The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump said all of his accusers would be sued after the election. It hasn't happened.

Trump is known as the paper tiger.

The White House has said Trump is too busy to sue them as President. Apparently because he is so busy at his Trump-branded golf courses.


Trump: Accusers 'will be sued after the election is over'
By REBECCA MORIN
10/22/2016 01:09 PM EDT

Trump: Accusers 'will be sued after the election is over'

 

Senators Collins and Reed talk about the cluelessness of Trump on a hot mic.

 

Trumpty Dumpty

 

An article from 2015 by Kevin Williamson who accurrately predicted Trump's current behavior on trade.

Williamson points out that trade deficits can be caused by protectionist policies applied at home, rather than lack of protectionism targeted at other countries .


What Donald Trump Doesn’t Know about U.S. Trade
By Kevin D. Williamson
August 19, 2015 8:00 AM

U.S. Trade – Trump Gets it Wrong | [site:name] | National Review

From the article:

"Trump fancies himself an ace negotiator, a skill that he has had some chance to hone in an embarrassing series of corporate bankruptcies, and he proposes to employ those skills to ensure trade that is “fair” by whatever ethical standards occur to this particular serial adulterer/crony capitalist/pathological liar/reality-television grotesque. While Trump himself is fundamentally unserious, the Right has witnessed a destructive reemergence of the old anti-trade populism articulated by Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot.

The United States does run large trade deficits, though the cause and consequence of these is generally misunderstood. (Daniel Griswold’s 1998 analysis, though inevitably dated, remains an excellent primer.) For many years, nearly half of our trade deficit came from imports of a single product: oil, not Hondas or cheap flip-flops from China. Oil accounted for 40.5 percent of the trade deficit from 2000 to 2012. Thanks to fracking, the United States is today a very substantial petroleum producer, but federal law prohibits most crude-oil exports. A recently negotiated swap of U.S. light crude for Mexican heavy crude required presidential dispensation, which gives an indication of how unfree that market is. What that means is that one-way trade in the commodity that has been an important driver of our trade deficit is not the result of protectionist policies abroad but of protectionist policies at home, a federal ban on oil exports enacted in 1975 to keep our precious fluids out of the hands of wily foreigners.

What drives bilateral trade deficits between the United States and other countries is not, for the most part, trade policy, but simple supply and demand. The United States exports a lot of farm commodities and industrial products, along with a great deal of very high-end goods. The effects of that are mainly psychological: We see a lot of goods on the shelves marked “Made in China” but few overseas goods marked “Made in the USA,” because what the United States exports isn’t consumer goods, for the most part. But you’ll find American robotics in German automobile factories and American cotton in Vietnamese textile plants."

 

The Art of the Con, by Donald Trump
by Kevin D. Williamson
June 21, 2015 8:00 AM

The Art of the Con, by Donald Trump | National Review

From the article:

"Never mind that he’s a crony capitalist, he’s not even an especially good crony capitalist: The casino racket is protected from competition by a strict cartel-oriented licensing regime, but Trump, being the type of businessman who could bankrupt a mint, managed to be the biggest loser in Atlantic City, which is no small feat.

He is a lifelong supporter of Democratic politicians, including Chuck Schumer and, awkwardly, the woman against whom he is pretending to run: Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is dishonest (“Oh, he lies a great deal,” said architect and collaborator Philip Johnson) and has shown himself to be a bad bet for bankers, business partners, and wives, among others.

“But he speaks his mind!” shout the Trumpkins.

Indeed, he does, in a practically stream-of-consciousness fashion: His announcement speech was like Finnegans Wake as reimagined by an unlettered person with a short attention span. The value of speaking one’s mind depends heavily on the mind in question, and Trump’s is second-rate.

“He’s the candidate who will take the fight to Hillary!” protest the Trumpkins.

Maybe, maybe not: He is on record as a supporter of Herself, and he’s not on record as a presidential candidate, having not bothered to file the FEC paperwork making his candidacy official.

“He’ll build a wall on the border and make the Mexicans pay for it!”

Unlikely, but even if he did, half of illegal immigrants arrive not on the banks of the Rio Grande but in the airports. Trumpkins:

“He’ll show the political elites who’s boss!”

They already know, because they already own him: You don’t get into Trump’s game without being a creature of the ruling class. Neither casino licenses nor Manhattan building permits find their way into the hands of the unconnected, in this case the heir to — not the creator of — a New York City real-estate empire."

 

In January 2012, after Obama announced that his Second Chief of staff would be leaving, Trump tweeted, "3 Chief of Staffs in less than 3 years of being President: Part of the reason why Barack Obama can't manage to pass his agenda." Trump has been in office about a year and three months, and already over thirty of his staff are gone, including Sean Spicer, James Comey, and Steve Bannon, the short-lived Scaramucc, and Gary Cohn. So the Donald seems to be the Hypocrite in Chief.

 

I suggest that trump not visit the Senate today. Just sayin'

 

tell him to consult with lawyers first, before Mueller speaks with him.

 

I wrote before about the way Trump has appointed people to lead government departments and agencies when these Trump appointees want to destroy these agencies. These people have made it clear they wish to weaken or make ineffective agencies like the EPA, Energy, Consumer Protection, Land Management, Labor Rights, Banking, Health Services, Housing, and others. I was thinking they had covered all the bases and the current list was going to be the limit of Republican damage to our country. Now I find out Trump has formed a new government agency or commission to rewrite laws and regulations covering the importation of animal trophies from places like Africa. It appears Trump has got Zinke to hire about 16 trophy hunters who want to make it easier to import Lion, Rhino, Tiger, and Elephant parts. These men are connected to the Trump family. And these men think that they can save endangered animals by killing them, so they are going to remove restrictions on such trophy hunting.

 

Agree. The GREAT WHITE HUNTERS will again be able to stalk and slaughter (from a great distance, of course) the vanishing wildlife of the dark continent. Oh, the ego salve! Heads on the wall of daddys mansion. Real men those.

 

You have to be kidding me? Are you kidding me?
I would pick the lives of these beautiful endangered species over the lives of these greedy, "soullless" bastards any day. I hope they all die and burn in hell. There I said it.

 

I just want to vomit I cannot believe how doomed things have become under this administration.

 

But--but---Obama---Hillary---Obama---Hillary----
My grand daughter is 15------if she lives as long as I have----there will be no large animals left, except on film, for her to see. Why the hell would anyone want to shoot an elephant or a Rhino? Majestic , beautiful animals just somehow drives a certain type of person to get the blood lust to a fever pitch.

 

I'm sorry, Scratcho...I gotta go.....It is not use talking to deaf ears anymore.....I gave enough of my own soul to this place......I cannot do it anymore.

 

People just don't care....and I am making myself sick over it..

 

Trump wildlife protection board has many trophy hunters
by michael biesecker, jake pearson and jeff horwitz, associated press
WASHINGTON — Mar 16, 2018, 3:18 PM ET

Trump wildlife protection board has many trophy hunters

"A new U.S. advisory board created to help rewrite federal rules for importing the heads and hides of African elephants, lions and rhinos is stacked with trophy hunters, including some members with direct ties to President Donald Trump and his family.

A review by The Associated Press of the backgrounds and social media posts of the 16 board members appointed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke indicates they will agree with his position that the best way to protect critically threatened or endangered species is by encouraging wealthy Americans to shoot some of them.

One appointee co-owns a private New York hunting preserve with Trump's adult sons. The oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., drew the ire of animal rights activists after a 2011 photo emerged of him holding a bloody knife and the severed tail of an elephant he killed in Zimbabwe."