The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump wants to stop the NY congested toll program.


Trump admin moves to block NYC congestion toll program

 

This clown will fit in just perfectly with the rest of the circus.

 

Rupert Murdoch attended Trump's 2025 inauguration. He was also in the Oval Office with Trump in February 2025.

It seemed like Murdoch had finally let go of Trump.

But like a badly battered spouse, he went back to the abuser again.

It's similar to a few pro-Trump members of Congress and bloggers who seem like they've finally come to their sense about Trump and have broken free of his grip. But they submit to him all over again.


Rupert Murdoch Is Pictured With Trump At Oval Office Signing

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"Eyebrows were raised as billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch was pictured with President Donald Trump on Monday in the Oval Office.

The powerhouse behind Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and New York Post attended a White House event where Trump signed an executive order establishing a U.S. sovereign wealth fund."

 

Article from March 2024.


https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/07/media/donald-trump-super-tuesday-rupert-murdoch/index.html

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With Nikki Haley exiting the presidential race, the twice-impeached, four-time indicted, insurrection-inciting former president has vanquished the field of Republican Party challengers to secure unbridled control over the GOP.

That’s an outcome that Murdoch, the billionaire media mogul and one-time Republican kingmaker who controls Fox News, had hoped to avoid. Murdoch has privately leveled harsh criticism against Trump. And after the 2020 election, he even wrote in an email to a Fox News executive, disclosed during litigation with Dominion Voting Systems, “We want to make Trump a non person.”

 

Murdoch created a Frankenstein who eventually overpowered him.


How Rupert Murdoch helped create a monster – the era of Trumpism – and then lost control of it

 

Trump and the billionaire elites are the Deep State now.

It becomes more difficult to criticize the supposed Deep State when one becomes the alleged Deep State itself.

Trump will find a way to keep portraying himself and his ultra-billionaires as victims. He's never satisfied with anything that's already far beyond what would have been good enough for just about anyone else.


Opinion | Trump and MAGA are the establishment now

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"Whether it’s the “Deep State,” migrants, the “woke mind virus,” “globalist elites,” legacy media, prosecutors attempting to hold Trump accountable for his attempted self-coup, Republicans who refused to go along with the big lie — in MAGA minds, something or someone has always been keeping them down.

But after Trump’s stunning victory this week, we can say goodbye to all that. There’s nothing above MAGA to keep MAGA down.

If there’s one thing that Trump and MAGA stand for, it’s the fetishization of their own perceived victimhood."

 

How Republicsan billionaires learned to love Trump again.


How Republican Billionaires Learned to Love Trump Again

 

People used to complain about what was referred to as the top 1% running an administration.

With Trump, it's the top 0.0001%.


Trump’s Billionaire Cabinet Represents the Top 0.0001% - Public Citizen

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"Sixteen of Trump’s 25 wealthiest appointees and nominees are members of the 0.0001%, meaning they are among the 813 billionaires in the United States, where some 341 million of the rest of us make up the 99.9999% (earning an average yearly income of about $61,000). Elon Musk’s outrageous wealth places him in a category all his own, as the world’s richest person. By contrast, cabinet members who are mere members of the top 1% – members such as J.D. Vance, Kristi Noem, and Marco Rubio – appear almost working class, even if the wealth of each is more than triple the median income Americans earn over their entire lives ($1.7 million)."

 

The people Trump has selected to run the country.


Trump’s Billionaire Cabinet Represents the Top 0.0001% - Public Citizen

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Elon Musk DOGE Co-leader $400,000,000,000 world’s richest person

Charles Kushner* State Ambassador to France $7,100,000,000 0.0001%

Donald Trump White House President $6,200,000,000 0.0001%

Stephen Feinberg Defense Deputy Secretary $5,000,000,000 0.0001%

Leandro Rizzuto Jr.* State Ambassador to the Organization of American States $3,500,000,000 0.0001%

