This is what 7 Americans think of Trump’s first 100 days

As mayor of the small border town of Roma, Jaime Escobar was Jr. used to assessing whether strategies worked. At the moment Mr Escobar usually remained optimistic, but he was still wary.

“I am not saying that I am 100 percent happy with everything, but for the most part I have the feeling that Trump is tackling the issues of which the American voters thought important,” he said, referring to immigration And the economy. “I don’t regret voting for him.”

He identified himself as a democrat as the migrant crisis and, after years of what he described as chaos on the border, he voted for Mr. Trump, a Republican. Mr. Escobar appreciated that Various early executive orders Migrants effectively forbidden to enter the nation and apply for asylum. He said he felt that the actions were in stark contrast to how President Joseph R. Biden Jr. often spoke About tackling the reform of immigration Due to a dual congress effort.

The evolution of the rate policy of Mr. Trump was a reason for concern for Mr Escobar, even outside the unrest of the stock market and the fears of inflation. But the mayor said he had recently noticed lower prices at local supermarkets and gas pumps. Mr Escobar Die expanded from trust in CNN for National News for the recording of The Times, Fox News and MSNBC-Zei that he was convinced that Mr Trump had an economic plan in the long term.

“I think there is a strategy that trump and his administration are trying to set up,” Mr Escobar added.

The biggest disadvantage in his opinion? That the nation remained so divided.

“I just don’t like so much negativity,” he said. “We must be able to listen to each other.”

– Edgar Sandoval

“He’s going a bit too far.”

Dave Abdallah, 59, from Dearborn Heights, Mich.

Dave Abdallah always admired Mr. Trump to say what he was thinking about.

But for Mr. Abdallah, a broker, there was a line that could be exceeded – one Mr. Trump zoomed in too often.

“He’s going a little too far,” he said.

Change can be good, he added – if thoughtfully implemented. But that was not what he felt that he was from Mr. Trump had seen.

“It has just been way too much action for 80, 90, 100 days,” said Mr. Abdallah, who mainly read local newspapers and watched a lot of TV and online news.

Mr. Abdallah, who lives in a region that is dominated by the car industry and susceptible to changes in world tradesaid the president’s behavior China” Canada And Mexico He had not been good at the trade. “Whatever happens, you have to play fun,” he said. “It’s not good to have neighbors that you always fight with.”

Between Mr. Trump and Mrs. Harris, Mr. Abdallah said that he went to Mr. Trump had leaned but in protest on the candidate of the third party Jill Stein had voted. Unhappy with the handling of the Biden administration of The war between Israel and HamasMr. Abdallah also believed that Mr Trump would not be better and now felt that his instincts are confirmed. Moreover, aggression between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the home country of Mr. Abdallah, is was hardly decreased.

He said that if he had to vote for the president today, nothing would change.

– Kurt Streeter

“I tried to turn my thoughts in a positive direction, hoping that he will play the page one day.”

Veronica McCloud, 63, from Charleston, SC

Veronica McCloud, a retired teacher, looked for the first 100 days with disappointment and irritation – and the least bit of hope.

Although she voted for Kamala Harris, Mrs. McCloud said she had tried since then her support behind Mr. To throw Trump. She admits that she took a news break after the elections, but later she resumed ABC’s ‘World News Tonight’. Occasionally she looks at Fox News to see how an event is characterized.

She had hoped that Mr. Trump would leave his division and style. Instead, she said, he brought fear and confusion while introducing policy she worked undermined employees.

The most disturbing, said Mrs. McCloud, was His resistance of judicial orders And A trade war threatening To crush the economy.

His strategy to make America big again, she said, had felt more like ‘bullying’.

The massive shoots of federal employees and THe deportation of a few immigrants without papers strengthened her conviction that she had made the right call with her voice, Mrs McCloud added.

Yet she remained hopeful, Mr. Trump could take over a more measured style.

“I tried to turn my thoughts in a positive direction,” said Mrs. McCloud, “hoping that one day he will play the page and realizes that he simply will not only feed his base, his Maga supporters, but that he is the president of everyone.”

– Audra DS Burch

Darlene Alfieri, a registered democrat and owner of a flower shop, thought that things had come out of the right track that it was worth the risk of voting for Mr. Trump – he had, after all, promised a big break with the status quo.

“I think it’s a kind of roller coaster,” she said. Rates raised her operating costs and she knew people who were affected by cuts on the federal government. The problems that Mr Trump promised to solve were not established within a few weeks, she said, and they would not be solved so quickly.

“I feel that they are following a different approach at least,” she said and added, “I’m just not sure if it will work.”

She remains frustrated A lack of details: How long do people have to expect higher prices from rates? How do people know who has won a trade war? Will the prices go back?

