April 30 marks the end of the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, but there is no call for celebration. Just the opposite.

Over the past 100 days, we have been subjected to a litany of fraudulent dribble filled with false hope for a better future, empty promises to make America great again, and a host of executive orders which have ushered in a reign of chaos, confusion, and conflict.

Rather than a bright future, the administration has delivered a new set of tragedies guaranteed to spill over into the next three years, and beyond.

Reminder: Trump started spewing his poisonous venom long before his second term began on Jan. 30, 2025. Recall that he announced his candidacy for the 2016 election by declaring that Mexicans are rapists.

One-upping himself during the 2024 campaign, he declared that Haitians eat pets!

The list of lies, hate-filled and racists comments from Trump are too many to list here, although a few news outlets are keeping a list.

We, the people, have been proffered sips of Kool-Aid laced with absurdities, and too many have drunk from the plenty cup, ingesting large portions of skewed and maligned utterances including immigrants are here to take your (American) privileges, universities are teaching hate, gangs from South America will freely kill you on our streets, the Gulf of Mexico is really the Gulf of America, and Black folks are being given unfair advantages (DEI)!

Trump is not acting alone. He is aided and abetted by a gaggle of fawning and feckless handlers. Disregarding traditions, laws, and the Constitution, they are planning for Trump to run for a third term. I urge you to keep a keen eye on Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, J.D. Vance, and several others at the center of this movement.

Nothing seems to deter Trump from unleashing his chainsaw-wielding billionaire on the federal agencies. Not his convictions, lawsuits, fines, impeachments, shrinking popularity, slippage on the world stage, nothing.

It has been a 100-day reign of terror and turmoil. The harbingers of a total breakdown in the nation are in plain sight: erasure of agencies (USAID), wholesale shrinkage of the federal workforce, diminished military leadership, removal of Black history (my grandson told me that the Army recruits were ordered to discard all books about Black folk from the base in San Antonio).

Are we in a constitutional crisis?

The judiciary has not been able to discourage Trump from his constant challenges and increased baiting of the Supreme Court to endow the executive branch with even more power. He got some pushback late Saturday night in a 5-4 decision, when the high court blocked Trump’s attempt to use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport a group of Venezuelans. A small, but meaningful victory.

No one has been spared Trump’s grab for imperial status, and he seems to have put aside the economy and immigration. He is bullying our long-term allies, including neighboring Canada. And while Trump is waving a sword of Tariffs against China, he continues to offer a balm to Putin to wager an illegal war on Ukraine. Are other former Russian controlled countries next?

His attempt to destroy is clear. His closest advisors have decided the government is inefficient and ineffective, hence DOGE.

I urge you to also take a closer look at the growing landscape of emboldened “supremacists.” A new group – the Natalists – is stoking dark fears and foreboding. In fear of losing demographic dominance in the USA, they are encouraging young, white men to marry white women and have many children.

The best thing I can say about the first 100 days is a fire has been lit under the electorate, the masses have been reignited to protest and resist.

We are the masses. And the masses will win. But only if we fight.

NY Attorney General Letitia James recently called on the spirit of our ancestors, saying “… we will not bow, we will not break, and we will not bend … because our fight is righteous…and I’m not afraid of (no) president.” In her speech, James described the administration’s “rampage of lawlessness,” the “purposeful destruction of our constitution with rapidity and intentionality,” how members of Congress have acquiesced while watching the administration “systematically dismantling” 60 years of civil rights gains.

We know what to do: Black folk have been the shoulders upon which our democratic ideals have been carried and expanded over the past 150 years.

So, it matters less if it is 100, 500 or 1,000 days because Donald J. Trump declared that he would be a dictator on “Day One.” It’ll be mission accomplished, but only if we let it!