The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump's spirit is currently being incarnated into billionaires like Musk (worth $400 billion) who are expected to be running the country when he's gone (and the next four years when he isn't yet gone).

 

Trump injects politics into the Army-Navy game.


Trump brings political excitement to Army-Navy game

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"In what will be the 125th meeting of the Black Knights and Midshipmen, a source tells Fox that Trump is taking Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth to the highly anticipated football clash, while Vance confirmed on social media that he will have Marine veteran Daniel Penny by his side.

Penny was found not guilty in the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely in New York City earlier this week, a decision which was criticized by some commentators on the left and underscored a divide between crime and mental health."

 

Senate confirms Biden's 235th judge, beating Trump's record.


Senate confirms Biden's 235th judge, beating Trump's record

 

House passes spending bill and averts government shutdown.

Jeffries' remark.


Government shutdown live updates: House approves new funding bill

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"House Democrats have successfully stopped the billionaire Boys Club, which wanted a $4 trillion blank check by suspending the debt ceiling in order to enable them to cut Social Security, cut Medicare and cut nutritional assistance, while providing massive tax breaks for the wealthy, the well-off and the well-connected," he said.

 

Members of Congress stood up against Trump this time instead of taking punishment from him.

Leaders of countries around the world can also stand up to his bullying if they choose to do so instead of running down to Mar-a-Lago to try to appease him, which doesn't work. Trudeau is the latest of example of it not working.

It's been eight years since Trump first took office. People in the U.S. and around the world should have learned how to deal with him by this time.

 

If Trump wants to try to abolish the debt ceiling, he can do it during his presidential term and take responsibility for doing it and the consequences.

The latest antic was Trump riding piggyback on Elon Musk, trying to use Biden's term to abolish the debt ceiling, and later blaming him for the debt ceiling not being abolished or blaming him later for the increased national debt that will occur during Trump's term if it is abolished.

It's a slapstick approach by Trump of trying to implement a win-win situation for himself on the back of someone else.

 

Consider all of the people Trump has picked as ambassadors to stick it to other countries he doesn't like.

Trump and his cohorts perceive it happening to him once and goes into an outrage.

 

Trump is vowing to pardon Jan. 6 rioters. Allies and critics alike say he needs a refresher.

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"Trump told NBC News’ Kristen Welker that he’ll be “acting very quickly” on Jan. 6 pardons, saying there might be “exceptions” if Jan. 6 defendants were “radical” or “crazy.” He also appeared to mistakenly believe that most or all Jan. 6 defendants were being held in the jail in Washington, when in fact only a handful of defendants are still being held pretrial and those who have been convicted are now housed in federal prisons across the country. One law enforcement official said the interview made “absolutely” clear that Trump wasn’t read in on the details of Jan. 6 cases."

 

An example.

Trump picks fight with Pope with pick for new Vatican ambassador.


Trump Picks Fight With Pope With New Vatican Ambassador

 

Trump files brief to try to stop sale of unused border wall materials that is required by Congress.


Trump seeks court order to halt border wall material sale

 

https://www.10news.com/politics/tru...f-border-wall-arent-being-sold-to-spite-trump

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"Speaking to reporters gathered Monday for a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort, President-elect Donald Trump falsely accused President Joe Biden of selling off perfectly good pieces of the border wall.

"I'm asking today for Joe Biden today to stop selling the wall," Trump said. 'What they're doing is really almost a criminal act. They know we're going to use it. "

In reality, President Biden was not the one to order the sale of excess material. It was the Defense Department, under orders from Congress."

 

https://www.10news.com/politics/tru...f-border-wall-arent-being-sold-to-spite-trump

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But Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who is also a Trump supporter, says the remaining pieces of the wall weren't of much use, posting on X that "...the material for sale was mostly junk."

 

Trump's border wall is mostly junk. His own party wouldn't give him U.S. taxpayer money to build it (which is why Trump created the longest government shut down in U.S. history).

Trump has shifted his focus from his border wall to deporting people already in the U.S.

The wall didn't stop influx of people and drugs.

Trump is continuing to blame Canada and Mexico for migrants, illegal drugs, and crime and threatening them with more tariffs.

 

Government shutdown live updates: House approves new funding bill

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"Under the House proposal, the 118-page bill contains most of the provisions that were put in place in the bipartisan bill that was agreed to on Wednesday. The bill includes $100 billion for disaster aid, $30 billion for farmers and a one-year extension of the farm bill, provisions that were under heavy debate prior to this week's votes."

 

$30 billion for farmers.

Much more than that will be required each year in the upcoming years if Trump resumes his trade wars.

 

Trump selects billionaire astronaut to run NASA.


https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-picks-billionaire-astronaut-lead-nasa

 

Musk crashes dinner Trump was having with Bezos at Mar-a-Lago.

It's like Musk is running Mar-a-Lago.


Elon Musk Crashing Trump’s Jeff Bezos Dinner at Mar-a-Lago Mocked as ‘Deranged’

 

A billionaire bromance love triangle.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/20/trump-shut-down-republicans-00195728

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"Donald Trump is getting a rude awakening that his grip on the GOP isn’t absolute.

Over the past 48 hours, 38 House Republicans rejected the stopgap spending bill that the president-elect publicly threw his weight behind after tanking Speaker Mike Johnson’s original proposal to keep the federal government running past Friday. Their defiance came even as Trump and his allies threatened to field primary challenges against GOP members who didn’t fall in line.

Then, on Friday night, the House passed a different version of the spending plan — one that didn’t include Trump’s demand to extend or end the debt limit. Nearly three-dozen Republicans voted against that one, too."

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/20/trump-shut-down-republicans-00195728

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“This is an inflection point: How Trump responds from outside the caucus, how he deals with those who are not ready to make deals … this is really just prepping the battlefield and testing the waters for the next four years to come,” Bartlett said.

Trump’s push to get Republicans to accede to his demands ran headlong into longstanding GOP resistance to suspending the debt ceiling. Doing that is a huge ask of fiscal conservatives, and viewed through that lens, it’s unsurprising that the bill went down.