The Donald Trump Score Card

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Supreme Court allows Lisa Cook to remain at the Fed at least temporarily until it considers the issue in January 2026.


https://www.npr.org/2025/10/01/nx-s1-5556920/trump-fed-governor-fire-lisa-cook

 

Trump freezes $18 billion of funding to NY infrastruture over DEI.


Trump administration freezes $18 billion in New York City infrastructure projects, Vought says

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"Roughly $18 billion in New York City infrastructure projects have been put on hold to ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles," Vought wrote.

 

A portion of Hegseth's 45 minute speech.


READ: Hegseth’s Speech to Generals and Admirals

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Also today, at my direction, every warrior across our joint force is required to do PT every duty day. Should be common sense, and most units do that already, but we’re codifying it, and we’re not talking like hot yoga and stretching. Real hard PT, either as a unit or as an individual, at every level, from the joint chiefs to everyone in this room to the youngest private, leaders set the standard, and so many of you this do this already: Active, Guard and Reserve.

This also means grooming standards: No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression. We’re going to cut our hair, shave our beards, and adhere to standards. Because it’s like the broken windows theory of policing. You let the small stuff go, the big stuff eventually goes. So you have to address the small stuff. This is on duty, in the field, in the rear. If you want a beard, you can join Special Forces. If not, then shave. We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans, but unfortunately, we have had leaders who either refuse to call BS and enforce standards, or leaders who felt like they were not allowed to enforce standards. Both are unacceptable, and that’s why today, at my direction, the era of unprofessional appearance is over. No more beardos. The era of rampant and ridiculous shaving profiles is done.

 

Hegseth is tired of fat generals.


Trump, Hegseth rally troops at rare meeting, rail against "woke" standards

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Hegseth told the military leaders he's rolling out 10 new directives involving physical fitness, new grooming requirements and a return to "the highest male standard" for combat positions. He slammed what he said were "fat troops" and added "it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the world. It's a bad look."

 

Trump's daydreaming bluster talk in front of military generals that lasted 73 minutes.


Trump, Hegseth rally troops at rare meeting, rail against "woke" standards

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Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois said in a statement that Mr. Trump's remarks "offered no strategy, no operational guidance, and no plan to address real threats."

"His reckless suggestion that American cities be used as 'training grounds' for U.S. troops is a dangerous assault on our democracy, treating our own communities as war zones and our citizens as enemies," Durbin said.

 

Hegseth's speech lasted 45 minutes.

That's about two hours of Trump and Hegseth to try to stomach.

Looks like the generals could survive intense torture if they somehow are ever captured by a foreign enemy.

 

Trump did his hand dance briefly to the room full of generals when he was talking about how slow he walks down the steps of aircraft and chanting 'doo-bop-bop'.

He should have brought in the Village People to perform In The Navy while he doing his cow-milking hand dance.

 

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The beard shaving specifically targets African American servicemen who have shaving profiles due to pseudofolliculitis barbae (skin irritation), which has been accepted for decades.
Regardless, “beardos” have nothing to do with substandard performance in the military.

 

Trump's stock goofy speech to the stone-faced generals looks like the Warner Bros. cartoon where Bugs Bunny was trying to be a comedian and doing a song and dance to a room full of dead-serious medical doctors.

One of the doctors eventually smacked him on the head with a mallet and knocked him out just to shut him up.


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Bugs Bunny tries to entertain doctors.

 

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Something that needs to be done to 'you know who' during one of his lengthy speeches.


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Do they even sell those anymore? Or “any” nudie magazines, anymore?

 

Hegseth’s awful if well rehearsed Patton movie moment didn’t land. His FAFO crescendo moment not only didn’t land, but it’s still traveling into space.

He ain’t no George C. Scott.

 

So the Republicans go on vacation, rather then work on passing a mutual agreed budget.
But yet it's " the Democrats shutdown" ?

