The Donald Trump Score Card

Don't hold your joint.

 

Alaska capital Juneau urged to evacuate as 'glacial outburst' flood looms

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"Compared to the rest of the country, Alaska has warmed twice as fast over the last several decades, and its average annual temperature has risen 3.1 degrees Fahrenheit in the past century, according to the federal National Centers for Environmental Information."

 

Trump is talking about 'taking back' five cities.


After D.C., Trump says he might use the National Guard to ‘take back’ other cities. Can he actually do that?

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But “if they don’t learn their lesson, if they haven’t studied us properly,” he continued, “then I’m going to look at New York in a little while. … And if we need to, we’re going to do the same thing in Chicago, which is a disaster.”

 

White House ia aggressively scanning Smithsonian so that it aligns with his ideology.


White House announces more aggressive review of Smithsonian museums

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"In March, Trump signed an executive order to eliminate “divisive narratives” across the Smithsonian museums and “restore the Smithsonian Institution to its rightful place as a symbol of inspiration and American greatness.”

The order, titled “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” directs Halligan and Vice President JD Vance to remove “improper ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution, including its museums, education and research centers and the National Zoo."

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/americas/mexico-26-cartels-trump-intl-latam

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"It’s the second time in months Mexico has expelled cartel figures accused of narcotics smuggling, murder and other crimes amid mounting pressure from the Trump administration to curb the flow of drugs across the border. In February, Mexico handed over to American authorities 29 cartel figures, including drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a US DEA agent in 1985."

 

After D.C., Trump says he might use the National Guard to ‘take back’ other cities. Can he actually do that?

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"California Gov. Gavin Newsom swiftly sued the administration to end the mobilization, claiming that Trump was violating the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prohibits the president from deploying the armed forces to participate in domestic law enforcement operations unless he declares that an insurrection is underway.

A federal judge agreed with Newsom, but an appeals court blocked that ruling. Now Trump and Newsom are facing off in a three-day trial that began on Monday in San Francisco to determine whether Trump has the authority to do what he did in L.A. in other cities such as Chicago and New York."

 

After D.C., Trump says he might use the National Guard to ‘take back’ other cities. Can he actually do that?

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Beyond that, the president didn’t elaborate on his plans. But he did issue what amounted to an ultimatum: “self-clean up” or else.

“Other cities are hopefully watching this,” Trump said. “Maybe they’ll self-clean up, and maybe they’ll self-do this.”

But “if they don’t learn their lesson, if they haven’t studied us properly,” he continued, “then I’m going to look at New York in a little while. … And if we need to, we’re going to do the same thing in Chicago, which is a disaster.”

 

Trump apparently still thinks that his ordering the military to release, without prior notice to the public, billions of gallons of water from dams in California somehow helped put out the fires.

The release of the dam water didn't affect the fires, which were mostly extinguished. Even if they hadn't been mostly extinguished, the dam water wouldn't have helped. The water was needed by farmers.

At the time, Trump proclaimed that he 'won the water wars'.

 

Trump has been talking about sending the feds into Chicago since his first term.

 

He's also been talking about big, beautiful, quality healthcare for everyone since 2015 that has never emerged.

 

During his first term, Trump circumvented the need to invoke the Insurrection Act by claiming that the National Guard were on a training mission, which allowed him to use the NG of a GOP-controlled state in another state against groups he didn't like, such BLM.


The President’s Power to Call Out the National Guard Is Not a Blank Check

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"The deployment and Barr’s subsequent justification raise two crucial questions about the scope of § 502(f). The first is whether § 502(f) authorizes the use of National Guard personnel to perform any mission the president could conceivably request. The Guard’s June 2020 operation in D.C. was unprecedented; § 502(f) had never before been used for a federally requested deployment in response to civil unrest. Historically, when presidents have desired to deploy the military for this purpose, they have invoked the Insurrection Act and deployed either active-duty federal troops or federalized National Guard. The District of Columbia’s unusual status within the United States’s federal system presents a second question: whether the deployment of unfederalized, out-of-state Guard troops into a nonconsenting jurisdiction would be lawful if that jurisdiction were a state. The answer to both of these questions is no."

 

Trump will go through all types of quirky, legally questionable tactics to send the National Guard into places to try to vanquish groups he doesn't like.

Yet as Commander-In-Chief when he easily had control of the National Guard in DC during his riot at the Capitol, he didn't use them to stop his riot.

 

He will finally release the plan in two weeks.

Two years.

Two decades.

"At an appropriate time" (like he said during the 2024 campaign when asked when he would finally tell the American public what he was doing during the hours his riot at the Capitol ensued).

 

5 things to know as Newsom and Trump go back to court over the National Guard in LA

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"That Los Angeles residents were “subjected to a form of military occupation” as federal troops worked alongside federal immigration agents, “often indistinguishable from each other.”

The lawyers say that “never before, in the history of the Nation, has the federal government utilized the military for domestic law enforcement in this manner.”

The Trump administration’s “insistence that perimeters, blockades, and other security functions are permissible makes clear they will continue to engage in these activities,” California lawyers with the state attorney general’s office wrote to Breyer."

 

During his second term, Trump has received a string of favorable decisions by the conservatives on the Supreme Court who have let him continue with his behavior until it is determined later by the courts whether or not it is constitutional.

 

Democrats have warned the conservatives on the Supreme Court that the wide latitude that they have blessed to Trump on issues such as deporting people may come back to haunt them. It has set a precedent that could shield liberals the way it is shielding Trump.

An example is the frustration Trump is currently feeling about not being able to prosecute Obama or Biden because of the wide-range presidential immunity that the conservatives on the Supreme Court granted to Trump.

Trump stated his frustration publicly, although in a disjointed verbal manner. An articulate version of what Trump said was that he now can't prosecute Obama or Biden for crimes that they didn't commit because the Supreme Court issued immunity to presidents that was precipitated by Trump, who committed crimes for which he later sought immunity and was granted it by the Supreme Court.

 

Trump is trying to circumvent this also. An example is the 'autopen' ploy. He's claiming that the pardons Biden issued are not valid because of the autopen use, implying that someone else issued the pardons. It would give Trump a way to prosecute people whom Biden had pardoned.

The next best approach to prosecute Biden (which he can't do because of the Supreme Court's immunity ruling on behalf of Trump) is to prosecute the officials of his administration, even ones he had pardoned. It could be other people as well, such as those on the J6 committee that included Republicans.

 

In that case -- the jobs report will increase by 390 million EVERY month. (The USA only has 342,034,432 persons as of July 1, 2025)

 

Even if the price increases tenfold - it is still "up to 1,500 percent".

 

Jeanine Pirro storms out of press gathering when asked about gun violence.


Jeanine Pirro storms out after being questioned on gun violence