The Donald Trump Score Card

Mom of three taken away by ICE in front of crying daughters after Mexico vacation turned into nightmare
By SAMANTHA RUTT, US TRAINEE REPORTER
Published: 22:14 EDT, 23 August 2025 | Updated: 23:56 EDT, 23 August 2025

Mom of three taken away by ICE in front of crying daughters after Mexico vacation turned into nightmare | Daily Mail Online

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'Her records were sealed for 12 years,' Pomerleau said. 'They [federal officers] would have had no access to these records unless somebody illegally handed them over. They never once asked me for records about the case. I had to guess that it might have been a marijuana charge because I was left in the dark for a week.'

 

The marijuana conviction was sealed and the law that was used to convict her has been rendered useless for years.

Yet Trump's people found out about it somehow and used it as an invalid excuse to arrest and detain her.

 

Trump: the self-proclaimed protector of women,

 

Mom of three taken away by ICE in front of crying daughters after Mexico vacation turned into nightmare | Daily Mail Online

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Pomerleau called the incident 'disturbing' and entirely unjustified.

'She was detained without a clear legal basis, denied medical care, and shuffled around like a criminal for a charge that's not even prosecutable under state law today,' he said. 'This never should have happened.'

The ordeal has sparked outrage from state lawmakers, including Sen. Paul Feeney, who was present when Jimenez Rosa was reunited with her family in Burlington.

'This was brutal and capricious,' Feeney said. 'Locking up a legally present Massachusetts mom and taking her from her young kids does not make our community safer. It instills fear and undermines the rule of law.'

Jimenez Rosa was eventually released with no phone and no transportation.

 

Putin knows how to ring Trump's bell.


At home and abroad US policy chaos has one constant: Trump’s self-interest
When Putin blamed the 2020 US election result on mail-in voting he bolstered a Trump obsession – just one example of the blurring of international goals and domestic grievances
David Smith in Washington
Sun 24 Aug 2025 05.00 EDT

At home and abroad US policy chaos has one constant: Trump’s self-interest

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Charlie Sykes, a conservative author and broadcaster, said: “In Donald Trump’s world there’s no significant distinction between what he does internationally and what he is doing domestically because all centers on himself. There’s no ideological through-line or consistency.

“It’s all about what serves his own personal interests. The notion that you would roll out the red carpet for an internationally wanted war criminal 19 months after he murdered [opposition leader] Alexei Navalny would be vomit-inducing in any context. But given Trump’s long history with Vladimir Putin, I suppose it should be expected.”

 

Trump's stock excuse: other countries do it too.

 

Gov. Pritzker says Trump trying to 'manufacture a crisis' as admin plans National Guard deployment to Chicago

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"The safety of the people of Illinois is always my top priority," Pritzker said. "There is no emergency that warrants the President of the United States federalizing the Illinois National Guard, deploying the National Guard from other states, or sending active duty military within our own borders."

The governor also accused Trump of "attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he is causing working families."

 

Trump will concoct another 'emergency'.

 

Trump Finds a Brilliant New Way to Wreck the Tourism Industry

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"The State Department issued a notice Monday saying that it will require bonds of up to $15,000 to secure some tourist and business visas."

 

Who would trust Trump to give them back their bond money.

 

U.S. immigrant population is reportedly 1.4 million lower in June 2025 compare to January 2025.

That's a population drop of about 0.4% of the total 340 million 2020 census population.


US immigrant population down by more than a million people amid Trump crackdown

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"The immigrant population of the United States, which has been growing for more than 50 years, has declined by more than a million people since Donald Trump took office in January and defined immigration as a threat to the nation, not one of its strengths.

According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, there were a record 53.3 million immigrants in the US in January, when Trump took office for the second time. By June, that number had dropped to 51.9 million."

 

New England states vow to fight Trump administration order to halt work on offshore wind farm that’s nearly complete

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Senator Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, connected the decision to Trump’s reported pitch last year to oil industry executives to trade $1bn in campaign donations for regulatory favors. “When the oil industry showed up at Mar-a-Lago with a set of demands in exchange for a $1 billion of campaign support for Trump, this is what they were asking for: the destruction of clean energy in America,” Murpy said in a statement.

“This is a story of corruption, plain and simple. President Trump has sold our country out to big corporations with the oil and gas industry at the top of the list,” the senator added. “I will work with my colleagues and Governor Lamont to pursue all legal paths to get this project back on track.”

 

A Nobel Peace Prize for Trump? World leaders are lining up

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"It started with Pakistan. Israel and Cambodia followed. And now, after Trump's "peace summit" bringing together the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Aug. 8 and ending decades of conflict, the two former Soviet states have promised to write a joint nomination to the Nobel committee."

 

In Latest Weird Flub, Trump Mixes Up Two Countries That Start With A

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Not only did Trump incorrectly call Armenia “Albania,” but he also hesitated uncertainly while stating the name of Azerbaijan. He ultimately bungled the country’s pronunciation (“the Aber … baijan,” he said), so much so that The Mark Levin Show’s transcript of the episode, as of this writing, has him as saying “Arab or Bhaijaan.”

 

After recommending Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize, Pakistan changed its mind the next day after Trump bombed Iran.


Pakistan flip flops on Trump Nobel Peace Prize nomination after less than 24 hours

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"The Pakistani government on Saturday credited the "decisive diplomatic intervention" and "pivotal leadership" of Trump in brokering a truce with India, after a massacre of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir in April,. The nuclear-armed rivals stepped closer to war in the weeks that followed, attacking each other until intense diplomatic efforts, led by the U.S., resulted in a truce.

The next day, however, it condemned the U.S. for attacking Iran, saying the strikes "constituted a serious violation of international law" and the statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency."

 

Trump mispronounced Azerbaijan this week.

He also got the wrong country. It's Armenia, not Albania.

But, for whatever it is he thinks he's donw for those two countries, Trump still thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize even when he can't pronounce one of them and gets the other country wrong.

 

Trump hasn't been able to put a dent in Putin's war on Ukraine.

Trump's stock excuse is that it's Biden's war.

 

Trump approval rating dropping.


Donald Trump's approval rating drops in latest poll

 

Trump aims to end millions in grants to colleges with high Hispanic populations
The move threatens the future of similar programs to help minority students.
The Washington Post
August 22, 2025 at 6:53 p.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/22/college-grants-hispanic-populations/