The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump to launch anti-drug ad campaign.


https://www.reuters.com/world/ameri...ignate-mexican-cartels-terrorists-2024-12-22/

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"We're going to advertise how bad drugs are for you. They ruin your look, they ruin your face, they ruin your skin, they ruin your teeth," Trump said at a conference of the conservative group Turning Point in Phoenix, Arizona.

 

Skin and teeth.

Trump was expected to be preoccupied with the cosmetic things that show.

 

Comedian Gallagher used to talk about smoker's toothpaste.

He would say if smoking is making your teeth brown, just think what it's doing to your lungs.

He went on to say that that's the type of culture we are. We only care about things that show.

 

Trump assures his followers that Musk won't become the president.


Trump addresses Elon Musk's growing political influence: 'He's not going to be president'

 

Trump said to see Elon Musk as useful activist after spending deal showdown

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"In Trump’s first term, Trump parted ways with his chief strategist Steve Bannon after he was depicted in the media as the puppeteer of the Oval Office. (One Saturday Night Live skit featured Bannon as the grim reaper standing behind Trump and calling shots in the White House)."

 

For MAGA, "It's the culture, stupid."


For MAGA, it’s the culture, stupid

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"In fact, immigration is the key factor driving right-wing political backlash movements throughout the Western world (France, Germany, the Netherlands, even Brexit in the U.K.). Immigrants to Europe come mostly from Africa and the Middle East. Immigrants flooding the U.S. are mostly Latin American and Asian. Many are non-white and non-Christian.

Immigrants are important for the U.S. economy. Countries like Japan that severely restrict immigration have a rapidly aging population. In the U.S., working-age immigrants may save the economy. But they threaten the culture.

What drives the MAGA movement isn’t the economy. It’s the culture, stupid."

 

Trump harvested the culture war dividend along with some of the "It's the economy, stupid" by talking about inflation, even though the economy was doing well overall.

The two together were just enough to propel him to a 2024 win.

 

Patel tries to walk back statements he made about using the government to go after people he doesn't like.


Kash Patel once said he would 'come after' journalists. It now hangs over his FBI candidacy.

 

You Should Worry About Kash Patel Running the FBI

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"On paper, there is no way to justify Patel’s ascension. He spent a few years as a federal prosecutor focused on national security and was an aide in Congress and the first Trump administration on intelligence and national security issues. Even setting aside the decidedly mixed and often controversial results of that work (more on that below), Patel has no experience managing anything remotely like the FBI’s sprawling bureaucracy — 35,000 employees, 55 field offices throughout the country and more than 60 offices overseas."

 

Trump said to see Elon Musk as useful activist after spending deal showdown

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"Still, many House Republicans have been left deeply frustrated by what they see as Musk meddling in congressional affairs. Musk was not elected to any office and also bought his way into Trump’s orbit by spending roughly $250m to boost his presidential campaign.

Multiple members complained bitterly about Musk’s influence over them as they found themselves glued to his X account between spending-deal meetings in an acknowledgement that Musk’s willingness to drop colossal amounts of cash made his threats of primary challenges a legitimate concern."

 

Trump has become more cocky after the leader of Panama responded.


Trump Is Threatening to Invade Panama, Take Back Canal

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Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino wasn’t impressed. “Every square meter of the Panama Canal and its adjacent area belongs to Panama and will continue to be so,” Mulino responded on Sunday, though without mentioning Trump by name. “The sovereignty and independence of our country aren’t negotiable.”


Trump then posted “We’ll see about that!” in response and shared an image of an American flag over the canal captioned with the message “Welcome to the United States Canal!”

 

About the Panama Canal and Trump

 

Wow…..He’s going to get us into some
bullshit !!

 

None of this his is going to happen- none of it!

 

Trump is talking again about wanting to buy Greenland.


Greenland PM reiterates ‘we are not for sale’ after Trump suggests US ownership

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"For many observers Trump’s comment triggered a sense of deja vu. During his first term Trump suggested in 2019 that the US should buy Greenland – which is home to the strategically important Pituffik US space base.

That idea was roundly rejected by Denmark as well as by the island’s own authorities before any formal discussions could take place. It also prompted widespread ridicule and became emblematic of the chaos that Trump brought to traditional global diplomacy – something now expected to happen again once Trump returns to the White House next month."

 

Trump vows to stop 'transgender lunacy,' only recognize two genders

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“I will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation, get transgender out of the military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high schools,” he said, drawing cheers from the crowd.

 

The painstaking process of deporting people.


Trump wants mass deportations. For the agents removing immigrants, it's a painstaking process

 

Biden short-circuits Trump's vow to resume federal executions by commuting federal death row inmate sentences to life in prison.


Biden gives life in prison to 37 of 40 federal death row inmates before Trump can resume executions