The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump is talking like he will make exceptions to deporting migrants who work on farms and at hotels.


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ortation-drive-is-sparking-concerns-over-jobs

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“Our great Farmers and people in the Hotel and Leisure business have been stating that our very aggressive policy on immigration is taking very good, long time workers away from them, with those jobs being almost impossible to replace,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “Changes are coming.”

 

Trump is expected to become increasingly selective about who he wants to deport based on who he does and doesn't like and which groups it affects.

Trump's deportation approach is becoming like his trade wars during his first term where he reviewed requests for exceptions from businesses.

 

Why would those workers be impossible to replace?

Those are the supposed great jobs that migrants supposedly stole from Americans.

Surely farmers can find documented people to grab those great jobs.

 

Trump merchandise sold at Fort Bragg for president's speech now under review
An Army official said images of troops booing Democrats was regrettable.
By Anne Flaherty
June 12, 2025, 11:53 AM

Trump merchandise sold at Fort Bragg for president's speech now under review

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"Earlier this week, Trump spoke at Fort Bragg in North Carolina in celebration of the Army's 250th birthday. At the event, vendors were spotted selling Trump merchandise -- including "Make America Great Again" hats and other "America First" swag. The practice is likely at odds with long-standing Defense Department policy, which prohibits troops from wearing political garb such as hats or flags or expressing their political opinion while in uniform."


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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...ion-leading-electric-vehicle-mandate-00402601

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"Trump signed three Congressional Review Act resolutions rolling back a trio of California’s rules at a White House signing ceremony, delivering on his Day 1 executive order to quickly roll back electric vehicle mandates around the country.

“We officially rescue the US auto industry from destruction by terminating California’s electric vehicle mandate, once and for all,” Trump said at a Oval Office signing alongside House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Energy Secretary Chris Wright and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin."

 

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5431366/us-allies-no-confidence-trump-poll

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People in 15 of 24 countries downgraded their ratings of the U.S., according to the survey of more than 28,000. In addition, majorities in almost every country surveyed describe Trump as "arrogant" and "dangerous."

 

Trump pushes to move hush-money appeal to federal court

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Trump's attorney, Jeffrey Wall, argued that the president's appeal belonged in federal court because the Manhattan District Attorney's Office chose to include evidence that they say relates to Trump's official acts as president, including testimony from former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks.

"Everything about this cries out for federal court," Mr Wall told the three-judge panel.

 

‘America cannot function’: Karoline Leavitt lashes out at judges blocking Trump orders at record rate

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“There is a troubling and dangerous trend of unelected judges inserting themselves into the presidential decision making process,” Leavitt said from the podium in her opening remarks Thursday.

“America cannot function if President Trump, or any other president, for that matter, has their sensitive diplomatic or trade negotiations railroaded by activist judges.

“These judges are threatening to undermine the credibility of the United States on the world stage,” Leavitt accused, going on to say America’s jurists “brazenly abuse their judicial power to usurp the authority of President Trump.”

 

Immigration raid at car wash shows how Trump’s crackdown is changing

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"Immigration attorney Karla Navarrete, who is representing multiple people who have been arrested in the immigration sweeps, said the mass arrests have overwhelmed the system.

Databases aren't being updated with arrests, families and lawyers cannot find those who have been detained and when they do the person sometimes is in a different state or has already been deported to another country."

 

Immigration raid at car wash shows how Trump’s crackdown is changing

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She was told by her lawyer that Mr Cruz is being held at a detention centre in El Paso, Texas, more than 800 miles (1,300km) from their home.

Her youngest child - a five-year-old boy - is having the hardest time with the change, she said.

"He just keeps asking for his dad. I don't know what to tell him," she added, through tears.

"He doesn't understand what is going on. He still thinks his dad is at work."

 

Trump gold card website opens.

$5 million fast tracks path to citizenship.


