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Replace that horror show called obamacare. But is 100 days really enough time to judge . Plus, paving the way. Im gay. Two decades after those two powerful words, how far weve come. It was the hardest thing that i ever had to do in my life and i would not change one moment of it. But first the nightline 5. Get to jcpenney vip event this thursday through sunday to save 20 throughout the store with your coupon. Saturday only, oneday deals and save 60 or more on items like luggage sets, power blenders and more. Ends sunday. Thats getting your pennys earth. Allergy muddlers, are you one sneed away from being voted out of carpool . Try zyrtec. It starts working hard at hour one and twice as hard when you take it the next day. Stick with zyrtec and muddle no more. Number one in just 60 seconds. Good evening and thanks for joining us. Im rebecca jarvis. Were on the eve of President Trumps 100th day in office. Its been an extraordinary journey for the president , albeit an often rocky road as hes tried to make good on an ambitious array of old campaign promises. Tonight we ask if the president is more talk than action. Or is it just too soon to tell . Heres abcs david wright on trumps first 100 days. The 45th president of the United States, donald trump reporter making America Great again might take a little longer than donald trump expected. Like i promised, we are doing a really top job already. 99 days. Reporter 99 days and still so much to get done. Build the wall well build the wall, dont even think about it. Dont even think about it. Reporter in fairness, everybody already knew washington wouldnt change overnight. Except for President Trump, it seems. I am asking the American People to dream big once again. What follows is my 100day action plan to make America Great again. Reporter back in october, he set the standard with his gettysburg address, an ambitious outline of his plan to transform the federal government. We will drain the swamp in washington, d. C. Reporter and he promised hed get it done in 100 days. This is my pledge to you. And if we follow these steps, we will once more have a government of, by, and for the people. Reporter as that milestone started to loom, he did start to question the game altogether. Tweeting that it was a ridiculous standard. But after a mad dash week of signing executive orders, he said today its a false standard, 100 days, but i have to tell you, i dont think anybody has done what weve been able to do in 100 days so were very happy. Reporter then the president told fox news his frustration lies with the pace of the legislative process. He has yet to pass a major bill through congress. Im disappointed that it doesnt go quicker. It does seem like running the government is not as easy as running a business. Right. If running a business is easy. Donald trump ran a business but it was a family business. What he did was work with people that he knew and often was related to, to make deals. Thats very different from having to worry about Nuclear Weapons in north korea or complicated legislation in congress. Reporter hows he doing . Well, on capitol hill hes doing a pretty good job. Reporter abcs mary bruce finds that depends who you ask. If one looks at what he promised to do in the course of a campaign, its pretty much a Dumpster Fire. Reporter thats a democrat. Now listen to a republican. How would you grade what youve seen so far . Id give him an a. Trump is turning things around, making business exciting again, capitalism is a good thing, rate reduction, wage rates go up, everyones happy again and were in nirvana. Reporter either a Dumpster Fire or nirvana. That pretty much sums up how polarizing these first 100 days have been. Has washington figured out donald trump . No, donald trump remains a mystery to not just washington, i think to the country. A lot of voters think they know who he is, continue to love the fact that hes not a washington person. Reporter today the National Rifle Association Gave him a warm reception in atlanta. Only one candidate in the general election came to speak to you, and that candidate is now the president of the United States standing before you again. Hes the first president to be here since Ronald Reagan in 1983. This is his base. He told this crowd that they have a friend in the white house. And they are friends of his in here, i will tell you. I spoke to a lot of supporters in this room. Unanimous approval for this president. They give him an aplus grade for his first 100 days and they are looking to more to from him. As your president i will never, ever infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Never, ever. Freedom is not a gift from government. Freedom is a gift from god. Reporter day 99 winding down now. Thats the president just getting back from his nra speech in atlanta. Its fair to say in 100 days he has singlehandedly changed the tone here in washington. But in terms of actual accomplishments, fulfilling the campaign promises, hes got a lot of work to do. Most of the heavy lifting hes done by executive order. Trump has signed 30 of them in these first 100 days. Some of them tied up in court. So still in progress refugees are welcome here reporter the temporary travel ban on several predominantly muslim countries. And the push to cut federal funding from socalled sanctuary cities, the ones that refuse to summarily deport illegal immigrants. At this point in his presidency, barack obama had signed 15 bills into law. Trump, 29. But trumps bigticket item, health care reform, was never even brought to a vote. We came really close today. But we came up short. I spoke to the president just a little while ago. I told him that the best thing i think to do is to pull this bilt e an hd decision. Reporter trumps budget is still being revised, forcing Congress Today to pass a oneweek stopgap measure. In order to prevent the government shutdown. Trumps biggest legislative accomplishment so far . I, neil m. Gorsuch reporter the senate vote to confirm his nominee to fill the ninth seat on the u. S. Supreme court. Senate republicans had to invoke the socalled nuclear option, changing the rules in order to overcome the objections of democrats. And i got it done in the first 100 days. Thats even nice. Reporter that one key appointment counts as a success. But the administration has yet to fill many of the midlevel management jobs that would carry out trumps vision. Has he accomplished more or less than the average president in 100 days . I think that if you measure it by legislative accomplishments, hes clearly accomplished less. If you measure it by filling the government, hes accomplished less. If you measure it by fulfilling his campaign promises, hes accomplished less. Reporter this weekend, as the White House Press corps gathers for its annual black tie dinner, the president is bucking tradition and skipping town. Hell hold a Campaign Rally in harrisburg instead. Clearly, trump is hoping for a splitscreen moment. The media he rails against living it up. The president out amongst the people. Im david wright for nightline at the white house. Next, why some of President Trumps strongest supporters are actually thankful for a signature failure in his first 100 days. And later, what Ellen Degeneres is now saying two decades after her very public comingout. A dvt blood clot, i sure had a lot to think about. What about the people i care about . Including this little girl. And what if this happened again . I was given warfarin in the hospital, but wondered, was this the best treatment for me . So i asked my doctor. And he recommended eliquis. 