The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump going after benefits for DACA residents. It is an issue that our politicians have refused to come to terms with; DACA are legal residents. They are illegible for the Student Loan program.

The following is a copy/paste from The Wall St. Journal.
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The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has its hands full investigating antisemitism on college campuses. So why is it needlessly harassing colleges that provide scholarships to young people who came to the country illegally as children?

The department recently launched “national origin discrimination investigations” into the universities of Louisville, Nebraska Omaha, Miami, Michigan, and Western Michigan. Like its Biden predecessors, the Trump team is using the 1964 Civil Rights Act as a cudgel to advance its political agenda.


“Neither the Trump Administration’s America first policies nor the Civil Right Act of 1964’s prohibition on national origin discrimination permit universities to deny our fellow citizens the opportunity to compete for scholarships because they were born in the United States,” said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor. This is a rationale in search of a problem that doesn’t exist.

Title VI of the law prohibits discrimination by race and national origin in federally funded programs. The Trump team is claiming that college scholarships for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients somehow discriminate against native-born Americans. But this is really the government discriminating against DACA students.

DACA is the Obama-era program that provides legal status and work authorizations to undocumented young people who came to the U.S. before 2007. Many of these so-called Dreamers have no memory of or ties to their home countries. Since they aren’t eligible for federal student aid, and typically come from families with modest incomes, most couldn’t afford tuition at these schools without scholarships.

The schools have been targeted because they have scholarship programs specifically designated for students with DACA status. The programs are small, and the schools have far more scholarship programs for native-born Americans. Scholarships for DACA recipients don’t discriminate by national origin even if American-born students aren’t eligible. While a Mexican-born Dreamer would qualify, most Mexican-Americans wouldn’t.

Some schools also offer special scholarships for international students, though the Education Department doesn’t seem to have a problem with these programs. Mr. Trainor says the department’s goal is to “protect American students and lawful residents from invidious national origin discrimination.”

But denying Dreamers an opportunity to learn and advance in society doesn’t help anyone. It’s another example of the way the Trump Administration’s mass deportation agenda is at war with the country’s need for human talent. Keep in mind these DACA students are currently legal residents of the U.S.

The real point of these investigations seems to be one more way of punishing Dreamers because their parents crossed illegally into the U.S. decades ago. Ditto the Justice Department’s lawsuits against states that provide lower in-state tuition to Dreamers. Punitive decisions like these may explain why Mr. Trump’s approval rating on immigration is falling.

 

RFK Jr. cancels $500 million for research of mRNA vaccines for respiratory illnesses.

In June RFK Jr. fired all 17 members of the CDC vaccine advisory committee.


RFK Jr. pulls funding for vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses

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"Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary and a longtime vaccine critic, announced in a statement Tuesday that $500 million worth of vaccine development projects, all using mRNA technology, will be halted.

The projects — 22 of them — are being led by some of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer and Moderna to prevent flu, COVID-19 and H5N1 infections."

 

Trump threatens additional 35% tariffs on EU if it doesn't invest $600 billion in U.S.


Trump threatens to ratchet up tariffs on EU if it fails to invest $600B in US

 

The Purdue student from South Korea detained in July has been released from ICE detention facility

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/05/trump-presidency-news/

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President Donald Trump issued a blistering attack on D.C.'s right to self-governance on Tuesday, using social media to decry youth violence in the nation’s capital and suggest a federal takeover.

“If D.C. doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run, and put criminals on notice that they’re not going to get away with it anymore,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.

 

Trump says Texas is entitled to gerrymander to obtain five more GOP seats in Congress ahead of the 2026 midterms because he says he got the highest votes in Texas in history.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/05/trump-presidency-news/

 

Trump is up on the roof of the White House related to a $200 million grand ballroom he is having built.

Yet he's never been able to set up something as simple as a textile loom in the U.S. so that he and his daughter wouldn't have had to import clothing dirt cheap from foreigners for their clothing businesses (and sell it at very highly marked up prices to Americans).

 

The destructive influence of Trump.

Christina Bobb before Trump and after she became involved with Trump and was indicted and arrested in AZ for tryng to overthrow the 2020 election for Trump.


