The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump wants to bring back 'masculine' jobs. Men don't want them.

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"There's a level of nostalgia to the conversation around an American industrial revival. Its proponents talk about it in an idyllic fashion — they tend to harken back to the 1950s when men were the breadwinners, their wives didn't have to work, and the US economy was emerging from the Great Depression and two World Wars. They paper over some of the realities of the time, such as the danger, monotony, and physical toll of many of those jobs. They also ignore that America is in a very different place than it was then."

 

Trump wants to bring back 'masculine' jobs. Men don't want them.

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"I think people have in their head that manufacturing is working for UAW, getting paid pretty well, a unionized job with a nice pension," Grabow said. "And that's just not the world we live in anymore."

 

Make America Macho Again (MAMA)


Trump wants to bring back 'masculine' jobs. Men don't want them.

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There is also a distinctly "manly" edge to Trump's pronouncements. When the president talks about bringing back jobs, he means specific kinds of jobs — ones in manufacturing, mining, construction — positions that have historically been held by men and coded as masculine. His supporters understand that, too. Over on Fox News, hosts have described Trump's tariffs as the "ultimate testosterone boost," with one declaring that working from behind a screen "makes you a woman."

 

Anal statement by AG Pam Bondi about Garcia.


Pam Bondi Insists Wrongly Deported Dad’s Wife and Child Are Better Off With Him Gone

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“America is safer because he is gone. Maryland is safer because he is gone. And that woman that he is married to and that child he had with her? They are safer tonight because he is out of our country and sitting in El Salvador where he belongs,” President Donald Trump’s attorney general said Wednesday of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

 

Trump's compelling evidence that Garcia was a gang member.


New documents in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case and Trump's Golden Dome ambitions: Morning Rundown

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Officers with the Prince George’s County Police Department said in a document titled “gang field interview sheet” that Abrego Garcia was wearing “a Chicago Bulls hat and hoodie with rolls of money covering the eyes, ears and mouth of the presidents” on the bills. The officers said such insignia was “indicative of Hispanic gang culture.”

 

With a 'friend' like Trump, countries once deemed unsavory start to look like friends.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/world/asia/china-trump-tariffs-trade.html

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“Chinese officials have quietly conveyed that the way the U.S. treats its longstanding allies and partners in Europe is a sign of what’s to come for Southeast Asia,” said Lynn Kuok, the Lee Kuan Yew Chair at the Brookings Institution in Washington. “With Trump’s steep, sweeping tariffs across the region, that message needs no reinforcement.”

 

DHS threatens to revoke Harvard’s eligibility to host international students unless it turns over disciplinary records
Taylor Romine, Nouran Salahieh and Hanna Park, CNN
Thu, April 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM UTC

DHS threatens to revoke Harvard’s eligibility to host foreign students amid broader battle over universities’ autonomy

 

In about half of U.S. states, schools say international students are losing visas. What’s behind it.

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"Students from California to Ohio to North Carolina are losing their visas with no explanation, being taken off the street by plainclothes officers and finding themselves subject to accusations reserved for terrorists.

As of Wednesday, authorities had revoked the visas of international students in at least 32 states, according to NBC News analysis. Officials are largely citing a seldom-used 1952 foreign policy statute to take aim at their activism. Others’ visas have been terminated seemingly for past charges like DUIs."

 

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says he hasn't heard from Trump since the arson attack

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"Yet three days after an arson attack on Shapiro’s residence in Harrisburg on Sunday, Trump still has not called Shapiro or weighed in significantly to condemn the violence.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

Shapiro told reporters Wednesday afternoon that he has not yet heard from Trump since the attack. Law enforcement has charged Cody A. Balmer, 38, with the crime, alleging that he broke into the governor’s home and started multiple fires with Molotov cocktails while Shapiro and his family were inside."

 

Price of gold is up 30% since start of year due mainly to uncertainty Trump has caused in the world markets because of his trade wars.


Trump tariffs: Gold hits new record over US-China trade war fears

 

Trump to end IRS Direct File.


Trump administration plans to end the IRS Direct File program for free tax filing, AP sources say

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"WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS' Direct File program, an electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free, according to two people familiar with the decision."

 

Mike Lindell says he's in ruins during hearing in Smartmatic suit.


'I'm in ruins,' teary Mike Lindell tells judge in Smartmatic sanctions hearing

 

Detention of Mahmoud Khalil


Detention of Mahmoud Khalil - Wikipedia

 

He was deported in error. Why won’t the government provide any information about him?

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"The government’s actions are part of a larger picture of attacks on the rule of law, Schmidt said.

“They’re targeting law firms that represent people against the government,” he said. “They’re defunding legal services. They’re putting people in obscure locations. They’re compromising the immigration courts.”

There’s no telling how far protections for civil liberties could unravel from here, García Hernández said."

 

He was deported in error. Why won’t the government provide any information about him?

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"Essentially, the administration is saying it can’t deliver information on Abrego Garcia on time because he is in the custody of a foreign government, and that facilitating his return may require sensitive foreign policy considerations. The US is paying the Salvadoran government to imprison hundreds of deportees, 90 percent of whom have no criminal record.

But immigration law experts said that foreign policy cannot justify the Trump administration’s failure to return Abrego Garcia.

“The idea that somehow this is something other than just picking up the phone and saying, ‘Get this guy back here,’ is absolute poppycock,” said Paul Wickham Schmidt, a retired immigration judge and professor at Georgetown University Law Center. “The idea that this is some sort of sensitive foreign relations is BS.”

This is the second time that the Trump administration has effectively ignored a court order. The first time, it refused to turn around deportation flights headed to El Salvador midair, arguing that US federal courts had no authority outside the US."

 

Wisconsin teen allegedly killed parents in extremist plot to assassinate Trump, FBI says

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"A Wisconsin teen allegedly killed his parents to "obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary" to kill President Donald Trump and overthrow the U.S. government, federal authorities said in court documents.

Nikita Casap, 17, was arrested in March and charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of hiding a corpse, according to Waukesha County authorities. Other charges include theft of property over $10,000 and misappropriating ID to obtain money."

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/

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"Experts in government, consumer rights and immigration law said the administration’s action is illegal. Labeling people dead strips them of the privacy protections granted to living individuals — and knowingly classifying living people as dead counts as falsifying government records, they said. This is in addition to the harm inflicted on those suddenly declared dead, who become unable to legally earn a living wage or draw benefits they may be eligible for. Social Security itself has acknowledged that an incorrect death declaration is a “devastating” blow."

 

American brace for summer layoffs.


Americans brace for summer of layoffs

 

Stephen Miller wins this week's Stalin prize.


Stephen Miller Wins This Week’s Stalin Prize for Totalitarian Flattery
There was stiff competition this week to praise Dear Leader Trump for his market-destroying tariffs, but the White House adviser takes the cake.
Michael Tomasky
April 11, 2025/10:31 a.m. ET

Stephen Miller Wins This Week’s Stalin Prize for Totalitarian Flattery | The New Republic

 

Additional 'compelling' evidence by Trump.


Pam Bondi Insists Wrongly Deported Dad’s Wife and Child Are Better Off With Him Gone

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"During his removal hearings, the detective wasn’t available to testify because he’d been suspended for leaking confidential information to a sex worker whom he was paying for sex. The gang unit said it didn’t have any other evidence besides that one instance of double hearsay. And police didn’t have any incident reports that included Abrego Garcia’s name.

He was released and given a form of legal protection called a “withholding of removal order” saying he couldn’t be deported to El Salvador—which he had fled at age 16 because of gang persecution—because he was more likely than no to be harmed if he returned."