The Donald Trump Score Card

Putin praises what he says are Trump's peace efforts.


Putin praises Trump peace efforts: ‘He’s really doing a lot’

 

Trump Burger restaurant in Texas closes as owners face deportation.


Texas restaurant chain Trump Burger mysteriously closes as owners face deportation

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A Texas burger chain, which shot to fame after naming itself after Donald Trump and offering a supersized helping of MAGA politics, has closed after ICE arrested its Lebanese owner.

Roland Beainy, of Trump Burger, which has outlets across the Lone Star State, was arrested by ICE earlier this year after reportedly overstaying his 2019 visa, which was set to expire in 2024.

His restaurants, which are entirely themed around the U.S. president and billed as “a patriotic haven for burger lovers,” now appear to have closed, including premises in Houston.

 

Another example of deporting what Trump and Miller call the 'worst of the worst'.

 

Trump is 'going to see' if he can fix what he broke for the American farmers.


Trump Vows To Revive Soybean Trade With China Ahead Of Potential Talks With Xi Jinping: 'Going To See...More Opening Up'
by Namrata Sen, Benzinga Staff Writer
October 10, 2025 4:22 AM

Trump Vows To Revive Soybean Trade With China, Ahead Of Potential Talks With Xi Jinping: 'Going To See...More Opening Up' - Benzinga

 

Scott Bessent's $20 Billion Lifeline For Argentina A Bailout For 'His Hedge Fund Buddies,' Says Paul Krugman - Benzinga

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Krugman previously described the aid as ideologically motivated but now says he was “insufficiently cynical.” He said that the move may be aimed at protecting the interests of Rob Citrone, a billionaire hedge fund manager, and long-time associate of Bessent, who, according to Krugman, has invested heavily in Argentine assets.

Citing an analysis by Matthew Klein, Krugman notes that “U.S. taxpayer money is propping up the peso, allowing hedge funders to sell their Argentine assets at inflated prices, after which the peso will promptly fall again.”

 

DHS Uses ICE Raid Where Kids Were Dragged From Their Homes in Promo Video

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"What the video fails to mention is that, during the raid on a South Shore apartment tower hours earlier, its officers were accused of manhandling kids and seniors, some of them U.S. citizens.

Ebony Sweets Watson, who lives across the street, told the Chicago Sun-Times she saw “kids coming out buck naked” as dozens of armed agents dragged residents—including children—out of units and into the rented vehicles.

“Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible,” she said. “It was heartbreaking to watch.”

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council blasted DHS for the promo. “In this raid, they dragged naked children out of their homes and put them into [rental] vans. And now they’re bragging about it,” he wrote on X."

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/poli...mp-indicted-comey-justice-department-analysis

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"It requires a staggering suspension of disbelief not to see the brace of indictments as the latest step in Trump’s retribution tour. The Justice Department, which the president long complained was weaponized against him, is now openly a tool in his bid for political vengeance. Sometimes it’s hard to fathom that this is taking place in the United States, once the global standard for justice and democracy.

Trump isn’t even hiding what he’s doing — the evidence is in the Truth Social post of September 20, addressed to Bondi, which mentions Comey, James and California Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff. “They impeached me twice, and indicted me (5 times!), OVER NOTHING. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED, NOW!!!” Trump wrote."

 

If anyone in Portland has to put up plywood over windows, it's a makeshift repair for ICE smashing their windows.

ICE smashed many doors in Chicago when it raided an apartment complex overnight. It really did look like a war zone, one created by Trump.

 

Putin used the same tactics as Trump when he sent insurgents into eastern Ukraine to start trouble.

Putin used the unrest it caused as a pretext to do a full military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. He called it a special military operation, and it's been going on for over three and a half years.

 

Putin didn't gain any traction in the international community while he claimed that Ukraine was committing genocide on the Russian people in eastern Ukraine.

 

Trump has blamed the Ukraine war on Zelensky for supposedly not stopping Putin and letting him invade.

Any attempts Zelensky made to try to stop Putin's insurgents before Putin's full-scale invasion in 2022 have been used by Putin as an excuse to invade.

Either way, Trump and Putin blame Zelensky.

 

Gov. Pritzker responds to Trump threat to jail him, mayor over ICE: ‘Come and get me’

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“He says he’s going to jail me. He says he’s going to jail the mayor of the city of Chicago. These are people who stand against him, disagree with him, speak out about it, but literally have done nothing wrong. We are doing the people’s business by standing up for them.”

