US president Donald Trump said he has had the “most productive” first 100 days in office.
“I don’t think that there is a presidential period of time in the first 100 days where anyone has done nearly what we’ve been able to do,” he insisted.
“I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me — and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words,” Trump said at the start of his campaign in June 2015.
Approval rating: 39 percent
All other elected US presidents since Theodore Roosevelt have had an approval rating of at least 53 percent after 100 days in office.
“The notion that he’s accomplished a great deal is just obviously not true,” said David Greenberg, professor of history and journalism and media studies at Rutgers University.
“I don’t think there’s really any way to say that with a straight face,” he added.
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