The Donald Trump Score Card

Hitting government with a 'blowtorch': Trump's Cabinet picks are the first step in carrying out his agenda

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“President Trump is going to hit the Justice Department with a blowtorch, and Matt Gaetz is that torch,” Steve Bannon, Trump’s former White House strategist, told NBC News.

Gaetz, R-Fla., submitted his resignation from the House on Wednesday.

In Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News personality, Trump would have at his side a defense secretary who may be called upon to purge the armed forces of the sorts of generals Trump has deemed anathema to America’s military superiority.

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who was a Democrat in Congress but has since left the party, has been tapped to be the director of national intelligence, despite limited experience in that arena.

 

Former Detroit Lions NFL player charged in Capitol riot for assaulting police officers.


Former NFL player Antwoine Williams charged in Capitol riot

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"According to court documents, Mr Williams, 31, was seen on videos from the Capitol riot, where thousands of pro-Trump activists broke into the building after his 2020 election loss, pulling on barricades and hitting a police officer on the head, and struggling with other officers.

Prosecutors say he stayed on the Capitol grounds until the evening of 6 January.

He was identified by a golf hat and a distinct key fob that he was wearing during the riot that matched other online photos of Mr Williams.

Online volunteers known as “sedition hunters,” who use online videos and pictures to hunt for rioters, identified the brand of the hat and nicknamed Mr Williams “RiotingGolfer”"

 

Trump names his personal criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche as deputy attorney general

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"The president-elect said that the 50-year-old lawyer has experience prosecuting gangs – as well as representing Trump in his 2024 criminal trial in New York."

 

If Blanche is good at prosecuting gangs, he should have been prosecuting Trump, not defending him.

 

Donald Trump Supporters Are Already Finding Out What Their Vote Actually Meant, And The Stories Are Going Viral
Natasha Jokic
Thu, November 14, 2024 at 6:44 PM UTC

Donald Trump Supporters Are Already Finding Out What Their Vote Actually Meant, And The Stories Are Going Viral

 

A partial list of Trump's unqualified nominations.


Hegseth: Pentagon

Matt Gaetz: Attorney General

Noem: Homeland Security

Gabbard: National Intelligence

RFK, Jr.: Health and Human Services

 

How Trump could use recess appointments which would bypass the Senate confirmation process.

Trump could try to force Congress to adjourn so that his nominations would be effectively confirmed without Senate confirmation.


What are recess appointments and how could Trump use them to fill his Cabinet?

 

Food prices worried most voters, but Trump's plans likely won't lower their grocery bills

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"But presidents can encourage policies that help tame grocery price inflation over the longer term, she said, like increasing competition and investing in infrastructure, agricultural technology and crops that are resistant to pests and extreme weather."

 

Those are longer term plans that require critical thinking. Trump spent most of his time on the campaign trail ranting about deporting migrants and expanding his trade wars (which would increase grocery prices), and the voting public liked it.

 

Food prices worried most voters, but Trump's plans likely won't lower their grocery bills

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"But David Ortega, a professor of food economics and policy at Michigan State University, said that food producers rely on imported goods like fertilizer, equipment and packaging materials. If they’re forced to pay more for those items, they will raise prices, Ortega said.

U.S. farmers also could have trouble selling their goods overseas, since other countries would likely respond with retaliatory tariffs, he said. Around 20% of U.S. agricultural production is exported each year, according to the USDA.

 

Food prices worried most voters, but Trump's plans likely won't lower their grocery bills

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“There is a fundamental disconnect between a stated goal of reducing grocery prices and tariff policy that only stands to increase those costs,” said Tom Madrecki, the association’s vice president of campaigns and special projects.

Ortega said Trump’s plans to deport people who are in the U.S. illegally could also drive up grocery prices. There are more than 2 million undocumented workers throughout the U.S. food chain, he said, including an estimated 1 million working on farms, 750,000 working in restaurants and 200,000 in food production."

 

And Hegseth, whom Trump nominated to run the Pentagon, can say, "Do you want me to go on Fox & Friends? Hey, wait a minute. I'm the host of that show on the weekends."

 

Sen. Tuberville is spreading truther narratives.

He thinks something is wrong with the voting system because Trump won more popular votes nationally than Harris but the Democrats in down-ballot races didn't perform as bad as he thought they should based on Trump's popular vote win.


Tuberville Proves Again He’s Dumbest Senator With Election Fraud Claim

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“We didn’t get killed downballot, but let me tell you something: Donald Trump pulled out more people to vote for him” than Harris, the Alabama senator added. “And how in the world can some of these senators … receive more votes—the Democrats—than President Trump? It doesn’t add up to how this all went about.”

 

Trump made a similar conspiracy claim when he lost the popular vote to Biden in 2020 by about 4.5% but down-ballot Republican candidates did reasonably well.

His claim was that he couldn't have done that badly if the results in the down-ballot races for Republicans weren't nearly as bad as his. Therefore, in his mind, the election was stolen from him.

 

Trump to tap Steven Cheung as his communications director. He's known for his juvenile and caustic remarks (Cheung, that is. And Trump too.)


https://www.politico.com/news/2024/...teven-cheung-communications-director-00189857

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"Trump, who likes to surround himself with political fighters, leaned on Cheung, a former communications professional at the Ultimate Fighting Championship, to send out slashing statements that reflected his boss’ penchant for wielding rhetoric like a political knife."

 

Judge agrees to recuse himself in the Central Park Five defamation case against Trump.


Judge recuses himself from Central Park Five suit

 

Why are the Central Park Five suing Donald Trump?

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“Forty-Five wanted us unalive,” Yusef Salaam said at the DNC, referring to Trump, the nation’s 45th president. “Today, we are exonerated because the actual perpetrator confessed and DNA proved it. [Trump] still says he still stands by the original guilty verdict. He dismisses scientific evidence rather than admit he was wrong.”

 

Trump can't accept objective facts, particularly ones that show that he was wrong.

Trump can't try to make his false remarks about the Central Park Five go away by using a Sharpie pen like he did when he doctored the government hurricane tracking chart to make it include Alabama in the outer perimeter of a days-old projected path that had already changed and indicated the hurricane traveling north over the Atlantic Ocean.

He's wrong and it infuriates him.

 

Barring a major health mishap, Trump will be president for the next four years.

Someone like Putin (or many other people) could dupe Trump into thinking that a swarm of ICBM heading to the U.S. isn't really there.

Trump says he plans to move Space Command from Colorado where its been for decades to Alabama where his cohort former football coach Sen. Tuberville resides.

Trump is someone who would also place the slapstick Tuberville in charge of Space Command if it was possible.

 

The sexual impropriety allegations against Hegseth and Gaetz.


Two Trump cabinet choices in jeopardy over sexual misconduct allegations