Dubai: For many Americans, Democrats and Republicans alike, the last 100 days have felt more like 100 years.

The first 100 days of a presidential terms are termed the Honeymoon period, when presidents are largely given the deference to shape their administration, both in terms of policy and personal. But Donald Trump’s first 100 days have been a never-ending battle to contain and resist his policies and his never-ending stream of executive orders. I have never seen a US presidency start this way, and I remember the first 100 days of every president since Carter.

For many of us this, this nightmare, started 73 days before the inauguration.

It was in November that we first had to wrap our heads around the idea that a TV reality show host who ran a blatantly racist, misogynist and xenophobic campaign managed to get into the oval office — and that many of our families and friends had voted to put him there.

We liked to think that we were better than that. We weren’t. That three million more Americans voted for Hillary Clinton in the election than Donald Trump has not offered much comfort.

Minus an impeachment, Trump is the president we are now stuck with.

The first 100 days of Trump’s presidency have been even more frustrating, since we’ve had to watch Trump try to push through — and I don’t throw these words out casually — ignorant policies.

Why “ignorant”?

Because following Trump’s initial executive order attempting to ban people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country, social media was filled with people asking “Doesn’t this violate the First Amendment” or “Isn’t this a violation of due process and equal protection?”

Within a few days, a federal judge — a conservative by reputation — said yes, the ban was exactly those things. In short, Trump’s executive order violated the US constitution. Other federal judges across the country — again both liberal and conservative — soon agreed.

If average people on Twitter and Facebook were able to figure this out, based often on nothing more than a high school or college government class, why didn’t the President?

Was he completely ignorant of the US legal system or did he just not care as long as he was catering to his followers?

Both are answers that have kept some of us awake at night and many of us in a state of perpetual anger.

Then there is his famous border wall, which to this day Trump insists Mexico will pay for.

His first plan was to tax incoming products to fund the wall.

Average Americans were again the first to point out that tariffs would only mean Americans would have to pay the taxes that would pay for the wall.

These Americans made their point using simple math and some basic economics. How was the president incapable of figuring this out?

The seemingly never-ending string of cringeworthy moments flowing from the White House almost on a daily basis is infuriating.

This is not just because many Americans are politically opposed to them — many Republicans have also stated their opposition to Trump — but Trump’s actions lack the intelligence, knowledge and professionalism that we expected to see in a person we used to term “the leader of the free world.”

Even George W. Bush’s controversial presidency looks exemplary by comparison.

The only thing perhaps more frustrating than Trump’s first 100 days is the knowledge that there are 1,500 more days filled with ignorance yet to come.