The Donald Trump Score Card

Stepping down from a nomination in the 1990's because an undocumented person did babysitting seems benign in comparison to Trump's selections, such as nominating his criminal defense attorney to be U.S. Deputy Attorney General.


Gaetz's withdrawal highlights how incoming presidents often lose Cabinet nominees

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"Bill Clinton went through several attempts at selecting an attorney general, nominating Janet Reno after both of his first two choices withdrew over word that they had hired people who had been in the U.S. illegally for household work and babysitting."

 

$35,000 for Trump's Gold Elite program and an opportunity to pose with a cardboard cutout of Trump.


https://www.npr.org/2016/06/06/4809...mer-gold-elite-program-nothing-but-fools-gold

 

Judge Merchan has given an opportunity to Trump's attorney to argue dismissal of the NY criminal fraud case.

It doesn't necessarily mean that the conviction will be thrown out.

The sentencing has been delayed again.


Trump campaign declares ‘decisive win’ in hush-money case after judge’s latest ruling – live | Trump administration | The Guardian

 

Harris has third highest popular vote of all time.


VP Harris gets 3rd highest popular vote of all time, more than Trump got in 2020

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"According to Axios, Harris’ vote total – approximately 74.3 million – had surpassed President-elect Donald Trump’s 2020 results – approximately 74.2 million – to clinch the third-place spot as of Thursday. Trump’s approximately 76.8 million 2024 election votes landed him in the second-place spot and Biden’s approximately 81.3 million 2020 election votes put the current president in the top slot."

 

Trump's plan to insall his personal Deep State into the FBI.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/politics/trump-potential-plan-fbi-shakeup/index.html

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"President-elect Donald Trump is considering shaking up the leadership at the FBI by firing the director and installing an experienced former agent and MAGA loyalist in the top two roles.

Trump has planned for months to fire Christopher Wray if he was elected, but in recent days has struggled to find a compromise of selecting a new director who can carry out his agenda while also being Senate confirmed. That concern only increased after it became clear his first pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, was facing an uphill confirmation battle before he withdrew his name."

 

Trump reportedly is considering Mike Rogers for FBI director and Kash Patel for deputy director.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/21/politics/trump-potential-plan-fbi-shakeup/index.html

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"Sources previously said that Patel had been lobbying for the FBI director position, where he would be well-positioned to try to investigate Trump’s political enemies, declassify sensitive information and purge career civil servants.

Patel, who rose to prominence within the president-elect’s orbit during his first term, was floated as a potential replacement when Trump considered firing then-CIA director Gina Haspel after the 2020 election. He also briefly considered installing Patel as deputy FBI director in the closing weeks of his first administration."

 

What RFK Jr has said about McDonald's as photo with Trump goes viral

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"The stuff that he eats is really, like, bad," Kennedy said about Trump's diet. "The food that goes onto that airplane is like just poison. You have a choice between—you don't have the choice—you're either given KFC or Big Macs. That's when you're lucky and then the rest of the stuff I consider kind of inedible."

 

Trump Demands Republicans Kill Press-Freedom Bill

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“I have this piece of glass here,” Trump said, pointing to a segment of bulletproof glass. “But all we really have over here is the fake news, right?”

“And, to get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news, and I don’t mind that so much. I don’t mind. I don’t mind that,” he said.

 

Trump's quest to de-naturalize people.


Trump immigration crackdown: Denaturalization just a drop in the bucket

 

After helping elect Trump, UFC boss Dana White now says he doesn't want to be involved in politics anymore.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/22/media/dana-white-ufc-trump-politics/index.html

 

Summary of people on Capitol Hill who denounced Trump just after the riot and later went back to defending him.


Then and now: GOP lawmakers' evolution on the Capitol riot

 

Republicans have changed their view greatly about the economy and election fraud after the November 2024 election.

Percent who thought economy was going downhill:
before election: 74%
after election: 48%

Percent who thought 2024 election being free and fair:
before election: 27%
after election: 89%


Poll: Republicans reverse views on economy and election fraud after Trump’s win; much smaller shifts among Democrats

 

Trump voters hail his picks as the government they want.


Trump voters hail controversial cabinet picks as the government they want

 

Freelance photographer arrested in Chicago in connection to Capitol riot.


Freelance photographer arrested on Capitol riot charges

 

Trump tapping authors of Project 2025 for top posts after saying he didn't know what it was.


After Trump's Project 2025 denials, he is tapping its authors and influencers for key roles

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/23/trump-cabinet-00191395

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"Just two and a half weeks since Election Day, Trump has announced names for 20 key administration roles, including leaders for all 15 executive agencies. He has yet to officially tap four remaining top positions, which include trade representative, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, administrator of the Small Business Administration and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy — roles that can be elevated to cabinet level at the president’s discretion. Overall, Trump will have to make about 4,000 political appointments, approximately 1,200 of which will require Senate confirmation."

 

Another example of being infatuated by style over substance.


Women's Golf star Charley Hull fawns over 'brilliant, legend' Trump after doing his dance at tournament

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"Amid a phenomenon of American athletes using the dance to celebrate big moments during games since Trump's election win, English women's golf star Charley Hull brought the moves to The Annika, a premier event in the sport, this past week.

On Thursday, Hull addressed the dance and her feelings about the president-elect, calling him "brilliant" and a "legend."

"I love Trump. I think he’s brilliant," Hull said at the CME Group Tour Championship at Tiburon. "I like how he just says things, he doesn’t care what people think, and he’s straight to the point."

Hull went so far as to say that she would prefer it if Trump led her home country, the United Kingdom, instead of its current Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

"I wish he was head of the U.K.," she added. "I just like him as a person. He’s a little better than our Prime Minister.""

 

Trump's tariff wars precipitated a plethora of exclusion applications.


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/us/politics/trump-tariff-exemptions.html

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"Understaffed government agencies were swiftly overwhelmed by tens of thousands of requests. The most prolific single requester, Alloy Tool Steel, put in nearly 40,000 requests for exclusions."

 

Trump’s Trade Agenda Could Benefit Friends and Punish Rivals

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"A similarly uneven process played out for farmers who had been hurt by Mr. Trump’s tariffs. In 2019, his administration began approving tens of billions of dollars to offset farmers’ losses from his trade wars, which had prompted retaliation from China and other countries.

A government watchdog found that the payments favored farms in the South over those in other areas, gave higher payments to farmers of cotton than to farmers of other crops and funneled more money to big farms than to small ones. Another study showed that many payments went to wheat farmers, despite their relatively low shipments to China."

 

Bolton is upset about Trump's selections of Gabbard and Gorka to run the intelligence department.


Bolton slams Trump’s pick for counterterrorism director as ‘con man’