The Donald Trump Score Card

Putin defends Trump again. He is accusing Americans of being uncivilized to Trump.

Putin and Trump have engaged endlessly with uncivilized means, which is putting it very mildly when describing those two. Putin has waged an unprovoked invasion and war against Ukraine for almost three years.


Putin Offers Bizarre Warning to Trump: You’re ‘Not Safe’

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“What struck me the most is not that Donald Trump was faced with uncivilized means, including assassination attempts–more than once," Putin said, according to a translation from the Associated Press.

“By the way, in my view, even now he’s not safe,” Putin warned Trump. “But he is a clever and cautious man, I should hope–he realizes all that.

 

Putin thinks Trump is cautious after he told Secret Service to turn off the magnetometers at the Ellipse the day of the Capitol riot because he thought none of the people there who were known to be armed would hurt him.

And supposedly cautious after being shot at a rally in 2024 and wanting to stay on stage to get his shoes and do fist pumps to the audience.

 

Not just any billionaires.

Musk is worth $250 billion.

Zuckerberg is worth $202 billion.

The two comprise nearly half a trillion dollars of worth.

Musk looks like he's practically living at Mar-a-Lago, like he is Trump's wife.

Zuckerberg visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago this week.

 

Republicans currently have 220 seats in the House.

Republicans could be down to 218 seats in the House, which is the bare minimum to have a majority of the 435 seats.

217 is possible depending on the timing of resignations of House members to become part of Trump's upcoming administration.

Two close races whose votes are still being counted have started leaning toward Democrats.

Trump has been tapping House members for posts in his upcoming administration.

Trump apparently doesn't realize the downside to that approach due to his mistaken perception that he had a landslide win, which his party certainly didn't in the House.


'Enough already': Mike Johnson panicking as GOP may only have 1-seat House majority

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"President-elect Donald Trump is set to take office in January with a razor-thin GOP majority in the House of Representatives that offers Republicans barely any margin of error," Siegel and Axelrod report. "Overnight Wednesday, one of two outstanding races in California tipped toward Democrats, giving Adam Gray a roughly 182-vote lead over GOP Rep. John Duarte in the inland 13th Congressional District in the San Joaquin Valley. In California's 45th Congressional District, anchored in Orange and Los Angeles Counties, Democrat Derek Tran has a roughly 600-vote lead over Republican Rep. Michelle Steel."


But Siegel and Axelrod point out that the number of House Republicans will "drop to 219 with former Rep. Matt Gaetz's resignation" and "could fall further to 217 depending on the timing of the resignations of Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Mike Waltz, R-Fla., who are set to join the Trump Administration as U.S. ambassador to United Nations and national security adviser, respectively."

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/28/euro...erienced-russia-ukraine-intl-latam/index.html

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"Trump has pledged to end the war in Ukraine “within 24 hours,” without saying how. During the election campaign, he repeatedly refused to say whether he wanted Ukraine to win the war.

Putin’s comments come after Trump on Wednesday nominated Gen. Keith Kellogg to be special envoy to the warring countries. “Together, we will secure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, and Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN!” Trump wrote on social media, announcing his pick."

 

Zelensky is talking about temporarily conceding Ukraine land to Putin return for a cease in hostilities, acceptance of Ukraine into NATO, and an effort to regain temporarily conceded Ukraine land later by diplomacy.


Zelensky says Ukraine could temporarily cede territory to Russia for Nato membership

 

Trump calls the atmosphere at his rallies 'love'. He feels the 'warmth' of the audience reacting in favor to his bigoted remarks, like he did at the Turning Point USA rally in AZ in response to his racist remarks about the coronavirus.

Anyone could make such a claim. Mussolini, David Koresh, Jim Jones.

Jim Jones told the followers of his cult to address him as 'Dad'. They would write letters to him praising him for supposedly saving their lives. It ended up with over 900 people dead in a mass homicide-suicide.

Trump's riot caused 13 deaths and about 174 injuries of police officers and many injuries of his supporters.

In a Jim Jones fashion, according to Trump's former press secretary Stephanie Grisham, while Trump was watching his riot at the Capitol on TV he said, "Look at all the people fighting for me."


Trump Gushed They're 'Fighting For Me' As He 'Gleefully' Watched Capitol Riot On TV: Ex-Aide

 

Since the Nixon era, the number of indictments of GOP executive branch people, whether it is considered to be 317 or 142, is far greater than the two for Democrats.

Considering that fact, Republican administrations will be at a much better advantage at garnering protection for themselves for criminal behavior with the help of the 2024 Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling.

A possible downside is that Democratic administrations now have the same immunity protection and could start heading toward the criminal behavior of Republican ones, which currently has far outweighed that of Democrats.


Many more indictments under 3 GOP vs 3 Dem presidents

 

Trump and his $250 billion wife Elon Musk were at Thanksgiving dinner together. Musk was sitting right next to him while the two flung their arms to the Village People's 'YMCA'.

Melania was at the table with Barron sitting between her and Trump.

How Trump reconciles his incessant love for the song YMCA while trying to ride piggyback on the tough guy bluster of UFC fights is a mystery.

Imagine UFC fights with Trump at the special ringside seats while the tune 'YMCA' plays.


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The story of how Trump went from diminished ex-president to a victor once again

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"The campaign decided early that it would focus much of its efforts on low-propensity voters — people who rarely turn out to the polls and are more likely to get their news from non-traditional sources.