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Ray Smith before and after being affiliated with Trump and his quest to overturn the 2020 election.


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NFTC assessment about trying to stop fentanyl smuggling into U.S. by outright ending de minimus.


Major American Business, Manufacturing, Tech, and Logistics Associations Call for Improving, Not Degrading De Minimis; Correct the Record on Widespread Misinformation - National Foreign Trade Council

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"Some have blamed the fentanyl crisis on de minimis. As government enforcement statistics make clear[10], the overwhelming majority of fentanyl enters the United States in large shipments from Mexico. These shipments are smuggled in passenger vehicles, by pedestrians, and concealed in truck shipments. De minimis packages, on the other hand, arrive in the United States overwhelmingly by air transportation throughout the country.

The CBP data tool released in August 2023[11] to track fentanyl seizures shows that 99% of fentanyl seizures were on the southern land border, which is not a significant channel for de minimis shipments. Further, in FY 2024, CBP is projected to seize roughly 1.2 billion doses of fentanyl. Only 3% of those doses will come via air cargo.[12] As the Peterson Institute recently noted: “the logic of banning de minimis parcels as a solution for the fentanyl crisis is on par with the logic of banning automobiles in Michigan (population 10 million) as a solution for national auto deaths (some 43,000 in 2022 in a population of 334 million).”[13]

As the administration works to stop the flow of fentanyl and other illicit drugs, we need serious policy solutions addressing the actual methods by which illicit narcotics are coming into the country. Fentanyl is a devastating crisis that must be met with real solutions."

 

Trump threatens federal takeover of DC.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/05/trump-doge-worker-washington-dc-crime/

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Billionaire Elon Musk, who helmed the U.S. DOGE Service, wrote on X that a DOGE “team member” was attacked, and Musk called to federalize D.C. A police report identified the victim as Edward Coristine, who is also known by the nickname “Big Balls.”

 

Trump administration staffer known as ‘Big Balls’ assaulted in DC
Edward Coristine, who played a key role in early days of DOGE, was attacked while trying to stop an apparent carjacking, according to a police report.
By Ben Johansen and Sophia Cai
08/05/2025 09:31 PM EDT

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...r-known-as-big-balls-assaulted-in-dc-00494990

 

Trump introduces Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem as golfer Christie Kerr.


Trump, 79, Forgets Kristi Noem’s Name in Senior Moment

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/economy/government-tariff-revenue

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“Tariffs are going to have a negative economic effect on the American economy,” Tedeschi told CNN. The Yale Budget Lab estimates that Trump’s tariffs will shave half a point off US gross domestic product this year and next.

“That’s going to partly but not fully offset the amount of revenues that we raise from tariffs. Because if your economy is growing less than you thought, then, yeah, you raise this tariff revenue, but maybe you raise a little bit less in income taxes and payroll taxes as a result.”

Trump and his administration see it differently, however, arguing that the recently enacted mega tax cuts and spending bill, combined with the tariff revenue, will supercharge the US economy over time.

 

Trump has suspended half a billion dollars of funding to UCLA, claiming anti-semitism.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...ng-suspended-by-trump-administration-00495071

excerpt:

"Through the beginning of his second term, President Donald Trump and his administration officials have used the power of the federal government to target his perceived critics and enemies. In addition to going after major universities, the administration has launched investigations into former government officials from past administrations and attacked law firms that have represented clients the president dislikes."

 

Trump hits India with additional 25% tariffs.

It increases the overall tariffs on India to 50%.

He's upset India buys oil from Russia.


Trump Hits India With Additional 25% Tariff Over Russia Oil Buys

 

Trump stops Lava Ridge Wind Project.


EXCLUSIVE: Trump admin nixes giant wind farm approved 'last-minute' by Biden team

 

Former Fox News host, and now Trump's Transportation Secretary, and also interim NASA administrator, to announce plans to build nuclear reactor on the moon.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/04/nasa-china-space-station-duffy-directives-00492172

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/us/politics/trump-white-house-stroll.html

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"It appears that Mr. Trump’s respite from the tumult — some of which he has wrought — is to ensconce himself in a White House that is rapidly changing from the taxpayer-funded people’s house to one that resembles one of the Louis XIV-inspired properties in his portfolio."