How 6 US presidents have described the first 100 days in office

Trump was not the only President to dismiss the 100-day mark. When reporters asked President Richard Nixon about his achievements, he said that he did not "count either the days or the hours."

During his own inaugural address, John F. Kennedy mentioned the 100-day benchmark in an often-quoted segment about the economic reforms of the 1960s.

Months before 9/11 permanently altered the course of his presidency, George W. Bush told CNN that he was having a good time as the president of the US.

Even though Barack Obama signed a $700 billion stimilus bill, announced the country's withdrawal from Iraq, and banned waterboarding within his first 100 days, he did not put much significance into this particular marker — claiming that it would be the first three years that would be what determined his performance.

Even though he wasn't talking about his own presidency, Frank Delano Roosevelt's radio reference to the time period has been used to judge the performance of American presidents ever since.

Within his own first 100 days, Roosevelt took major steps toward getting the US out of the Great Depression by enacting 15 new laws.

In a New York Times editorial on Ronald Reagan's performance on his first 100 days in office, White House correspondent Steven R. Weisman wrote that an unlikely candidate had quickly gotten the attention of the American people and "managed to avoid the serious blunders of many predecessors."

In another op-ed on the hundred days that George H.W. Bush spent in the office after Reagan, New York Times editors said that the President was "doing a lot more than anyone expected" even though his budget was "mostly mirrors."