The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump is ordering the U.S. to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement.


World reacts to Trump withdrawing US from Paris climate pact

 

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5268653/energy-emergency-trump-oil-evs

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"But the EV policies that most outrage Trump and other Republicans — like major tax credits for consumers and manufacturers, stringent federal emissions standards and state-level EV mandates — cannot be undone by the stroke of a pen, and require months-long regulatory actions, legislation from Congress or intervention from the Supreme Court

 

Trump says he will impose a 25% tariff on Mexico and Canada on Feb. 1.

If he goes ahead with his campaign vows, it could send the U.S. into a recession.

People could end up harking back to the good old days of Biden.

 

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5268653/energy-emergency-trump-oil-evs

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Declaring a national emergency gives the president some additional executive powers. According to the Brennan Center, which has researched emergency powers, statutes grant the president the authority to suspend some environmental regulations or impose restrictions on crude oil exports.

The Brennan Center and E&E News took a look at historical uses of these powers. No president has ever declared a "national energy emergency," but regional "energy emergencies" were declared in the 1970s, when there were shortages of fossil fuels. Then-President Jimmy Carter gave state governors the authority to suspend some environmental regulations as a result, but urged them to "act with due care" because of the implications for public health, and suspend some rules only "as a last resort."

 

Trump is infuriated with the pardons of the J6 committee members.


Trump Slams ‘Crying’ Liz Cheney and Frees J6 ‘Hostages’

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But Liz Cheney’s pardon seemed even more infuriating to the new president, who is returning to the White House after a four-year hiatus following his 2020 loss to Biden.

“Why are we helping Liz Cheney?” he asked. “I mean, Liz Cheney is a disaster. She’s a crying lunatic and crying, crying.”

And he called Jan. 6 member Adam Kinzinger, the former GOP congressman who joined Cheney in taking on their own party’s president, a “super crime.”

 

Trump pledges national unity while attacking fellow citizens.


Trump pledges unity in inaugural address by immediately attacking fellow Americans | Opinion

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"Trump, perhaps due to his advanced age, seemed to have forgotten that he is entering office with a shocking low approval rating for an incoming president. According to 538’s polling averages, 48% of Americans disapprove of him while 46% approve.

For comparison, former President Barack Obama entered office with a 67% approval rating and outgoing President Joe Biden started with a 57% approval rating."

 

Way!

 

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Looks like he had an AWSOME first day as your President.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/john-bolton-security-detail-trump/index.html

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"Within hours of taking office, President Donald Trump terminated the Secret Service detail that was assigned to his former national security adviser John Bolton, Bolton confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.

Bolton, who left the Trump White House in November 2019, has required ongoing US Secret Service protection because of threats against him from Iran. Trump initially terminated his protection after he left his administration in the first term, but President Joe Biden restored it once he took office."

 

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5269899/trump-immigration-enforcement-schools-churches

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"Immigration authorities can now enter schools, healthcare facilities and places of worship to conduct arrests, according to a new policy from the Department of Homeland Security."

 

Trump orders federal hiring freeze and back-to-office directive.

Musk has made outrageous statements about supposed empty federal buildings.


Trump’s day 1 executive actions include federal hiring freeze, return-to-office directive

 

States challenge Trump's order to end birthright citizenship.


22 states challenge Trump's executive order cutting birthright citizenship

 

Trump Reveals His True Priority in Weird Inauguration Speech Pivot | The New Republic

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"On Monday morning, a Trump spokesperson has called Biden's pre-emptive pardons "the greatest attack on America's justice system in history".

"With the stroke of a pen, he (Biden) unilaterally shielded a group of political cronies from the scales of justice," Taylor Budowich, Trump's incoming deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel said in a post on X."

 

Biden pardons family members to protect them from Trump.

He also pardoned Gen. Milley, Fauci, and all member of the J6 House Select Committee.


Trump Reveals His True Priority in Weird Inauguration Speech Pivot | The New Republic

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Biden pardoned his younger brother James Biden, his sister-in-law Sarah Biden, his younger sister Valerie Biden Owens, his brother-in-law John Owens, and his younger brother Francis Biden “FOR ANY NONVIOLENT OFFENSES against the United States which they may have committed or taken part in during the period from January I, 2014, through the date of this pardon.”

 

Trump makes ultra-billionaires Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg, and Pichai look like victims, claiming (apparently jokingly) that they lost their homes in the California fires.


Trump Reveals His True Priority in Weird Inauguration Speech Pivot | The New Republic

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“They’re raging through the houses and communities, even affecting some of the wealthiest and most powerful individuals in our country. Some of whom are sitting here right now,” Trump said, smiling slightly at the reminder of his Silicon Valley invites, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Sundar Pichai.

In fact, not a single one of these men appear to have lost their home in the Los Angeles wildfires.

 

Judge clarifies where Trump rioter will not be allowed after previously allowing him to travel to DC for Trump's inauguration.


Jan. 6 rioter who got the OK to attend Trump inauguration must stay away from Capitol

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"Less than a month after getting the green light to attend Donald Trump‘s inauguration, Eric Lee Peterson — a military vet from Missouri who “knowingly and unlawfully” participated in the Jan. 6 attack while wearing a bright pink T-shirt — has been ordered to stay away from both the grounds of the U.S. Capitol and the building itself now that the ceremony has been moved indoors due to dangerously cold temperatures."


"Although the court permitted Mr. Peterson to travel to the District of Columbia for the upcoming Presidential Inauguration on Monday, January 20, 2025, the court clarifies its December 19, 2024 Minute Order regarding Mr. Peterson’s travel and modified conditions of release: Mr. Peterson is not allowed to enter the U.S. Capitol Building located at First Street, SE, in Washington, D.C. Mr. Peterson is also not allowed to remain on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol Building, as he has pleaded guilty to, and is awaiting sentencing for, Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(1)."

 

Could have been worse.

He could have renamed it 'Gulf of Trump'.