The Donald Trump Score Card

ICE Barbie (Noem) is complaining about restroom and lunch options in Chicago.


ICE Barbie Moans About Agents’ Lunch Options in Chicago

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During an appearance on State of the Union Sunday morning, Pritzker said Noem “doesn’t know what she’s talking about.”

“People are booing her on the street,” he told host Jake Tapper. “[ICE is] raiding neighborhoods where instead of going after the bad guys, they’re just picking up people who are brown and Black, then checking their credentials… I don’t know about you, but I don’t carry around papers that say I’m a U.S. citizen.”

 

Trump once again has the U.S. government buy stake in a company.


Trilogy Metals stock explodes on news of 10% stake by Trump admin and EO ordering permits for Alaska road

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"Canadian mining company Trilogy Metals' stock (TMQ) soared in trading on Tuesday after news that the Trump administration is taking a 10% stake in the company.

Trilogy Metals shares jumped more than 250% in the early hours of Tuesday trading after Reuters reported Monday night that the administration is investing in the Vancouver, British Columbia-based company and permitting an access road to a potential mining site."

 

Who is Greg Bovino, the official spearheading Trump’s immigration crackdown?

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"Bovino claimed the 78 people arrested had criminal records. But in an investigation, CalMatters reported that only one of those detained had a prior record with the border patrol agency. In an interview, Bovino made it clear that his definition of criminality included entering the US without proper documentation."

 

Small to medium size businesses being hit the hardest by Trump's tariff wars, deportation crusade, and restrictive immigration policy.


The job market is weak and getting weaker, top economist says, while Trump looks to the future | Fortune

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He also pointed out most job gains in the ADP report were in healthcare and big companies with over 500 employees. “Smaller companies are getting hit hardest by the tariffs and restrictive immigration policies.”

 

Trump Navy

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"President Donald Trump is marking the Navy's 250th anniversary by joining a celebration at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia. His appearance Sunday comes in the midst of the government shutdown. After his arrival in Norfolk, Trump went to the USS George H. W. Bush and spoke to the sailors and handed out challenge coins. The president and first lady Melania Trump watched a military demonstration while standing on the deck the aircraft carrier. Navy destroyers launched missiles and fired shells into the Atlantic Ocean, Navy SEALs descended from helicopters and fighter jets catapulted off."

 

Sounds like what Trump has been doing to Chicago.

Why not just take some video of Chicago.

 

Trump duped them with bro talk about big time wrestling, celebrity TV, and truther narratives.

A young man in a newspaper interview said he was voting for Trump in 2024 because you could talk with Trump about anything.

The ploy Trump used in 2024 was effective.


Pod man out: Trump's support among influential podcasters is waning

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"While few of the these hosts — who tend to be less overtly political than explicitly conservative activists like the late Charlie Kirk — formally endorsed the president’s campaign, they gave him a platform to talk about sports, politics, technology, comedy and conspiracy theories with millions of viewers and listeners whose attention is usually hard for politicians to command. Republican and Democratic strategists alike have acknowledged that Trump’s willingness to engage with them helped give him a crucial boost in a hard-fought election."

 

Pod man out: Trump's support among influential podcasters is waning

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"Schulz and his co-host, Akaash Singh, have criticized the president for not fulfilling his campaign promises.

“Everything [Trump] campaigned on, I believed he wanted to do,” Schulz said in a July episode of his “Flagrant” podcast, where Trump had appeared in October 2024. “And now he’s doing the exact opposite thing of every single f-----g thing. … I voted for none of this. He’s doing the exact opposite of everything I voted for.”

In particular, Schulz pointed to Trump’s failure to quickly end wars in Europe and the Middle East, the deficit spending in Trump’s budget, and the president’s deportation campaign."

 

Trump did promise a mass deportation effort during his 2024 campaign.

Post-election, disgruntled Trump supporters need to acknowledge this instead of becoming upset that it's now happening.

They also need to accept the ramifications of it. Lack of laborers in housing and farming in tough jobs that most people don't want, which causes rising house and grocery prices. These are the supposed great jobs that the immigrants stole from Trump's supporters.

During the 2016 campaign, a senior in high school in a newpaper interview said he was voting for Trump because he would need a job after high school and the immigrants were stealing all the good jobs.

 

Like the young people, some podcasters who had been pro-Trump are souring on him.


Pod man out: Trump's support among influential podcasters is waning

 

Is It Really a Coup?

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"Placing faith in the courts feels like unsteady ground in light of the Supreme Court’s willingness to give Trump a pass on criminality. Having already given him immunity from criminal prosecution for any official acts he commits, perhaps the conservative majority will see the wisdom of declining to consolidate all of the power of government in the hands of the president."

 

The conservatives on the Supreme Court have already allowed Trump to consolidate power.

 

Is It Really a Coup?

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"Sunday night, I called it a coup as well, writing in exasperation that “Musk and his crew of men barely out of their teens haven’t taken an oath to serve, and they are not accountable to the public. They are not a ‘Department’ of anything. They’re a private army that has taken over. Presidents can set up private advisory groups, but they have to function according to the rules, which include transparency. That’s not what’s happening here.” Worse still, there is little reason to believe that what starts in USAID, Treasury, and the FBI won’t continue to spread to other agencies that are in disfavor with Trump and Musk."

 

The labor market is also taking a hit because of Trump's tariffs.

Some businesses are cutting back on labor as a way of trying to mitigate the cost increases due to Trump's tariffs.

That's one way to (as Trump calls it) 'eat the tariffs'.

 

A 'soft coup' in progress

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"Trump has managed to bully the entire Republican Party into submission. There didn’t seem to be a lot of bravery or forethought to overcome to start with. Congress is the one group that actually can command executive authority and stop the slaughter of our institutions and freedom. You would think that there would be four senators and four members of Congress that would be outraged enough on their own to sacrifice their careers for the good of their country and switch parties without additional encouragement.

But apparently, they need to be confronted with the reality if the direction of the country continues into chaos that they will be voted out of office anyway. So, my suggestion is that everyone makes that abundantly clear in every town hall, every protest and every confrontation possible. You won’t get another chance. Ask the Russians how the resistance is going."

 

They haven't.

Sen. Murkowski of Alaska is an example. She sold out the country and voted for Trump's big beautiful reconciliation bill so that she could garner some pet project money for her home state.

After voting for it, she made a slapstick excuse that she hoped the Medcaid cuts would be avoided later by the House that still had to vote. They weren't.

 

That was funny - the guy locking the door and motioning "we're closed....." I wonder what little joys he got out of that....10 years of tax audits...health department inspections....

 

In her mind, that means it's time to send even more National Guard to Chicago to make sure the restrooms are labeled binary (man or woman) and to force people to use only the one that is determined by the gender stated on their birth certificate.

 

Which, I guess, one should carry around 24/7 in case one's papers need producing.....

 

Progressive Ivy League School Adopts Trump’s ‘Two Sexes’ Policy In Exchange For Federal Funding
“It almost appears as if the rights of transgender people and community members can be bought and sold for political favors with the administration,” one student at Brown University said.
By Lil Kalish
Aug 4, 2025, 09:35 PM EDT

Progressive Ivy League School Sells Out To Trump