The Donald Trump Score Card

DOJ says it's not investigating incident of Ross shooting Good.

In 2020, Bill Barr was AG and the DOJ investigated the death of Floyd.

 

Stephen Miller making such remarks.

He's seen in a video when he was in high school refusing to turn the podium over to another student and having to be escorted away by a group of students.

He wanted authority to surrender to him way back then.

 

The two exceptions to party in White House not losing seats in House in midterm elections.


For 80 years, the president’s party has almost always lost House seats in midterm elections, a pattern that makes the 2026 congressional outlook clear

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"There are only two cases in the past 80 years where the party of a sitting president won midterm seats in the House. Both involved special circumstances.

In 1998, Clinton was in the sixth year of his presidency and had good numbers for economic growth, declining interest rates and low unemployment. His average approval rating, according to Gallup, in his second term was 60.6%, the highest average achieved by any second-term president from Truman to Biden "


"The other exception to the rule of thumb that presidents suffer midterm losses was George W. Bush in 2002. Bush, narrowly elected in 2000, had a dramatic rise in popularity after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The nation rallied around the flag and the president, and Republicans won eight House seats in the 2002 midterm elections."

 

The initial argument by the Trump administration for him being able to single-handedly impose tariffs indefinitely on other countries was an appeal to the 1978 National Emergencies Act.

Trump claims that the U.S. trade deficit is a national emergency and that it justifies him imposing import tariffs on other countries as a remedy.

Such a pretext is questionable and the Supreme Court is currently reviewing it.

 

Trump is now saying that he is imposing an extra 10% tariffs on European countries for not going along with his quest to annex Greenland which will rise to 25% in June 2026 if they don't comply. Such a pretext is beyond the trade deficit national emergency ploy.

Trump could try yet another argument, such as saying that it's a national emergency that the U.S. doesn't own and completely control Greenland; therefore, the extra tariffs are justified.

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent says that an emergency exists right now over Greenland because an emergency over Greenland might occur later.

Trump can use the emergency ploy for just about any desire he wants to implement. A Supreme Court ruling defending his tariff ploys will further embolden him.

 

It remains to be seen if the U.S. Supreme Court will agree with Trump on such pretexts for imposing tariffs, such as for annexing Greenland. The six conservatives on the court will have to really stretch their imaginations and interpretations to defend Trump's ploy to use tariffs to own Greenland. Even the way he has been imposing them before the Greenland ploy is legally questionable.

The conservatives on the Supreme Court are known to selectively appeal to originalism and textualism, imagining what isn't present in the Constitution when it comes to what Trump wants. The presidential immunity they awarded to Trump is an example. Nothing in the Constitution explicitly states such a protection. The conservatives on the court made a reference to members of Congress having protection for words said on the floor and said that such a protection was intended for a president also, even though nothing like that is stated in the Constitution.

 

In contrast, the conservatives on the Supreme Court appealed to originalism and textualism to overturn the Roe vs. Wade decision, arguing that there isn't anything explicit in the Constitution that protects the right to an abortion. Unlike what they did for Trump's immunity rights, they didn't imagine any such rights in the Constitution for abortion.

 

For as broad a brush stroke of immunity as the conservatives gave to Trump and other presidents and without any text in the Constitution about it, it should have instead been done by Congress adding a Constitutional amendment or a Congressional act rather than being imagined.

 

Likewise, the U.S. doesn't have any right to its own land either. It started as just people on a boat hundreds of years ago.

 

Justice department ‘not investigating’ Renee Good killing in contrast to 2020 inquiry on George Floyd death
Robert Mackey
Sun 18 Jan 2026 18.08 EST
In 2020, Trump DoJ investigated police killing of Floyd in Minneapolis, leading to four officers’ convictions

Justice department ‘not investigating’ Renee Good killing in contrast to 2020 inquiry on George Floyd death

 

Washington National Opera leaves Kennedy Center, joining slew of artist exits
By Chloe Veltman
January 10, 202612:58 PM ET

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/10/nx-s...-canceled-trump-washington-national-opera-wno

 

It opens more slots for the Village People to perform.

 

Extortion - Wikipedia

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"Extortion is sometimes called the "protection racket" because the racketeers often phrase their demands as payment for "protection" from (real or hypothetical) threats from unspecified other parties; though often, and almost always, such "protection" is simply abstinence of harm from the same party, and such is implied in the "protection" offer. Extortion is commonly practiced by organized crime. In some jurisdictions, actually obtaining the benefit is not required to commit the offense, and making a threat of violence which refers to a requirement of a payment of money or property to halt future violence is sufficient to commit the offense.[1]"

 

Trump is going beyond extorting Denmark to give him payment in return for 'protecting' Greenland that it would still own. Trump wants the entire Greenland in return for 'protecting' Greenland for Denmark which it will no longer own because Trump outright stole it from them (like he stole the oil in Venezuela). It's robbery of land, although Trump conveys his desires in an extortion-like fashion to outright rob Denmark of Greenland.

 

Trump’s claims of vast presidential powers run up against Article 2 of the Constitution and exceed previous presidents’ power grabs

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"Almost immediately, however, Congress began delegating some of that power to the presidency. As the nation grew and Congress found itself unable to manage the ensuing demands, it put more and more policymaking powers into the executive branch.

Congress frequently passed vaguely worded statutes and left important details largely to the president about how to manage, for instance, immigration or the environment. President-as-policymaker and the development of an immense federal bureaucracy that is now in the crosshairs of Trump and Elon Musk was one unintended result."

 

Trump vows to ‘take out’ Indiana GOP leader over redistricting fight

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"I'd like to thank @bray_rodric for not even trying to fight back against this extraordinary Democrat abuse of power," he wrote on X. "Now the votes of Indiana Republicans will matter far less than the votes of Virginia Democrats. We told you it would happen, and you did nothing."

 

Vance has it backwards. Trump started the mid-census gerrymandering campaign in an effort to keep the GOP in control of the House after the 2026 midterm elections, which is the abuse of power. The Democrats responded to his tactic in defense.

 

CBS news reports that the DOJ has subpoenaed Gov. Walz and Mayor Frey as part of an investigation of them for allegedly conspiring to obstruct immigration officials.

 

.......the DOJ hit squad...............

 

Trump repeatedly confuses Iceland with Greenland in speech to the world at Davos.


https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/us/politics/trump-greenland-iceland-confusion.html

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“The problem with NATO is that we’ll be there for them, 100 percent, but I’m not sure that they’ll be there for us,” the president continued. “They’re not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland’s already cost us a lot of money.” The markets dipped on Tuesday over the tensions on Greenland.