Whatever you think of Trump, you have to admit he’s done a lot.

But here’s the thing: Most of what Trump has done in his first 100 days isn’t in your best interest.

Trump’s most popular campaign promise was to bring down the price of groceries.

Now, while he really really loves to talk about groceries…

TRUMP: …groceries, it's an old-fashioned term, groceries. A bag with different things in it

He hasn’t actually done anything to bring grocery prices down.

In fact, on top of nearly tanking the stock market, Trump’s blanket tariffs will raise the price of groceries and almost everything else you buy.

That’s because tariffs are just like sales taxes — meaning you’ll be paying more at the checkout line.

Worse yet, tariffs are regressive taxes — they take a bigger chunk out of the paychecks of working people than from the wealthy.

Trump also campaigned on making housing and cars more affordable.

But Trump hasn’t proposed anything to lower housing costs. In fact, tariffs on lumber, steel, and aluminum will make new housing construction more expensive and raise rents.

And the price of a new car is expected to go up about $6,400 under Trump’s proposed automobile tariffs.

And let’s not forget…

The easiest way to boost the income of 40 million Americans would be to increase the federal minimum wage — which hasn’t gone up since 2009 — to $15 an hour. But Trump didn’t do that. Instead he actually cut the minimum wage for as many as 400,000 federal contractors by rescinding Biden’s executive order to raise their wages. 

Meanwhile, he’s working with MAGA Republicans in Congress to pass even more tax cuts for the richest Americans and biggest corporations. How will he pay for them? With cuts to programs, like Medicaid, that millions of people rely on. 

And how about jobs?

Instead, Trump has made cutting jobs one of his top priorities. 

Trump’s in the process of cutting nearly 300,000 federal jobs. That’s bad for the folks who are out of work. It’s also bad for everyone who relied on the vital work these public servants did — whether it’s inspecting our food, warning us about extreme weather, or protecting us from financial fraud. And it’s bad for the job market when there are suddenly hundreds of thousands of newly unemployed people. That will likely push down wages and make it harder to get a job.

So if Trump didn’t keep his promises to lower prices, raise wages, or create jobs…what has he done? 

A lot of things no one was asking for, like:

Letting the world’s richest man effectively cut Social Security. 

Disrupting cancer and Alzheimer’s research.

Renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.

Firing the team at the FDA that handles bird flu outbreaks and firing the CDC team dedicated to stopping mother-to-child H.I.V. transmission. Honestly, I didn’t know it was possible to be against protecting babies from H.I.V.

How about making an enemy of Canada?

CARNEY: The old relationship we had with the United States // is over.

Do you know how hard it is to piss off a Canadian?

Or how about threatening to invade Greenland and Panama?

What else?

Doing an ad for Tesla on the White House lawn…

Putting American troops at risk by accidentally leaking military plans on a messaging app  —and then not even holding anyone accountable for this dangerous blunder. 

Hello?

Spending more time golfing than any recent president in his first 100 days — even more than in his first term by this point — costing taxpayers like you over $26 million.

Gutting the Office of Federal Student Aid.

Shutting down a Department of Justice team that investigates crypto fraud, just as he launches his own “memecoin” and his family business gets more involved in the industry.

Siding with Russia and North Korea against our allies in Europe.

Cutting veterans’ services.

Wrecking the IRS so badly that the super-rich won’t be audited — making it even easier for them to skirt what they owe. 

And of course, he’s trying to turn America into a dictatorship. He’s ripping up the Constitution piece by piece. So far, he’s defying:

The First Amendment by trying to silence dissent.

Article I, which gives Congress (not the president) the power to control government spending.

Article III by ignoring judicial rulings — including decisions handed down by the Supreme Court.

The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments by detaining, deporting, and imprisoning people without due process of law.

The 14th Amendment by denying birthright citizenship.

And even, possibly, the 22nd Amendment by suggesting he might serve more than two terms.

Are you seeing a pattern here? Everything Trump has done in his first 100 days has been to benefit his billionaire donors and corporate backers — and to consolidate more power in his hands.

All at your expense.

So yes, Trump has done a lot — just not what most Americans were asking for, and certainly not what we need. We deserve better.