(WWJ) President Donald Trump is marking his first 100 days in office with a visit to Metro Detroit.
Trump is first making an afternoon visit to Selfridge Air National Guard Base for an announcement alongside Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The two leaders have been working together to expand operations at Selfridge, and to fight invasive Asian carp in the Great Lakes.
Later, a rally will get underway at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Macomb Community College -- where Trump is expected to talk about making good on his campaign promises, including ramping up deportations, lowering inflation and reducing federal spending. Macomb is a county considered key to Trump's 2024 win in Michigan, as well as important to his victory in 2016.
In a statement, the Trump Administration said this speech will be a celebration, noting that President Trump has taken more executive action in his his first 100 days than any other president so far.
MSU Public Policy Professor Matt Grossman said that's true, as Trump has signed more executive orders than any president since WWII — something Grossman called a remarkable assertion of executive power.
"Usually the first hundred days are used to evaluate how well the president is getting their agenda through Congress, and this is a different marker in that he's had very little success on that," Grossman said, in an interview with WWJ Newsradio 950. "But a lot of action is taking place; it's just all in the executive branch."
Grossman said, however, that many of these executive orders are not seeing much success, as they're tied up in court battles.
Trump has run into issues while acting on deportation promises, Grossman said, including pushback from the courts and staffing issues within immigration services.
"He's going to have to build that infrastructure if he wants to do that over the long term," Grossman said. "But certainly he's tested the legal ground for all kinds of immigration action within the first hundred days, and is, you know, losing some but has been able to engineer some deportations that Biden wasn't willing or able to do."
While in Michigan, Trump is expected to announce tariffs will be rolled back for automakers, amid worries they could hurt U.S. factories. The Associated Press reported that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a Tuesday briefing that Trump would sign the order later in the day, but she declined to provide details on the order.
Some Michiganders unhappy with Trump's actions thus far are protesting his visit, with a rally planned from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Hayes and 12 Mile Rd.
The organizing groups — including Macomb Defenders Rising, Friends of Bernie Sanders, and North Macomb Dems — are inviting the public to join a peaceful rally to protest what they say have been 100 "disastrous" days.
The goal, the groups say, is to "show how President Trump’s’ first 100 days have been filled with CHAOS and LOSS! The firing of thousands of federal workers, cuts to Veterans’ hospitals, cancellation of vital medical research, cutting off food supplies to starving children, incoherent tariffs — the list is long. Meanwhile this chaotic administration has produced a Constitutional crisis by defying court orders, abducting persons lawfully on American soil without due process and other unprecedented actions."
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