Where the hell are the Republicans? What is their excuse for not funding health care for Americans? Illegals? It's already a federal law to prohibit non- citizens for coverage. But that's their talking point. Lies, lies, lies. To the point that their supporters start to believe it

 

Potential drawbacks of federal government sovereign wealth funds.


Trump’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Brings High Stakes and Serious Risks

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"Even under optimal conditions, SWFs present tempting opportunities for leaders to engage in corruption. To minimize the chance that SWFs will be used for illicit purposes, strong governance institutions are needed. These include establishing a well-defined institutional structure with clear objectives. Robust regulations should spell out how, where, and what quantities of assets a SWF can invest. A fund should have independent oversight and distinct chains of authority, as well as coherent and rational fiscal rules. Considering the Trump administration’s self-dealing and erosion of accountability, there is an acute risk that the U.S. SWF could become a source of graft to reward Trump’s friends, coerce political support for his priorities, and bring personal enrichment."

 

The issue of Congressional action being necessary to actually build a government sovereign wealth fund.


https://www.cato.org/blog/shakedowns-sovereign-wealth-fund

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"The original executive order requested recommendations on sovereign wealth fund components (funding, structure, governance, investment rules, etc.). However, the plan was apparently jettisoned when the White House realized that a formal one would require congressional action and constraints on Trump. Hassett and Bessent still refer to a sovereign wealth fund, and Lutnick says it’s not. That would indicate that the administration’s top economic officials have been making it up as they go along.

All three continue to reference a fund, but no formal fund exists, and one cannot be created by executive order. An EO can tell agencies to coordinate deals (equity, warrants, “golden share” terms), but Congress needs to turn it into a pooled investment vehicle. Repurposing and expanding an existing structure, like the US International Development Finance Corporation, would also take new statutory authority and money. As for the money from these “deals,” by default it goes to the Treasury under the Miscellaneous Receipts rule—unless a law says otherwise.

Trump can’t just order money into a presidential fund of his own creation.

Perhaps, then, the shakedowns will remain ad hoc, and the president will be content to have a “fund” in mind. Regardless, as is typical with this administration, there are more questions than answers."

 

Examples of Trump's direct government interventions in what had been private companies.


https://www.cato.org/blog/shakedowns-sovereign-wealth-fund

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The White House is apparently trying to figure out other ways to satisfy the boss:

June 13: Trump issues an executive order allowing the Nippon Steel-US Steel deal contingent on giving the government a “golden share” that enables the president to exert extensive control over US Steel’s operations.

July 10: The Department of Defense (DoD) unveils a multi-part package with convertible preferred stock, warrants, and loan guarantees, making it the top shareholder of rare earth metals producer MP Materials.

July 23: The White House claims an agreement with Japan to reduce the president’s so-called reciprocal tariff rate on Japanese imports comes with a $550 billion Japanese “investment fund” that Trump will control.

July 31: Trump claims an agreement with South Korea to reduce the so-called reciprocal tariff on South Korean imports comes with a $350 billion South Korean-financed investment in projects “owned and controlled by the United States” that he will select.

August 11: The White House confirms an “unprecedented” deal with Nvidia and AMD that allows them to sell particular chips to China in exchange for 15 percent of the sales.

August 12: In a Fox Business interview, Bessent points to the alleged investments from Japan, South Korea, and the EU “to some extent” and says, “Other countries, in essence, are providing us with a sovereign wealth fund.”

August 22: Fifteen days after calling for Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to resign, Trump announces that the US will take a 10 percent equity stake in Intel using the CHIPS Act and DoD funds, becoming Intel’s largest single shareholder.

 

Trump uses cancer-surviving children to try to make them say they don't like the media.


Awkward moment Trump asks childhood cancer survivors if they like the media

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However, the moment grew awkward after Trump asked the children, “The wonderful people in the media… Do you like the media? They’re nice, right?”

The children did not respond to the bizarre question, with some of them appearing confused.