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President Donald Trump has tried to shrug off the importance of the 100-day marker, but he's still going to be celebrating it and touting his accomplishments. "It's a false standard -- 100 days -- but I have to tell you I don't think anybody has done what we've been able to do in 100 days so we're very happy," Trump said in the Oval Office on Friday. Trump is celebrating his 100th day in office outside of the White House with a campaign rally in Pennsylvania this evening. The unconventional president is bucking trad

How do Donald Trump's first 100 days in the Oval Office compare to those of his predecessors? Well, according to the president, he's got them beat. "I truly believe that the first 100 days of my Administration has been just about the most successful in our country's history," Trump says in his weekly address, released Friday, a day ahead of the milestone.

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — President Trump marched into the White House in January with less government experience than any commander-in-chief in American history. And it really, really showed. He’s the guy who tallied the troubles of the nation and world in his GOP convention speech and baldly declared, “I alone can fix it.” But after watching the biggest chunks of his agenda halted by courts, Congress, and administrative fumbling, Trump and his team learned an obvious lesson in the

Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories Donald Trump and his team learned in their first 100 days an obvious lesson that they mocked on the campaign trail: They can’t do it alone.   President Trump declared to the crowd: ‘‘The eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end.’’  Evan Horowitz | Quick Study US economic growth slowed to 0.7 percent in the first quarter.

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While President Trump's first 100 days in office have produced few major legislative breakthroughs, there are still plenty of statistics to analyze. Here are a few interesting facts and figures, and how some of them compare to those of his predecessor, Barack Obama. At this point in 2009, President Obama had signed 15 bills into law.

White House Correspondents' Dinner, marking the first time since 1981 that a sitting president is not attending the dinner, which is hosted by the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA). The dinner is an evening to celebrate the First Amendment and freedom of the press to hold power to account in Washington, D.C.

President Donald Trump is blaming former President Barack Obama for not fully vetting Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn after it was revealed that Flynn received payments from foreign governments without approval from military officials in 2014. In an interview with Fox News released today, the president said that Obama officials bear responsibility for the oversight -- not his own administration, which tapped Flynn for the post. "He was approved by the Obama administration at the highest level.