Pritzker also called Trump “demented” and “unhinged.”

“This is somebody who’s so insecure that he lashes out, pretending that he can come arrest people for no reason at all,” Pritzker said. “He can’t. He isn’t going to do it. TACO. Trump always chickens out.”

 

DHS Uses ICE Raid Where Kids Were Dragged From Their Homes in Promo Video

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"The Department of Homeland Security is using footage of a “harmful and traumatic” ICE raid that reportedly saw kids dragged from their homes and thrown into rental vans for its latest promo video.

The DHS pushed out a dark, cinematic montage—featuring helmet cams, door rams, and burly masked agents stacked in stairwells—boasting “OVER 900 ARRESTS during Operation Midway Blitz” in Chicago.

According to eyewitness accounts, residents had their doors smashed down and homes trashed, before some were held outside in handcuffs for hours, and others were thrown into Budget rental vans."

 

Trump to add 100% more tariffs to China.

He has a scheduled meeting with the leader of China before a trade truce ends on Nov. 1.


Trump puts extra 100% tariff on China imports, adds export controls on 'critical software'

 

Article frmo 2023.


Justice Thomas’s R.V. Loan Was Forgiven, Senate Inquiry Finds
The justice failed to repay much, perhaps all, of the $267,230 loan. His benefactor wiped the slate clean, with ethical and potential tax consequences.
By Jo Becker
Published Oct. 25, 2023
Updated Oct. 26, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/clarence-thomas-rv-loan-senate-inquiry.html

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"The terms of the private loan were as generous as they were clear: With no money down, Justice Clarence Thomas could borrow more than a quarter of a million dollars from a wealthy friend to buy a 40-foot luxury motor coach, making annual interest-only payments for five years. Only then would the principal come due.

But despite the favorable nature of the 1999 loan and a lengthy extension to make good on his obligations, Justice Thomas failed to repay a “significant portion” — or perhaps any — of the $267,230 principal, according to a new report by Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee. Nearly nine years later, after Justice Thomas had made an unclear number of the interest payments, the outstanding debt was forgiven, an outcome with ethical and potential tax consequences for the justice.

“This was, in short, a sweetheart deal” that made no logical sense from a business perspective, Michael Hamersley, a tax lawyer who has served as a congressional expert witness, told The New York Times."

 

Article from 2023.


https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/us/politics/clarence-thomas-rv-loan-senate-inquiry.html

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Mr. Welters’s representatives told investigators that he believes there may have been additional interest payments — and, with less certainty, perhaps payment of some fraction of the principal, according to an aide to Mr. Wyden. But “none of the documents reviewed by committee staff indicated that Thomas ever made payments to Welters in excess of the annual interest on the loan,” the report said.

“No bank behaving in a commercially reasonable, arms-length manner would have given that loan in the first place,” said Mr. Hamersley, the tax expert. “And a bank doesn’t just say, ‘Oh gee, you’ve paid a lot in interest — we’re good, no need to pay back what you actually owe.’”

Mr. Welters, in a statement to The Times on Wednesday, said that because the loan was made so many years ago, “bank records — which I have sought — no longer exist. While not a tangible record, I continue to put stock in my contemporaneous belief.”

 

So the public, IRS, and everyone else are supposed to trust the personal memory of Mr. Welters who gave the loan to Clarence Thomas and his murky words that the loan was 'satisfied'.

 

Some Trump supporters frustrated with his bait-and-switch tactics.


Pod man out: Trump's support among influential podcasters is waning

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“I feel like the transparency as well is an issue, not just with tariffs, but also feeling like he switched positions when talking about the Epstein files from saying it’s a huge deal to saying that ‘Oh, it’s not really a big deal,’” he said.

 

Sad. Probably because Tump wasn’t getting his cut. That chain was using his name, and his name is his brand.

 

Trump shares rendering of massive stone monument for DC to mark America’s 250th birthday

President Trump posted an architect’s rendering of a huge triumphal arch to mark the nation’s 250th birthday – and his biggest change yet to the capital’s skyline.

The stone arch would be constructed just across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial — soaring above that memorial’s 99-foot height — and add a major new element to DC’s public architecture.

The online sketch depicts a massive monument that bears a strong resemblance to the Washington Square Park arch in Manhattan and the Arc De Triumph in Paris.

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