The Donald Trump Score Card

Judge blocks Trump administration after Supreme Court ruling.


Judge blocks Trump administration from revoking protected status for thousands of Venezuelans

 

Appeals court continues pause on Trump's mass firings.


Trump's mass firings to remain on hold, appeals court rules

 

Another Trump word salad.

A trade deficit isn't a subsidy.

It also isn't debt, although Trump told the WSJ that the national debt can be reduced by reducing the trade deficit.

 

Trump's tactic of 'break things fast before anyone can stop it' may be slowing him down.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...ariff-strategy-collides-with-reality-00377847

 

White House pulls the person Trump nominated to lead NASA.


White House pulls nomination for Trump's pick to lead NASA

 

Trump's extreme narcissism.


In fresh flub, Trump brags 'Hannibal Lecter' loves him, says 'so I love him'

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"Hannibal Lecter, how great an actor was he? You know why I like him? Because he said on television that 'I love Donald Trump'. So, I love him. He said that a long time ago," Trump said.

"Once he said that he was in my camp, I was in his camp. I don’t care if he was the worst actor, I’d say he was great to me," Trump added.

However, Hopkins has neither publicly supported Trump nor actors, including Mads Mikkelsen and Brian Cox, who portrayed 'Hannibal Lecter', have backed the former US President, according to Huffington Post.

 

Trump's liberal interpretation of Section 232 to give himself even more power.

Article from January 2020.


Outside Voices: Is it too late for Trump to impose Section 232 auto tariffs? - R Street Institute

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Craig and Packard acknowledged that the CIT did not comment on “continuing action” by the president, but added that the “court’s logic would suggest that daisy-chaining negotiations into perpetuity, all the while reserving the right to impose tariffs if talks go south, also contravenes the purpose of including ‘prescribed time limits’ in Section 232.”

“If negotiations could continue indefinitely, in secret and without formal notification from the president by a certain point in time, why would Congress have bothered to specify 180 days as the deadline for the president to decide whether to take additional action?” they asked.

“The White House will in all likelihood cling to this small sliver of ambiguity in Section 232 to justify future tariffs on auto imports, should the president decide on a whim to tax foreign Volkswagens, Toyotas or cars assembled in Mexico,” they added. “But the auto industry, Congress and American taxpayers should be willing to call the administration’s bluff: The President has missed his window to legally impose auto tariffs under Section 232.”

 

All Rise for Trade Court

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Unless the lower court’s decision is overturned, President Trump may turn again to one of his favorite tariff tools: Section 232, which allows the President to adjust imports that threaten to impair national security. Trump has already initiated fourteen Section 232 cases, almost three times more than any other president. There are three cases for tariffs that are already in place (steel, aluminum, and autos), and four cases where no action was taken (uranium, titanium sponge, transformers, and vanadium). Seven additional investigations are underway: copper, lumber, semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, trucks, critical minerals, and commercial aircraft/jet engines.

The risk of unintentional harm to U.S. national security rises without exemptions to these tariffs. The U.S. defense industry relies on tariff-free access to steel, aluminum, copper, and other inputs. As tariffs raise costs for these inputs, margins for a range of companies that support the defense industrial base will be squeezed, including small- and medium-sized businesses deeper in the supply chain. And because most tariffs are ultimately passed to the customer, the U.S. government will be effectively charging itself more to arm and equip the U.S. military. Section 232 is a powerful tool that must be used with care. Otherwise, the U.S. government may find itself paying more for less security.

 

Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act: What It Is and How It Works

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What Is Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act?

Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 authorizes the president of the United States to adjust the imports of goods or materials from other countries if the quantity or circumstances surrounding those imports are deemed to threaten national security. This can be done through tariffs or other means.

The Trade Expansion Act of 1962 was signed into law by former President John F. Kennedy, who called it “the most important piece of legislation, I think, affecting economies since the passage of the Marshall Plan.”

 

Trump started trade wars during his first term and reached a trade agreement with China. He revised NAFTA with Canada and Mexico and made agreements with them.

He's using his second term to escalate his trade wars with those countries and others.

He's is not expected to end his trade wars no matter how many concessions from other countries he might receive.

 

Army estimates that Trump's military parade could cost $16 million in damage to Washington streets

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In an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press” earlier this month, the president defended the cost of the parade, calling it “peanuts compared to the value of doing it.”

“We have the greatest missiles in the world. We have the greatest submarines in the world. We have the greatest army tanks in the world. We have the greatest weapons in the world. And we’re going to celebrate it,” Trump added.

 

Stephen Miller shrugs off Musk's drug use by saying the real concern is drugs coming across the southern border.


Stephen Miller on report of Musk drug use: We’re worried about drugs crossing the border

 

Musk says his 5-year-old son gave him the black eye.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/elon-musk-black-eye.html

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"Did somebody beat him up?

The list of possible suspects seemed long. An abridged lineup of people and constituencies currently unhappy with Mr. Musk includes: at least two of the many women with whom he has fathered children; pretty much the entire federal bureaucracy; his neighbors in a suburb of Austin, Texas; Tesla shareholders; old friends of his; Republicans on Capitol Hill; his 20-year-old daughter; all those people who have lit Teslas on fire; and even some Trump voters.

But it wasn’t any of those people who gave him the black eye. It was, he said, his progeny X, age 5."

 

Musk could have used an even better excuse. He choked on a pretzel, fell forward, and hit his face on the coffee table.