The Donald Trump Score Card

IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE!! Oh yes it can!!

 

About 40 people arrested by ICE.


40 people arrested in ICE operation on Nantucket, Vineyard, agency says

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"About 40 people were arrested as part of an operation on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency announced Tuesday evening."

 

Second federal court blocks trump tariffs after suit filed by toy importer.


Second federal court blocks Trump tariffs - for Illinois toy importers

 

Now Trump can retaliate against the toy company in Illinois for not being loyal to his tariff war, similar to how he lashed out against Harley-Davidson when it announced during his first term that it might move some of its operations overseas to avoid retaliatory tariffs. During his first term, Trump said he was welcoming foreign motorcycle companies into the U.S. to retaliate against Harley-Davidson, an American company. That's 'America First' in Trump's mind.

 

GOP in House rejects millionaire tax pitch.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-rejects-millionaire-tax-pitch-152700895.html

 

Trump administration is working to recover O.C.G. who was deported to Guatamela.

Another man who was deported by Trump, Garcia, is still in El Salvador.


Trump administration says it will fly migrant back to U.S. after judge rules his deportation "ignored" due process - CBS News

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"Another judge ordered the Trump administration to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who the government admitted was sent to El Salvador in error. The Supreme Court affirmed that ruling, but Abrego Garcia remains in a Salvadoran prison, and the Trump administration says it's up to that country's government to return him."

 

Fox celebrity Jeanine Pirro is now U.S. attorney for the DIstrict of Columbia.


“Don’t Ever Say What You Said”: Donald Trump Fumes At Reporter For Asking About Wall Street’s Notion That He Always “Chickens Out” On Tariffs

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"Trump was speaking to pool reporters in the Oval Office after a swearing in ceremony of Jeanine Pirro as the new interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia."

 

“Don’t Ever Say What You Said”: Donald Trump Fumes At Reporter For Asking About Wall Street’s Notion That He Always “Chickens Out” On Tariffs

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“I kick out?” Trump asked.

“Chicken out,” Casella repeated.

“I’ve never heard that,” Trump said, before arguing that his tariff policy has brought China and the European Union to the negotiating table.

 

US trade court blocks Trump's sweeping tariffs in blow to trade policies

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The lawsuit, filed by the nonpartisan Liberty Justice Center on behalf of five small businesses that import goods from countries targeted by the duties, was the first major legal challenge to Trump's so-called "Liberation Day" tariffs.

The attorney general of New York, one of 12 states involved in the lawsuit, welcomed the decision.

"The law is clear: no president has the power to single-handedly raise taxes whenever they like," Letitia James said.

"These tariffs are a massive tax hike on working families and American businesses that would have led to more inflation, economic damage to businesses of all sizes, and job losses across the country if allowed to continue," she added.

 

Rubio says U.S. will begin revoking Chinese student visas.


Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the US will begin revoking the visas of Chinese students

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“Under President Trump’s leadership, the U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields,” Rubio wrote.

 

Federal trade court strikes down Trump's reciprocal tariffs

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But the judges found that there was no clear link between the president's stated goal, namely cutting international drug trafficking, and the method Trump was using to pursue it: charging import duties on legal trade.

"Customs's collection of tariffs on lawful imports does not evidently relate to foreign governments' efforts 'to arrest, seize, detain, or otherwise intercept' bad actors within their respective jurisdictions," they wrote.

 

Federal trade court strikes down Trump's reciprocal tariffs.


Federal trade court strikes down Trump's reciprocal tariffs

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"A three-judge panel at the Court of International Trade ruled that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, a 1977 law that Trump invoked to justify the tariffs, does not actually give the president the power to unilaterally implement the sweeping duties.

"The Worldwide and Retaliatory Tariff Orders exceed any authority granted to the President by IEEPA to regulate importation by means of tariffs," the judges wrote in their ruling.

"The Trafficking Tariffs fail because they do not deal with the threats set forth in those orders," they continued."

 

Trump is expected to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to end the block on his tariff war.

The Supreme Court may take some of these cases involving Trump's presidential authority and tariff wars which have created situations that have little or no legal precedent in the courts because previous presidents haven't behaved like Trump.

 

Musk announces he is leaving Trump administration after criticizing US president’s ‘big beautiful bill.’


Musk announces he is leaving Trump administration after criticizing US president’s ‘big beautiful bill’

 

The toy company said it managed to survive the Covid pandemic but probably won't survive Trump's tariff wars.

Trump is similar to a deadly virus.

 

It could be argued that Trump is creating a national emergency with his tariffs that he imposed on other countries as an unjustified and ineffective remedy for what he initially perceived as a national emergency.

 

Trump's press spokesperson this week said that the courts have no business adjudicating how Trump should handle what he perceives to be a national emergency.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/29/trump-tariffs-court-defeat-00374194

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"For starters, the Yoshida decision rejected a key proposition that is at the heart of the government’s defense of Trump’s tariffs — the notion that courts have no power to review a president’s actions under IEEPA.

The court ruled in Yoshida that each presidential action under the statute “must be evaluated on its own facts and circumstances.” The court went on to emphasize that its ruling, while favorable to the Nixon administration, was not a blanket approval of “any future surcharge of a different nature, or any surcharge differently applied or any surcharge not reasonably related to the emergency declared;” that the president’s actions under the statute “must also bear a reasonable relation to the particular emergency confronted;” and that “emergencies are expected to be shortlived.”

In other words, the facts matter. But the facts then under Nixon — and the facts now under Trump — are markedly different.

Nixon’s tariff was fixed at 10 percent and in place for less than five months. Trump’s tariff framework is far more ambitious, open-ended and has been all over the place since his inauguration — with the effective dates and applicable countries, rates, exceptions and concessions under seemingly constant revision."

 

Federal appeals court allows Trump to continue with tariffs.


Trump tariffs live updates: Appeals court allows tariffs to stay in effect after trade court rebuke

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/05/29/trump-tariffs-court-defeat-00374194

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"The Justice Department has argued that these lines of argument do not apply to the president himself, particularly when the relevant conduct implicates national security and foreign policy. And there is an undeniable strategic logic to the Trump administration’s position, which they sought to bolster with the declarations from Rubio, Bessent, Lutnick and Greer claiming (very dubiously) that a ruling against the administration would create a foreign policy disaster."