The Donald Trump Score Card

Not much changes with Trump's approval rating.

After a couple months of post-2024 election euphoria, he's back to about 43% approval, which is where he's been for most of the past eight years.


Donald Trump approval rating plummets with key voter group

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"Gallup's poll was not an exception to that rule, showing that Trump's approval rating has fallen by just 1 point to 43 percent since April, while his disapproval rating remained unchanged at 53 percent.


"Independents are independent-minded thinkers—they don't have to approve of Trump just because he's Team Red, or disapprove of him because they're Team Blue. They see the economy isn't getting better, that there's chaos in Washington, and think, 'Hey, that's not what we were hoping for.' They'll give you a chance, but you gotta perform."

 

Golden Dome: what Trump should learn from Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ missile defence system plan
Published: May 22, 2025 12:21pm EDT

Golden Dome: what Trump should learn from Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ missile defence system plan

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/politics/pentagon-golden-dome-scramble

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"For one thing, “Israel is tiny,” the source familiar with ongoing internal discussions about the Golden Dome project said. “So, it is 100% feasible to blanket Israel in things like radars and a combination of mobile and fixed interceptors.”

“How are you going to do that in the United States? You can’t do it just at the borders and the shoreline, because intercontinental ballistic missiles, they can re-enter the atmosphere over Kansas.”

Still, Trump issued an executive order during his first week in office ordering Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to submit a plan for developing and implementing the next-generation missile defense shield by March 28 "

 

1-vote victory for Trump's big bill inflames Democratic clash over aging leaders
House vacancies caused by recent deaths, as well as angst over Joe Biden's decision to run again in 2024, are fueling the argument that older incumbents need to step aside.
By Sahil Kapur
May 23, 2025, 6:28 PM EDT

1-vote victory for Trump's big bill inflames Democratic clash over aging leaders

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Nellis said aging politicians eventually become “out of step culturally” and, in refusing to step down, are “preventing future leaders from stepping up, and it creates a cascading problem” by freezing opportunities down the ladder. He said generational change would also mitigate the party’s political struggles to communicate in the modern media.

“We have a lot of leaders who are very smart, care passionately about the issues, but they can’t go do the media the way that we need them to,” Nellis said. “And right now what I need is a lot more politicians that can sit on the podcast for three hours and talk about a bunch of issues and get into weird, goofy personal stuff and sit with Joe Rogan. And I don’t have a lot of those.”

It isn’t just politicians, he added.

“There’s a generational change problem throughout the Democratic Party,” Nellis said, calling for new consultants, campaign managers, communicators and surrogates, in addition to new legislators. “So that generation change — it is actively happening inside the Democratic Party at every level.”

 

It's on par with the cold McDonald's food that the football players received at the White House during Trump's first term while the government was shut down because he was angry that Congress wouldn't give him U.S. taxpayer money for his border wall. No cooks were available.

 

Parnas and Fruman were convicted and went to prison.


Lev Parnas And Igor Fruman Charged With Conspiring To Violate Straw And Foreign Donor Bans
Thursday, October 10, 2019

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/p...nspiring-violate-straw-and-foreign-donor-bans

 

Trump wants names and countries of international students at Harvard.


https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5318097-trump-targets-harvard-over-foreign-students/

 

Trump says Harvard's foreign students are from countries paying 'nothing' for their education

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"The administration has already frozen close to $3 billion in federal funding to the university, largely dedicated to research, over claims that Harvard has not adequately responded to alleged campus antisemitism in protests and has not moved to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion practices."

 

The military drummer who was struck and injured by Hegseth throwing an axe at a bullseye on Fox TV and missing the target completely needed an golden dome axe protection system to protect him from Hegseth.

 

At a public speech, Trump says Harvard international students need remedial wrath.

He meant remedial math.


Fox interrupted for Donald Trump breaking news as he makes huge mistake on air

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"While the live breaking ticker displayed, "Trump: Tariffs aren't hurting, they're helping," Trump retorted, "I do, but a lot of the people need remedial wrath." Realizing his verbal slip-up, Trump swiftly corrected himself, saying, "Math. Did you see that? Where these students can't add two and two, and they go to Harvard."

 

They voted for Trump and are now losing their government jobs.

Also their government grants.

They will also be losing their Medicaid and health insurance.


They voted for Trump, but now they’re losing their U.S. government jobs

 

Trump voter remorse.


The rise of the regretful Trump voter

 

Is there a tipping point for Trump supporters to stop backing him? Here’s what the science says

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"Sociologist Max Atkinson has written about charisma, stating that isn’t necessarily a gift but rather, behavioural manipulation that produces a demonstrable effect on audiences. Trump supporters all react in the same way, at the same time, and feel as one (many football supporters have similar “spiritual” experiences at matches).

It’s about devotion and destiny, and how the benign leader will look after you, no matter what. In the New Hampshire town hall meeting, Trump called the violent riot on the Capitol on January 6 2021 “a beautiful day”. He said that if he wins the next presidential election, he will pardon a large proportion involved in the riot – even those Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy."

 

Countries want to hire scientists and researchers who lost their jobs in the U.S. because of the behavior of Musk and Trump.


Foreign universities want to hire scientists after U.S. cuts

 

Trump changes his mind on the 50% tariffs he said two days ago that he would be imposing on the the EU on June 1st.

He is extending the deadline to July 9.


Trump calls for 50% tariff on EU, says he's 'not looking for a deal' with bloc

 

Trump's policies push some U.S. farmers to brink.


https://www.npr.org/2025/05/19/nx-s...-pushing-these-northwest-farmers-to-the-brink

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"Across the rural Midwest and West, plenty of farmers still fly Trump 2024 flags over their barns, but quietly worry his latest trade war will bankrupt them."

 

But Trump is supposedly keeping the dogs and cats in Ohio safe from immigrants who supposedly would otherwise be abducting and eating them.

Just after Trump won the 2024 election, one of his supporters said she could sleep at night again.

 

Trump considering giving trade schools the $3 billion he took away from Harvard.


https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...on-grants-harvard-giving-it-trade-2025-05-26/

 

Opinion | Republicans’ big bill scared bond markets. That’s bad news for your wallet.

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Mapping that onto the U.S. case, investors are worried that the Trump administration and the Republican Congress are engaged in set of actions that will both lower growth and raise interest rates, a toxic combination. The GOP bill doesn’t just add unprecedented trillions to the debt; it takes health coverage and nutritional support from poor people to very partially offset big tax cuts for the wealthy. There’s nothing in there that would lead an objective person to think there’s anything pro-growth about it.

 

Opinion | Republicans’ big bill scared bond markets. That’s bad news for your wallet.

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“In a short amount of time,” economist Larry Summers recently told The Atlantic, “the fiscal picture has gone from comfortably in the green-light region to the red-light region.” As the headlines suggest, a key trigger for this angst is the legislation that passed the House this week. Global investors in U.S. debt are learning how many trillions the GOP’s bill is likely to pile on to the already swollen deficit (since it’s a work in progress, we don’t know the number yet, but my analysis suggests something in the $5 trillion range).