The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump blames current jump in egg prices in January 2025 on Biden.


Democrats blame Trump for soaring egg prices — just like Trump blamed Biden. Can anyone actually fix the problem?

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“I won on groceries,” Trump told NBC last month. “When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs, they would double and triple the price over a short period of time, and I won an election based on that. We’re going to bring those prices way down.”

Yet according to a group of congressional Democrats led by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Trump has spent his first week back in office too focused on other priorities instead, such as “mass deportations and pardoning Jan. 6 attackers.”

“Your sole action on costs was an executive order that contained only the barest mention of food prices and not a single specific policy to reduce them,” Warren and 19 other Democratic lawmakers wrote Sunday in a letter to the president. “Americans are looking to you to lower food prices.”

In response, White House press secretary Karolin Leavitt continued to blame former President Joe Biden Tuesday, saying that “we have seen the cost of everything — not just eggs; bacon, groceries, gasoline — [increase] because of the inflationary policies of the last administration.”

 

Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China: will they spark a trade war?

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"The way tariffs work, in Trump’s mind, is that they will incentivise US companies to move their manufacturing home from abroad. “All you have to do is build your plant in the United States, and you don’t have tariffs,” Trump said, a few weeks before the election.

But getting out of complex global manufacturing ecosystems is nearly impossible for many companies. It takes years to get a factory up and running, so even if a company theoretically wanted to bolster its domestic manufacturing to avoid tariffs, Trump’s term would be likely to be over by the time it was ready."

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/media/pentagon-press-rotation-defense-department/index.html

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"One America News Network would soon replace NBC News and Breitbart would swap with National Public Radio in coveted Pentagon press corps workspace under a plan shared with journalists Friday night.

In what the Pentagon is calling a new “annual media rotation program,” The New York Post will also be invited to move into The New York Times’ workspace. And a fourth outlet affected by the rotation program, Politico, would be replaced by HuffPost."

 

Trump orders 10-to-1deregulation rule.


Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Launches Massive 10-to-1 Deregulation Initiative – The White House

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"The Order requires that whenever an agency promulgates a new rule, regulation, or guidance, it must identify at least 10 existing rules, regulations, or guidance documents to be repealed."

 

Trump claims he 'won' the 'water war'.

Trump nearly flooded farms.


Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them.

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"SACRAMENTO, California — President Donald Trump declared victory on Friday in his long-running water war with California, boasting he sent billions of gallons south — but local officials say they narrowly prevented him from possibly flooding farms.

“Today, 1.6 billion gallons and, in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons. Everybody should be happy about this long fought Victory! I only wish they listened to me six years ago — There would have been no fire!” he said in a post on his social media site."

 

Killed NAFTA with the swipe of a pen.
Tariffs from Canada go into effect Tuesday.

Let the trade war begin, prices going to go up and we’re all going to pay for it.

Great job !

 

Gasoline prices set to rise as Trump launches his trade war against Mexico and Canada.


https://www.reuters.com/business/en...-tariffs-hit-canadian-mexican-oil-2025-02-01/

 

Canada 'will stand up to a bully', says Mark Carney

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Mark Carney, the frontrunner to be the next Canadian prime minister, has said his country is "going to stand up to a bully" after US President Donald Trump announced tariffs of 25% on Canada.

Speaking exclusively to BBC Newsnight, 59-year-old Carney said Canada will "match dollar for dollar the US tariffs".

 

Agencies instructed to remove diversity-related content from federal websites.


Agencies asked to scrub federal government websites to remove diversity-related content

 

Your guide to Trump's tariffs. How much you'll pay and when.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/business/what-how-trump-tariffs-meaning/index.html

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Trump has long praised tariffs as effective economic policy.

On Monday, Trump called “tariff” the fourth-most beautiful word in the dictionary, behind “God,” “love” and “religion.”

 

Trump opens another front in his tariff war. This time it's Europe.


Trump drops European Union tariff bombshell as astonishing new front opens up in global trade war | Daily Mail Online

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"Trump said at the White House Friday he would 'absolutely' put tariffs on the nation's EU allies.

'The European Union has treated us so terribly,' Trump told reporters as he inked new executive orders.

'You want the truthful answer or should I give you a political answer?' Trump said when asked about it – underlying his commitment to the issue. He said the tariffs on the EU would be 'very substantial,' without providing details.

It was not immediately clear when those tariffs would go into place."

 

Trump directs 70% cut to internal Office of Personnel Management staffing.


Trump administration directs 70% cut to internal OPM staffing, programs

 

Trump orders federal employees to remove pronouns from their email signatures (such as 'he/him/his' or 'she/her/hers').


Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day

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"Pronouns and any other information not permitted in the policy must be removed from CDC/ATSDR employee signatures by 5.p.m. ET on Friday," according to one such message sent Friday morning to CDC staff.

