Dan Mitchinson: US correspondent on Donald Trump celebrating his first 100 days in office

US President Donald Trump has celebrated the 100th day of his second term - and he spoke to party faithful at a gathering in Michigan.

He spoke of his achievements in the role, mocked his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden, and dismissed polls that showed his popularity slipping.

US correspondent Dan Mitchinson says Trump's trying to reassure people as the mass dissatisfaction over his tariffs draws backlash - and impacts the stock market. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dan Mitchinson, you is corresponding with us, now, Hey Dan, Hey, Heather. Okay,
So hundred days of Donald Trump. And was his speech
really three hours long?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
It wasn't three hours long. It was ninety minutes long.
It may have seemed longer because he has ten hours. Yes,
And there was nothing really surprising on you out of this.
I mean, he was talking about his program on deporting
undocumented migrants in the economy, He took jabs at Democrats,
and I mean, you're looking at the one hundred days.

(00:30):
I don't necessarily think this determines the rest of a
president's term, but I do think the first one hundred days.
Why we make such a big deal of it over
here is it's kind of given us an idea of
a person's priorities and maybe some of the problems that
we could be looking at with the president. He has
signed one hundred and forty two executive orders. He has
signed a number of laws into effect. But just remember

(00:53):
a lot of these big ticket items that he signed,
these executive orders can also be overturned by the next
person that comes into office too.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
I mean a lot of what he will have been
doing with that rally is just trying to keep spirits
up right because there must be some serious doubt creeping
in over how he's handling this business with the tariffs
in the economy.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, there is, and I think there's been. You know,
he's trying to get his commitment to a lot of
the automakers and troit manufacturing sector in the heartland, and
I think, like you said, there is just there's some
dissatisfaction with his economic agenda, and there is also some
satisfaction as well, because there are, of course those supporters
who like his agenda likely will for as long as
he's in office. But there's been a lot of I

(01:33):
think nervous Nelly's you might say, with the stock market
writing the roller coaster like it has been too.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Right now, do we have any idea who this country is?
Which country it is that they've signed the first trade
deal with.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
No, he's been very secretive about that. I think we're
going to find out more by this time tomorrow. But
they are saying that there is at least one country
that has agreed to the trade tariffs right now, and
he's trying to ease up on some of the tariffs
for the car industry over here. So he's giving some
credits and some reliefs, and I think what he's doing

(02:04):
right now is that he's trying not to lose face.
Maybe he's stepping back just a little bit, and maybe
this is him listening to his advisors and the polls
that showed that these tariffs are really at the top
of everybody's mind right now, and they've been hurting his
public poll numbers.

Speaker 1 (02:18):
It's not the UK, is it that's the first country?
Because everybody would have thought it would be the UK
because they talked that out, but the UK apparently has
just been told that it's second order priority for the US.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah. I think you know a lot of people have
been trying to second guessing. Is it somebody? Is it
a country in Asia? Is it going to be you know, Canada?
Is he going to completely blow off everything he said
he was going to do to Mexico, which is just
a huge trading partner with US. So, I mean, it's
anybody's guest at this point right now. It'd be nice
if he just came out and said it, if it
was all signed and sealed, but it's not at this point.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Apparently, what's going on with sixty minutes.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Boy This surprised a lot of people over here, and
it's all anybody's been talking about to their executive producer,
and they've only had three in the almost sixty years
they've been on the air over here, resigned and Scott Pelley,
who's the number one correspondent over here, basically took a
shot at the parent company, Paramount, saying that they've been
influencing the show's coverage and that's why their executive producer

(03:11):
stepped down. And Paramount is trying to complete this multi
gazillion dollar merger with Skydance, which could require regulatory approval
from the Trump appointed FCC. So connect the dots, and
this goes back to a big New York Times investigation
that they started looking into back and I think it
was February as well. So and Trump, of course still
has its bendetta against sixty minutes for this interview they

(03:32):
did with Kamala Harris, and they're in the middle of
a lawsuit. So it's I think they're treading on a
lot of eggshells right now, and it's certainly a turning
point for journalism over here.

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Dan, thank you for talking us really appreciated. Dan Mitchinson
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