The Donald Trump Score Card

The stock market was doing well as Biden finished his term. Inflation, unemployment, and interest rates were declining consistently.


Stocks slide after report shows economy shrank ahead of Trump's tariffs

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"The GDP figures cover just the first three months of the year, and other data in the report shows business investment remained firm. Economists were expecting the GDP to have grown 0.4% for the first three months of 2025, compared with an increase of 2.4% in the fourth quarter of 2024."

 

Stocks slide after report shows economy shrank ahead of Trump's tariffs

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"Markets tanked in response. The broad S&P 500 declined as much as 1.6%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost nearly 600 points, or about 1.6%. Government bond yields climbed, suggesting weaker demand for U.S. debt."

 

Even if the tattoos had been real (and they weren't), it doesn't make a person a criminal and doesn't justify deportation.

Trump's administration admitted that it deported Garcia due to a clerical error.

Trump's belief in a photoshopped image shows how easy it is to dupe him.

 

Trump, who promised Day 1 relief and lower prices, talks of a 'transition period'

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When Moran noted that Trump had told Americans to “hang tough” as the stock markets and the business community account for his tariffs on foreign countries, Trump suggested that any resulting hardships should come as no surprise to those who voted for him.

“I said all these things during my campaign,” Trump said in the recorded interview, which was timed to coincide with the 100th day of his second term in office and broadcast in prime time. “I said, ‘You’re going to have a transition period.’”

 

After the 2024 election, he said it would be very difficult to lower prices after they have risen.

He also said he was being sarcastic about ending Putin's war on Ukraine in 24 hours, although he didn't sound sarcastic when he made those remarks. He sounded confident and serious.

 

It’s a damn shame that people actually believed that shit

 

Now, when ever in history have prices ever come down substantially?

 

Trump loses in appeals court.


Federal appeals court denies Trump administration’s request to throw out a ban on Salvadoran deporations

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"Venezuelan immigrants now being held in Colorado will remain protected from deportation to El Salvador after a federal appeals court refused a government request to reverse a federal judge’s ban on their movement.

U.S. District Court Judge Charlotte Sweeney ruled last week that about 100 Venezuelans detained at the GEO Detention Center in Aurora – who could be subject to deportation to a prison abroad under the Alien Enemies Act – need to stay put in Colorado."

 

UPS to cut 20,000 of jobs due to Trump's tariffs.


UPS cites Trump tariffs as it announces expected layoffs of 20,000 workers

 

More than 60 percent of toymakers forced to cancel orders as Trump’s tariffs threaten Christmas
We have a frozen supply chain that is putting Christmas at risk,’ a Toy Association executive said
Kelly Rissman
Wednesday 30 April 2025 09:39 EDT

More than 60 percent of toymakers forced to cancel orders due to Trump’s tariffs

 

Gov. Whitmer met with Trump this week when he visited for his 100-day rally.

Whitmer thinks Trump is going to bring back manufacturing to MI.

Trump's rhetoric led to a group that plotted to assassinate Whitmer during Trump's first term.

 

Vice President JD Vance cast a tie-breaking vote that killed an effort in the U.S. Senate to rebuke Trump’s tariffs.

 

Big-time billionaires who supported Trump and who have lost big-time since he began his second term.


Here's How Much American Billionaires Have Lost In Trump's First 100 Days

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"He isn’t the only billionaire down big during Trump 2.0. Overall, America’s 800-some billionaires are $300 billion poorer since January 20. Joining Musk among the 10 biggest losers (in sheer dollar terms) are Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Alphabet’s Sergey Brin and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, three tech tycoons who scored prominent seats just behind the first family at Trump’s inauguration—and have since gone on to lose $35 billion, $26 billion and $22 billion in wealth, respectively.

Other prominent Trump backers have dropped billions, too. Oracle’s Larry Ellison—who met with Trump the day after the inauguration as part of a $500 billion an AI infrastructure initiative—is America’s third-biggest loser so far, behind Musk and Bezos, down $28 billion. Blackstone cofounder Stephen Schwarzman, who initially said he would not support longtime friend’s 2024 campaign but soon backtracked, is $11 billion poorer."

 

Makes one wonder what the people who had been living there earlier and moved out are thinking right now. They narrowly escaped Trump's wrath.

Anyone moving into a new place might want to look into who was living there previously to anticipate potential raids by Trump.

 

The Bureau of Economic Analysis just released a report showing an abrupt reversal in the U.S. economy. Gross domestic product (GDP), which measures the total market value of goods and services, shrank from a healthy 2.4% in the last quarter of 2024 to -0.3% in the first quarter of 2025. The shift is the first time in three years that the economy has contracted. The stock market plunged on the news. The stock market during President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office has been the worst since the administration of Richard Nixon.
Biden left behind an economy that The Economist called “the envy of the world,” As Simon Rabinovitch and Henry Curr wrote in that issue, the U.S. had “left other rich countries in the dust.”. In Biden’s four years, the U.S. had added 16 million jobs, unemployment was at its lowest rate in 50 years, real wages for the bottom 80% of Americans were increasing, and inflation levels had come down almost to the Federal Reserve’s target from their highs during the post-shutdown shocks.
Heather Cox Richardson

 

Yeah, Crooked Sleepy Joe Biden's economy was just far too good...way too much prosperity for the middle class. tRump's first 100 days has been history's biggest cash grab from the middle class.

 

National security advisor Waltz and his deputy leave White House posts.

Waltz was part of Signalgate, as was Hegseth.

 

Trump administration accidentally filed in court an internal memo that questioned Trump's legal validity.

Trump is giving the court an argument to rule against his executive orders.


Trump's agenda faces courtroom setbacks as Justice Department lawyers struggle to win over judges

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That’s on top of arguments in which two judges expressed misgivings to a Justice Department lawyer about the legality of Trump executive orders targeting major law firms and a department lawyer’s accidental filing of an internal memo in court questioning the Trump administration’s legal strategy to kill Manhattan’s congestion toll — a blunder the Transportation Department called “legal malpractice.”

 

Legality, bullshit. He can do anything he wants now - what are they going to do, send the Sherriff over to arrest him ? Rape, fraud, espionage, election tampering, colluding with enemies, extortion...he gets away with it all..