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On 10/21/25 11:23 PM, AlleyCat wrote:
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> Donald Trump "Is Most Successful President After Six Months" Since FDR
> 
> Published
> 
> Jul 19,2025 at 05:00 AM EDT
> 
> By James Bickerton
> 
> US News Reporter - Newsweek is a Trust Project member
> 
> The first six months of Donald Trump's second presidency have been the most
> "successful" of any American president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, according
> to an analysis conducted by Newsweek using AI.
> 
> The model defines success in terms of legislative accomplishments, taking into
> account what degree of control over Congress each president's party enjoyed
> over the relevant period. Speaking with Newsweek, one political scientist said
> Trump's legislative accomplishments-such as his flagship One Big Beautiful
> Bill Act, a tax and spending package-are "reflective of the partisan support
> in Congress."
> 
> Why It Matters
> 
> Trump was inaugurated as president for the second time on January 20 after
> winning the 2024 presidential election on pledges to crack down on illegal
> immigration, fight "woke" culture and slash certain taxes.
> 
> The model indicates that Trump has been successful at getting many of his
> priorities passed into law, greatly aided by the slim majority Republicans
> enjoy in both chambers of Congress and by relatively little impediment from
> the conservative-dominated Supreme Court.
> What To Know
> 
> Newsweek asked ChatGPT to rank the accomplishments of 20th and 21st century
> U.S. presidents in their first six months, taking account of the level of
> support they enjoyed in Congress.
> 
> The model gave Trump an overall score of "very high," thanks to legislation
> such as the One Big Beautiful Bill and Laken Riley Acts.
> 
> On July 4, Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law after it
> narrowly passed both the House and Senate. The legislation slashed certain
> taxes, including extending Trump's 2017 tax cuts; raised the U.S. debt
> ceiling; increased spending on the military and border control; and cut some
> funding from Medicare and other welfare programs. According to an analysis by
> the Congressional Budget Office, the package will add $3.3 trillion to the
> federal debt over the next decade.
> 
> Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law on January 29, with the bill taking
> its name from a Georgia college student who was murdered by a Venezuelan
> illegal immigrant in February 2024. The legislation requires noncitizens
> charged or convicted of a range of offenses, including theft and assaulting a
> police officer, to be held without bond. It also gives states more freedom to
> sue the Department of Homeland Security over immigration enforcement.
> 
> The AI analysis concluded that the first six months of Trump's second term
> were the most productive since Roosevelt's first term in 1933. In his first
> 100 days, Roosevelt passed 15 New Deal statutes, including the Emergency
> Banking Act.
> 
> Third in the AI's calculation was Biden's first 100 days, which saw the
> package of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan designed to combat the
> economic effects of coronavirus, along with the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act and a
> bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday. This package was passed despite the
> Democrats and Republicans being tied in terms of 50 affiliated Senators each,
> giving then-Vice President Kamala Harris a tiebreaking vote.
> 
> At the other end of the spectrum, the AI gave the worst score for the first
> six months to Theodore Roosevelt, who became president in 1901, arguing that
> he passed "no major statue before March 1902."
> 
> Bill Clinton was also ranked poorly, with the AI saying his only major
> legislative reform during his first six months was the 1993 Family and Medical
> Leave Act.
> 
> What People Are Saying
> 
> Dafydd Townley, an American politics expert at the University of Portsmouth in
> the U.K., told Newsweek: "While Donald Trump has achieved some legislative
> successes, they are more reflective of the partisan support in Congress. Not
> every president in the modern era has had such a one-dimensional party to
> support his legislative agenda. The Democratic Party has long been a coalition
> of diverse voices, making it difficult to appease every member of Congress.
> Both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama found this out during their first term in
> office.
> 
> "Until the George W. Bush era, Republicans failed to hold both House and
> Senate majorities in the modern era, apart from two years in the first
> Eisenhower administration. Even during the Bush years, control of the Senate
> shifted back and forth on several occasions, making legislative efforts
> difficult, if not impossible. Reagan's ability to bridge the partisan divide
> and work with congressional Democrats on specific bills, such as Social
> Security reform and immigration policies, suggests a White House capable of
> achieving ideological success despite congressional barriers. The same applies
> to Richard Nixon, who gained considerable legislative success despite having a
> Democrat-controlled House and Senate when he entered office.
> 
> "Democrat presidents of the early Cold War had to contend with conservative
> Southern Democrats in Congress, despite Democrat majorities in the House and
> Senate. These long-serving members dominated congressional committees, thereby
> limiting the legislative success of John F. Kennedy, for example. The
> successful passage of a huge number of bills as part of his Great Society
> program is a testimony to Lyndon Johnson's management of Congress.
> 
> "Trump has been much more reliant on the use of executive orders to implement
> Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's blueprint for Trump's second term in
> office. The Trump-inspired legislation in this Congress is more likely to
> consolidate power within the executive branch and lead to less congressional
> interference in the president's management of the White House and its
> agencies."

Hold on there. . . you're actually saying that FDR was a successful 
president.