The Donald Trump Score Card

The type of society into which the U.S. has devolved: You're kinda sad when your friends are snatched off the street and deported but you're still happy with your vote for Trump.


Opinion | Trump’s supporters do not regret their vote. Not even now.

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When you read that Times piece, you may find yourself most struck by the 29-year-old Black construction manager in Texas who said he’s happy that Trump has kept his promises, if only because the Texan then says, “Although these are some hard decisions — a couple of friends that have been deported, stuff like that. So I’m sad at the same time.”

It must warm his deported friends’ hearts to hear that their buddy is kinda sad.

 

Trump team spent a whopping $21 million on deportation flights to Guantanamo Bay. There are currently 32 people there
The Trump administration suspended the use of military aircraft for deporting migrants to Guantanamo Bay on March 1.
Erin Keller
Monday 12 May 2025 09:58 EDT

Trump team spent $21 million on deportation flights to Guantanamo Bay

 

Trump wants to deport 20 million people from the U.S.

He spent $21 million to deport 32 people. That's $656,000 per person.

20 million times $656.000 is $13,120,000 million dollars or $13.12 trillion dollars.

 

Trump's supporters will say that they're 'kinda sad' he spent that amount of money but that they're still happy they voted for him because he's just doing his job of deporting those unwanted people.

 

More apologies for Trump, even from someone whose wife was abducted by Trump and held in jail for 49 days.


Opinion | Trump’s supporters do not regret their vote. Not even now.

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Instead, he seemed sure Trump would realize that it’s wrong for ICE to arrest folks like his wife and fix a broken system. His wife was released on $3,000 bond after 49 days in ICE custody. “I understand Trump is doing his job as president,” Camila Muñoz said, “but the cases should move more quickly if people aren’t associated with a gang or don’t have a criminal record.”

 

Now that U.S. China relations appear to be, as Trump says, 'reset' at the moment, people are praising Trump for trying to undo some of the damage of his wrecking ball by cutting some of the exhorbitant tariffs he imposed on China.

He has temporarily decreased one of them from 145% to an 30% Earlier, he said 80% felt 'about right.' The other tariffs he imposed on China remain in effect, such as 25% aluminum and steel tariffs and tariffs he imposed because of the fentanyl problem in the U.S.


Opinion | Trump’s supporters do not regret their vote. Not even now.

 

Opinion | Trump’s supporters do not regret their vote. Not even now.

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"It is remarkable, though, that after Trump has fired thousands of blameless federal employees, antagonized allies, rattled the stock market, shrunk the economy, eliminated a number of lifesaving humanitarian aid programs, defied the courts and put Fox News know-nothings in positions of power a near-identical share of his supporters suggest that they’d happily vote for him all over again."

 

Why do Trump voters have no regrets? Because the people they hate are getting hurt more
Arwa Mahdawi
Fri 18 Apr 2025 09.28 EDT

Why do Trump voters have no regrets? Because the people they hate are getting hurt more | Arwa Mahdawi

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"None of this is to say that Trump voters are immune to remorse. With his tariff plan, he is just getting started. The president may be good at bluster, but even his most diehard supporters are going to realise quite quickly that food prices – which Trump promised to lower on the campaign trail – are not, in fact, going down. When the price of basic goods keep rising, there’s only so long you can keep feeding people obvious lies. Perhaps the Trumpers won’t get quite so much of a dopamine rush from “owning the libs” when they can’t afford to own anything else."

 

Why do Trump voters have no regrets? Because the people they hate are getting hurt more | Arwa Mahdawi

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"The stock market is plunging, prices are rising, federal workers are getting laid off, students are being snatched off the street by immigration agents. The US is many things at the moment, but stable is not one of them. So, amid all this turmoil, how are all the Donald Trump voters feeling? Has buyer’s remorse set in? Are they starting to wonder whether voting in a convicted felon as president – a man who has declared bankruptcy six times – might not have been the wisest move?"


Right now, however, Trump is hurting the sort of people many of his voters seem to be interested in seeing get hurt. He’s an avenging angel, wreaking vengeance on the elite institutions, scapegoats and bogeymen that the Republican party has spent years blaming for the state of the US. He’s cut funding to all the Ivy League universities he’s called “woke” and declared out of touch with American values. He’s gone after transgender people. And he has rounded up immigrants and protesters, just as he promised he would do.

 

Trump visiting three of the richest countries in the Mideast.


