WASHINGTON --
As his first 100 days in office draw to a close, U.S. President Donald Trump is lashing out against Syria and North Korea to take eyes away from his lack of progress on the domestic front, like on economic growth and immigration controls. The verdict is still out on whether he is simply bluffing or whether he has an actual plan up his sleeve.
"I'd give myself an A" on achievements, Trump had said back in February about a month after his inauguration. But he has little to show for his first 100 days in office. He announced plans for a massive tax cut on Wednesday. Yet he offered little explanation of how to make up for the resulting shortfall, other than a half-baked argument that the cuts would pay for themselves by boosting growth. Renowned economist Paul Krugman slammed the proposal in an op-ed column titled "Zombies of Voodoo Economics" in The New York Times, comparing it to former President Ronald Reagan's tax plans from three decades ago.
A portrait of the seventh president, Andrew Jackson, who once said, "I was born for a storm," hangs in Trump's Oval Office. The Trump transition team had prepared around 200 executive orders, with some even pushing for the new president to sign them all in his first 10 days, according to key member Ado Machida.
And Trump did stir up a storm. While he did not sign all the orders prepared
for him, he has issued about 30 in his first 100 days, including on repealing Obamacare, erecting a wall on the Mexican border, and entry bans for several Muslim-majority countries. His divisive policies and heavy-handed approach have only widened rifts in the country, and many of his key promises remain in limbo.

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