The Donald Trump Score Card

Conspiracy-truther Laura Loomer seems to have disappeared.

During the summer 2024, she was like Trump's wife.

Now Elon Musk is like Trump's wife.


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Apparently, Trump didn't gain traction with Canada with his tariff threats when he met with Trudeau.

He's frustrated and resorting to name-calling Canada again.

 

That might seem like a typo, but it isn't.

It's $56 billion, not $56 million.

 

Another illusory statement by Trump.

The U.S. isn't subsidizing Mexico or Canada.

It's a trade deficit. The U.S. is buying more from those countries than it is selling to them.


'Governor Justin Trudeau': Trump appears to mock PM in social media post

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"We're subsidizing Canada to the tune over $100 billion a year. We're subsidizing Mexico for almost $300 billion. We shouldn't be — why are we subsidizing these countries?" Trump said. "If we're going to subsidize them, let them become a state."

 

After accounting for Social Security, Medicare, the military, and the interest on the national debt, the remaining portion of the budget is about $2 trillion.

Musk is supposedly going to cut all of the remaining budget each year.

He doesn't have the direct power in the government to do it, which is relegated to Congress.

But Musk has financial influence. He is already threatening members of Congress to submit to him or he will 'primary' them out of existence by giving his extensive PAC money to other politicians who will obey him.

 

Wray's planned resignation before Trump takes office helps clear the way for Kash Patel to become FBI director.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/11/trump-administration-transition/

 

Trump has exhibited the same confusion in the past about trade deficits.

He mistakenly thinks reducing trade deficits will mean more money for the U.S. that can be used to reduce the national debt.

During a WSJ interview during his first term, when asked how he would reduce the national debt, Trump immediately pivoted to trade deficits and said erroneously that reducing them would reduce the national debt.

 

Trump doesn't understand a trade deficit. He's willing to restart protracted tariff wars to try to reduce trade deficits that he thinks will give the U.S. money from foreigners, a policy that will damage American businesses and won't reduce the national debt.

Yet many Americans feel comfortable with his irrational remarks, even if they will be needlessly financially damaged by it. Sen. Rounds of SD said last week that he and the farmers are willing to take the punishment of Trump's tariff wars again if Trump thinks they're needed.

Time Magazine is making Trump 'Person Of The Year' again in 2024.

According to an SSRS poll, 55% of Americans approve of Trump's transition activities in spite of many of his picks being unqualified for the position and morally bankrupt.

 

FBI chief Wray urges employees to keep ‘following the facts wherever they lead’ in resignation speech – live

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“The rhetoric of Bondi and Patel is incredibly harmful to public trust in our government institutions and the reputations of individual public servants,” said Barbara McQuade, a former top prosecutor in eastern Michigan who now teaches law at the University of Michigan. “There’s absolutely no public evidence of wrongdoing to ‘rig’ the 2020 election.

“Pledges to prosecute the prosecutors and investigate the investigators based on the complete absence of evidence is reckless because even if investigations do not materialize, unhinged members of the public will hear these bombastic accusations as a call to action.”

Similarly, the former justice department inspector general Michael Bromwich said: “Bondi and Patel are election deniers, in the face of the adjudication of more than 60 cases rejecting claims of election fraud in 2020. This is alarming.

“Members of the Senate judiciary committee have a duty to explore the basis of those often-repeated beliefs. If Bondi and Patel maintain that the election was stolen, they either are liars – and lying under oath is a crime – or they are so detached from reality that they shouldn’t be trusted to run a two-person convenience store, much less the DoJ and the FBI.”

 

we have no evidence that those elections were stolen, its been four years.

It takes big time fraud to swipe an election, Deminimus instance of fraud will not stal an election.

 

Trump nominates Kari Lake to be director for Voice Of America.

Lake is known for her irrationalism and election denialism. She fought her election loss in the 2022 AZ governor race for two years. She lost the race for a U.S. Senate seat in 2024.


Trump chooses Kari Lake as director for Voice of America

 

Zuckerberg's Meta gives $1 million to Trump inaugural.


Meta donates $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund

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The move comes two weeks after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg traveled to Florida and dined with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

At the time, Trump adviser Stephen Miller told Fox News that Zuckerberg had "made clear that he wants to support the national renewal of America under Trump's leadership."

 

Trump rings stock market bell.

Amazingly, JD Vance was there instead of Elon Musk.


Trump is named Time's Person of the Year and rings the New York Stock Exchange's opening bell

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"As Trump marked the ceremonial start of the day’s trading, the magazine cover featuring him was projected onto a wall at the NYSE. He was flanked by family and members of his incoming administration while his favored walk-on song, “God Bless the U.S.A.,” played. Afterward, he returned to his home in Florida.

The NYSE regularly invites celebrities and business leaders to participate in the bell-ringing, which has become a marker of culture and politics."

 

Trump is now saying publicly that bringing down food prices will be very hard after saying during the campaign that he would bring them down on day one of his administration.

Trump's go-to campaign blurb has been "We're going to do it and do it fast."


Trump says of possible war with Iran ‘anything can happen,’ vows to leverage U.S. support for Ukraine for peace

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While campaigning, Trump repeatedly promised to bring down the prices of goods and services, including groceries. But he told Time, “It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.”

In a speech to voters in August laying out his vision for a return to the White House, Trump said, “Prices will come down. You just watch. They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”

 

Hegseth says gays in the military is Marxist.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/politics/pete-hegseth-gay-trans-troops-marxist-agenda/index.html

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"Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has repeatedly criticized policies allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military, calling them part of a “Marxist” agenda to prioritize social justice over combat readiness.

In his 2024 book “The War on Warriors” and in subsequent media promotions this year, Hegseth described both the original “don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) policy and its repeal in 2011 as a “gateway” and a “camouflage” for broader cultural changes that he claims have undermined military cohesion and effectiveness.'

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/politics/pete-hegseth-gay-trans-troops-marxist-agenda/index.html

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"Hegseth in his book does not reference any specific examples of incidents to support his argument that gay individuals openly serving has been detrimental to the military."

 

The bigoted rhetoric of Hegseth is what is undermining military cohesion.