Trump is visiting three of the world’s richest nations. Here’s what’s on their wish list

“In Trump’s book, the Gulf states tick all the right boxes,” Hasan Alhasan, senior fellow for Middle East policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Bahrain, told CNN. They “pledge to invest trillions in the US economy and spend colossal amounts on US weapons systems.”

 

Where else would Trump be expected to visit. He won't visit the ghettos in Gaza to help those who are struggling. His only interest is turning Gaza into yet another luxury golf resort and kicking the Palestians out to other countries. He said it publicly.

 

Dozens of white South Africans arrive in US under Trump refugee plan

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"Farmers are being killed, they happen to be white, but whether they're white or black makes no difference to me."

But South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he told Trump during a phone call the US assessment of the situation was "not true".

"A refugee is someone who has to leave their country out of fear of political persecution, religious persecution, or economic persecution," Ramaphosa said. "And they don't fit that bill."

 

Trump Replaces First Black Librarian of Congress With His Idiot Lawyer
Malcolm Ferguson
Mon, May 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM UTC

Trump Replaces First Black Librarian of Congress With His Idiot Lawyer

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The White House blamed Hayden’s firing on her support for DEI.

“We felt she did not fit the needs of the American people,” White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters. “There were quite concerning things that she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.” The Librarian of congress is a research position, not a book lending position. Hayden was not handing out “woke” books to children. She was leading the “Of the People”campaign, which aimed to showcase works from Black, indigenous, Hispanic or Latino, Asian American and Pacific Islander and other communities of color in the library collections.

 

Considering Trump, he will replace the books with ones about white farmers from South Africa who he says are undergoing genocide.

 

Trump is engaging in that type of behavior while he refuses to call up the leader of El Salvador and retrieve Garcia from a terrorist prison where he was deported. Garcia had a legal right ordered by a court to stay in the U.S. because of legitimate fear of being abused by gangs in El Salvador (where he is now in prison with gang members).

Trump won't admit that the gang tatooes seen in images of Garcia are fake. He won't admit that his own administration admitted that they sent Garcia to El Salvador by mistake. The bombastic leader of El Salvador, who referes to himself as the public's favorite dictator, said at a public meeting with Trump that he won't return Garcia because he supposedly is a terrorist, although he provides no evidence (he just believes what Trump says).

 

Trump said publicly in an interview that he won't retrieve Garcia because he thinks he isn't a good person.

The U.S. Supreme Court made a wishy-washy decision and told Trump to 'facilitate' the return of Garcia. It didn't order him to do it.

The Trump administration said it would facilitate if the leader of El Salvador decided to send Garcia back to the U.S. (which he said he won't do because he believes Trump).

Trump is invoking state secrets privilege because he says what happened to Garcia involves foreign relations (deporting him to El Salvador, mistakenly). The secrets privilege was used after 9/11 to protect information about terrorists, Garcia isn't a terrorist. It's putting a road block on the attorneys for Garcia who need discovery information in court to facilitate his return to the U.S.

 

Auful . Expensive. Divisive.

The new deal is for The Migrant to take a $1,000.00 check and then fly away on a commercial flight.

So the devisive migrant flights are minimised by migrants on a one-way tourist class to the homeland. The Host Nation cannot stop this "trickle deportation" Wholesale deportations are bad press.

 

So, The Trumpster has a new blingy jet coutrsey of a donation from Qatar; where diplos are meeting.

Consertave press is roasting Trumpster for potential inpropriety. This thing is a flying version of Trumps Casino, AC., NJ.

 

Dood, Garcia's people, his handlers do not want him here; on TV.,
Babbling about Family business. No. you will never see him here.

 

Ozturk released after six weeks in jail.

She was essentially abducted by Trump's people while on her way to a social gathering.


https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s...turk-ordered-freed-from-immigration-detention

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Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student and Turkish national, was released from federal custody on Friday, hours after a judge in Vermont ordered the Trump administration to free her. Accompanied by her lawyer, Öztürk walked out of the immigration detention center in rural Louisiana where she's been detained for more than six weeks, since masked federal agents picked her up on a suburban Boston street as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on pro-Palestinian student activists.

At a bail hearing earlier in the day, Judge William K. Sessions of the U.S. District Court for Vermont said that her arrest and detention appeared likely to have been carried out solely in retaliation for an op-ed she wrote in a campus newspaper criticizing her school leaders' response to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

"I suggested to the government that they produce any additional information which would suggest that she posed a substantial risk," Sessions said. "And that was three weeks ago, and there has been no evidence introduced by the government other than the op-ed. That literally is the case. There is no evidence here."