President Trump’s first 100 days have been a “huge success,” and Democrat efforts to block his agenda in the courts will ultimately fail, says Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt.

While conservatives celebrated Trump’s 100-day accomplishments this week, Democrats staged a bizarre and aimless sit-in Sunday on the Capitol steps.

In a Tuesday speech on the Senate floor, Sen. Chris Coon, D-Connecticut, added vague and unsubstantiated charges that, “The last hundred days, President Trump has made Americans less safe, less prosperous, and less free.”

Meanwhile, Schmitt told the BBC how successful Trump has been in, among other things, securing the border and upending decades of unfair global trade practices that have siphoned off untold trillions in American wealth and millions of U.S. jobs.

How can Democrats and Republicans look at the same 100 days and see such diametrically opposed results?

“Well, I think one side is rooting for America and another side is being selfish, petty, anti-Trump performative actors, honestly,” Schmitt told The Heartlander in an exclusive interview Wednesday.

“The Democrats have totally lost their minds. They’re obsessed with President Trump. They didn’t get the message from November. They offer nothing. They’re intellectually bankrupt. They have no ideas of their own, but just to be critical. 

“They know what President Trump did in his first term. Until COVID hit, this economy was soaring. Everybody, no matter their income bracket, their demographic, their race, their gender, they were doing better; their inflation-adjusted wage growth was the highest we’ve ever seen. 

“And we want to get back to that, but [Democrats] want to stymie the agenda because they know we have a unique opportunity with a Republican House, Republican Senate and the White House. 

“It’s not going to stop us. We’re going to move forward with this reform agenda and deliver on the mandate the American people gave us in November.”

Doing what Missourians wanted

The Heartlander asked Schmitt what he would tell his Missouri constituents about the past 100 days.

“In talking to Missourians in the lead-up to that election, there are two issues that they were most concerned about.

“The first, of course, we had the unsecured border: 15 million people here illegally, the fentanyl streaming across, 100,000 people dying across the country, including people in Missouri. 

“We fought hard when I was [state attorney general] for that opioid settlement to help people struggling with addiction, and many people were dying because of fentanyl overdoses. 

“The human trafficking, the national security risk and an unbelievable turnaround in just 100 days. The border is closed – it’s in-between 95% and 99% reduction in border crossings. That’s just remarkable. And it just goes to show you what leadership can do. We didn’t need any new laws. We didn’t need any new gimmicks. We just needed a president focused on enforcing the law, and that’s what we have now. 

“So that’s a huge success, considering where we were before Jan. 20th. 

“And then, also, you’re seeing inflation numbers come down; the March number was at 2.4% reduction in inflation.  

“Biden left a mess, and President Trump is still trying to clean that up.”

Schmitt says Senate Republicans are working on a “four-legged stool” consisting of tax policy; regulatory reform; energy policy; and a rebalancing of global trade.

“If we do all those things,” he says, “our economy is going to soar, and that’s what people wanted. That’s what they voted for. And I think that’s what President Trump’s delivering on.”

Will Democrat lawfare be defeated?

Having lost the Senate and White House last November, Democrats now seem to be waging a form of lawfare in the courts to thwart Trump’s deportations and Executive Branch reorganization, as well as Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cost savings.

Does Schmitt think the U.S. Supreme Court will ever put a stop to the lower courts’ unprecedented level of interference in the Executive Branch?

“I do,” Schmitt says confidently.

“You have to probably take [the court cases] one by one and walk through the procedural posture of them. But truth be told, President Trump has won on many of these, including, by the way, the Judge Boasberg decision where the Supreme Court said to that district court judge, in citing the Alien Enemies Act, the district court has no jurisdiction over the president, by way of separation of powers, no more than he does to direct troop movements or missile strikes or foreign policy. 

“That case then went to Texas. The Supreme Court stopped those deportations, but on a very technical ground on a temporary basis. 

“President Trump is going to be able to move forward this deportation effort through the Alien Enemies Act, and also through the normal Immigration Naturalization Act, the INA.  

“So, those are going to continue. And President Trump is going to work day and night. Tom Homan, Kristie Noem, Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, they’re going to find the criminal elements in this society who came here illegally and they’re going to be deported and they’re going home. 

“And the Democrats, if they want to stand by those folks, if they want to go down to El Salvador and they want to defend MS-13 members while they ignore victims in this country, be my guest. 

“I think Republicans are going to stand with the victims, and they’ll stand with the rule of law and they’re going to stand strong for the sovereignty of this country.”