The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump's 'It's all coming back' mantra again.


Trump's tariffs risk a global trade war, as leaders plan next steps

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"The pharmaceutical companies are going to come roaring back, they are coming roaring back, they are all coming back to our country because if they don't they got a big tax to pay. And if they do, I'll be very happy," Trump said during his "Liberation Day" tariff announcement.

 

Trump's claimed EU 39% tariff rate is disputed by EU.


Trump's tariffs risk a global trade war, as leaders plan next steps

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"That 39% figure claimed by the U.S. is widely disputed with the World Trade Organization saying the EU's average tariff rate was 4.9% in 2024.

The European Commission said in February that, due to technical reasons, there is not one "absolute" figure for the average tariffs on EU-U.S. trade, as this calculation can be done in a variety of ways that produce quite varied results.

"Nevertheless, considering the actual trade in goods between the EU and U.S., in practice the average tariff rate on both sides is approximately 1%. In 2023, the U.S. collected approximately 7 billion euros [$6.35 billion] of tariffs on EU exports, and the EU collected approximately 3 billion euros on U.S. exports," the Commission said."

 

Trump ends de minimus and place 30% tax on imports valued at less than $800.

Trump said he's doing it 'to combat China's role in America's synthetic opioid crisis.'


Trump shuts major online shopping loophole in blow to bargain hunters as his sweeping tariffs take effect | Daily Mail Online

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"Under the new rules, imports valued at $800 or less will now face either a 30 percent duty or a $25 per-item fee, with that rate set to double to $50 per item after June 1.

The impact will be huge. US Customs and Border Protection processes over one billion de minimis shipments per year, with Shein and Temu alone accounting for nearly 600,000 packages daily.

More than 90 percent of all packages coming into the US now enter via de minimis —making this one of the biggest shakeups to online shopping in years."

 

83,000 VA Employees Slated to Be Fired This Year by Musk's DOGE, Memo Says

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"The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to fire more than 80,000 employees under a sweeping reorganization effort being planned to comply with President Donald Trump's orders to slash the federal government, according to an internal VA memo obtained by Military.com.

In the memo, VA Chief of Staff Christopher Syrek said the department's "initial objective" is to return to 2019 staffing levels of 399,957 employees -- or about 83,000 fewer employees than the VA has right now."

 

Trump and Unchecked Billionaire Musk Have Fired Nearly 6,000 Veterans

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“Trump and Musk have launched an unwarranted and unjustified attack on the veterans and military spouses who sacrificed so much for all of us. By upending their lives and careers, these groundless firings are a disgraceful assault on heroes who admirably served our country. It is deeply offensive that this Administration would attempt to balance our budget on the backs of our veterans,” said Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Ranking Member Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

 

Trump's tariffs risk a global trade war, as leaders plan next steps

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"The plan imposes steep tariff rates on many countries, including 34% on China, 20% on the European Union, 46% on Vietnam and 32% on Taiwan.

The White House clarified to CNBC's Eamon Javers that the tariff rate on Beijing comes in addition to existing 20% tariffs on Chinese imports, meaning the true tariff rate on China is 54%."

 

Trump files to allow himself to sell up to $2.3 billion worth of his shares.


https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/trump-truth-social-stock

 

Trump is engineering a recession.

In his perception, though, he's embarking on a bold path that will bring jobs back to the U.S. and create enormous wealth like he said there was during the 1890's that he attributes to tariffs.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/business/trump-william-mckinley-tariffs/index.html

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In 1890, six years before McKinley’s election as president, Congress passed his legislation that raised the tariffs on most imported manufactured goods to about 50%.

But Trump misses several points in the historical record about McKinley – including his contention that tariffs created wealth and made America rich in the late 19th century – said Douglas Irwin, a professor of economics at Dartmouth and a leading expert on McKinley and his tax policy.

“This whole late 19th century was a period of expansion,” he said. “Tariffs themselves probably didn’t make a huge amount of difference one way or another.”

