The Donald Trump Score Card

Some of the words in 1918 are hauntingly similar to those of Trump.


Philadelphia Threw a WWI Parade That Gave Thousands of Onlookers the Flu
The city sought to sell bonds to pay for the war effort, while bringing its citizens together during the infamous pandemic
By Kenneth C. Davis
smithsonianmag.com
September 21, 2018

Philadelphia Threw a WWI Parade That Gave Thousands of Onlookers the Flu | History | Smithsonian Magazine

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"Krusen’s decision to let the parade go on was based on two fears. He believed that a quarantine might cause a general panic. In fact, when city officials did close down public gatherings, the skeptical Philadelphia Inquirer chided the decision. “Talk of cheerful things instead of disease,” urged the Inquirer on October 5. “The authorities seem to be going daft. What are they trying to do, scare everybody to death?”"

 

Trump got his way with the Big Ten football.

It had been canceled until spring 2021. It has been reactivated with games starting in late October, just before the election but with no fans permitted to attend.

The Big Ten involves teams in the Great Lakes area, such as Notre Dame, where Trump badly needs for the November election.


Big Ten football announces return to play 2020 season on Oct. 24 with unique schedule, daily rapid testing
The Big Ten will also require positive athletes to receive a cardiac clearance in order to play
By Ben Kercheval
Sep 16, 2020 at 11:09 am ET

Big Ten football announces return to play 2020 season on Oct. 24 with unique schedule, daily rapid testing

 

Trump is trying to take the news cycle off the coronavirus, including talking about an autumn return of Big Ten football, a Senate approval of his Supreme Court nominee, an announcement of a vaccine approved for the general public, an optimistic financial report, and a public interim report by Bill Barr about Durham's investigation of the investigators.

 

The students are afraid they will not be drafted so they can be manipulated. There is "honor in being brave enough" to play for your country and school. I got a lot of this when I played football too and that was before a virus.

Your average small town football school is totally dependent on the team. There is no money and no recreation unless you have their slave labor. These towns tend to be conservative. Liberals have their teams too but I have noticed they listen to science more.

 

Notre Dame is one of the big ten football teams. It's the school in Indiana where one of Trump's expected Supreme Court nominees, Barrettt, graduated. Indiana is in the Great Lakes region where Trump desperately needs votes. It's also Vice President Pence's home state.

 

If 2 million U.S. coronavirus deaths had actually happened, Trump would have relinquished responsibility for them by attributing them to something else, such as heart problems.

Because they haven't yet happened, he proudly proclaims that they would have been real coronavirus deaths and that he prevented them with a travel restriction.

 

Trump expands his ban on diversity training.


Trump Expands Ban On Racial Sensitivity Training To Federal Contractors

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"Trump said on Twitter on Tuesday that he had expanded the ban on "efforts to indoctrinate government employees with divisive and harmful sex and race-based ideologies" to contractors doing business with the federal government and those receiving grant funds.

"Americans should be taught to take PRIDE in our Great Country, and if you don't there's nothing in it for you!" he tweeted."

 

Trump’s campaign ‘is discussing contingency plans to bypass election results’ and keep him in power: report
By Brad Reed
on September 23, 2020

Trump’s campaign ‘is discussing contingency plans to bypass election results’ and keep him in power: report

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"The basic idea is to claim close swing-state losses by Trump are due to voter fraud — and use that as a justification to install “loyal electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority” to override voters and back Trump in the electoral college.

“The state legislatures will say, ‘All right, we’ve been given this constitutional power. We don’t think the results of our own state are accurate, so here’s our slate of electors that we think properly reflect the results of our state,'” a Trump campaign legal adviser tells The Atlantic."

 

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But... Nah, He ain't gonna steal the election...

 

How Donald Trump Could Steal the Election
The president can’t simply cancel the fall balloting, but his state-level allies could still deliver him a second term.
Jeffrey Davis
March 29, 2020

How Donald Trump Could Steal the Election

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"The danger begins with the fact that, regardless of what people believe, the Constitution does not give Americans the right to vote for their president. Rather, the Constitution says that a college of electors votes for the president, and Article II of the Constitution gives states nearly unlimited power to decide how these electors are chosen. In the early years of the American republic, many state legislatures decided which presidential candidate the state’s electors would support. South Carolina used this method until 1868. Today, all 50 states grant their residents the right to vote for president, and the people’s vote determines which electors from each state will select the next president. However, any state could change its law and instead allow its legislature to decide which electors will choose the next president.

In other words, states have a lot of power in deciding how the election will run. Today, Republicans control 30 state legislatures and Democrats only 19, with one state divided. (Nebraska technically has nonpartisan legislators, but it is a reliably red state, so I include it with the Republican states.) These red-state legislatures control 305 electoral votes, and only 270 are needed to secure the presidency. Presumably, most red states, if not all, would appoint electors who would elect Trump for another four years. Of those 30 states, 22 also have Republican governors, which means in those states there would be no Democratic governor to veto Republican legislation taking away the people’s opportunity to vote for president. Those 22 states represent 219 electoral-college votes—perilously close to the 270 required for Trump to be reelected.

