The Donald Trump Score Card

Karen Pence Snubs Donald Trump At Jimmy Carter's Funeral

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"Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said during a House committee hearing on the insurrection that Trump welcomed chants from his supporters calling for Mike Pence to be hanged after Pence refused to stop the certification of the results of the 2020 presidential election. According to testimony from former Trump advisers, Trump said, “Maybe our supporters have the right idea. Mike Pence deserves it.” Trump has denied ever saying that."

 

Giuliani says he wants remote contempt hearing because he's concerned about Iran killing him if he travels.

Giulini has been held in contempt for not complying with turning over property to Atlanta election workers Freeman and Moss after losing a defamation suit that was spurred by the lies he made about them to defend Trump's lies about the 2020 election supposedly being stolen from him.


Judge gives Giuliani permission to attend contempt hearing remotely — with a big catch

 

Trump is working with Putin to better exploit these important assets.

 

Giuliani ruled to be in contempt again, the second time this week.


Rudy Giuliani held in contempt of court for the second time related to his defamation case

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday found former Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani in contempt of court in the defamation case against him involving former Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, the second such finding this week.

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington over additional defamatory comments made by Giuliani comes just days after U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman found him in contempt for failing to turn over financial information he'd been ordered to provide.

 

Greenland and Denmark grappling with how to handle Trump.


Denmark struggles to stay calm in crisis over Trump threat to take Greenland

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On the one hand, Frederiksen is keen to avoid escalating the situation. She's been burned before, in 2019, when Trump cancelled a trip to Denmark after she said his proposal to buy Greenland was "absurd".

"Back then he only had one more year in office, then things went back to normal," veteran political journalist Erik Holstein told the BBC . "But maybe this is the new normal."

But Frederiksen's comments also speak to the Danish resolve not to meddle in the internal affairs of Greenland – an autonomous territory with its own parliament and whose population is increasingly leaning towards independence.

"She should've been much clearer in rejecting the idea," said opposition MP Rasmus Jarlov.

"This level of disrespect from the coming US president towards very, very loyal allies and friends is record-setting," he told the BBC, although he admitted Trump's forcefulness had "surprised everybody."

 

Leader of Greenland says he's ready to talk to Trump.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/10/amer...enmark-press-conference-intl-latam/index.html

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Egede emphasized Greenland’s aspirations, saying: “We have a desire for independence, a desire to be the master of our own house … This is something everyone should respect.”

 

The leader of Greenland says he wants his country's independence respected and yet he's ready to go to someone like Trump and talk.

Trudeau of Canada ran to Mar-a-Lago about a week ago and resigned afterwards.

Trump's son visited Greenland this week and said to them "We'll treat you right" as Trump was bashing California as it was suffering from wildfires and 11 deaths while he also insulted Canada as it helped California with its wildfires.

It's a lesson to be learned by Canada, Greenland, Panama, Ukraine, and everyone else. Don't go running to talk to an autocrat and someone who doesn't even respect his own country.

 

I hope Denmark invades us, nukes DC, and then installs their own puppet regime.

Free education. Free healthcare. Work-life balance prioritized. Little crime. Second happiest country in the world, and one of--if not THE--most LGBTQ+ friendly country on the planet. I welcome our new overlords.

Velkommen!

 

Careful there babes.

Everyone on our team that’s going to fight against the creamsicle is in DC.

 

Trump apparently hasn't considered that making Canada a U.S. state could add two Democrats to the Senate.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/11/trump-freedom-caucus-mar-a-lago-00000260

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One Trump proposal got a chilly reception at the dinner: making Canada the 51st state.

“I said, ‘Mr. President, the Canadians, they are going to elect two Democrat senators; we don’t want that. Territory status isn’t too bad,’” Donalds told a group in Orlando.

 

As a Felon, Trump Upends How Americans View the Presidency

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"A big economic package, mass deportations, maybe even some invasions of other countries. Oh, and one more item. “I’ll do my little thing tomorrow,” a busy President-elect Donald J. Trump mentioned the other night.

That little thing was the first criminal sentencing of an American president. That little thing was confirmation that Mr. Trump, just 10 days later, would become the first president to move into the White House with a rap sheet. That little thing is the latest shift in standards that once governed high office.

Mr. Trump does not really consider it a little thing, of course, given how strenuously he sought to avoid Friday’s sentencing for 34 felony counts in his hush money case. But to a remarkable degree, he has succeeded in making it a little thing in the body politic. What was once a pretty-much-guaranteed disqualifier for the presidency is now just one more political event seen through a partisan lens."

 

On a lighter note, the focus of Matt Gaetz’ new show on OAN featured make up tips from George Santos.

Trump’s reelection might me a global catastrophe, but there will be a non stop stream of really funny shit to come.

 

People of Youngstown, Ohio still think Trump is going to save them and are giving him another chance.

