Franklin D. Roosevelt's First 100 Days In The Office

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Franklin D. Roosevelt was the one who came up with the idea of a president’s first 100 days. This is referring to a president's first 100 days in the office. Presidents are at their most influential in their early months which tends to determine how people will feel about the president for the rest of his term. Trump has not had a good one so far and his 100 days end on Saturday.
To start off, he is very far behind on hiring staff members for his administration. Trump has only made fifty nominations to fill the top 553 positions of the executive branch, as of Friday. This means that he has not selected anyone for ninety percent of its top jobs. The average president had nominated twice as many since 1989. Another thing that Trump is by far

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