The Donald Trump Score Card

Perhaps the name 'Bachir Atallah' touched off Trump's people.

 

Another smart-alec remark by the president of El Salvador.


Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return

 

It's already been 24 weeks since Trump won the election.

He said he would end the Ukraine war in 24 hours as president-elect after winning the election.

 

Trump doesn't even understand U.S. national debt. He talks about not paying back national debt like he did to banks that loaned him money that he didn't pay back.

During his first term he suggested that the U.S. not pay back some of that debt. That means not giving money back to the people who loaned the government the money. Who would want to loan the U.S. money if the money isn't going to be paid back.

Such dumb remarks by Trump further reduce people's confidence in the U.S. along with all of his trade war antics.

 

GOP Rep. Bacon calls for ouster of Hegseth after a series of blunders.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/21/don-bacon-recommends-firing-hegseth-00301057

 

Hegseth should return to being a celebrity on Fox and doing MTV Jackass stunts, like the one where he threw an axe, missed the bullseye target completely, and struck and injured a military drummer.

 

Stock market and dollar drop again amidst Trump's trade wars.


Live updates: Wall Street and the dollar sink again amid Trump’s trade war

 

Some of the billionaires who were at Trump's oath of office and inauguration festivities are back again to meet with him for relief from his tariff wars.


Trump hosts Walmart, Target and Home Depot CEOs for tariff meeting

 

Billionaires at Trump’s Swearing-In Have Since Lost $209 Billion
Elon Musk alone has dropped $148 billion since inauguration
Bezos, Zuckerberg, Arnault have also seen their fortunes fall
By Dylan Sloan
March 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM EDT
Updated on March 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ump-s-swearing-in-have-since-lost-200-billion

 

That was a significant amount of money billionaires donated to Trump so that he could damage them with his tariffs.

 

Trump statement about deporting people:


“We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years. We would need hundreds of thousands of trials for the hundreds of thousands of Illegals we are sending out of the Country. Such a thing is not possible to do. What a ridiculous situation we are in.”

 

US stocks and dollar slide after Trump attacks Fed chair Powell

excerpt:

"The S&P 500, which tracks 500 of the biggest US companies, fell roughly 2.4% on Monday. It has lost roughly 12% of its value since the start of the year.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 2.5% and has dropped about 10% so far this year, while the Nasdaq fell more than 2.5% and is down roughly 18% since January."

 

White House reportedly looking to replace Hegseth.


https://www.npr.org/2025/04/21/nx-s1-5371312/trump-white-house-pete-hegseth-defense-department

 

Trump admin live updates: ICE must reinstate legal status of 133 international students on Tuesday

excerpt:

"President Donald Trump's administration has until 5 p.m. on Tuesday to reinstate the legal statuses of 133 international students, according to an order granting temporary restraining orders on behalf of those plaintiffs filed in a U.S. District Court in Georgia on April 18.

The federal judge overseeing the case, Victoria M. Calvert, issued a TRO requested on behalf of students, all of whom claimed their student statuses had been unlawfully revoked."

 

Alien and Sedition Acts - Wikipedia

excerpt:

"The surviving Alien Enemies Act has been invoked four times since 1800, the majority being in the course of major declared wars: the War of 1812, World War I and World War II. The law is best known for its partial role during the Second World War in the disproportionate Internment of Japanese Americans.

For the final and most recent time, following his second-term inauguration as President in January 2025, Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to expedite the removal of non-citizens engaged in what he claimed was an organised criminal-gang "invasion" of the United States, deporting illegal migrants to El Salvador around March, 2025. His authorization of the deportation of Venezuelan suspected gang members, under the presumed terms of the Act, is being litigated in the courts. In the first three months of the second Trump Administration, most other deportations from America have been carried out under other legal bases.[3] "

 

They had a chance to speak out against him during the 2024 campaign and support someone rational.

But they didn't. They stayed quiet during the campaign. Major newspapers didn't endorse a president. When Trump won, they flocked to Mar-a-Lago to praise him.

Even Musk stayed quiet until the assassination attempt on Trump in July 2024. Then he used it as an excuse to go full tilt for Turmp, even jumping up and down on the stage.

 

Infighting at Trump White House.


As controversies pile up, Trump allies increasingly turn on one another

 

Trump isn't heading toward authoritarianism. He's already there.


https://www.npr.org/2025/04/22/nx-s...arianism-competive-survey-political-scientist

 

Economic outlook deteriorates in Trump trade war.


https://www.usnews.com/news/busines...orsens-in-the-face-of-trumps-tariffs-imf-says

 

Prices of used Tesla vehicles drop.


Prices for used Teslas are cratering as Elon Musk's woes deepen