Trump 'gold card' website opens. Here's how to join the $5 million waitlist

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“FOR FIVE MILLION $DOLLARS, THE TRUMP CARD IS COMING!,” President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social on June 11. “Thousands have been calling and asking how they can sign up to ride a beautiful road in gaining access to the Greatest Country and Market anywhere in the World.”

The website shows an image of the gold-colored card, emblazoned with a likeness of Trump’s face, and asks a few questions including name, region, email address and if an applicant is applying for themselves or as a business.

 

How Turning the Border into a Military Zone Evades Congress and Threatens Rights
The administration is trying to evade limits on domestic use of the armed forces.
by Elizabeth Goitein and Joseph Nunn
Published: April 28, 2025

How Turning the Border into a Military Zone Evades Congress and Threatens Rights

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"President Donald Trump has turned a 60-foot-wide strip of federal land that spans three states on the southern border into a “military installation” to “address the emergency” he previously declared over unlawful immigration and drug trafficking. Trump’s memo authorizing this action seems designed to sidestep the Posse Comitatus Act, which normally bars federal armed forces from conducting domestic law enforcement. The apparent plan is to let the military act as a de facto border police force, with soldiers apprehending, searching, and detaining people who cross the border unlawfully.

This move could have alarming implications for democratic freedoms. Moreover, it continues a pattern of the president stretching his emergency powers past their limits to usurp the role of Congress and bypass legal rights. He has misused a law meant to address economic emergencies to set tariffs on every country in the world. He declared a fake “energy emergency” to promote fossil fuel production. And he dusted off a centuries-old wartime authority to deport Venezuelan immigrants, without due process, to a Salvadoran prison notorious for human rights violations."

 

ICE raids car wash.

It was in LA and it wasn't a farm, so Trump probably won't make an exception.


Immigration raid at car wash shows how Trump’s crackdown is changing

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"On the campaign trail, President Donald Trump repeatedly said he would prioritise deporting noncitizens accused of violent crimes. That promise received widespread support, even among Hispanic immigrant groups.

But in recent weeks, the administration has stepped up its targets, pushing to increase their arrests from about 660 to 3,000 a day.

To do that, they have widened their net, targeting not just criminals but workplaces such as farms and factories in an effort to detain more undocumented migrants."

 

U.S. evacuates personnel in Mideast.


US evacuates personnel from Middle East in sign of growing regional tension

 

House votes to claw back $1.1 billion from public media

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"The House of Representatives narrowly approved legislation Thursday to claw back two years of federal funding for public media outlets. President Trump, who has attacked the mainstream media more broadly, has accused NPR and PBS of bias against conservative viewpoints.

The measure passed largely along party lines, 214 to 212."

 

Trump's about-face on violence against police.


From a 'day of love' to 'if they spit, we will hit': Trump's about-face on violence against police

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“IF THEY SPIT, WE WILL HIT, and I promise you they will be hit harder than they have ever been hit before,” he wrote on his social media platform after making a similar statement a day earlier to reporters. “Such disrespect will not be tolerated!”

 

Trump speech at Fort Bragg prompts questions, concerns about politicization of military

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“It’s a sad tradition to use the military as a backdrop for political purposes,” DeWeese said. “To actively attack another president or a sitting governor and incite the crowd to boo, that’s a step in a dangerous direction, that really says we want to politicize the military, that sends a bad message.”

DeWeese said there were likely to have been violations of the UCMJ.

“I would be cringing if I was a senior officer and it happened under my watch,” he said.

 

Trump voter in FL having a little remorse over losing a third of his workforce because of Trump.


Trump voter admits he has 'a little buyer's remorse' after losing a third of his workforce

 

Trump administration changes stance on deportations.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-ice-raids-farms-hotels.html

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"The Trump administration has abruptly shifted the focus of its mass deportation campaign, telling Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to largely pause raids and arrests in the agricultural industry, hotels and restaurants, according to an internal email and three U.S. officials with knowledge of the guidance.

The decision suggested that the scale of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign — an issue that is at the heart of his presidency — is hurting industries and constituencies that he does not want to lose."