100 Days: While dismissing the first 100 days of a presidency as an artificial standard, President Trump is putting on a political and PR campaign to make his first 100 days look great. Although he’s already declared that he has done more than any other president in his first 100 days, Trump has not pushed through any major legislation. He failed to repeal and replace Obamacare, Mexico is not paying for his wall, his immigration orders were blocked, and he faces a possible government shutdown at the end of the week.

He says he’s announcing a sweeping tax reform plan today, but not in the form of a bill to present to Congress.

Trump has tweeted that the first 100 days is a “ridiculous standard,” but the White House has put on first-100-days briefings, first-100-days receptions, a first-100-days rally, and posted a first-100-days website.

Death Row: In a rare double execution last night, Arkansas has executed its third prisoner in four days as the state rushes to put down seven men before the end of the month.

Jack H. Jones, Jr., 52, went first after all his appeals were exhausted. Jones raped, beat and strangled a 34-year-old mother in 1995. Hours after Jones was dispatched, Marcel Williams was put to death. He kidnapped, robbed, raped and strangled a 22-year-old mother in 1994.

Another prisoner is scheduled for execution Thursday.

Executive Actions: After a long-running disagreement between the US and Canada, the Trump administration announced it is putting a 20 percent tariff on Canadian softwood imported to the United States. Canada subsidizes lumber. — The US placed economic sanctions on 271 employees of the Syrian agency responsible for producing nerve gas.

It’s History: Workers wearing masks and flak jackets guarded by police snipers yesterday began removing four Confederate monuments in New Orleans. They began with an obelisk erected in 1891 to honor the Crescent City White League, which fought a Reconstruction Era battle with the integrated city police department.

The monuments have long been criticized as symbols of slavery and racism while they have been defended as part of Southern heritage. Other monuments set to go are statues of Generals Robert E. Lee, PGT Beauregard, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Channel Change: Former Fox News kingpin Bill O’Reilly spoke publicly for the first time since his firing last night, although he was reduced from an anchor chair on television to a podcast. Still defending himself from accusations that he’s a serial sexual harasser, O’Reilly said, “I can’t say a lot because there’s much stuff going on right now. But I can tell you that I’m very confident the truth will come out. And when it does — I don’t know if you’re going to be surprised, but I think you’re going to be shaken, as I am.”

The Obit Page: Robert M. Pirsig, who wrote the best-selling road trip memoir Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, died Monday at the age of 88.

Pirsig delved into Asian philosophy while stationed with the US Army in Korea. The book was a memoir and meditation based on a cross-country motorcycle trip with his son, Christopher. He wrote about the romance of life in the machine age. “We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.”

Pirsig was rejected by 121 publishers before he was put in print by William Morrow and Company. He wrote, “You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge.”

The Business of State: The State Department has been caught with a blog post on its website extolling the virtues of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club as a great place for him to greet foreign leaders. The post, which has been taken down, said, “Trump is not the first president to have access to Mar-a-Lago as a Florida retreat, but he is the first one to use it. By visiting this ‘winter White House,’ Trump is belatedly fulfilling the dream of Mar-a-Lago’s original owner and designer.”

Trump has spent 25 of his first 95 days in office at Mar-a-Lago. Membership is $200,000 and while you’re there, check out the Trump soap.

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