The Donald Trump Score Card

It looked like a religious gathering.

It was supposed to be a town hall meeting during the 2024 election campaign. Trump took only about four questions and made the rest of the event a music festival where he swayed on stage for about 40 minutes while his underlings and relatives (no Melania) raised their arms.

Trump should try it at press gatherings during his second term. Like he said during the 'town hall' event, who wants questions and answers anyway. Let's just have music.

He could even recite the snake poem again during the music.


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The attendees didn't know what to make of it. They gradually left the event after realizing that it wouldn't be a town hall meeting.

 

A $60 Trump Bible might have been better.

The child in the background has a confused look.


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About half the U.S. seemingly takes it as a compliment also.


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Hegseth vows to 'fight like hell' to preserve his nomination.

If he makes it to a Senate hearing, he should use the old routine of Trump's Supreme Court pick, Brett Kavanaugh, and talk about how likes beer so much and American beer.

On second thought, because of his alleged drinking problems, maybe that isn't such a great idea.


https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/politics/pete-hegseth-donald-trump-confirmation-fight/index.html

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/06/new-york-eric-adams-republican-party-00192988

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"The mayor’s openness to Trump has outraged local Democrats because of the power the incoming president will have over the five-count criminal case Adams faces in federal court.

Trump has already settled on a nominee to replace the U.S. Attorney prosecuting Adams. And as POLITICO has reported, Trump could assist Adams with the case, including offering him a pardon."

 

The ball is in Trump's court to make prices go down.

44% of the public are counting on him to do it.


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Trump's harping on immigrant rhetoric that goes back to the 1800's in the U.S.


No, immigrants aren’t eating dogs and cats – but Trump’s claim is part of an ugly history of myths about immigrant foodways

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"The myth of eating pets traces back to old legends in Europe, Australia and the United States that “immigrants are stealing our cats and dogs for their dinner tables or to serve in ethnic restaurants,” writes the folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand.

Two of the most common food-based legends center on “Oriental restaurants serving dog (or cat) meat, and legends about Asian immigrants in the United States capturing and cooking people’s pets,” Brunvard writes.

By 1883, the legend was so well-established that the Chinese-American journalist Wong Chin Foo offered US$500 to anybody in New York for proof that Chinese people were eating cats or rats. No proof was found, but that didn’t stop the racist jokes or urban legends.

None of the many examples deserve retelling. But scholars, for example, have cited “sick jokes” such as a “new Vietnamese cookbook is titled 100 Ways to Wok Your Dog.”"

 

Hegseth promises to stop drinking if he ends up becoming Defense Secretary.


It’s Looking Like Pete Hegseth Will Still Be Able to Drink

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"The most risible reassurance Hegseth offered certain senators this week was that he wouldn’t drink at all were he to get the position, as if someone with an alleged drinking problem saying I can stop anytime wasn’t an ancient trope about the stage of denial. There’s actually precedent for this pledge, though. President George H. W. Bush’s defense secretary nominee, ex-Sen. John Tower, faced similar allegations as Hegseth is facing now in 1989, and also pledged not to drink while in office. And Tower was someone who was excellently qualified to run the Pentagon. His nomination was rejected."

 

Trump courted far-right activists from Germany at Mar-a-Lago.


Far-right activists from Germany spent US election day at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

 

Trump’s policies ‘should be turning off farmers’ – why did so many vote for him?
Plans of deportation and trade wars should concern farmers, yet they backed him by a three-to-one margin
Stephen Starr in Dayton, Ohio
Sat 7 Dec 2024 12.00 EST

Trump’s policies ‘should be turning off farmers’ – why did so many vote for him?

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"A drought in the Corn belt, low crop prices, and China moving away from its once-longstanding dependency on US corn and soybeans has many American farmers on their knees. The number of US farms fell by 141,000 between 2017 and 2022, according to US Department of Agriculture census data.

Despite his threats and bluster, farmers see Trump as a bulwark against a progressive environmental movement that, some of them say, has created major problems for agriculture without providing solutions.

“The emissions issue has raised the cost of all of our equipment to ridiculous levels,” says Barcellos, a third-generation farmer.

He says the same model of hauling truck he bought five years ago is $100,000 more expensive to buy today. Some reports suggest that running electric big rigs costs as much as twice that of diesel equivalents. Last year the California Air Resources Board voted to ban sales of new diesel trucks by 2036."

 

Trump’s policies ‘should be turning off farmers’ – why did so many vote for him?

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"On the tariffs front, many farmers believe Trump will ultimately have their back. Although his previous tariffs war cost American agriculture around $27bn in 2018 and 2019, Trump then reportedly gave farmers record handouts worth $32bn in direct farming aid to counter the effects. Should Trump reignite his trade war next year, some observers believe similar efforts may again be in the offing.

But others believe that Trump’s anticipated efforts to impose tariffs on foreign goods may not have the same effect as previously.

With China no longer as dependent on US corn and soybeans – America’s top two export commodities – as it was during Trump’s first trade war, industry specialists say China is better prepared and instead worry that a new trade war could hit US farmers over the long term."

 

Three sources say Trump may cancel USPS electric vehicle contract

He's also reportedly planning to revoke the $7,500 consumer tax credit for electric vehicles. Trump has lied that such tax credits are a government mandate.


Exclusive-Trump may cancel US Postal Service electric mail truck contract, sources say

 

Reffitt's sentenced has been reduced by seven months to adjust for the Supreme Court's ruling related to obstruction of justice charges.


The first rioter tried on Jan. 6 charges gets reduced prison sentence after Supreme Court decision

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"WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas man who was the first rioter to go on trial for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was resentenced on Friday to nearly seven years in prison after he delivered an angry, profane rant to the judge who agreed to modestly reduce his original sentence.

Guy Reffitt benefitted from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that led to the dismissal of his conviction on an obstruction charge. His new sentence — six years and eight months — is seven months lower than his original sentence.

Reffitt repeatedly shook his head and appeared to be agitated as he listened to U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich and a prosecutor describe his role in a mob's attack on the Capitol. He told the judge that he was “in my feelings” and upset about the “lies and the craziness” that he perceived."

 

The first rioter tried on Jan. 6 charges gets reduced prison sentence after Supreme Court decision

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"Reffitt is one of several Jan. 6 defendants to be resentenced after a Supreme Court ruling in June limited the government’s use of a federal obstruction law. The high court ruled 6-3 that a charge of obstructing an official proceeding must include proof that a defendant tried to tamper with or destroy documents — a distinction that applies to few Jan. 6 criminal cases."

 

The Reffitt family seemed beautiful until Trump's ideology infiltrated it and shattered it with his stolen election mantra.

Some of the Reffitt family members say that they don't even know how to start to talk to each other again after all the turmoil related to Trump.


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It's like Trump went around the web, collected the most entrenched truthers who hang out in conspiracy forums, and gave them the highest level positions in his second term.


https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/12/06/trump-ends-american-century-00192236

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"Just look at his recent cabinet nominations.

Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick as director of national intelligence, has defended both Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, whom she has met multiple times, and Vladimir Putin’s reasoning for invading Ukraine — hardly an encouraging choice for American allies looking for a guarantee of safety and security.

Howard Lutnick, his pick for commerce secretary, is a diehard supporter of Trump’s aggressive tariff agenda, which would drastically curtail U.S. participation in an international free market.

The elevation of former acting ICE director — and Project 2025 contributor — Tom Homan to the position of “border czar” carries implications for American immigration policy so obvious they hardly require explanation.

And as for trusting in expertise, Trump has appointed anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services."