The Donald Trump Score Card

The PGA has given in to Trump.


PGA Tour and LIV Golf Look for Merger Deal Under Trump

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The Saudi-backed LIV league roared into the golf world in 2022 with huge contracts for established stars and a shorter, livelier tournament format that challenged the PGA Tour. But it effectively split the stars of the golf world across two circuits, fracturing the audience and weakening the business prospects for both leagues. The Saudi wealth fund is valued at about $925 billion, but its golf operation has bled money for years, even as LIV sought to cut a swaggering public profile.

 

Trump to meet with Saudi investment firm in FL (after meeting with Putin in Saudi Arabia).


President Trump arrives in South Florida for Saudi investment conference in Miami Beach; police warns of traffic delays - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale

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“It is shocking to have the leader of the free world not know the fundamental elements of how this crisis came to be,” said Senator Jeff Merkley.

Former Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul saying on X: “Ukraine did not invade Russia. Russia invaded Ukraine.”

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/europe/zelensky-trump-reaction-intl/index.html

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"The incorrect claim that Ukraine somehow started the war has long been repeated by the Kremlin and its supporters. The conflict began in 2014, when Russia illegally annexed Crimea, the southern Ukrainian peninsula, and began sponsoring pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine."

 

Zelensky says Trump lives in disinformation space.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/europe/zelensky-trump-reaction-intl/index.html

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"Speaking to reporters in Kyiv, Zelensky pushed back on several unfounded claims the US president made on Tuesday, while reinforcing Ukraine’s position that a deal to end the war needed its involvement.

“Unfortunately, President Trump – I have great respect for him as a leader of a nation that we have great respect for, the American people who always support us – unfortunately lives in this disinformation space,” Zelensky said.

US and Russian officials held high-level talks on ending the war in Ukraine in the Saudi capital of Riyadh on Tuesday, a meeting from which Kyiv was excluded."

 

Trump is the disinformation space. He creates it and draws others into it.

 

Trump’s Economic Promises Timeline

Trump’s Economic Promises Timeline

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8/9/24:

NBC Montana, Trump Rally in Bozeman, MT, YouTube (August 9, 2024).

“Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again, to bring down the prices of all goods.”


8/14/24

PBS NewsHour, Trump Rally in North Carolina, YouTube (August 14, 2024).

“Under my administration, we will be slashing energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months, at a maximum 18 months”

“Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”


8/17/24

PBS NewsHour, Trump speaks at campaign rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, YouTube (August 17, 2024).

“Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down and we will make America affordable again. We’re going to make it affordable again.”

“We’re going to get your energy prices down. We’re going to get your energy prices down by 50%.”


9/5/24

NBC News, Trump Addresses Economic Club Of New York, YouTube (September 5, 2024).

@ 10:56 “We will bring our auto-making industry to the record levels of 37 years ago, and we’ll be able to do it very quickly through tariffs and other smart use of certain things that we have that other countries don't.”

@ 18:05 “Energy is going to bring us back. That means we’re going down and getting gasoline below $2 a gallon, bring down the price of everything from electricity rates to groceries, airfares, and housing costs.”

@ 48:04 “We will eliminate regulations that drive up housing costs with the goal of cutting the cost of a new home in half. We think we can do that.”


9/18/24

Former President Trump Campaigns in Uniondale, New York, C-SPAN (September 18, 2024).

“While working Americans catch up, we’re going to put a temporary cap on credit card interest rates. We can’t let them make 25 and 30%.”
9/29/24

Speech: Donald Trump Holds a Campaign Rally in Erie, Pennsylvania, Roll Call (September 29, 2024).

“We're going to get the prices down. We have to get them down. It's too much. Groceries, cars, everything. We're going to get the prices down. While working Americans catch up, we are going to put a temporary cap on credit card interest rates at 10%. People are being made to pay 25%. Temporary ban.”


10/1/24:

PBS NewsHour, Trump delivers campaign remarks in Waunakee as vice presidential debate set to begin, YouTube (October 1, 2024).

“Starting on day one, we will end inflation and make America affordable again. We’ll do that. We’ve got to bring it down.”


11/04/24

Former President Trump Campaigns in Pittsburgh, C-SPAN (November 4, 2024).

“A vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper”


12/12/24

Time Staff, Read the Full Transcript of Donald Trump’s 2024 Person of the Year Interview With TIME, TIME (December 12, 2024).

“I can’t guarantee anything. I can’t guarantee tomorrow”


1/5/25

Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), X (January 5, 2025, 9:11PM).

“We must secure our border, unleash American energy, and renew the Trump tax cuts, which were the largest in history, but we will make it even better - There will be no tax on tips. It will all be made up with tariffs, and much more, from countries that have taken advantage of the U.S. for years.”


1/7/25

Associated Press, Trump holds a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, YouTube (January 7, 2025).

“We’re going to have prices down- I think you’re going to see some pretty drastic price reductions.”

 

10% of NASA workforce laid off amid Trump administration cuts: Report

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The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) condemned the layoffs, with AFGE President Everett Kelley telling the Houston Chronicle: "This administration has abused the probationary period to conduct a politically driven mass firing spree, targeting employees not because of performance, but because they were hired before Trump took office."

