The Donald Trump Score Card

White House blocks AP reporter from Trump-Modi news conference because of Gulf of Mexico fight

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"Questioned about the actions Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said media access decisions are up to the president and suggested that retaining references to the Gulf of Mexico constituted “lies” for which news organizations would be held accountable."

 

Comedy skit:

Trump's people asking each journalist as they are about to enter an event:

"Is it Gulf Of America or Gulf Of Mexico?"

"Is it the America Canal or the Panama Canal?"

"Is it the MAGA Strip or the Gaza Strip?"

"Is it Red, White, And Blueland or is it Greenland?"

 

Another day of disappointment glancing at the obituaries...

 

Trump accuses federal workers of playing golf.


Adams case and other Trump moves threaten to open corruption floodgates, experts say

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“Nobody is gonna work from home,” Trump said Monday. “They are gonna be going out, they’re gonna play tennis, they’re gonna play golf, they’re gonna do a lot of things. They’re not working.”

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/politics/doge-irs-taxpayer-data/index.html

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"The agreement is part of a broader memorandum of understanding being considered by the IRS that would give DOGE officials widespread access to the agency’s system, including the Integrated Data Retrieval System, or IDRS, which enables IRS employees to access specific taxpayer accounts and their bank information.

The IDRS contains some of the most sensitive financial information on American taxpayers. According to the IRS, the system is designed to prevent taxpayers’ information from getting into the wrong hands — and from unauthorized IRS employees from making changes to taxpayers’ data. Authorized employees can access taxpayers’ sensitive data only to accomplish a specific and official task."

 

Trump's supporters shouldn't worry that Musk's 19-year-olds will have access to such data

It was all worth it to see Trump dance on stage with the Village People.

 

Protests against Trump on Presidents Day, a protest which is being called No Kings Day.


Protesters across the US denounce Trump and Musk on ‘No Kings Day’

 

Four deputies of Adams resign after he agrees to work with Trump.


Four of Eric Adams' deputies resign amid mayor's agreement to work with Trump

 

It sounds like a humor skit but it's real.


https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161/text

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SECTION 1. Short title.

This Act may be cited as the “Red, White, and Blueland Act of 2025”.

SEC. 2. Purchase or other acquisition of Greenland.

The President is authorized to enter into negotiations with the Government of Denmark to purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland.

SEC. 3. Renaming of Greenland as “Red, White, and Blueland”.

(a) Renaming.—Greenland shall be known as “Red, White, and Blueland”

 

Danish MEP slams ‘absurd’ proposal to rename Greenland ‘Red, White and Blueland’ – POLITICO

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"A Danish MEP denounced a proposal by an American lawmaker to rename Greenland “Red, White and Blueland” as “absurd” and damaging to diplomatic relations."

 

Trump acting like mafia boss.


Trump 'Acting Like A Mafia Don,' Says This Economist As Uncertainty Mounts, Businesses Hold Back In Fear Of Unforeseen Economic Shifts - Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 (NASDAQ:QQQ), SPDR S&P 500 (ARCA:SPY) - Benzinga

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What Happened: Macro strategist at the Bear Traps Report, Shapiro said that Trump’s governing approach is beginning to resemble that of a “Mafia Don”.

“Everyone has to get in line first to talk to the Don,” he said in an X post adding that “initial euphoria” around Trump’s win and the Republican sweep was fading.

“We are now moving more into the uncertainty phase for business leaders who are more likely to wait and see how things go, rather than invest/hire ahead of hopeful changes in the legislative front.”

Businesses were unsure about the direction of key policies and economic reforms according to Shapiro. He said that factors like tariffs on Canada and Mexico, the unclear future of trade agreements, and fluctuating government spending, fueled the “uncertainty”.

 

Trump's failure to understand questions by reporters with an accent.


All the times Donald Trump has failed to understand foreign reporters as US President tells Indian journalist he 'can't understand' his accent | Daily Mail Online

 

Republican introduces bill to make Trump's birthday a national holiday.


GOP bill would make Trump's birthday a federal holiday

 

Trump's death-day becoming a national holiday is a possibility..

 

Trump opening corruption floodgates.


Adams case and other Trump moves threaten to open corruption floodgates, experts say

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"The administration previously made other moves that place a lower priority on corruption cases and scaled back the grounds to launch prosecutions. The Justice Department said it will limit the enforcement of a law designed to expose secret lobbying by foreign governments, the Foreign Agents Registration Act. It also disbanded a Justice Department unit that prosecuted large-scale corruption by foreign governments or their allies who use the U.S. financial system to launder their stolen gains. The efforts, including the Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative, have resulted in the seizure of hundreds of millions of dollars."

 

What do Americans think about Trump's tariffs?

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"So because of this divide between goals and implementation, you get an administration that is really leaning into its messaging. Trump has pitched his actions as necessary for America's national interests, even if that means costs go up. I think it's unlikely that most people will agree the trade-offs are worth it.

Monica Potts: It's interesting that this messaging — that there might be short-term pain but the long-term benefits would be worth it if Americans just hold on — didn't work for the Biden administration when it said prices had risen because of supply and demand shocks after the pandemic and that things were getting better.

And Trump campaigned on lowering prices. The irony."

 

What do Americans think about Trump's tariffs?

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"The typical way this gets justified is that if prices for imports go up, then people will just flock to American-made goods. But that assumes three things that are simply not true: (a) that the U.S. has replacement goods in large supply for all affected commerce (looking at you, avocados); (b) that American companies would not raise prices to match those of foreign imports in order to increase profits (but price equilibrium typically approaches the old cost of the good + the new tariff); and (c) that the laws of supply and demand do not apply to local American goods (as increased demand increases prices). So there are really multiple ways in which consumers could suffer from these policies.

The downstream effects of this could be quite severe. For example, decreasing imports of Mexican goods will hurt the Mexican economy, which could also exacerbate the problems at the border."

 

It also assumes American-made goods won't be higher price than what was imported.

 

When the pain hits home, Republicans balk at Trump's spending cuts and tariffs

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Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the vice chair of the Appropriations Committee that oversees government funding, said Trump should go about his attempts to slash or freeze money in a different way: by winning congressional approval first.

“Running farmers out of business, derailing infrastructure projects, cutting cancer research and killing good-paying clean energy jobs isn’t just unpopular, it’s devastating for working people everywhere — and it is time Trump reverses his illegal funding freeze and DOGE cuts in their entirety,” Murray told NBC News. “Trump’s policies are hurting communities and families in red states and blue states. If Trump and Elon want to cut funding for cancer research and infrastructure projects, they need to send us a proposal and try and win the votes in Congress to do it.”

 

Trump says Supreme Court immunity ruling gives him unrestricted power.


Trump Uses Supreme Court Immunity Ruling to Claim “Unrestricted Power”

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"Now, this legal filing not only seeks to cement unlimited presidential power in firing employees, but also challenges Congress’s authority to limit the president’s mass purges. Trump’s efforts to overhaul the federal government would get a big boost if he gets a favorable ruling from his conservative friends on the Supreme Court. The question is whether they think a president should have those powers, or if they think the presidency needs some guardrails."