To reach them, Trump began a podcast blitz, appearing with hosts who are popular with young men, including Adin Ross, Theo Von and Joe Rogan. He attended football games and UFC fights, where audiences erupted into cheers at arrivals broadcast live on sports channels.

The campaign also worked to create viral moments. Trump paid a visit to McDonald’s, where he donned an apron, manned the fry station and served supporters through the drive-through window. Days later he delivered a news conference from the passenger seat of a garbage truck, while wearing a yellow safety vest."

 

Food prices worried most voters, but they likely won't see lower grocery bills under Trump

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"Trump said U.S. farmers were getting “decimated” because the U.S. allows so many agricultural products into the country. As of 2021, the U.S. imported 60 percent of its fresh fruit, 38 percent of its fresh vegetables — excluding potatoes and mushrooms — and 10 percent of its beef, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

“We’re going to have to be a little bit like other countries,” he said. “We’re not going to allow so much come. We’re going to let our farmers go to work.”

But David Ortega, a professor of food economics and policy at Michigan State University, said that food producers rely on imported goods like fertilizer, equipment and packaging materials. If they’re forced to pay more for those items, they will raise prices, Ortega said."

 

Increasing petroleum production, increasing tariffs, deporting people, and reversing efforts to combat climate change aren't expected to lower grocery prices.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/economy/trump-grocery-prices-inflation/index.html

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“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one,” Trump continued. “We will drill, baby, drill,” he said, referring to increasing domestic oil production. “That’s going to bring down prices of everything.”

Weekly US crude oil production just hit a new record of 13.5 million barrels per day, according to federal data dating back to 1983. Last year, the nation produced more oil than any other country ever. That’s helped push down gas prices, which has in turn helped lower the cost of transporting food to grocery stores nationwide.

But even if oil production were to increase even more — although it remains to be seen whether that is even feasible — it likely wouldn’t affect food prices much, said Phil Lempert, a grocery industry analyst and editor of SuperMarketGuru.

Many food manufacturers have built smaller plants throughout the country to avoid some transportation costs, particularly after energy prices skyrocketed after Russia invaded Ukraine. Although energy prices have since gone down a lot, the cost of transporting food remains elevated because of truck driver shortages, he said. That’s put upward pressure on the wages of truck drivers, which in turn get passed down to consumers at grocery stores.

 

Trump and Musk arm dance to YMCA.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/29/politics/video/elon-musk-trump-thanksgiving-dinner-digvid

 

Musk, Zuckerberg, and other wealthy elites are lining up to visit Mar-a-Lago.

Musk has been practically living there.


Tech leaders reach out to Trump ahead of election day

 

Like Elon Musk did, Zuckerberg is using the assassination attempt on Trump as an excuse to go all-in for Trump.

They would have done it eventually anyway, but the attempt was a great excuse to use as a trigger point for them.


Haberman says Zuckerberg’s Mar-a-Lago visit a signal industry may be courting Trump

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“And as you said, Zuckerberg had expressed praise for Trump earlier this year for his defiant posture after he was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, by a would-be assassin,” she told host John Berman, adding later that “clearly Zuckerberg wants to have a better relationship with Trump.”

 

Drug cartels are planning to go after Trump.


Mexican Gangs Using Terrorist Communications Channel to Launch Assassination Plots Against Donald Trump

 

That one should be easy.

They need to dress up like Trump supporters. Trump will say they love him and will order the Secret Service to let them in.

And when they attack him, Trump will be doing fist pumps.

 

Trump selects Kash Patel to head the FBI.


https://www.npr.org/2024/11/30/g-s1-34479/trump-kash-patel-fbi-director

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"Patel came to national attention as a congressional aide investigating the feds who were probing Russian interference in the 2016 election, before he pivoted into roles in Trump's National Security Council and Pentagon. He's a regular on right-wing podcasts, where he has issued threats to prosecute political adversaries. Patel also pledged to shutter the FBI headquarters "on day one" and to disperse employees there across the country.

"We're absolutely dead serious," Patel told podcaster Steve Bannon after the November election.

Patel, 44, is a former Justice Department prosecutor turned fierce critic of that agency. He wrote a book promising to hollow out the DOJ and the FBI by cleaning house and sweeping out their senior ranks. Patel also said he wants to declassify reams of government secrets, and to wrest security clearances away from people who investigated Trump."

 

Trump selects Charles Kushner (whom he pardoned) to be ambassador to France.

Charles Kushner is the father of Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, who was a senior advisor to Trump during his first term.


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/us/politics/trump-charles-kushner-france-ambassador.html

 

Trump thrives off sowing chaos. It's his crack cocaine.


Trump cabinet criticized as hodgepodge team unified only by ‘absolute fealty’ to him

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“The same thing that happened last time will happen this time,” said Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group. “He cannot resist chaos. It is his drug. He will eventually start doing what he always does and turn on different people and start sandbagging his own choices for these various jobs.

“It’s that pattern he has. He comes out one day and says, ‘I love so and so,’ and then the next he’s talking to his friends saying, ‘Hey, you think Tillerson’s doing a good job or is he screwing me over?’ Those things are patterns we’ve seen in Trump’s personal life, his business life and his prior administration. An 80-year-old man is not going to be a changed person.”