this is "nightline." >> tonight, mega milestone. as president trump reaches his 100th day in office. >> we are doing a really top job already. >> we've been on a road trip that's taken us from pennsylvania avenue straight through the heart of trump country, taking the pulse of his supporters. >> i have zero -- >> an empire ain't built overnight. >> even some of his most high-hard devotees might be wavering. >> he needs to walk the walk to see every day what people are struggling to do. >> tonight how the president's achievements actually measure up to his big promises. >> we're building the wall, believe me. we will drain the swamp in washington, d.c. we're going

replace that horror show called obamacare. >> but is 100 days really enough time to judge? plus, paving the way. >> i'm gay. >> two decades after those two powerful words, how far we've 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, one-day deals and save 60% or more on items like luggage sets, power blenders and more. ends sunday. that's getting your penny's 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. i'm rebecca jarvis. we're on the eve of president trump's 100th day in office. it's been an extraordinary journey for the president, albeit an often rocky road as he's 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? here's abc's david wright on trump's 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

so much to get done. >> build the wall! >> we'll build the wall, don't even think about it. don't even think about it. >> reporter: in fairness, everybody already knew washington wouldn't change overnight. except for president trump, it seems. >> i am asking the american people to dream big once again. what follows is my 100-day 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 he'd 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 t

question the game altogether. tweeting that it was a ridiculous standard. but after a mad dash week of signing executive orders, he said today -- >> it's a false standard, 100 days, but i have to tell you, i don't think anybody has done what we've been able to do in 100 days so we're 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. >> i'm disappointed that it doesn't 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. that's very different from having to worry about nuclear weapons in north korea or complicated legislation

congress. >> reporter: how's he doing? well, on capitol hill -- >> he's doing a pretty good job. >> reporter: abc's mary bruce finds that depends who you ask. >> if one looks at what he promised to do in the course of a campaign, it's pretty much a dumpster fire. >> reporter: that's a democrat. now listen to a republican. >> how would you grade what you've seen so far? >> i'd give him an "a." trump is turning things around, making business exciting again, capitalism is a good thing, rate reduction, wage rates go up, everyone's happy again and we're 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 he's not a washington person. >> reporter: today the national rifle association gave him a warm r

>> 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. >> he's 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 a-plus 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. that's the president just getting back from his nra speech in atlanta. it's fair to say in 100 days he has single-handedly changed the tone here in washington. but in terms of actual accomplishments, fulfilling the campaign promises, he's got a lot of work to do. most of the heavy lifting he's 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 so-called 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 trump's big-ticket item, health care reform, was never even brought to a vote. >> we came really close today. but we came up short.

little while ago. i told him that the best thing i think to do is to pull this bill and he agreed with that decision. >> reporter: trump's budget is still being revised, forcing congress today to pass a one-week stopgap measure. in order to prevent the government shutdown. trump's 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 so-called nuclear option, changing the rules in order to overcome the objections of democrats. >> and i got it done in the first 100 days. that's even nice. >> reporter: that one key appointment counts as a success. but the administration has yet to fill many of the mid-level management jobs that would carry out trump's vision. has he accomplished more or less than the average president in 100 days? >> i think that if you measure it by legislative accomplishments, he's

accomplished less. if you measure it by filling the government, he's accomplished less. if you measure it by fulfilling his campaign promises, he's 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. he'll hold a campaign rally in harrisburg instead. clearly, trump is hoping for a split-screen moment. the media he rails against living it up. the president out amongst the people. i'm david wright for "nightline" at the white house. next, why some of president trump's 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 coming-out. a dvt blood clot, i sure had a lot to think about. what about the people i care about? ...including this little girl.