Federal employees with the Department of Transportation received a similar directive on Thursday, the same day the department was managing the fallout from the D.C. plane crash near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

 

But his followers will cheer him for opening the dams that squandered over 5 billion gallons of water and for imposing inflation-promoting tariffs.

Trump can say he did it because of Hannibal Lecter who in Trump's mind (like particle-wave duality) is both the good guy and bad guy at the same time, but resolves to one or the other depending on whatever Trump thinks he's trying to prove at the moment.

Hannibal Lecter was the bad guy who kept the dams closed that started the wildfires.

Or, Hannibal Lecter is the good guy who opened the dams to stop the wildfires.

Previously, Trump said Hannibal Lecter represents the immigrants that he doesn't want. Trump said his voters understand it and voted for him to keep (the late great) Hannibal Lecter out of the country.

"Yay! Hannibal Lecter!"


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Don't expect a meaningful explanation about the 5 billion gallon water dump by Hegseth who is now in charge of the entire military.


Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams

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Padilla asked Hegseth several questions, including who made the decision, how much advance notice was given to irrigation districts and local officials, and what impact the releases will have on communities and landowners. He also asked: “If the purpose of these releases is to help fight wildfires in Los Angeles County (which are already almost fully contained), what is the plan to transport this water to Los Angeles rather than let the water simply be discharged into Tulare Lake where it will evaporate?”

 

Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams

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"Vink said local water officials heard Thursday afternoon that the Army Corps planned to “go from a fairly nominal release to channel capacity in two hours.”

A release of that magnitude, he said, would normally be coordinated days in advance, in part because farmers might have expensive farm equipment placed near riverbanks. There are also homeless encampments near some riverbanks, and officials would want to make sure people were out of the way and not in danger before unleashing so much water."


"Aaron Fukuda, general manager of the Tulare Irrigation District, told the news site SJV Water that normally such flood releases are done with a great deal of prior notification and coordination. “I’ve been doing this 18 years and have never seen something like this,” he said."

 

Less irrigation water in the summer portfolio due to Trump's senseless water dump could mean lower crop yield and higher food prices.

But to Trump and his supporters, it's worth it because they think they 'won' the 'water war'.


Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams

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“In addition, when those kinds of releases do occur, they’re always done in consultation with local and state agencies,” Gleick said.

“I don’t know where this water is going, but this is the wrong time of year to be releasing water from these reservoirs. It’s vitally important that we fill our reservoirs in the rainy season so water is available for farms and cities later in the summer,” Gleick said. “I think it’s very strange and it’s disturbing that, after decades of careful local, state and federal coordination, some federal agencies are starting to unilaterally manipulate California’s water supply.”

Vink agreed, saying that given how dry it has been in the region this winter, there was no need to make such a release. In fact, he said, farmers were counting on that water to be available for summer irrigation.

“This is going to hurt farmers,” Vink said. “This takes water out of their summer irrigation portfolio.”

 

Activities of Trump's rioters after he pardoned them.


Donald Trump Pardoned 1,500 Jan. 6 Rioters — Here's What Some Of Them Have Done In The Days Since

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Matthew Huttle: Shot and killed by Indiana police during an "altercation" days after the pardon.

According to NPR, Huttle was previously sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for hitting his 3-year-old son.


Theodore Middendorf: Still in prison for sexually assaulting a 7-year-old after pleading guilty in 2024.

As per NPR, Middendorf pled guilty for destroying a window on Jan. 6.


Daniel Ball: Rearrested on gun charges.

He has pled not guilty for "Possession of a Firearm or Ammunition by a Convicted Felon," which he was initially accused of following his arrest for throwing an "explosive device that detonated upon at least 25 officers" on Jan. 6.


Andrew Taake: Being sought on preexisting charges of soliciting a minor online.

A woman on Bumble reported Taake to the FBI after he told her he'd been involved in the riot.


David Daniel: Facing charges of "Production of Child Pornography" and "Possession of Child Pornography."

He previously pled guilty to assaulting police officers on Jan. 6. He is accused of having "engaged in sexual acts with two young girls in his own family."


Guy Reffitt: Freed despite facing charges on possessing an illegal gun silencer.

As CNN notes, some federal authorities and Reffitt's own attorney thought that he should still be in custody. His son, who reported him to the FBI, has moved and said he is "terrified" by his father's release.


Emily Hernandez: Sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing someone while drunk driving.

She reportedly drove down the wrong lane of the interstate at 60mph in 2022, killing a woman and injuring her husband.

 

Trump puts tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, spurring trade war as North American allies respond

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"Trump declared an economic emergency in order to place duties of 10% on all imports from China and 25% on imports from Mexico and Canada. Energy imported from Canada, including oil, natural gas and electricity, would be taxed at a 10% rate. Trump’s order includes a mechanism to escalate the rates charged by the U.S. against retaliation by the other countries, raising the specter of an even more severe economic disruption."

 

Trump strikes targets in Somalia and says: "We will find you and we will kill you.".


"Will Find You, And Kill You": Trump After US Strikes ISIS In Somalia