The Donald Trump Score Card

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/us/politics/trump-kirk-polarization-unity.html

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"Mr. Trump has long made clear that coming together is not the mission of his presidency. In an era of deep polarization in American society, he rarely talks about healing. While other presidents have typically tried to lower the temperature in moments of national crisis, Mr. Trump turns up the flames. He does not subscribe to the traditional notion of being president for all the people. He acts as president of red America and the people who agree with him, while those who do not are portrayed as enemies and traitors deserving payback."

 

After the 2016 election, Trump talked like he was going to unify the country.


WATCH: Trump vows to unify a deeply divided nation

 

The current state of Trump's vows, including those where he has changed his stance completely or can't seem to make up his mind one way or the other.


Sugar Coke? Department of War? Where some of Trump's most jaw-dropping promises stand

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Defending daylight saving time — after opposing it

WHERE IT STANDS: Faded away.

BACKSTORY: Trump has been on all sides of the issue. He posted before retaking the White House that the GOP would work to eliminate daylight saving time. In March, he said that setting clocks back and forward was a 50-50 issue, and was therefore too hard for him to take a firm position on. The following month, the president posted online that he actually supported making daylight saving time permanent. The Senate passed a measure do just that in 2022, but it stalled in the House. Legislation reviving that effort has been introduced, but not advanced

 

Royal spectacle planned for Trump including carriage ride.


King Charles planning royal spectacle for President Trump, with carriage rides and star-studded guest list

 

Boosted by Trump red carpet treatment in Alaska, Putin moves ahead with war.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/09/14/putin-trump-summits-alaska-china-ukraine/

 

White House requests $59 million for protection after Kirk assassination.


White House requests $58 million to increase security for executive, judicial branches after Charlie Kirk shooting, sources say

 

It can be argued that people have become desensitized to political-criminal behavior because it has become common.

Trump has been a major factor in normalizing such criminal behavior and condoning it (when the behavior supports him but not others). His classic line in 2016 "I'd like to punch him in the face" is an early example. Others include his mocking of Pelosi's husband whose skull was fractured by an intruder (which Charlie Kirk also mocked using inuendo, like Trump did) and his coddling and pardoning of his violent rioters who stormed the Capitol.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/14/political-violence-news-cycle-00563050

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"One worrying sign: Americans’ attention has moved on faster and faster as incidents have become more frequent, data suggest, indicating the public may be becoming rapidly desensitized to it.

When an arsonist set the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion on fire in April, the incident did not make most national newspapers’ front pages. When two Democratic lawmakers were shot, with one killed alongside her husband, in Minnesota in June, it took only a few days for Google search traffic for the incident to drop to almost zero.

It shook the nation when Trump was shot last summer; but when another would-be gunman targeted the then-candidate on a golf course a few weeks later, it was just a blip in the news cycle."

 

Sen. Mike Lee mocked the assassination deaths of two people.


GOP Senator Mike Lee faces backlash for Charlie Kirk assassination response

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However, less than three months earlier, Lee's response to the double assassination of Democratic lawmaker Hortman and her husband was widely criticized. Instead of mourning the victims, Lee initially mocked the event on social media.

 

GOP Senator Mike Lee faces backlash for Charlie Kirk assassination response

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"Lee offered a prayerful message following Wednesday's shooting, and extended condolences to Kirk's wife and children while calling for swift justice.

But the Republican struck a far less gracious tone in June, including a post on X that said: "Nightmare on Waltz Street," a jab referencing Walz. Another post falsely stated: "This is what happens when Marxists don't get their way," while including an image of Boelter, who friends and public records described as politically right-leaning, having once registered as a Republican in Oklahoma."

 

The anger and frustration are showing.

The wife of Kirk says people don't realize what has been unleashed.

Sen. Mike Lee says the assassin created 100 million Kirks. "They haven't seen anything yet."


Utah senator Mike Lee claims Utah assassin created '100 million Charlie Kirks'

 

The Trump administration is firing people for making comments about Kirk.

Kirk leveled cruel comments at people many times.


Trump news at a glance: Kirk critics lose jobs amid rancour after killing

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Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, has ordered staff “to find and identify military members, and any individual associated with the Pentagon, who have mocked or appeared to condone Charlie Kirk’s murder”, NBC News reported. It said several members of the military were relieved of their duties because of social media posts – and that “dozens” more, including civilian Pentagon employees, had been “called out on X”.

 

Trump news at a glance: Kirk critics lose jobs amid rancour after killing

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Republicans’ anger at those disrespecting Kirk’s legacy contrasts with the mockery some of the same figures – including Kirk – directed at past victims of political violence. After Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul, was clubbed over the head by a hammer-wielding conspiracy theorist, Kirk told a TV audience: “If some amazing patriot out there in San Francisco or the Bay Area wants to really be a midterm hero, someone should go and bail this guy out.”

 

Trump made similar remarks, calling the break-in a 'break-out'.

During a speech at a convention, Trump also asked sarcastically about the injured Paul Pelosi, "How's her husband doing? Anyone know?"


Trump mocks Pelosi family as he rallies conservative support in California
By Andrew Zhang
09/29/2023 07:39 PM EDT

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/...s-conservative-support-in-california-00119243

 

Trump didn't look well during a 9/11 commemoration.

It was the day after the Kirk assassination.


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EPA puts at least 5 New England staffers on leave for 'dissent' letter

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"The EPA notified suspended employees with an email stating the paid administrative leave "is not a disciplinary action." In a statement provided to WBUR, the EPA said it "has a zero-tolerance policy for career bureaucrats unlawfully undermining, sabotaging, and undercutting the administration’s agenda as voted for by the great people of this country last November."

According to an EPA spokesperson, the letter contained misleading information and employees signed it using their agency job titles."

 

Lula hails Bolsonaro verdict, tells Trump Brazil’s democracy not negotiable

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Dozens of supporters gathered outside the hospital to cheer on the ex-president, waving Brazilian flags and shouting, “Amnesty now!”.

 

Similar to Trump doing his joy ride around the hospital when he had Covid.

Only Bolsonaro didn't do a joy ride.