Trump said during his first term he would fix Youngstown and he'd fix it fast. The lost jobs would be replaced "in, like, two minutes."


‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises

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The last time Donald Trump was president, he travelled to Youngstown, Ohio, among the most depressed of America’s rust belt cities, and promised voters the impossible.

The high-paying steel, railroad and car industry jobs that once made Youngstown a hard-living, hard-drinking blue collar boom town were coming back, he said. “Don’t move. Don’t sell your house,” he crowed to a rapturous crowd in 2017. “We’re going to fill up those factories – or rip ”em down and build brand new ones.”

None of that happened. Indeed, within 18 months, General Motors (GM) announced that it was suspending operations at its one remaining manufacturing plant outside Youngstown, throwing 5,000 jobs into jeopardy in a community with little else to cling to. Trump’s reaction was to say the closure didn’t matter, because the jobs would be replaced “in, like, two minutes”.

 

‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises

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"Trump might have lost to Biden overall that year, but he became the first Republican presidential candidate in almost half a century to win in Youngstown and surrounding Mahoning County. This past November, he extended his margin there to a decisive 13 points, giving so much cover to local Republican party candidates that they won a majority of county-wide offices for the first time in 90 years.

Anyone seeking to understand the earthquake that has shaken US politics – to the point where a convicted felon, serial liar and twice-impeached former president can return to the White House in triumph, as Trump will do on 20 January – might learn a lot from the disillusioned working-class voters of northeast Ohio."

 

‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises

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When Youngstown first sank into decline in the 1980s, voters turned to a populist congressman named Jim Traficant, a Democrat who had a Trump-like disregard for the ordinary rules of political decorum and was widely adored because he would stand up for his constituents in Washington and yell at his colleagues to stop ignoring them.

Traficant was also a crook, with long-standing ties to the Youngstown mob and a pattern of taking bribes and falsifying his taxes that eventually sent him to prison for seven years – but most of his working-class voters didn’t care. In their view, politics was corrupt and government authority fundamentally untrustworthy, but he at least was on their side. “We got the best politicians money can buy,” Joe the former railroad worker joked.

 

After Ohio was no longer considered a swing state, the presidential candidates didn't show up.


‘There are a lot of bitter people here, I’m one of them’: rust belt voters on why they backed Trump again despite his broken promises

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"She was unwilling to give the Biden administration much credit for spurring clean-energy businesses like her current employer, and she was too angry at GM to place much, if any, blame on Trump for allowing the old plant to close. What she saw, rather, was a general indifference from the political class, especially now that Ohio is no longer regarded as a swing state. “Nobody showed up in Youngstown this time, not Trump or Kamala,” she observed. “There are a lot of bitter people, and I’m one of them.”"

 

As a Felon, Trump Upends How Americans View the Presidency

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“What is extraordinary about Trump’s behavior and record is that the electorate does not care, as it once did, that a president pay public fealty to law and norms and other traditional expectations of the office,” said Jack Goldsmith, a Harvard Law School professor and former assistant attorney general under President George W. Bush. “Trump has revolutionized how the public thinks about the presidency even before his second term has begun.”

Indeed, he has not only moved the bar for the presidency, but is attempting to do the same for senior cabinet positions and other top officials in government. He picked Pete Hegseth, a Fox News personality, to be secretary of defense despite the allegation that he raped a woman at a Republican political conference and a report that he was pushed out as head of two veterans organizations after being accused of mismanagement, drunken behavior and sexual impropriety.

 

Trump's return to power has old critics and skeptics reconciling with a new 'normal'

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The shift is due in no small part to how Trump won last fall. Whereas in 2016 many saw a fluke, Trump this time swept the swing states and won the popular vote. His victory came after episodes like the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and his criminal indictments — headwinds many believed were insurmountable.

What’s more, much of his opposition, at least for now, appears to be drained after having fought him for nearly a decade. Now, Democrats feel they must pick their spots better.

“My mission: be purposeful,” Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., whose profile soared as a leading Trump adversary during the president-elect’s first term, wrote to NBC News. “Don’t chase the crazy. Bring it all back to ‘how does that (ahem, invading Greenland) lower the cost of eggs?’”

 

How the U.S. annexing Canada would change the political landscape.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/canada-new-state-electoral-college-001966

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"Canada would be solidly blue, and we’re not just talking about the temperature: An informal survey of our colleagues in the Great White North — subscribe to Ottawa Playbook! — found they were confident their countrymen would vote for Democrats, and a hypothetical preelection poll found Canadians overwhelmingly siding with Kamala Harris over Trump."

 

How the U.S. could in fact make Canada an American territory

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"Trump’s calls for Canada to join the U.S. could only happen by drafting a treaty demonstrating that a process of cession, purchase or occupation is legal. Only then could Congress approve it, and only with a two-thirds majority of the Senate. Trump does not have two-thirds of the Senate."