The Donald Trump Score Card

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/19/europe/ukraine-russia-president-elect-trump-flattery-intl/index.html

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"Just days later, Zelensky told an American podcaster that Trump won as he was a “much stronger” candidate than Kamala Harris, adding, “He showed that he can do it intellectually and physically.”

Zelensky isn’t alone among prominent Ukrainians in trying to butter up Trump. In November, a Ukrainian MP from Zelensky’s party even nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize, according to a letter seen by the Kyiv Independent."

 

TikTok tries to leverage Trump and Congress by totally shutting down TikTok in the U.S. when it didn't have to and posting a message saying 'he' (pesumably Trump) will fix it.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/19/trump-plan-save-tiktok-00199177

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“The law doesn’t require TikTok to shut down immediately. TikTok could switch to overseas servers and provide service to the 170M Americans who already have the app,” Alan Rozenshtein, a former Justice Department official who teaches at the University of Minnesota Law School said Saturday night. “TikTok is trying to put maximum pressure on Congress/Trump to undo the ban.”

 

The message posted by TikTok as it shut down in the U.S. used the familiar Trump phrase 'Stay tuned!'.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/19/trump-plan-save-tiktok-00199177

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“You can’t use TikTok for now,” the company said in a message still being displayed when the app is opened. “We are fortunate that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Stay tuned!”

 

All of them are country music related people, except Village People.

Village People are symbolic of Trump. A projection of 'macho', but an imaginary version of it that originated in NY.

 

Ramaswamy reportedly eyeing a run for governor of Ohio.

The election is in November 2026.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/17/vivek-ramaswamy-ohio-governor-run/

 

As opposed to all those non-presidents to hold the office of president?

His grasp of the English language is flimsy at best, isn't it?

 

Interesting that they removed the constitution from the website, yet, it’s in the Trump bible…….

 

President Donald Trump signs executive order limiting the rights of transgender Americans

I can't wait to be beaten to death in a men's shelter!!

 

Whoops! I keep forgetting he's a total fucking moron.

Sarah McBride laughs off Trump’s anti-trans executive order

 

Don’t worry, it’ll be plastered up in classrooms.

 

You’ll have ample opportunity to remember for a while.

He won’t let us forget.

 

And Princess, your state might be renamed.



New America?

 

He would do that, wouldn't he?

Of course, he'd have to find us on a map first...

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/19/trump-democrac-orban-modi-franco

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"Trump’s strategy, like that of all strongmen autocrats, was to engage with voters at the level of emotion, not reason, and fiction, not facts. These are some rules in the playbook that autocratic leaders use all the time to get to power.

With Trump returning to White House, we are seeing a decisive moment in history. The third anti-democracy wave is here. The first two anti-democracy waves being the victory of Mussolini in the 1920s and Hitler coming to power in the 1930s culminating in the second world war, and the second anti-democracy wave in the 1960s with the rise of military juntas and the cold war bringing down elected governments. Now, with countries like India, Turkey and the Philippines already under anti-democracy forces, Trump’s victory empowers the hands of the autocrats world over."

 

Italy is another example of the rise of the far-right. Its president visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the 2024 election and also attended Trump's inauguration.


‘Has the world gone mad? It has’: foreign reporters share a view of Trump from abroad

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"A lot of coverage about the rise of Trump and the far-right elsewhere has focused on the economy, but I wonder if we are talking enough about a huge transformation that happened in the last decade – the earthquake within our media ecosystem.

In 2016, smartphones and social media played an outsized role as compared to previous elections. That accelerated everything. The news cycle turned into a news cyclone. That helped candidates who relied on viscerality.

Since that election we’ve seen wins by populists and far-right candidates elsewhere. In Spain, the far-right Vox emerged in 2018, having previously been very fringe. Something deep has changed and perhaps the US, and UK, with Brexit, were just two early examples of what was to come. The canaries in the coal mine."

 

Trump promises a quick end to the war in Ukraine. Russia is not convinced.

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“I don’t think this turn to the Monroe Doctrine and a more classical type of U.S. imperialism is just Trump’s idea. It’s an emerging mood,” says Mr. Suslov. “We are certainly looking at an intensification of the struggle for the Arctic,” while in the process shredding previously sacred ideas such as the sovereignty of smaller nations, he says.

 

Trump rioter became VIP for Trump inauguration.


‘I broke into the Capitol on Jan 6 – now I’ll be a VIP at Trump’s inauguration’

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"The J6ers, accused of imperilling the world’s greatest democracy are now being feted at Mr Trump’s coronation, taking place on the very steps of the Capitol building where much of the worst violence took place.

Egged on by Mr Trump’s false insistence that the 2020 election was stolen from him, rioters stormed the building."

 

An American tragedy: how Biden paved the way for Trump’s White House return

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"But Biden pressed on and later that year signed a $1.2tn bipartisan infrastructure package that not only replaced ageing roads and bridges but improved internet access and prepared communities to withstand the climate crisis. Then, in 2022, he followed up with two measures that reinvigorated the future of manufacturing.

The Chips and Science Act provided $52bn to build factories and create institutions to make computer chips domestically, ensuring that the US would have access to the most advanced semiconductors needed to power economic growth and maintain national security.

The Inflation Reduction Act aimed to tackle rising prices through measures such as lowering healthcare costs, reforming tax policies to ensure corporations and high earners pay more, and investing in clean energy. It was the most significant climate legislation ever passed.

Biden also signed the first major federal gun control legislation in nearly 30 years, focusing on enhanced background checks for younger buyers and support for states implementing red flag laws.

It was by any measure an impressive legislative legacy but much of it will bear fruit only in years and decades to come."

 

Trump will sabotage it.

Whatever previous government efforts that helped the common people that Trump sabotages, some of his followers will rejoice in it even if it damages or destroys them financially because Trump's retribution is paramount.

 

Trump administration to criminally probe state and local officials who resist immigration actions.


Trump administration to criminally probe officials who resist immigration actions