 

Trump continues to consolidate power.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/18/trump-order-power-independent-agencies-00204798

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"President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a sweeping executive order bringing independent agencies under the control of the White House — an action that would greatly expand his power but is likely to attract significant legal challenges.

It represents Trump’s latest attempt to consolidate power beyond boundaries other presidents have observed and to test the so-called unitary executive theory, which states that the president has the sole authority over the executive branch. And it reflects the influence of Russ Vought, Trump’s budget chief, one of several conservatives in his orbit who have called for axing independent arms of the executive branch."

 

Trump is repeating Putin's lies.


Trump calls Ukraine's Zelenskyy a 'dictator,' escalating a spat between the leaders

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"The president added that his Ukrainian counterpart's approval ratings sat at 4% in Ukraine — despite an opinion poll released Wednesday by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology showing that 57% of Ukrainians trust Zelenskyy."

 

Hannity wanted to talk about the economy but Trump kept whining about Biden.


UH-OH: Trump Just Publicly Abandoned 1 Of His Biggest 'Day 1' Promises

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Once in office, however, Trump quickly backed off the notion that he’d be able to immediately cut inflation and improve the economy and has also admitted that his plan to impose tariffs on other nations could lead to “short-term a little pain” for American consumers.

And when Hannity tried to bring up the economy during a previous interview, Trump didn’t want to talk about it at all.

“Let me get to the economy,” Hannity said during the interview shortly after Trump took office. “I’m running out of time.”

“I don’t care,” Trump fired back as he went on a lengthy rant against Biden. “This is more important.”

 

Trump threatens to cut funding from universities unless diversity programs are removed.


Trump administration gives schools deadline to cut DEI or lose federal funds

 

Musk is making it sound like he found millions of people collecting Social Security using names of dead people.


Tens of millions of dead people aren't getting Social Security checks, despite Trump and Musk claims

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"So are tens of millions of people over 100 years old receiving benefits?

No.

Part of the confusion comes from Social Security’s software system based on the COBOL programming language, which has a lack of date type. This means that some entries with missing or incomplete birthdates will default to a reference point of more than 150 years ago. The news organization WIRED first reported on the use of COBOL programming language at the Social Security Administration.

Additionally, a series of reports from the Social Security Administration’s inspector general in March 2023 and July 2024 state that the agency has not established a new system to properly annotate death information in its database, which included roughly 18.9 million Social Security numbers of people born in 1920 or earlier but were not marked as deceased. This does not mean, however, that these individuals were receiving benefits."

 

Trump is supposedly against waste in government.

Yet In 2020 Trump commuted the 20-year prison sentence of a Florida fraudster who perpetrated a $1.3 billion Medicare scheme.


Health care fraudster Philip Esformes is latest Trump clemency recipient to be arrested

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"Philip Esformes, whose 20-year prison sentence for a massive, $1.3 billion Medicare fraud scheme was commuted in 2020 by then-President Donald Trump, was arrested over the weekend in Florida on domestic-violence related charges.

Esformes is at least the seventh person who received executive clemency from Trump, only to be charged with new crimes.

Esformes, who had owned Florida nursing homes, was convicted at trial in 2019 of 20 criminal counts related to what the Department of Justice at the time said was the largest health-care fraud scheme ever prosecuted by the department."

 

Food for thought.

The formation of a music group like the Village People. But instead of working class stiffs like a police officer and constrution worker (whom Trump is supposed to be helping), it would be comprised of the ultra-billionaires of various professions (electric cars, social media, newspapers like The New York Post and The Washington Post, Silicon Valley techies), all dressed up in their appropriate garb with Trump doing his hand dance on stage with them to the tune M.B.G.A. (make billionaires great again).

It already looked close to this at Trump's oath of office ceremony with all of them standing behind them.

 

Wellll..................those Billionaires are being constantly targeted for higher taxes. Just who wants to pay into a broken system with no confidence of accountability and a poor attitude on accountability to people who do pay.

Bring it on

 

Oh, you make me feel real sorry for those poor. mistreated billionaires.

 

Don't worry. The middle class will continue to shoulder the financial burden.

 

Opinion: Why Trump’s Tax Man Will Be the Sheriff of Rottingham–Not Robin Hood

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"If Long is confirmed by the Senate, it’s the death knell for President Biden’s efforts to revive and reform the IRS. He succeeded in shoehorning $80 billion into the agency for stepped up enforcement and taxpayer service. The Republicans have clawed back more than half of that, and they’ll be coming for the rest once the new administration takes hold.

The cost cutting guarantees a free pass for billionaires and sub-billionaires who are good at tax evasion. For the record, we’ve never seen Donald Trump’s tax returns, and nobody bothers even asking anymore."

 

Billy Long, Trump's pick to lead IRS, pushed a tax credit that raises red flags, Sen. Warren says

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"While serving as a representative, Long, a Republican from Missouri and a former auctioneer, co-sponsored legislation that aimed to wipe out much of the tax code. After leaving office, he served as a tax adviser to businesses seeking to employ a controversial tax credit, the Employee Retention Tax Credit, or ERTC.

In her Jan. 9 letter to Long, Warren raises questions about Long's tax expertise as well as his promotion of the ERTC, which has been flagged by the IRS for its high rate of fraud. Unlike other recent IRS tax commissioners, Long doesn't have a depth of experience in the tax industry, nor does he have a degree in accounting or tax law."