The Donald Trump Score Card

Man of Honduran descent who's a U.S. citizen was stopped multiple times by Border Patrol.


https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article312950879.html

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"Aceituno said the escalation happened during the second of two stops just minutes apart, when agents approached him again in the parking lot. He said the interaction moved from banging on his door to breaking the window within seconds, leaving him startled and unsure why the officers were back. They questioned him minutes earlier, and he didn’t understand why they returned without explaining what he had done wrong.

Aceituno said he questioned the order to open his car door because the previous encounter had just ended, and he is a citizen. Within moments, he said, agents broke his window and left scrapes and cuts on his arms.

In videos of the incident, Aceituno can be seen shouting at agents and telling them to check his wallet for his identification as they pin him to the ground and handcuff him. He was released after officers verified his citizenship."

 

Trump losing his groove.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/donald-trump-epstein-vote-00654761

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But the extraordinary rebukes and headwinds the president is now facing — much of it from within his own party — are revealing a GOP beginning to reckon with a post-Trump future. That dynamic crystallized after voters surged to the polls to support Democratic candidates for statewide races in New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia and Pennsylvania, shattering expectations of close contests and signaling that even Trump can’t defy political gravity forever.

Republicans refuse to back down on Epstein vote

Indiana GOP lawmakers don’t bite on redistricting

Warning signs appear for tariffs at the Supreme Court

No luck on the filibuster or the blue slip, either

Trump gets a one-two punch after pardoning 2020 allies

MAGA rebukes Trump on 50-year mortgages, H1B visas

 

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article312950879.html

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“I have my rights, to not open the door if I don’t want to, and to answer questions,” he said.

Aceituno said he was not arrested or charged for obstruction of justice, which he sees as an indicator that DHS’s allegations do not match the facts.

 

Trump diverts billions of dollars away from programs to help homeless.


Trump administration moves to divert billions of dollars from homeless housing programs

 

Trump says Americans are 'damn lucky' he's in office again. Otherwise, it would have been a catastrophe.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...-office-in-first-affordability-pitch-00655751

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“You probably would have had a bankrupt country. You are so damn lucky that I won that election, I’m telling you,” Trump said.

 

A bankrupt country, says Trump who had multiple bankruptcies with his casino businesses.

Now he's running the country like he ran his casinos, faking that everything is alright.

 

The Senate has unanimously passed a bill that requires the DOJ to release all unclassified documents about Epstein.

The House approved it 427-1.

Republican Clay Higgins voted 'no', citing privacy concerns.


Epstein files bill will head to Trump's desk after approval by House and Senate

 

Trump says tariff-funded dividend payments for Americans will begin next year

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"President Donald Trump said Monday that Americans could see payment checks funded by tariff revenues as soon as next year, promising that "hundreds of millions of dollars in tariff money" would be distributed as dividends by mid-2026."

 

'Dividend' is obviously a wrong term.

'Dividend' is part of business earnings that are given to shareholders.

Trump is trying to give a partial refund of the tariff money he took from the public.

 

MBS meets with Trump at White House on Tuesday.


Trump, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to meet at White House amid diplomatic shifts in region

 

Trump once again theatens to pull the FIFA World Cup games from Seattle because he says the mayor-elect is a communist.


Trump threatens to pull 2026 FIFA World Cup games from Seattle again

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"So if we think there's a problem in Seattle where you have a very, very liberal/communist mayor, I would say certainly beyond just liberal, I watched her over the weekend, wow, that's another beauty we got there. But if we think there's going to be a problem, we'll, Gianni can I say we will move— I don't think you can have this problem, but we're going to move the event to someplace where it's going to be appreciated and safe," Trump said.

 

Trump calls female reporter 'piggy' after she asked a question about Epstein.


Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'

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When an off-camera female reporter — later identified as a Bloomberg reporter — began to ask if there was anything "incriminating" in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face.

"Quiet. Quiet, Piggy," he said menacingly.

"Piggy" has reportedly been a favored insult of the president's in the past. During his 2016 presidential campaign, former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who won the title at age 19 while Trump was a co-owner of the organization, claimed that Trump threatened to take away her title after she gained weight.

 

‘Americans Should Be Enraged’: Reports Expose Unprecedented Corruption at Trump DOJ
“I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm.”
Brad Reed
Nov 17, 2025

‘Americans Should Be Enraged’: Reports Expose Unprecedented Corruption at Trump DOJ | Common Dreams

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"It’s incredibly demoralizing to see something you worked on for four years wiped away by a lie—I mean the idea that prosecution of the rioters was a grave national injustice," he said. "We had strong evidence against every person we prosecuted."

The mass pardon of the Capitol rioters was only the beginning, as prosecutors said that this politicization soon swept over the entire department.

In early March, for instance, Trump signed an executive order targeting law firms that had in the past represented prominent Democrats. Among other things, the order demanded federal agencies cancel government contracts with the firms and strip the firms' employees of their security clearances.

 

Trump made it his personal law firm.

The U.S. Deputy Attorney General is Trump's former criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche.

 

Epstein files and affordability concerns threaten to knock Trump's 2nd presidency off course

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“I would remind my Republican colleagues who are deciding how to vote — Donald Trump can protect you in red districts right now by giving you an endorsement,” Massie said on ABC News. “But in 2030, he’s not going to be the president, and you will have voted to protect pedophiles if you don’t vote to release these files, and the president can’t protect you then.”

 

Border Patrol storms Myers Park Country Club in Charlotte.


https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article312956767.html

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"The appearance of CBP at the club comes after masked Border Patrol agents descended on Charlotte on Saturday morning, arresting more than 130 individuals between Saturday and Sunday. The surge has been decried by N.C. Gov. Josh Stein who said on Sunday night that the agents are “racially profiling” and “stoking fear” in Charlotte."

 

So, they netted maybe 40 people that had any kind of criminal record and were not citizens - for all that trouble. More bystanders got arrested for obstruction. Interestingly enough, along with long guns they were pointing around, one 'officer' had what seemed to be a paintball gun...you could see the big hopper on top. Maybe those are the rubber crowd bullets?

 

Fox says Trump's low approval ratings are unfair.


Fox News Melts Down on How ‘Unfair’ It Is That Trump's Polls Are Absolutely Terrible

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“First of all, I’m not going to tell the American people how to feel because I think Joe Biden made that mistake of saying hey, you know, it’s transitory, you’re not feeling it. But it has only been nine months,” said Jones.

 

Article from September 2024.


Trump promises to release Epstein ‘client list’ if he wins the election

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"Donald Trump has said he would have “no problem” releasing more files related to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein if he returns to the White House."

 

Another one of Trump's pardoned Jan. 6 rioters has been arrested. This time it's for child sexual abuse.


January 6 rioter who was pardoned by Trump arrested for child sexual abuse