The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump says he will change the name of Mt. Denali in Alaska back to Mt. McKinley.

Trump likes President McKinley because he was a fan of tariffs.

Also, the name was changed from McKinley to Denali during Obama's administration.

 

Trump buying Greenland would be largest US territory acquisition ever -- topping even these massive gains

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"WASHINGTON, DC — President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to buy Greenland would be the US’s largest territorial addition in history — topping even the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, which nearly doubled America’s size at the time.

Trump, 78, on Sunday added steam to his push to acquire the Arctic island when he announced PayPal cofounder Ken Howery as his pick to be the US ambassador to Denmark, which has controlled the mammoth territory for more than 300 years."

 

'A real cesspool': Watchdogs aghast by CEOs trying to 'curry favor' with Trump

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"Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee took in about $107 million, doubling the previous record set in Barack Obama's first inauguration in 2009 and besting Joe Biden's $62 million haul in 2021, and his second inauguration has already surpassed its $150 million goal.

The president-elect has made clear how much he values face-to-face meetings and public praise from business leaders, and he has also shown a willingness to favor their companies in exchange for their support and punish those who oppose him.

“It’s all heightened now,” Glavin said. “None of these people, they don’t want to be Trump’s punching bag for four years.”

The committee was formed four days after the November election and is co-chaired by real estate investor Steve Witkoff and former Republican senator Kelly Loeffler, and former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, GOP megadonor Miriam Adeslon and billionaire GOP donor Diane Hendricks serve as finance chairs."

 

Doesn't sound like Trump's forgotten farmers.

 

Major international crisis ‘much more likely’ in Trump’s second term, says his ex-national security adviser

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Bolton recalled: “What I believed was that, like every American president before him, the weight of the responsibilities, certainly in national security, the gravity of the issues that he was confronting, the consequences of his decisions, would discipline his thinking in a way that would produce serious outcomes.

“It turned out I was wrong. By the time I got there a lot of patterns of behaviour had already been set that were never changed and it could well be, even if I had been there earlier, I couldn’t have affected it. But it was clear pretty soon after I got there that intellectual discipline wasn’t in the Trump vocabulary.”

In a sharp departure from traditional US foreign policy, Trump has campaigned under an “America first” banner advocating isolationism, non-interventionism and trade protectionism, including significant tariffs.

Bolton agreed with “a lot” of Trump’s decisions during his first term but found they had all the coherence of “a series of neuron flashes”, he said. “He doesn’t have a philosophy, doesn’t do policy as we understand that, he doesn’t have a national security strategy.

 

Of course Trump doesn't.

He's a populist who goes with whatever he thinks will benefit him personally at the moment.

 

Major international crisis ‘much more likely’ in Trump’s second term, says his ex-national security adviser

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“It’s typical Trump: it’s all braggadocio,” Bolton told the Guardian. “The world is more dangerous than when he was president before. The only real crisis we had was Covid, which is a long term crisis and not against a particular foreign power but against a pandemic.

“But the risk of an international crisis of the 19th century variety is much more likely in a second Trump term. Given Trump’s inability to focus on coherent decision making, I’m very worried about about how that might look.”

 

Trump didn't give details on what he meant when he said that there are provisions in the treaty that require Panama to treat America fairly.


6 key lines from Trump’s Sunday speech to conservative activists in Phoenix

“It was given to Panama and to the people of Panama, but it has provisions — you’ve got to treat us fairly. And they haven’t treated us fairly,” Trump said. “We will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America in full, quickly and without question. I’m not going to stand for it. So to the officials of Panama, please be guided accordingly.”

 

Fox is using words to try to liken Trump to Reagan and Pope John Paul.


Trump's faith journey mirrors America turning to God in challenging times, Cardinal Dolan says

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"There seems to be a newfound appreciation for the role of faith, especially in our country," he told the "Sunday Morning Futures" host.

