The Donald Trump Score Card

The GOP in Congress subpoenaed Bill and Hillary Clinton to try to distract the public from the relationships Trump and his associates had with Epstein. It's another indicator of Trump desperation.

 

Trump has about eight months before the 2026 midterm elections to turn around the public perception after a year of his ruthless crackdowns on immigrants and U.S. citizens, including killing them on the streets.

He has to once again turn on the old perverted Trump charm The voting public fell for it in the 2024 election.

That means a Republican mid-term national convention. Trump reading the snake poem at every rally. Standing and saluting his deadly rioters while a recording of the J6 prisoner choir version of the National Anthem plays. Telling his story about being trapped in an electric boat that is sinking with a killer white shark thirty feet away.

The public may be gullible enough to fall for it again and keep the GOP in control of both houses in Congress.

 

Quote from Trump on June 9, 2024 at a campaign rally in Las Vegas in the image below.

People voted him back into office and now they are frustrated that he's not thinking and acting rationally.


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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/...ughlin-to-leave-trump-administration-00783378

excerpt:

"One of the Trump administration’s most vocal defenders of its aggressive immigration crackdown is leaving as public opinion sours against the hardline approach, according to two DHS officials familiar with the move.

Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s spokesperson, is expected to inform colleagues Tuesday about her plans, according to the officials. She’s leaving DHS next week.

 

McLaughlin is known for her smart alec remarks about Trump's immigration crackdowns.

 

Judge cites Abrego in ordering Trump administration to facilitate return of Venezuelans

excerpt:

Whatever comes of the ruling — and there’s every reason to think that Boasberg will enforce it to the greatest extent he can — it stands for a crucial principle. If the government didn’t have to right its wrongs, the judge wrote, it “could simply remove people from the United States without providing any process and then, once they were in a foreign country, deny them any right to return for a hearing or opportunity to present their case from abroad.”

 

Garcia was eventually returned to the U.S. Another judge has used that fact to order the return of others who were deported to a prison in El Salvador.


Judge cites Abrego in ordering Trump administration to facilitate return of Venezuelans

excerpt:

"Take the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom the Trump administration illegally sent from the U.S. to El Salvador and, only after months of resistance, complied with a Maryland judg’s order to facilitate his return.

In the latest example of a judge recognizing that rights are only as good as their remedies, Washington’s chief federal trial judge cited Abrego’s case to justify an order for the government to facilitate the return of Venezuelans who were illegally sent to El Salvador in March under the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act.

While it’s unclear what will come of U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s order in practical terms, it stands out for its plain reiteration of the government’s lawlessness and the understanding that that lawlessness can’t go unnoticed, or unacted upon."

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/...rn-gop-over-trumps-immigration-raids-00781374

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“I told [lawmakers] straight up: South Texas will never be red again,” said Mario Guerrero, the CEO of the South Texas Builders Association, a Trump voter who traveled to Washington last week.

He urged the administration and lawmakers to ease up on enforcement at construction sites, warning that employees are afraid to go to work.

The construction industry is one of the latest and clearest examples of how the president’s mass deportation agenda continues to clash with his economic goals of bringing down prices and political aims of keeping control of Congress. Even the president’s allies fear disruptions to labor-heavy industries will undermine the gains with Latino voters Republicans have made in recent years, in large part because of Trump’s economic agenda.

 

Niyazov and his peronality cult.

Article from December 2006.


Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmen Leader, Dies at 66
By C. J. Chivers
Dec. 21, 2006

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/world/asia/21cnd-turkmen.html

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"He weathered the Soviet Union’s collapse, becoming the president of independent Turkmenistan, pushing through a constitution that concentrated power in his hands and embarking upon a megalomaniacal career as president for life.

While other post-Soviet countries suffered disorder and, in some cases, revolutions or war, Mr. Niyazov lorded over Turkmenistan with a sprawling security apparatus and a fantastically well-developed personality cult. He was 66 and had suffered from heart disease, but never publicly anointed a successor."

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/technology/trump-statue-don-colossus.html

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It’s known as “Don Colossus.”

At 15 feet tall, the statue of President Trump, mounted on its 7,000-pound pedestal, is about the height of a two-story building — a giant effigy cast in bronze and finished with a thick layer of gold leaf.

For more than a year, the golden statue has been at the center of one of the stranger moneymaking ventures of the Trump era. A group of cryptocurrency investors paid $300,000 to have a sculptor create it as a tribute to Mr. Trump, an outspoken crypto proponent.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/us/politics/trumps-american-cult-of-personality.html

excerpt:

"Cults of personality are traditionally associated with dictators and demagogues, not democrats. They are figures like Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Benito Mussolini and more recently the shirtless, horseback-riding Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. But Mr. Trump does not seem concerned that he might be heading down a dangerous path."

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/us/politics/trumps-american-cult-of-personality.html

excerpt:

"His White House is pressuring the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery to display portraits of Mr. Trump by his supporters. A group of cryptocurrency investors has shelled out $300,000 to forge a 15-foot-tall gold-covered bronze statue of Mr. Trump called “Don Colossus” to be installed at his golf complex in Doral, Fla."

 

In the mind of Trump and Miller, posting the history of slavery to the public is somehow unconstitutional because it supposedly promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion which allegedly is unconstitutional.

 

Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality
President Trump has engaged in a spree of self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the world.
By Peter Baker
Feb. 15, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/us/politics/trumps-american-cult-of-personality.html

excerpt:

"After a year back in the White House, Mr. Trump’s efforts to promote himself as the singularly dominant figure in the world have become so commonplace that they no longer seem surprising. He regularly depicts himself in a heroic, almost godly fashion, as a king, as a Superman, as a Jedi knight, as a military hero, even as a pope in a white cassock.

While Mr. Trump has spent a lifetime promoting his personal brand, slapping his name on hotels, casinos, airplanes, even steaks, neckties and bottled water, what he is doing in his second term as president comes closer to building a cult of personality the likes of which has never been seen in American history. Other presidents sought to cultivate their reputations, but none went as far as Mr. Trump has to create a mythologized, superhuman and omnipresent persona leading to idolatry."

 

It’s amazing that even faced with this dilemma, Trump supporters will still take the “path on the right”……,

 

Funniest thing I've heard this year. An illegal immigrant stated he was not a criminal. If you came into this country without following the laws on immigration then you broke the law and therefore you are a criminal.

 

Tell that to the Native Americans in the year 1620……

 

Good news for Trump before midterms: he’s still more popular than cockroaches

Donald Trump’s disapproval rating is currently 61%, which means he is disliked more than spiders (57%).

 

Trump's DOJ admits it violated court orders.


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/18/us/trump-news

excerpt:

"Immigration Crackdown: As judges across the country grapple with how to handle the Trump administration’s noncompliance with court orders, a Justice Department review found that the administration has violated more than 50 orders from federal judges since Dec. 5 in New Jersey alone. A senior Justice Department official described the 52 separate violations across 547 cases as accidental."