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This is eastern kentucky. Whats interesting about this place is that 80 of the people here voted ftrump. But also this is an area thats boomed under obamacare. Back in february, nightline met mike taylor, a coal truck driver until 2015 when he was diagnosed with black lung disease. As he told gloria riviera, hes a trump supporter but he depends on obamacare. Saved my life. Youre worried, yeah. Whats worrying you . If they do away with this, they need to i think they just need to reform it. Youre on three different inhalers reporter so every day the promise to repeal goes unfulfilled is a blessing for him. Colonel sanders here. Reporter on our way to check in on how mikes faring we stop in first at the sanders cafe, birthplace of kentucky fried chicken. This is the spot, huh . Reporter were here with kathy ollor who signs people up for obamacare. You voted for trump, right . Right. And yet hes looking to put you out of a job. I voted because i was thinking he would help improve it. Make it more affordable. Are you happy with the direction things are headed right now . No. Because so many people we already have enough stress in our life, to have our health care more stressful, knowing if we have it or not. Reporter but kathy, who takes pride in having traversed the state, signing up more than 1,000 people, is optimistic President Trump will make health care better. No, i dont feel like hes had enough time yet. It seems like that bumper sticker, repeal and replace obamacare, got a lot of people elected. And yet the answer probably is a lot more complicated than that, isnt it. Very complicated. Reporter here in eastern kentucky, its especially complicated. The Unemployment Rate here is twice the national average. This part of kentucky is coal country. A lot of the folks voted for trump hoping hed bring back the mining jobs. Although those jobs have been the bedrock of this community, theyve also led to Health Problems that plague families that live here. Dr. Van breeding, a kentucky native, spends every day at this Community Clinic giving lifesaving treatments. Has this been a stressful 100 days for you . It was because we had to try to figure out what we were going to do if it did get repealed. Rear a Community Safety net, were the safety net for those who dont have anything. One thing that still baffles me. That youve got test of thousands of people here in kentucky who have benefited from this. And yet they seem to be voting for people calling for repeal and replace. I think theyre still its other issues theyre voting for. Theyre hoping maybe hell bring back the coal jobs . Right, looking for coal, immigration, other things. Theyll tell you that they dont think that they will take the Health Care Away because theyve seen the uprising in the United States. Thats why they couldnt get a vote in congress to repeal it. From where these folks sit, democracy works. Right. Reporter thats pretty much mike Taylors Point of view. Remember him . Hes the trump supporter who inspired us to make this trip. For him, it isnt an abstract policy debate, its personal. If it wasnt for the health care, i couldnt. Couldnt what . Take your time. The group of claim and surviving the finances. You must feel you dodged a bullet with this health care thing. Yeah. For how long . One only knows till they come back round began. Breaking news, a crushing defeat for President Trump reporter he says when the first gop bill died, he was glued to the news. It tickled me. That was a good day . Yeah, yeah, for me. Sure was. Reporter at this point, mikes wife robin taylor decided she wanted to jump in. The past couple of months, they must have been a roller coaster for you. It was worse than a roller coaster, it was a train wreck. Yet you still support trump . Yeah. All obama done for us is he took away jobs. Obama put a war on coal and it took everybody away. He did right by you in health care . The only thing i can say was good about eight years of him was this health care. Trump you have the hope of like he said theres jobs already coming back. So thats the hope that were going to survive. Reporter when it comes to obamacare, she says repeal would have been dead wrong. Let me tell you something. They need to come and live a day in my house with him. When he walks through the house and he cant breathe. That he sleeps, hes turning purple, his facing turning black because he cant breathe. But yet he keeps going. I cant help but thinking, gosh, this is a little reckless. On trumps part . It is. I dont know if hell say this or not. If he does, my names robin taylor, western kentucky, give me a visit. I think he went after to destroy whatever obama and hillary and everybody else was throwing at him. What comes across his mind comes out his mouth. Kind of like me. I think thats a good quality to have. Reporter at the end of the day, we tagged along with the taylors as they went to the local pharmacy to fill their prescriptions. How much would this medicine run you if you didnt have it . Almost 6,000. Just for the medicine . Yeah. Reporter a huge bag full of medicine. Their lifeline for the next month. All of it at no cost, thanks to obamacare. All this covered . By the insurance. If not, wouldnt be able to get it. Reporter for another month now, the taylors can breathe easier. But they dont know if theyll be able to afford next months pills. That depends in large part on the republicans in washington. Im david wright for nightline in whitesburg, kentucky. Next susie, im gay. Ellens message 20 years later. From the minute i wake up. Im on. And on. And on. Thats why i. Make time for myself. And give my body some love. With aveeno® daily moisturizing lotion. Its active naturals® oat formula. Locks in moisture to improve skin wellness in just one day. I really needed that. 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I just feel like were being stuffed with this down our throat, why, why . Well, because you dont have to fight for anyone to embrace you and say how wonderful you have a family and children. Reporter her courage still being celebrated two decades later. It was the hardest thing that i ever had to do in my life and i would not change one moment of it, because it led me to be exactly where i am today, standing in front of all of you. Which is a joy. And you brought so much joy to us. Thank you for watching abc news. And as always, were online at and as always, were online at abits my job to Pay Attention to the game, and i take my job seriously. While im busy watching the game, i need your help keeping an eye on the stands. If you see something that doesnt look quite right, tell a Law Enforcement official. We all play an Important Role in protecting our communities, and you can help. If you see something suspicious, Say Something to local authorities. [ crowd cheering ]