 

JD Vance Tells Paycheck-to-Paycheck Americans to Suck Up Tariffs Pain
The vice president also claimed families will soon have more money to “deal with the cost of inflation.”
Dan Ladden-Hall
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Published Apr. 3 2025 10:34AM EDT

Vance Tells Paycheck-to-Paycheck Americans to Suck Up Tariffs Pain

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Vance, who is now worth an estimated $10 million thanks in part to his memoir about his Rust Belt upbringing, answered by indicating that he could relate to those who are fearful.

“I grew up in a family that often did live paycheck to paycheck, and we know a lot of Americans are worried,” Vance said. “So we are fighting very hard to bring prices down. We’re going to have the biggest deregulation in the history of this country.”

“What I’d ask folks to appreciate here is that we are not going to fix things overnight,” Vance added. “Joe Biden left us—this is not an exaggeration, Lawrence—with the largest peacetime debt and deficit in the history of the United States of America, with sky-high interest rates. You don’t fix that stuff overnight."

 

Vance Tells Paycheck-to-Paycheck Americans to Suck Up Tariffs Pain

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Vance did not explain how he thinks igniting a global trade war would “fix” those issues, saying only that the Trump administration believes “that if we pursue the right deregulation, we pursue those energy cost reducing policies, yes, people are going to see it in their pocketbook.”

“They’re also gonna benefit from the fact that foreign countries can’t take advantage of us anymore,” Vance added. “That means their jobs are going to be more secure.”

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/12/business/trump-william-mckinley-tariffs/index.html

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But Trump would probably be least happy with the part of McKinley’s record where he turned against tariffs and proposed much more of a free trade policy — just one day before an assassin shot him, mortally wounding him.

“He saw we had a whole lot of excess capacity in manufacturing, and (thought) ‘Why don’t we use that capacity to send our products to the rest of the world?’ So he shifted from protectionism to thinking about reciprocity and opening up foreign markets,” noted Irwin. “He gave a famous speech laying this out in September 1901. But he was shot the next day and died several days after that. So we’ll never really know what would have happened had he lived and tried to push that through.”

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/tr...doge-musk-immigration-live-updates-rcna199420

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"The Senate confirmed Dr. Mehmet Oz to be the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees programs that provide health care coverage for about half of the U.S. population."

 

Dr. Oz and his former TV show that was supposed to be about medicine but devolved into inviting guests to talk about crackpot miracle cures and True Crime Thursday where he would talk about heinous murders, usually about people shot in the head, and try to pass it off as medical news.

 

Dow drop 1,600 points as recession fears increase due to Trump's tariff war.


Dow drops 1,600 as US stocks lead worldwide sell-off after Trump’s tariffs cause a COVID-like shock

 

Instead of becoming concerned about the economic damage and calling out Trump on his destructive behavior, some of Trump's supporters will say, 'Oh, boy. Why are people complaining about this?' .

 

Kid Rock says Bill Maher raised concerns with Trump about third term at White House meeting

 

Trump furious that China is retaliating against his tariffs.


Trump Rages as China Strikes Back With Major Trade War Retaliation

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"The chaos in global markets continued Friday as Trump’s trade war spiraled, with the S&P 500 plunging 2.5 percent in early trading. The slide comes after the benchmark U.S. index on Thursday saw its worst single-day loss since the COVID pandemic in 2020."

 

Not surprising.

Trump is similar to a dangerous virus and spreading his disease.

 

Dow plunges 2,000 points.


Dow plunges 2,000 as sell-off for markets slams into a scarier gear following Trump's tariffs

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"NEW YORK (AP) — The sell-off for financial markets worldwide is slamming into an even higher, scarier gear on Friday.

The S&P 500 tumbled 5.7%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 2,054 points as Wall Street’s worst crisis since the COVID crash deepens."

 

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He negotiated with a terrorist organization and entered into a "Peace Dea"l and withdrawal of U. S. Forces.without the presence or cooperation of the legitimate Afghanistan Government, He then surrendered to the Talliban and contributed to the collapse of the Legitimate Government. Then he had the the gaul to Blame Joe Biden for the total disaster that followed.