Maddow on Trump’s Disastrous First 100 Days: ‘Oops!’
During her April 23, 2025, show, Rachel Maddow provided a run-down of the Trump regime’s destructive, mistake-ridden first 100 days. In describing the Trumpists’ authoritarian takeover of the country, she took us on a wild ride through the regime’s long list of blunders:
- Oops! Freezing all federal funding/grants, then rescinding the order within 48 hours due to confusion and legal challenges.
- Oops! Accidentally listing the wrong person as acting head of the FBI on the White House website and letting the error stand.
- Oops! Accidentally sending names of hundreds of CIA officers in an unclassified email to the White House.
- Oops! Announcing a policy that inadvertently halted all mail from China, then reversing it.
- Oops! Accidental firing and attempted rehiring of nuclear security agency staff.
- Oops! Misstating savings on a contract by billions of dollars.
- Oops! Reversing a decision to remove legal aid for migrant children after public outcry.
- Oops! Cutting, then restoring, the program for 9/11 first responders.
- Oops! Elon Musk, Trump’s top campaign donor, sending out mass layoff threats to federal employees, then walking it back.
- Oops! Cutting and then restoring burial services and cancer support for veterans.
- Oops! Accidentally eliminating Ebola prevention measures, then reversing.
- Oops! Cutting and then reinstating hires for the Veterans Crisis Line due to an “administrative error.”
- Oops! Deleting and then restoring thousands of federal contracts in error.
- Oops! Announcing mass firings of federal employees, then denying it happened.
- Oops! Posting hundreds of federal properties for sale, including agency headquarters, then removing the listings without explanation.
- Oops! Publicly releasing unredacted Social Security numbers and private information of hundreds, including Trump’s own lawyer, in JFK assassination files, then scrambling to mitigate.
- Oops! Accidentally texting war plans to a journalist.
- Oops! Admitting to mistakenly deporting a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison.
- Oops! Tariffs inadvertently affecting remote islands, including one inhabited mainly by penguins.
At the end of the segment, Maddow suggested that we should keep this long list of Trump’s failures in mind as the mainstream media sane washes and glosses over of the chaos in its reporting on Trump’s first 100 days.