Could states really deprive Americans of the right to vote for their president? In Bush v. Gore, a conservative majority on the Supreme Court held that the state “can take back the power to appoint electors” at any time. And the Court is even more conservative today than it was in 2000, as Justice Brett Kavanaugh has replaced Justice Anthony Kennedy."

 

How Donald Trump Could Steal the Election

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"The more complicated question is not whether states can do this, but whether they would. Republican lawmakers have been steadfastly loyal to Trump throughout his tumultuous tenure. If Trump were to ask states to appoint electors instead of having an election, they certainly might follow his request, especially those states where the president enjoys wide popularity. In 24 of the 30 states with Republican legislatures, a majority of people approve of the president’s job performance, according to last month’s Gallup survey. Those states control 224 electoral votes—enough to throw the election’s results into doubt. States could also wreak havoc on the election by not taking steps now to prepare for voting during a pandemic. If only a few states allowed their legislatures to appoint electors, or postponed electoral selection indefinitely, the November election could result in no candidate receiving a majority of electoral-college votes.

This is a real concern. If no candidate wins a majority of electors, the Twelfth Amendment empowers the House of Representatives to decide who will be president. Although the House is controlled by Democrats, predicting the outcome is not that simple. The Amendment requires the House to choose the president by voting as states, not as individual members. So, instead of 435 individual votes, there would be 50 state votes."

 

I love her questions.

 

Trump says he wants to fill Supreme Court seat quickly in case justices need to settle election dispute
David Jackson and Joey Garrison, USA TODAY
Published 5:57 p.m. ET Sept. 23, 2020
Updated 7:01 p.m. ET Sept. 23, 2020

Trump: Need to fill Supreme Court seat 'quickly' because of election

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"Anticipating a contested election, Democratic operatives have warned of a "red mirage" on election night as in-person election results – expected to favor Trump and perhaps show him ahead in many states – are initially reported before a record volume of absentee ballots that could skew toward Biden are counted in the days that follow.

On Wednesday, Trump described mail-in voting plans as a "scam" that "will be before the United States Supreme Court."

Saturday's announcement of a new Supreme Court pick comes just three days before the first presidential debate between Trump and Democrat Joe Biden."

 

Trump still hasn't admitted that he lost the 2016 popular vote to Hillary by about 3 million votes and thinks it was s due to fraud that his fraud commission couldn't find.

His 2016 popular vote margin, -2.1%, ranks 47th in the last 49 elections.

He still thinks he won the 2016 election by an electoral landslide. His electoral margin (Trump's 304 to Clinton's 227) ranks 46th out of 58 elections, near the bottom.

Considering his inability to accept these facts (even after he won), his behavior after the 2020 election isn't expected to be any different (and worse if he loses).

 

Since the two-party system has dominated, only four instances have occurred when a presidential candidate lost the popular vote but won the election because of the electoral vote. All were Republican: Trump, G.W. Bush, Harrison, and Hayes.

 

Trump's economy in six charts

 

Poll: 59 percent think president elected in November should name next Supreme Court justice

A majority of Americans believe the winner of the presidential election should appoint the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's replacement to the Supreme Court.

Fifty-nine percent of respondents said the president elected in November should make the appointment, compared with 41 percent who said President Trump should appoint a new justice immediately. Fifty-three percent said the Senate should hold hearings on President Trump's nominee, compared with 47 percent who said it should not, according to the poll.

 

All the more reason to vote for Joe Biden who was tasked by President Obama back in 2008 to oversee efforts to get the American economy back on track after the economic meltdown.

The Obama Administration was responsible for the great economy that Trump has been taking credit for, for the past 4 years.

Despite Trumps stumbling bumbling efforts even he couldn’t destroy the Obama-Biden economy as it continued to grow.

 

that dip in the poverty rate is straight after Trump took over

 

He was shot in Kenosha, then received threats – a frightening pattern after high-profile incidents
Gina Barton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Published 4:38 p.m. ET Sept. 21, 2020
Updated 4:45 p.m. ET Sept. 22, 2020

Kenosha shootings spur online attacks, conspiracy theories

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"Coordinated antagonism based in identity, she said, ramped up during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

"And when Trump was elected, of course, he normalized them,” she said.

Daniels, author of the books "Cyber Racism" and "White Lies," said, “White supremacists have felt so empowered lately because they’re getting their actions and their statements validated from the highest office in the land. And that’s pretty intoxicating.”

Foreign governments are engaged in disinformation campaigns designed to fuel divisions and elevate white supremacy, Daniels said. The problem is exacerbated when people who don’t necessarily espouse neo-Nazi beliefs repost content about being sick of partisan bickering or not trusting the media.

“To have a politics of social justice, it relies on … some sort of shared belief that there’s truth and there’s stuff that’s not true,” Daniels said. “The president has been an expert at fueling the idea that there is no shared belief, which erodes the ground beneath human rights and social justice.”"