Mrs. Alfieri looked at local and national network news, but she said she didn’t believe she always heard the full story. She turned to people in her community who had background, such as military service, who can help her understand things better. Making sturdy conclusions without more reliable information was difficult, she said, adding that she was hoping for the best.

“We can choose to make this ride and make the best of it, or we can choose to keep fighting,” she said. “I don’t think fighting to bring us somewhere.”

– Campbell Robertson

“You don’t want the plane to go down because you don’t like the pilot.”

Hamid Chaudhry, 53, from Reading, Pa.

Hamid Chaudhry has remained calm. He kept the national news – The Times, Fox News and CNN, he said – but also studied his local community to gauge whether alarm was justified.

“When I see the national news, it seems that it is all downfall and gloom for immigrants,” he said. But Mr. Chaudhry said he had recently checked in with his local public prosecutor, who said that in Pennsylvania at least he was not aware of someone who was detained and deported who did not have criminal conviction, regardless of state status. Mr. Chaudhry, who emigrated from Pakistan decades ago and became an American citizen, said he felt reassured.

He runs on the food market and in his local community he said he had not seen what he felt that signs were recession – only a standardization of spending habits after a little optimism after the elections.

America was larger than one politician, Mr. Chaudhry said. He voted for Mr. Trump, in the conviction that some gambles were needed to change the status quo. But Mr. Chaudhry liked it When the courts enteredat; He saw such an intervention as a sign that the ‘system seems to work’.

He remained hopeful that tax and expenditure would stimulate cutbacks more entrepreneurs, even because he was also a bit nervous that Mr. Trump could go overboard.

“I’m going to support him because he is the pilot of the plane,” he said. “You don’t want the plane to go down because you don’t like the pilot.”

– Campbell Robertson

“I still have that feeling of waiting.”

Perry Hunter, 55, from Sellersburg, Ind.

Perry Hunter felt irritated that some Americans had expected Mr Trump to solve the problems of the country in the first 100 days. Mr. Hunter, a high school teacher, was willing to wait much longer – two years or more – and thought that other Americans should be just as patient.

“I still have that feeling of waiting,” he said, adding that he felt at ease with his voice for Mr. Trump. “We live in a microwave club where we think everything should happen well.”

Mr. Hunter said he is doing his utmost to get information about Mr Trump from different sources, including CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, and liberal and conservative Talk radio shows. He also catches news clips on YouTube and X.

He agreed with most of what Mr. Trump had done so far, including Call for BarrinG transgender women of women’s sports. But he saw the pitfalls of a president who tried to force an agenda without working with the congress.

Mr Hunter wondered what if these tactics are a precedent for future administrations whose policy he did not agree? He said he and others would not like that.

He said he was disturbed Due to the case of Kilmar Abrego GarciaA migrating man incorrectly deported To a Salvadoran prison, but said he also ran a judgment until more information about Mr Abrego Garcia’s background became public.

He also said he thought that Mr Trump was a narcissist, but added that the president recently showed some humility and flexibility by proposing tariff changes. That step was the proof of the Lord Hunter, he said that Mr. Trump wanted the best for the United States.

“I think his ego is so great that he does not want to be seen as someone who can put us in a great depression or can refuel the economy,” he said. “I think he doesn’t want to be seen as a failure.”

– Juliet Macur

“My optimism and my hope are gone.”

Tali Jackont, 57, from Los Angeles

Tali Jackont had reservations, but for now she stayed with Mr. Trump.

“My optimism and my hope are on,” says Mrs. Jackont, an educator and old Democrat who voted for Mr Trump, convinced that he could bring prosperity and peace.

She was not a fan of what she called the ‘childish side in his personality’, but she was willing to let the time unfold.

Mrs. Jackont, who was born and raised in Israel before he emigrated to the United States decades ago, followed the Israeli news sources and a series of American media and she had clear expectations for the rest of Mr Trump’s period. Mr. Trump had to do where he was campaigning and “taking care of the economy,” she said.

She liked it that his administration was hold conversations with Iran because of nuclear activityAnd she wanted Mr. Trump would continue to fight what she saw as Anti -Semitism at university campuses.

She had kept the hope that Mr. Trump could put an end to the war between Israel and Hamas and above all helping to bring back The Israeli hostages.

Mr. Trump, she believed, had not been strong enough with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who encouraged him to break the ceasefire and lose the option to bring hostages back. “I am very upset,” she said.

Mrs Jackont had given Mr. Trump high points in January. Hostages began to be released, a sign, she believed that his style of diplomacy worked.

And now?

“It’s a low quality,” she said.

– Kurt Streeter

Video production through Nailah Morgan And Arijeta LajkaThat report has contributed.