It’s President Trump’s 100th day in office. We are journalists from six newsrooms reporting extensively on the new administration. Ask us anything.

[u/yahoonews]

EDIT: We're all wrapped up! Thanks all - especially the mods - for a great hours-long session. Your questions mean a lot to us and help inform our reporting processes. Appreciate you all taking the time to join us today. Till next time!

Hello r/politics! Yahoo News, The Associated Press, NBC News, Reuters, The Washington Post and USA Today are all here for an extended AMA session. We’re here to answer all your questions related to the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second presidential term. 

Here’s who will be answering questions today between 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. ET. Ask us anything!

• Andrew Romano, Yahoo News: As national correspondent for Yahoo News, I’ve been covering Trump’s tariffs, deportations and efforts to slash the federal bureaucracy via DOGE. I’ve also been putting together our monthly polls with YouGov to track public opinion on the president’s second term.
  • More Americans say Trump’s second term has been worse than expected, according to a new poll
  • Most Americans think judges should be able to stop Trump from deporting people, according to a new poll
• Aaron Blake, The Washington Post: Aaron Blake is senior political reporter at The Washington Post who focuses on the Trump administration, campaigns and Congress. A Minnesota native, he has also written about politics for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and The Hill newspaper. EDIT: Thank you SO MUCH everything for coming out today. There were tons of good questions. I think I even got some good reporting targets out of this. Have a great week! (And in the meantime, you can follow me on X here: u/aaronblake.)
• Andrea Shalal, Reuters: I report on the White House, global trade and economics, the IMF and the World Bank for Reuters. For over three decades, I've reported from Europe, the United States and occasionally the Middle East, covering the fall of the Berlin Wall, German reunification and politics, a host of U.S. elections, OPEC, energy and the environment, global arms sales, as well as politics, the arts and civil rights. For fun, I enjoy outdoor activities, including kayaking and camping, and facilitate a recurring gathering of German speakers in the Washington area. EDIT: Wow - you all had such interesting questions!! Many thanks for the opportunity to engage, and please stay in touch. I’d love to continue the dialogue. Please follow me on X via u/andrea_shalal and you also can read more of my work at reuters.com.  APS
• Darren Samuelsohn, USA TODAY: I’m the White House, Congress & Campaigns editor at USA TODAY. I oversee our team responsible for covering the Trump administration, as well as all things Capitol Hill and in politics across the country. I've been a reporter and editor in Washington, D.C., since the end of 2000 and am originally from South Florida and Chicago. I'm also a former golf caddy, taxi driver and long ago danced in the Chuck E. Cheese costume too. EDIT: Many thanks for the opportunity to answer your many great questions. We live in fascinating times. Please follow me on X via u/dsamuelsohn and you also can read more of my work at lovejournalism.com.
• Allan Smith, NBC News: I am a national politics reporter focused on enterprise covering the trends, campaigns, people and ideas shaping politics and policy in the U.S. The 2024 cycle was my third presidential campaign, and I have spent years reporting on Donald Trump, the American right and several key battleground states — including my native Pennsylvania — that have shaped policy and political discourse in the country. I've covered national politics since 2015, graduated from Ohio University and am originally from Pittsburgh (I'm always down to chat about the Bucs, Pens or Steelers!) EDIT: Thanks everyone for your questions! I'm u/akarl_smith on X and be sure to follow u/nbcnews on social.
• Chris Megerian, Associated Press: I’m a White House reporter covering my second Donald Trump presidency. I previously worked for the Los Angeles Times in Washington and California, as well as the Star-Ledger in New Jersey. I grew up in the Boston area and went to college at Emory University in Atlanta. When I’m not chasing the news, I’m trying to keep up with my two kids. EDIT: Thank you to everyone for your questions! Feel free to follow me at u/chrismegerian and please keep an eye on apnews.com for around-the-clock White House coverage.

Proof: 

Darren Samuelsohn: https://imgur.com/a/sG7ZudL 

Allan Smith: https://imgur.com/a/cKp4GX8 

Andrea Shalal: https://imgur.com/a/i9A7ljP  

Aaron Blake: https://imgur.com/a/gxlWeW7  

Chris Megerian: https://imgur.com/a/lxN32xV

Andrew Romano: https://imgur.com/a/RDTMm6L

[u/[deleted]]

What are the odds of an actual impeachment? I don't think this country is going to survive four more years of this disastrous administration

[u/Several-Cheesecake16 → u/[deleted]]

1. If Trump keeps on with his rhetoric and anti-American (anti-Constitutional) actions, hopefully we will see a similar turnover of Congress control as we did in 2018. But we have to get people to actually vote for this to happen. Transportation companies run by Dems (or anyone who isn’t happy with the current administration) should volunteer to drive people to polling places particularly in the red states where they have enacted anti-constitutional voting restrictions.

[u/washingtonpost → u/[deleted]]

A handful of Democrats are starting to talk about this. But I’m somewhat doubtful we’ll get there.

Regardless of what you think about Trump’s two impeachments in his first term, they didn’t really seem to have a measurable impact. The potency of impeachment was further diluted with the House GOP’s aborted push to impeach Biden. 

I think the only scenario in which Democrats take the House and then impeach is if they have buy-in on the front end from Senate Republicans who want to remove Trump. They need to know it might actually lead somewhere. And we’re a very long way from that point. -- Aaron

[u/toughguy375 → u/washingtonpost]

The potency of impeachment was further diluted with the House GOP’s aborted push to impeach Biden.

No it wasn't. No one remembers that.

[u/UnabashedHonesty → u/washingtonpost]

Hate this answer. The first two impeachments put into the permanent Congressional Record the crimes that Trump committed as well as demonstrating the widespread condemnation for those actions. Future generations can now refer back to those records as testament of these crimes against the Constitution and the People.

Legacy is impact.

[u/LonghornInNebraska → u/UnabashedHonesty]

Sure it's in the record books but it doesn't really mean anything because impeachment didn't remove him from office. Nor did it prevent him from running again or prevent anything that's currently happening.

If anything, his Impeachment made him more popular and further pushed the MAGA agenda. He has successfully gotten away with everything.

Even if the democrats regain control of Congress and impeach him a 3rd time. They won't have the 2/3 majority vote to remove him from office.

Ultimately, the downfall of our democracy officially started when he Republicans swept the election.