100 Days Into Joe Biden's Presidency, Here's How His Cabinet Compares to His Predecessors On 4/29/21 at 7:00 AM EDT In his first 100 days as president, Joe Biden has gotten 28 Senate-confirmed appointees through the door—nearly 1.5 times as many confirmations as former President Trump did in his first 100 days of office. Comparably, Biden has more confirmations than Trump, who had 19 appointees in 100 days, but still fewer than former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, who had 63 appointees and 32 appointees, respectively. "I don't really know what explained Obama's success in those first 100 days because in the cases of Trump, Obama and Biden, they all had a Senate majority," Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, senior fellow at the University of Virginia's The Miller Center, told