The Donald Trump Score Card

Appeals court blocks judge's order to shut down Alligator Alcatraz.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/04/federal-appeals-court-alligator-alcatraz-00545277

 

Northwestern University president resigns amid funding battles caused by Trump.


Northwestern president resigns following White House tension

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"Northwestern University President Michael Schill announced Thursday that he will resign, ending a three-year tenure marked by the freeze of hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding by the Trump administration and heated criticism from House Republicans over the university's response to campus protests."

 

Majority of Americans don't want Trump sending military into cities.


Poll shows a majority of Americans don't want Trump to send National Guard to major cities — as he says Chicago and Baltimore are next

 

Fox bosses called Pirro a reckless maniac.

Trump made Pirro U.S. Attorney of DC.


https://www.npr.org/2025/09/04/nx-s1-5526879/fox-news-jeanine-pirro-reckless-maniac

 

RFK Jr. defends his chaos at the health department during Senate hearing.


Fired health official offers to testify under oath after RFK Jr accused her of lying in heated Senate hearing – live | Trump administration | The Guardian

 

Trump is nixing not just wind turbine projects but any other projects or entities that he feels are fratenising with the enemy (wind turbines).


Trump’s war against wind extends into electric transmission projects

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“The administration is seeking to undermine both the generation of clean power and the infrastructure that supports it,” American Clean Power Association CEO Jason Grumet told Fortune. “It’s hard enough to build power lines without adding polarization.

 

Trump kills $5 billion loan for Grain Belt Express wind project.


Trump administration kills $5B loan for Grain Belt Express

 

Trump cuts $40 million Norfolk offshore wind project.


Trump cuts $40M for Norfolk offshore wind project | 13newsnow.com

 

Cassidy shouldn't have voted to confirm RFK Jr.

Now he is all upset with the behavior of RFK Jr.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/04/bill-cassidy-trump-rfk-jr-louisiana-endorsement-00543192

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"Cassidy, a doctor trained as a liver specialist, voted to confirm Kennedy earlier this year while airing misgivings about the nominee’s unorthodox medical views. In recent months, that criticism erupted again and again after Kennedy pushed out a panel of vaccine experts, and, last week, ousted the head of the CDC."

 

What does Trump want in the Caribbean as US deploys warships?

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The president himself told reporters in the Oval Office that "you see the bags of drugs all over the boat", referring to video footage which he said showed the strike.

 

What does Trump want in the Caribbean as US deploys warships?

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The Pentagon has so far deployed guided missile destroyers, the Iwo Jima amphibious group and a nuclear-powered submarine, along with P-8 intelligence planes and around 4,500 troops to the region.

The build-up "recalls the days of 'gunboat diplomacy' more than a century ago," Prof McPherson said.

 

Trump is beyond gunboat 'diplomacy'.

In his mind it's gunboat 'crime-fighting', albeit superficial and useless.

It gives him a temporary ego boost.

 

Trump may owe America a mammoth refund.


If Trump loses his tariff lawsuit, America may have to refund businesses more than $200 billion
By Elisabeth Buchwald
September 3, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/economy/trump-tariff-refund

 

DC sues Trump administration over its use of the National Guard.


D.C. sues Trump administration over 'illegal deployment' of National Guard in Washington

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/04/trump-tariffs-supreme-court-appeal-column-00543196

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Call it The Chicken Little Defense: If the courts do not sign off on the administration’s tariffs, it “would be a total disaster for the Country” and “would literally destroy the United States of America,” Trump said on Friday after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that the bulk of the president’s tariffs are illegal. He doubled down on those claims on Tuesday while tacking on the transparently ridiculous assertion that the U.S. is “taking in $17 trillion … because of tariffs.”

 

Federal judges criticize Supreme Court's handling of Trump cases.


In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court's handling of Trump cases

 

'You Lied': Physician Lawmaker Confronts RFK Jr. About ACIP Firings

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Schrier also asserted that in order to secure the confirmation vote of Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.), Kennedy promised to not remove the ACIP members.

"I never made that agreement," Kennedy said. "If he said that I agreed to it, it would be inaccurate."

 

RFK Jr. selects new members for vaccine panel.


RFK Jr picks seven new members for US CDC vaccine panel, document shows

 

In June 2025, RFK Jr. fired all 17 members of The Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP).


RFK Jr. fired everyone on a key vaccine panel. Here’s who he replaced them with.

 

Trump appeals tariff loss to U.S. Supreme Court.


Trump asks US Supreme Court to uphold his tariffs after lower court defeat