The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump should like such a situation.

The U.S. would be buying less from Canada which would reduce the trade deficit the U.S. has with Canada (which Trump confusingly claims is a U.S. subsidy to Canada that needs to be stopped).

All else being the same, it would cause an increase in energy prices for the U.S. and probably increase the inflation rate.

 

Former Rep. Shimkus is the politician who said climate change isn't an issue because God wouldn't cause another flood after the Great Flood.


https://www.politico.com/story/2010/11/shimkus-cites-genesis-on-climate-044958

 

If she's confirmed, Lake will have an international megaphone to propagate her stolen election mantra and other truther narratives.

The GOP in the Senate is expected to confirm most of Trump's picks.

Even Hegseth for the Pentagon is being given a second look by the Senate which is currently thinking that maybe he's not as bad as they had initially thought, even with the drinking and abuse scandals on top of his lack of qualifications for the job.

Plus Elon Musk is coercing GOP members to fall in line or his money will go to other candidates who are totally loyal to Trump.

 

The Trump supporter in the image below said that the 60+ 'stolen election' court cases that Trump lost can be reopened and Trump can win them.


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The GOP in the Senate will have 53 seats in January 2025.

They had between 51 and 52 in the first year of Trump's first term in 2017.

 

Xi reported won't attend Trump's inauguration after being invited.


Xi Jinping rejects Donald Trump's inauguration invitation: report

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"Chinese President Xi Jinping is not expected to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration next month, despite receiving a personal invitation from Trump shortly after Election Day, two sources familiar with the planning told CBS News.


This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available."

 

This is a deteriorating story.

 

Time made a best effort to try to make Trump look stately on its cover.

It could have used a pic much more representative of Trump.


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Trump calls for end to daylight savings time.


Trump calls for end of daylight saving time

 

Someone needs to do a skit of Musk the ventriloquist with dummy Trump on his knee.

 

Sure, he cheats on his taxes, sure he's a convicted sexual harasser , sure he can't say ANYTHING without lying, sure he loves the dictators of the world, sure he tried to overthrow an election --BUT--------but we're gonna get us some cheap weenies when he's elected! That's all, that matters.

 

ABC and Trump settle Trump's $10 billion defamation suit by agreeing ABC will pay $15 million to Trump's presidential library.


George Stephanopoulos and ABC apologize to Trump, are forced to pay $15 million to settle defamation suit

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/politics/justice-inspector-general-january-6-fbi-report/index.html

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"A Justice Department watchdog found that there were no undercover FBI employees at the US Capitol during the January 6, 2021, riot, rejecting speculation from allies of President-elect Donald Trump who have for years suggested that the violence that day was provoked by federal agents."

 

Maddow Blog | When it comes to grocery prices, Trump suddenly changes his tune

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After briefly commenting on border concerns, Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker, “I won on groceries. Very simple word, groceries. Like almost — you know, who uses the word? I started using the word — the groceries ... I won an election based on that.”

 

When asked by a person in the audience how he was going to lower grocery prices, Trump gave a rambling response that seemingly blamed Hannibal Lecter and immigrants.


Trump Explains Why He Keeps Praising ‘The Late, Great’ Hannibal Lecter: ‘He’s a Sick Puppy’

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At a Pennsylvania town hall on Monday night, Trump responded to a question about inflation and “grocery prices” with a digression about Lecter and immigrants.


" When millions of people pour into our country, they’re having a devastating effect on black families and Hispanic families more than any others. I think it’s going to spread to a lot of other places. I think it’s going to spread to unions. I think unions are going to have a big problem because, you know, employers are just not going to pay the price. And it’s a very bad thing that’s happening. So they’re coming in. Many are coming in from jails and prisons and mental institutions and sane asylums. That’s like, you know, a step above, right, insane asylums. And whenever I go, Hannibal Lecter, you know what I’m talking about?

They always go to the fake news. It’s a way of demeaning, they say ‘Hannibal Lecter, why would he mention him?’ Well you know why – because he was a sick puppy, and we have sick puppies coming into our country. I figure that’s better than wasting a lot of words, you just say, ‘Hannibal Lecter, we don’t want him.’

But they always sort of say, why would he say that? I do it for a lot of reasons. But I do it because we are allowing some very bad people into our country. And they’re coming as terrorists."

 

That was at Trump's event that was supposed to be a town hall in PA in October 2024.

After answering only about four questions, he turned the event into a music festival where he swayed on stage for 39 minutes.

Trump said 'who wants questions anyway'.


Maddow Blog | When it comes to grocery prices, Trump suddenly changes his tune

 

Trump says he uses Hannibal Lecter as a symbol of immigrants he doesn't like and because it's quicker to use his name than to ramble about immigrants.

Yet he refers to Hannibal Lecter as 'The Late Great Hannibal Lecter', like he admires him. He even praises himself for remembering Lecter from the 1980's. Trump said proudly of himself, 'who else would remember such a thing'.

He also wastes more time rambling about Hannibal Lecter than he would if he had just insulted immigrants he doesn't like.

Trump's remarks don't make sense.

 

Trump seems intrigued that fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter would escape prosecution of his crimes, even murdering and eating an investigator who was pursuing him.

That seems like a more reasonable explanation for why Trump is fascinated by him, not the one where he finally said that Lecter is a sick puppy like migrants.

 

It's also more consistent with Trump seemingly bragging about Al Capone. Trump has said at various times that he has more criminal charges than Capone. He could have went further like he did with Hannibal Lecter and called him the Late Great Al Capone.

Trump has also bragged about Xi of China by stating how he rules over a billion people with an iron fist.

Trump has mistaken Xi of China with Kim Jong Un of North Korea when bragging about one or the other (it's not clear which dictator Trump is bragging about due to his mental and verbal slips).

Trump also confused autocrat Orban of Hungary with the leader of Turkey.


Who’s the Senile One? Trump Mixes Up Countries Again

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In classic Trump style, the former president followed up a defensive litany by seemingly confusing North Korea and China. “Kim Jong Un leads 1.4 billion people, and there is no doubt about who the boss is. And they want me to say he’s not an intelligent man.”

 

Compromising democracy for the hope of lowering grocery prices (that Trump post-election now says wlll be very difficult).

Trump also admitted that his pledged tariff wars could increase prices.


https://truthout.org/articles/trump-now-says-he-cant-promise-hell-be-able-to-lower-grocery-prices/

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“Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast,” Trump said at a rally in August.

“We will end inflation and make America affordable again, and we’re going to get the prices down. … Groceries, cars, everything. We’re going to get the prices down,” he said in September.

Earlier this month, Trump also backtracked on his promise that the huge tariffs he plans to impose on products being imported from several different countries wouldn’t raise prices for consumers.