absolutely to make major changes in the policy and direction of the country. is he engaged internationally and interested in policy as president obama was or does he have the depth of experience across the board as the bush administration did, the answer is no but i think he s interested in making changes. he talked to angela merkle and le pen. do you think president obama liked the job? i think president obama liked it. he saw it as a great historical framework and challenge and time to make his imprint on history and rally the country for big causes, legacy of obamacare and his other signature developments. the interesting question is whether trump will after six months still like this job, i can see where he hands the keys to mike pence and say, give me a call to mar-a-lago.
to this. just getting off the rocket your biological is so jangled up there s a little transition. emotionally, i guarantee you he s not missing it at all. you miss the relevance, don t you? no. i saw president obama with the phone call last week. i think he s bored. i think he should write his memoirs and i think he s used to action. he wants to start up a little bit, trying to be appropriate and graceful enough on the u.s. stage. he s younger and in a different place than president bush was. i think relevance is key and important to president obama. i think he feels he has an additional chapter. the manner he came out today with this panel of young people, i guess that s sort of a little bit like his program, one of his signature programs to reach out to african-american men, he s reaching out to the young people.
hasn t happened. not to mention he said the mexicans will pay for the wall which could shut down government. they re not paying and there is no bill to provide funding and the government is in dank of shutting down, plus no healthcare reform he promised a lot. it seems so big and important right now, especially the 100 days. i remember back 2001, when president bush 43 came in as education presidents and lo and behold nine months later he became the war president and i have no idea what he did during the first 100 days. do these events dwarf this? the president is right about the 100 day standard is n a very important measure, it s not. we historians look back at presidents, the most important things that happen to them door don t happen during the first three months. kennedy the missile crisis and george bush, 9/11. president trump can take some comfort from the fact whatever
process. this is nixon watergate. bad or sick guy? and president obama said it would be his preference while still in office, it would be his preference to hold back the same way george w. bush did when president obama became president. let him have those early months to step out of the way but he reserved the right to jump in. i m surprised he jumped in this early. i do think the wiretapping comments may have played into this to some degree. i think the blame to some of the democrats on president obama for the state of their democratic party right now also may be prompting him a little bit earlier back into the limelight. do you think he s out early? i think he s doing what s smart. he s doing what george w. bush did, stay off the president s radar. fast forward eight years, do you expect president trump to do the same thing? no. i said it w a smart move.
there is this artificial number that gets thrown out. what is the context? the context is it s 100 days. you have four years in your first term and eight years for two terms. you think about what he started, he ll move forward on tax return, healthcare, immigration and trade, it s been a hugely successful first 100 days. with me, mark mckinnon, co-creator of showtime and chief media advisor to bush 43 and martha from bloomberg news and author of two books about president obama including the center holds. president obama has been quite quiet in spite of the things that have been said about him by the current president, including in march, president trump tweeted how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the very sacred election