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with strayer university's mba program today. let's get it, america. it was a defining moment of president trump's first 100 days in office. the promise to repeal and replace obamacare falling flat. but now some of mr. trump's strongest supporters are excited about the defeat of one of his cornerstone campaign promises, proving that the politics of red and blue aren't always so black and white. here again is abc's david wright. >> we're going to i repeal and replace that horror show called obamacare. >> reporter: driving down the daniel boone parkway, the campaign still resonates. >> it is a mess

ever seen. >> reporter: deep in the heart of appalachia, you'll find some of trump's strongest core supporters. >> this is eastern kentucky. what's interesting about this place is that 80% of the people here voted for donald trump. but also this is an area that's 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, he's a trump supporter -- but he depends on obamacare. >> saved my life. >> you're worried, yeah. what's worrying you? >> if they do away with this, they need to -- i think they just need to reform it. >> you're on three different inhalers -- >> reporter: so every day the promise to repeal goes unfulfilled is a ble

>> reporter: on our way to check in on how mike's faring we stop in first at the sanders cafe, birthplace of kentucky fried chicken. >> this is the spot, huh? >> reporter: we're here with kathy ollor who signs people up for obamacare. you voted for trump, right? >> right. >> and yet he's 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 don't feel like he's 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, isn't it. >> very complicated. >> reporter: here in eastern kentucky, it's 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 he'd bring back the mining jobs. although those jobs have been the bedrock of this community, they've 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 life-saving 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, we're the safety net for those who don't have anything. >> one thing that still baffles me. that you've 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 they're still -- it's other issues they're voting for. >> they're hoping maybe he'll bring back the coal jobs? >> right, looking for coal, immigration, other things. they'll tell you that they don't think that they will take the health care away because they've seen the uprising in the united states. that's why they couldn't get a vote in congress to repeal it. >> from where these folks sit, democracy works. >> right. >> reporter: that's pretty much mike taylor's point of view. remember him? he's the trump supporter who inspired us to make this trip. for him, it isn't an abstract policy debate, it's personal. >> if it wasn't for the health care, i couldn't. >> couldn't what? take your time. >> the group

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, mike's 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

good about eight years of him was this health care. trump you have the hope of like he said -- there's jobs already coming back. so that's the hope that we're 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 can't breathe. that he sleeps, he's turning purple, his facing turning black because he can't breathe. but yet he keeps going. >> i can't help but thinking, gosh, this is a little reckless. >> on trump's part? it is. i don't know if he'll say this or not. if he does, my name's 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 that's a good quality

>> 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 didn't 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, wouldn't be able to get it. >> reporter: for another month now, the taylors can breathe easier. but they don't know if they'll be able to afford next month's pills. that depends in large part on the republicans in washington. i'm david wright for "nightline" in whitesburg, kentucky. next -- >> susie, i'm gay. >> ellen's message 20 years later.

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finally tonight, if you happen to be watching abc on the night of april 30th, 1997, you just happened to witness history. ellen degeneris, the first openly lesbian actress to publicly come out as an openly lesbian character on television. what she's now saying 20 years later. >> i'm so afraid to tell people. i mean, i just -- susan -- i'm gay. >> reporter: it's been 20 years since that historic episode of "ellen." ellen degeneris' television persona, ellen morgan, coming out as a lesbian in front of 42 million viewers. degeneris paving the way for the lgbtq community, on screen and off, making her personal life public. starting with the cover of "time" magazine. sparking debates around the country. and on "oprah." >> i just feel like we're being

stuffed with this down our throat, why, why? >> well, because you don't 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, we're online at >> today on this stage, one lucky player will begin their journey toward a possible $1 million prize, and you'll be there with them for every second of the drama. this is "who wants to be a millionaire." [cheers and applause] [dramatic music] ♪ hey, everybody, welcome to the show. are you guys ready to play "millionaire" today? [cheers and applause]

to pay his bills, our returning contestant used to use his trivia knowledge to win free meals. today answering questions is going to hopefully get him a million dollars. from mount carmel, illinois, please welcome back beau henson. [cheers and applause] >> what's up, beau? how are you doing, man? >> i'm good. >> welcome back. >> thank you. >> so like--like many of us, you're a starving student. >> that's correct. i still am. >> and, uh--but you-- but you used your-- your smarts to actually help pay for your dinners? >> that's right. uh, i went to grad school in scotland for awhile, and-- so i couldn't really work, um, but what i could do was go to trivia nights and i called myself the colonialist. >> okay. >> team names, you know. >> got it. >> didn't really play in scotland, but i'd win, and try to buy food with that. >> just--just get a meal. by the way, i've seen-- as you've watched this game... >> mm-hmm. >> you're a good test taker, and then i find that there's a reason for that. you used to teach people how to take tests. >> that's righ