning men from competing in women’s sports, by utilizing the threat of pulled federal funding to ensure organizations comply.
Trump has protected other areas of American life, too: reestablishing merit-based hiring procedures on the federal level, beginning the dismantlement of the Department of Education, and holding universities accountable for rampant anti-Semitic behavior.
It’s impossible to keep up with Trump
This second term has unfolded with breathtaking speed. It’s almost impossible to keep up with President Trump’s many accomplishments. Whether it’s brokering peace around the world (a common occurrence) or starting a new ballroom construction project at the White House (paid for by the president, not the taxpayer), the Trump administration is here to prove that action and efficiency can be wed successfully.
It’s a sobering reminder that, yes, Joe Biden’s administration really was as incompetent as it seemed, and that America really suffered egregious offenses under that regime that were as unnecessary as they were un-American.
Thankfully, the Trump White House has worked quickly to reestablish American dominance in every area, from crypto and AI to energy production and trade. It’s impossible to say what the next 200 days will be like, but with Trump in the Oval Office, there’s never a dull – or wasted – moment.
