The "First 100 Days" has always been kind of an arbitrary metric for judging a presidency. And yet, President Trump embraced it wholeheartedly on the campaign trail and during the transition, when he was preparing to take the job. It makes sense: The milestone first rose to prominence under FDR, who engaged in a flurry of activity after taking office during the Great Depression, and according to Trump, things are way worse now. During the campaign, Trump pledged to immediately repeal Obamacare and enact a travel ban on "terror-prone" countries, among many other things, and even drew up a "contract" with the American voter featuring a "100-day action plan" with 60 different promises. So how does he feel about the idea of the hundred days now?

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No matter how much I accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days, & it has been a lot (including S.C.), media will kill! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2017

Note how he specifically cites "S.C."—for Supreme Court. The nomination of Neil Gorsuch remains his only major victory in office, as he satisfied The Base by elevating a true conservative to the bench who will make freezing truck drivers think twice before they go rogue. But beyond that, there's very little to speak of. True, he is fairly successfully dismantling the EPA and other agencies by appointing department heads who disagree with the core missions of their own departments, but his Obamacare repeal and TrumpCare-slash-RyanCare-slash-RepubliCare replacement, in its first iteration, was a complete and total failure. His two attempts at a travel ban have been struck down in court, and his approval rating is hovering around 40 percent.

No wonder the president suddenly hates the 100 Days metric, even if, exactly three days ago, he claimed to have had the most successful first 90 days of any president, ever. FDR passed 15 major pieces of legislation in his first 100 days; Trump has zero. But who's counting? Only the biased media, you see, which has continued their nasty habit of reminding the president of things he said in the past. By the count of Glenn Kessler, fact-checker at The Washington Post, Trump hasn't taken any action on 60 percent of the promises in his Contract with the American Voter, and he's broken five of them. That includes, for instance, the provision in which he promised to direct the Treasury Secretary to label China a currency manipulator. He scrapped that last week after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Anyway, the president is clearly mindful of his need for an achievement beyond Gorsuch or "misplacing" a carrier strike group in the Pacific. So he's ratcheting up the pressure on Congressional Republicans to get another healthcare bill on the House floor next week for a vote. Apparently, this is with the express purpose of getting a "win" before the 100-day clock runs out.

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This is 100 % the White House squeezing Ryan & Co/upping pressure 2 pass something b4 100-day mark. Is fueling frustration on the Hill. https://t.co/wBbmrX42dr — Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) April 21, 2017

Of course, even the new "compromise" bill House Republicans are cooking up may struggle to pass, as it has to satisfy both moderate Republicans, who are afraid of the political cost of too many people losing healthcare, and Freedom Caucus types, who will not be satisfied until your doctor's waiting room is something approaching Fury Road. And even if the bill clears the House hurdle, it would almost certainly be dead on arrival in the Senate.

While the president may not know that, surely someone in his circle does. And that indicates that for this administration, there's so much winning that they're working overtime to try to get one bill through one house of Congress. Then they can slap that in the W column and call it a 100 Days. That's one promise from the campaign trail the president kept: We're going to get tired of all this winning.

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Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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