By now, even ardent supporters have begun to notice that President Trump is better at promising than delivering. His remarks on his first 100 days are emblematic. Before he assumed office he boasted that in his first 100 Days he would pass a whole smorgasbord of measures.

He promised, to name just a few, to repeal and replace Obamacare, build a wall, cut middle class taxes by 35% and corporate taxes by over 50%, renegotiate NAFTA, ban Muslim immigration, brand China a currency manipulator, bring back jobs in clean coal, (though there never was such a thing), provide $1 trillion for infrastructure, and appoint right-wing Supreme Court justices chosen by Leo Leonard of the right-wing Federalist Society.

Now he pronounces the 100-Day benchmark “a ridiculous standard.” He’s right, of course. Presidents rarely hit the ground running, though are almost never so ill-prepared as he was, and can’t do much without a compliant Congress.

FDR’s first 100 days are legendary, but that’s because the country was in an economic death spiral, he won by a landslide, had had several years to lay his plans, and had a Congress that gave him everything he wanted. Obama, to whom Trump hates to be compared though he keeps doing it himself, also had a productive start for similar reasons. The Wall Street meltdown of 2008 threatened a rerun of 1929-1932.

Trump, by contrast, lost the popular vote, has the lowest approval rating in history for a new president, and though his party controls both houses of Congress, it’s members can’t control themselves. The far right Freedom Caucus and the moderate Tuesday Group might as well belong to different parties. And the Democrats have no incentive to cooperate in the destruction of programs they created.

So, Trump has managed to issue a lot of executive orders of the sort Republicans denounced when Obama did it. He can claim a Supreme Court nominee but only because Mitch McConnell took the unprecedented step of refusing to permit a vote on a nominee for a year in order to deny a Democratic president the ability to fulfill his constitutional obligation.

Trump tried to pass healthcare reform and it was, as he would say, a dah-zas-tah. The Muslim ban ran afoul of the courts and is in limbo. He cancelled an Asian trade deal aimed at curbing Chinese power, but in the process annoyed allies he will need in the future. He approved pipelines, but on several fronts he has experienced what W. B. Yeats called “The Coming of Wisdom with Time.”

So, he now says healthcare reform, which was going to be easy, is hard. He discovered tax reform is complicated. Who knew? He needs China to deal with North Korea so he decided it’s not a currency manipulator, and he received a ten-minute tutorial on Asian history from Xi Jinping. Now he’s an expert. He has also discovered Bashar al-Assad is not a nice man, and that the gassing of children is hard to look at. He sent a few missiles to pockmark an airfield, after first warning the Russian military to get out of the way, so that should solve that. He threatened loony Kim Jong-Un with thermonuclear annihilation, and Kim threatened him right back and even included a list of his top targets.

As the clock ticked down to the hundredth day, he promised Congress would avert a government shutdown, pass healthcare reform and tax reform, all in less than a week. Obviously one thing he has not learned is that Congress is not going to do his biding and that sausage-making is not just an ugly business, but a slow one. So the first hundred days is going to end with something resembling a soccer score: Trump, one; Congress, one.

The only interesting thing about Trump’s first 100 days is how incompetent this alleged master negotiator and legend in his own mind has been. Not only has he not put forward legislative proposals for all the things he said he would have passed by now, he has not begin to send the hundreds of nominees to Congress for approval that he needs to operate the executive branch, apparently persuaded Jared and Ivanka can do it all themselves. About 80 percent of jobs are still vacant.

Though the president has managed to golf a lot, he seems to have learned little about how the government works or about the threats we face from overseas. Meanwhile, investigations into Russian hacking of the election that made him president and the possible collusion by his campaign are grinding on in Congress and at the FBI and in every news organizations hungry for a Pulitzer.

In the process, evidence of conflicts of interest on the part of Trump, his family and his appointees accumulates. It increasingly looks as if he has not undertaken to drain the swamp, but to put his brand on it in big gold letters.

Now that the 100th Day is about to pass without any significant legislative accomplishments, it will be instructive to see who he blames for the failure. Congress? Apostate Republicans? Democrats? Obama? Hillary? The media? Backstabbing aides? Reince? Bannon? Anyone and everyone except himself, The Don, other members of the Famiglia, or his Consigliere, Vladimir Putin.