Donald Trump
From Trump to Reagan: Their first 100 days
Donald Trump (2025)
Approval rating:
41%
Major successes:
Used its first 100 days to slash the size of the federal government through the Department of Government Efficiency.
Major setbacks:
Economy reeling on tariff threats, grocery costs.
Of note:
Has signed 137 executive orders before first 100 days.
Andrew Harnik, Getty ImagesApproval rating:
41%
Major successes:
Used its first 100 days to slash the size of the federal government through the Department of Government Efficiency.
Major setbacks:
Economy reeling on tariff threats, grocery costs.
Of note:
Has signed 137 executive orders before first 100 days.
Joe Biden (2021)
Approval rating:
52%
Major successes:
Fighting COVID-19 through massive nationwide effort.
Major setbacks:
Series of mass shootings, continued killing of Black people by police, increase of migrants at US southern border.
Of note:
Biden unable to find many Republican partners for his signature proposals: a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue plan, passed in March, and a $2.3 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan.
Doug Mills Via USA TODAY NETWORKApproval rating:
52%
Major successes:
Fighting COVID-19 through massive nationwide effort.
Major setbacks:
Series of mass shootings, continued killing of Black people by police, increase of migrants at US southern border.
Of note:
Biden unable to find many Republican partners for his signature proposals: a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue plan, passed in March, and a $2.3 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan.
Donald Trump (2017)
Approval rating:
43%
Major successes:
Neil Gorsuch confirmed for Supreme Court; some Obama-era regulations repealed Major setbacks: Proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act withdrawn from House; immigration orders blocked by federal courts; national security adviser Michael Flynn forced to resign.
Of note:
FBI confirmed investigation into whether Trump associates colluded with Russian meddling in election, but ultimately found Trump associates didn't collude with Russia.
Eric Thayer, Getty ImagesApproval rating:
43%
Major successes:
Neil Gorsuch confirmed for Supreme Court; some Obama-era regulations repealed Major setbacks: Proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act withdrawn from House; immigration orders blocked by federal courts; national security adviser Michael Flynn forced to resign.
Of note:
FBI confirmed investigation into whether Trump associates colluded with Russian meddling in election, but ultimately found Trump associates didn't collude with Russia.
Barack Obama (2009)
Approval rating:
65%
Major successes:
Stimulus bill passed; children's health care expanded; equal-pay protections bolstered; federal ban on embryonic stem-cell research lifted.
Major setbacks:
Nominee for key role of Health and Human Services secretary, Tom Daschle, forced to withdraw.
Of note:
Stock market bottomed out in March, a sign that the end of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression was in sight.
Alex Wong, Getty ImagesApproval rating:
65%
Major successes:
Stimulus bill passed; children's health care expanded; equal-pay protections bolstered; federal ban on embryonic stem-cell research lifted.
Major setbacks:
Nominee for key role of Health and Human Services secretary, Tom Daschle, forced to withdraw.
Of note:
Stock market bottomed out in March, a sign that the end of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression was in sight.
George W. Bush (2001)
Approval rating:
62%
Major successes:
House passed tax proposal, eventually signed in June, to slash income tax rates.
Major setbacks:
Failed to act on a blue-ribbon commission report urging changes in homeland security or on warning signs before the terror attacks on New York and Washington that would follow in September.
Of note:
U.S. spy plane flying over the South China Sea clipped by Chinese fighter jet and forced to land on Chinese soil.
PAUL J. RICHARDS, AFP Via Getty ImagesApproval rating:
62%
Major successes:
House passed tax proposal, eventually signed in June, to slash income tax rates.
Major setbacks:
Failed to act on a blue-ribbon commission report urging changes in homeland security or on warning signs before the terror attacks on New York and Washington that would follow in September.
Of note:
U.S. spy plane flying over the South China Sea clipped by Chinese fighter jet and forced to land on Chinese soil.
Bill Clinton (1993)
Approval rating:
55%
Major successes:
Family and Medical Leave Act signed.
Major setbacks:
Furors over gays in the military, firing of White House travel office staffers.
Of note:
Hillary Rodham Clinton put in charge of signature health care overhaul, which eventually would fail.
PAUL J .RICHARDS, AFP Via Getty ImagesApproval rating:
55%
Major successes:
Family and Medical Leave Act signed.
Major setbacks:
Furors over gays in the military, firing of White House travel office staffers.
Of note:
Hillary Rodham Clinton put in charge of signature health care overhaul, which eventually would fail.
George H.W. Bush (1989)
Approval rating:
56%
Major successes:
Submitted plan to bail out troubled savings and loans, eventually signed in August.
Major setbacks:
Nominee for Defense secretary, Texas Sen. John Tower, rejected by Senate.
Of note:
Worst oil spill on U.S. territory in history when Exxon Valdez supertanker ran aground in Alaska.
REUTERSApproval rating:
56%
Major successes:
Submitted plan to bail out troubled savings and loans, eventually signed in August.
Major setbacks:
Nominee for Defense secretary, Texas Sen. John Tower, rejected by Senate.
Of note:
Worst oil spill on U.S. territory in history when Exxon Valdez supertanker ran aground in Alaska.
Ronald Reagan (1981)
Approval rating:
68%
Major successes:
Proposed major cuts in taxes and domestic spending and an increase in military spending; Iran released U.S. hostages as he was inaugurated.
Major setbacks:
Fragility in the economy, which would head into recession in July.
Gene Forte, Getty ImagesApproval rating:
68%
Major successes:
Proposed major cuts in taxes and domestic spending and an increase in military spending; Iran released U.S. hostages as he was inaugurated.
Major setbacks:
Fragility in the economy, which would head into recession in July.
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