The Donald Trump Score Card

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/economy/semiconductor-chips-tariffs-trump/index.html

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"Furthermore, it’s not like new factories can get built overnight. “Any new chip factory takes at least two to three years to build,” said Rakesh Kumar, who also teaches electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. So using the threat of tariffs to help onshore chip production will have negligible affects in the near term regardless, he added.

And still, it will cost more to make chips in the US compared to Asian countries, Kumar said.

Bottom line: A 25% tariff on chips will almost certainly increase the price of chips one way or another, and that will raise the price of electronics for Americans."

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/24/stock-market-turbulence-trump-00205109

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“For good or bad, depending on your politics, we’re back to the chaos presidency,” said Jim Chanos, a hedge fund manager who famously bet against Enron and other failing companies. “Whatever you might think about the Biden administration, if you were a market participant, you generally didn’t need to check your Twitter feed the first thing in the morning when you woke up just to see what was said. But we’re back to that, and with that, comes probably more volatility.”

 

Trump names far-right Fox affiliate and podcaster Dan Bongino as FBI deputy director.

Bongino has never served in the FBI.


Dan Bongino: Trump names podcaster as deputy FBI director

 

‘Unqualified henchmen’: fears rise as Trump names far-right podcaster as FBI deputy director

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"His appointment as deputy to the newly confirmed director, Kash Patel, marks the first time in the bureau’s 117-year history that the second-in-command post has not been held by one of its senior agents.

It further increased fears – already high following Patel’s confirmation as director – that the administration would attempt to use the bureau to pursue its political enemies.

“Donald Trump just named far-right MAGA podcaster Dan Bongino, a notorious conspiracy theorist who promoted the lie that the 2020 election was ‘stolen,’ to serve as Deputy Director of the FBI. God help us all,” posted the X account Republicans Against Trump."

 

Dan Bongino - Wikipedia

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In 2018, Bongino said, "My entire life right now is about owning the libs. That's it."[45][4][46] He is a supporter of president Donald Trump.[21][47]

 

Getting fired for receiving a promotion.

Leave it to Musk and Trump to come up with such a protocol.

 

Trump lowers himself to the pettiness of Musk.

Trump posted a message that mocked federal workers.


Trump posts SpongeBob meme mocking federal workers after email requesting accomplishments

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The meme the president posted on his Truth Social platform features the Nickelodeon show’s title character looking at a notepad with a heading that reads “Got Done Last Week.”

Items on the list include “Cried about Trump,” “Cried about Elon,” “Made it into the office for once,” “Read some emails” and “Cried about Trump and Elon some more.”

 

The plight of one of the federal workers Musk and Trump fired.

He's an army veteran and was working for the SBA.

Trump is mocking such people and has said that they are corrupt.


https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5305717/trump-layoffs-federal-workers-chaos

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"It's been more than two weeks since Mike Macans learned — for the first time — that the Small Business Administration was firing him from his job as a disaster recovery coordinator based in Anchorage, Alaska.

Still, the government hasn't sent him the documents he needs to claim unemployment. He's gotten no official word on when his family's health insurance will be cut off.

"They locked me out of all my systems," says Macans. "The only place I've gotten any help is online — on frickin' Reddit."

The Trump administration has fired tens of thousands of federal workers over the past two weeks as part of a seemingly indiscriminate purge of probationary employees, typically those in their first or second year on the job.

The mass firings have been marked by so much chaos and sloppiness that some agencies have recalled employees that they terminated days or even hours earlier."

 

Kelly Loeffler has been confirmed as head of Small Business Administration.

She intended to challenge Biden's certification on Jan. 6 but changed her mind after Trump's riot at the Capitol.


Trump's new SBA chief unleashes 'Day One' priorities to transform agency into 'golden era of prosperity'

 

Loeffler lost the runoff election in January 2021 and her U.S. Senate seat. It gave Democrats control of the Senate.

Trump assisted in the GOP losing the Senate in 2021 by casting doubt on the integrity of elections and making voters feel that it was fruitless to vote in the Senate race.

 

Most USAID staff laid off or placed on leave by Trump administration

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Former USAID chief Gayle Smith previously told the BBC: "When you pull all of that out, you send some very dangerous messages.

"The US is signalling that we don't frankly care whether people live or die and that we're not a reliable partner."

 

Most USAID staff laid off or placed on leave by Trump administration

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On Saturday, from the stage at a conservative convention near Washington DC, Trump said: "We've also effectively ended the left-wing scam known as USAID.

"The agency's name has been removed from its former building, and that space will now house agents from Customs and Border Patrol."

 

Trump has also said he wants to tranfer IRS workers to the Mexican border.

Everything keeps coming back to his pathological obsession with migrants.

 

The statement by the judge is factual. But what is the remedy for problem?

 

U.S. Supreme Court rules against RFK Jr. whose name was removed from the ballot in NY during the 2024 election season.


https://www.aol.com/us-supreme-court-rejects-rfk-150228335.html

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"His fight to stay on the ballot in Democratic-leaning New York emerged after a state judge ruled in favor of a challenge by individual voters who claimed Kennedy deceptively provided a false New York residence on his petition to get on the ballot - in violation of state law - when he actually lives in California .

The judge agreed, calling it a "sham" address that he used "for the purpose of maintaining his voter registration and furthering his own political aspirations in this state." A state appeals court upheld the decision."

 

https://www.aol.com/us-supreme-court-rejects-rfk-150228335.html

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"It was the second time the justices rebuffed a bid by Kennedy, who now serves as the top health official in President Donald Trump's administration, to reverse the decision by state courts to disqualify him for claiming an invalid address as his residence in paperwork."

 

'He Will Be Thrown’: Conservatives Turn on Trump In Fury After He Declares Himself Above the Law in Napoleon-Inspired Rant

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Conservative writer Charles C.W. Cooke called the posts “Batsh-t nonsense. The presidency is created by the Constitution; not the other way around.”

Even former VP Mike Pence weighed in, resharing an essay that appeared in his 2010 book, The Presidency and the Constitution“: “A president who slights the Constitution is like a rider who hates his horse: he will be thrown, and the nation along with him. The president solemnly swears to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. He does not solemnly swear to ignore, overlook, supplement, or reinterpret it.”

 

Putin's war on Ukraine reached the three-year mark today, February 24, 2025.

 

Superficial, glittering generality response by the Trump administration to the turmoil it has caused American farmers:


"The Biden administration crushed American agriculture with regulatory uncertainty, crippling inflation, trade imbalances, and radical environmental policies. Thankfully, President Trump is already delivering relief by unleashing American energy and cutting 10 regulations for every new regulation. He will continue to make all agencies more efficient to better serve the American people, including our hardworking farmers."

 

By unleashing and squandering billions of gallons of water from dams in California that were needed by farmers for the upcoming summer so that he could think he 'won' his so-called 'water wars' to try to stop a wildfire that had already ended and wouldn't have been mitigated by the squandering of dam water anyway.