Trump’s 100 Days: Executive Orders Outpace FDR, ‘We’re Not Going to Restrain Ourselves’

At the 100-day mark in his second term, President Trump is reveling in his administration’s broad interpretation of executive authority.

After signing 220 executive orders during his first term, Trump has already signed 142 orders just three months into the job this go-round, according to the University of California Santa Barbara’s American Presidency Project. That figure far exceeds the 99 executive actions Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law during his first 100 days in 1933, and the running number may soon overtake the 162 orders that former President Joe Biden signed in total during his four years in office.

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At the 100-day mark in his second term, President Trump is reveling in his administration’s broad interpretation of executive authority.

After signing 220 executive orders during his first term, Trump has already signed 142 orders just three months into the job this go-round, according to the University of California Santa Barbara’s American Presidency Project. That figure far exceeds the 99 executive actions Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law during his first 100 days in 1933, and the running number may soon overtake the 162 orders that former President Joe Biden signed in total during his four years in office.