EDITORIAL
Trump’s 100 Days:
Non-Stop Attacks on the Working Class

Apr 28, 2025

Donald Trump reached the mark of his first 100 days at the end of April, and he and news outlets have trumpeted the occasion.

Trump himself ordered up a rally in Macomb County, Michigan to celebrate all of his “accomplishments.” Others felt nothing but disgust about his actions in his first days in office for his second term.

In fact, Trump’s poll ratings have dropped quite quickly for a president newly in office.

A Fox News poll (a source seemingly in Trump’s pocket) shows that his approval rating is below 50% on almost every subject: His numbers on foreign policy (-14), the economy (-18), tariffs (-25) and inflation (-26) are all worse than his overall approval rating. Only his numbers on border security (+15) are positive.

No wonder Trump has doubled down on all his attacks on immigrants. And since Trump’s only good polling numbers are on the border, he’s leaning in to the idea that so-called “foreigners” are taking American workers’ jobs, and that he is the one to protect those jobs by keeping those people out of the country.

What a crock of bull!

EVERYTHING that Trump has done in those first 100 days has been an attack on working people. The attack on immigrants is purely a distraction, and one more attack on the working class.

Trump and Elon Musk’s “DOGE” have gutted departments that provide essential services to working people. They have attacked jobs. Federal workers have been fired; and even if some have been brought back, the chaos has disrupted the entire process of getting help to people who need it.

Even when they have not outright stopped those services, those departments have put service delivery into slow motion. People trying to enroll in Social Security or Medicare may have to wait extra months or years to receive their benefits. Trump’s administration is counting on long delays from short-staffing to block people from money and benefits that are owed to them. Funding for services for children in low income working families is diminishing or disappearing.

Meanwhile, working people are anxiously watching their 401(k) accounts diminish because of Trump’s chaos on the international economic front. Most workers were forced into a 401(k) retirement fund based on the stock market years ago. As in the 2008 financial crisis, they are seeing those funds disappear before their eyes, all over again.

In addition, prices on groceries and housing costs are continuing to climb, while Trump, who said he’d stop that “on Day One,” has done nothing to halt the process. In fact, everything he’s done has ensured that prices will rise.

The attack on working people is not just in this country. All of Trump’s cuts to international spending are hitting aid spending that might have helped working people in other countries. This attack on the international working class ramps up division between workers of this country and workers of other countries, and prepares U.S. workers to be cannon fodder in current and future wars. Workers of the world are just attempting to live and feed their families.

Billionaires around the world benefit as wages are driven down for workers all around the world. Workers are being forced into competition for jobs, for money, for food … and all are being told by their politicians to blame workers in other countries for the desperate situation they find themselves in.

So, Trump has doubled down on attacks on immigrants from other countries, and on other countries’ exports to this country. He—and the ruling class behind him—want to get us to look to other workers, our natural allies, and blame them for the conditions that our own bosses are forcing on us.

We can take heart in the fact that many people are angered by the brutality they see coming out of Washington, D.C., supposedly in our name. We can start to fight back against the attacks against us. We can start to build what we truly need, a working class party, to help us defend our own interests.

There’s only one way forward: To look to our allies, the full working class here AND abroad, to fight against the enemy that we all share—our employers, the government officials who serve them, and the billionaires who control both.