"I think President Trump tapped into that. I've had talks with him before in the past. He was pretty blunt [that] he can't say that he was raised as a very zealous Christian, but he takes his Christian faith seriously. He has a lot of memories about Norman Vincent Peale, the famous preacher here in New York, down… on Fifth Avenue, and I think he means it."

 

Trump's faith journey mirrors America turning to God in challenging times, Cardinal Dolan says

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"He continued, "I think the assassination attempts kind of renewed in him, 'There's something beyond me that I think is watching over me, and it's got a task for me.' And what he expresses personally seems to be expressed more and more throughout the world. And that's part of America."

Perhaps there is something bigger watching over the world, he suggested, pointing to former President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II, two figures whose contributions helped define the latter part of the 20th century. They both survived assassination attempts very close to one another, each going on to help make the world what it is today."

 

Mussolini survived an assassination attempt.

In his case, the bullet nicked his nose instead of the ear.

 

Trump suggests US could retake control of Panama Canal

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"I can proudly proclaim that the Golden Age of America is upon us," Trump said.

"There's a spirit that we have now that we didn't have just a short while ago."

 

The state of affairs in the 1890's that Trump claims was so great because of tariffs imposed by McKinley (whose name Trump wants back on the Alaska mountain because McKinley was supportive of tariffs).


Depression of the 1890s: Causes and Strikes | Vaia

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Depression of the 1890s: Facts

"Falling prices and mounting unemployment arrived in the wake of business failures. At one time or another, nearly twenty percent of the U.S. labor force was out of work during the Depression.

Everywhere families had to cut back on expenditures. Falling demand caused the cost of living to drop by seven percent between 1892 and 1895, but that decline was more than offset by layoffs and wage cuts. Many people could not afford necessities. New York police estimated that twenty thousand homeless and jobless people roamed the city's streets."

 

Rampant election fraud supposedly happened in 2020 but now Trump and his following have gone quiet.

Even with Trump elected in 2024, thousands of down-ballot races occurred across the country whose outcomes Trump and his following could claim went to Democrats because of voter fraud.

Yet Trump and his following are quiet.


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The Republicans in the House have investigated Biden for impeachment and have come up empty. Jim Jordan has come up empty. Even outlets as right wing as Newsmax lost interest in it.

That includes investigating back to the Obama era when Biden was VP.

One of the GOP's supposed star witnesses, Smirnov, has been indicted multiple times for tax evasion and lying to the FBI.

It's embarrassing to the GOP that was supposed to be indicting Biden and their star witness is indicted multiple times. The House GOP is aware of this and has deleted references to it from the Congressional record.


‘That hearing was embarrassing’: White House bashes GOP for not dropping impeachment inquiry

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A handful of conservative media personalities have also questioned if the impeachment probe should proceed. Newsmax host Rob Finnerty on Wednesday pressed Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on whether the probe is moving, saying “it kind of seems like you’re chasing your tail at this point.”

 

After Trump pardons his rioters, he should invite them to Mar-a-Lago the way they looked during the riot to mingle with the millionaire and billionaire elites. The QAnon Shaman can be in attendance in his full costume.

 

And wearing his Presidential Medal Of Freedom that Trump would probably give him.


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After two months of Trump-bump optimism, consumer confidence sags.


https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/a...mp-optimism-consumer-confidence-sags/91092159

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"Why did respondents turn glum after voicing optimism the previous two months? Some may have started to take stock of the longer-term consequences of electing Trump and the policies he plans to enact.

Leading those concerns are the sweeping tariffs Trump has vowed to impose on imports. Since winning the election, the president-elect surprised many observers by pledging to apply those duties first on exports from Mexico and Canada, the country’s two closest neighbors and biggest trading partners. In addition to 25 percent taxes on the value of goods from each of those nations, Trump also said he’d increase existing levies on products from China by another 10 percent."

 

They should have done that before they voted for him.

 

After Trump's failed attempt to make Matt Gaetz attorney general, Gaetz should consider changing his career to acting in Hollywood movies.

He could play the fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter.


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