Warren Stephens State Ambassador to the United Kingdom $3,400,000,000 0.0001%

Linda McMahon* Education Secretary $3,000,000,000 0.0001%

Jared Isaacman NASA Administrator $1,700,000,000 0.0001%

Howard Lutnick Commerce Secretary $1,500,000,000 0.0001%

Doug Burgum Interior $1,100,000,000 0.0001%

Kelly Loeffler Small Business Administration Administrator $1,100,000,000 0.0001%

Vivek Ramaswamy DOGE Co-leader $1,000,000,000 0.0001%

Steven Witkoff Special Envoy to the Middle East $1,000,000,000 0.0001%

Scott Bessent Treasury Secretary $1,000,000,000 0.0001%

Thomas Barrack Jr. State Ambassador to Turkey $1,000,000,000 0.0001%

Frank Bisiganano Social Security Administration Administrator $1,000,000,000 0.0001%

David Sacks White House AI and Crypto Czar reported billionaire 0.0001%

Mehmet Oz CMS Administrator $315,000,000 0.001%

Chris Wright Energy Secretary $171,000,000 0.001%

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. HHS Secretary $15,000,000 0.1%

JD Vance Vice President $11,300,000 1%

Michael Waltz National Security Advisor $10,500,000 1%

Pete Hegseth Defense Secretary $6,000,000 1%

Krisi Noem Homeland Security Secretary $5,000,000 1%

Marco Rubio State Secretary $5,000,000 1%

 

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children

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"Trump scoffed that U.S.A.I.D. was “run by radical lunatics.” Is it radical lunacy to try to save children’s lives? To promote literacy for girls? To fight blindness?

If this is woke, what about the evangelical Christians in International Justice Mission, which, with U.S.A.I.D. support, has done outstanding work battling sex trafficking of children in Cambodia and the Philippines? Does Trump believe that rescuing children from rape is a radical lunatic cause?

Trump’s moves are of uncertain legality, not least because U.S.A.I.D. was established by Congress, but the outcomes are indisputable. Around the world children are already missing health care and food because of the assault on the agency that Kennedy founded to uphold our values and protect our interests.

To billionaires in the White House, it may seem like a game. But to anyone with a heart, it’s about children’s lives and our own security, and what’s unfolding is sickening."

 

The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children
Nicholas Kristof
Feb. 5, 2025

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children

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"The world’s richest man is boasting about destroying the United States Agency for International Development, which saves the lives of the world’s poorest children, saying he shoved it “into the wood chipper.”

By my calculations, Elon Musk probably has a net worth greater than that of the poorest billion people on Earth. Just since Donald Trump’s election, Musk’s personal net worth has grown by far more than the entire annual budget of U.S.A.I.D., which in any case accounts for less than 1 percent of the federal budget. It’s callous for gleeful billionaires like Musk and President Trump to cut children off from medicine, but, as President John F. Kennedy pointed out when he proposed the creation of the agency in 1961, it’s also myopic."

 

Billionaires could actually be considered poor not too long from now.

The first trillionaires are expected.


In Data: Billionaires' riches surge by trillions, poor left behind | Context

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"NEW DELHI - The world's billionaires' wealth grew by $2 trillion in 2024, at a rate three times faster than the previous year largely due to inheritance, powerful connections and corruption, according to anti-poverty group Oxfam.

A report by the British charity, which was issued as business elites gather this week for the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, found that an average of nearly four new billionaires were "minted" weekly.

The number of billionaires jumped from 2,565 in 2023 to 2,769 in only 12 months. Their combined wealth has now reached $15 trillion.

The group predicted the world was on track to see at least five trillionaires within a decade."

 

As comedian Benny Hill used to say humorously, "We were all poor in our family. The maid was poor. The butler was poor."

 

The Under-the-Radar Trump Nominee Who Could Be Utterly Disastrous

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"In contrast, Trump’s current nominee, Long, has little leadership experience beyond running his own auction company in Missouri. In Congress, he served on various subcommittees of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the Committee on Homeland Security, and the Republican Steering Committee, never in a leadership position. What’s missing from this list? Any experience with the tax system.

But wait, you say, he claims to be a “Certified Business and Tax Advisor.” It turns out he got at most three days of sales training after leaving Congress so that he could promote the Employee Retention Tax Credit, which Congress created to help businesses weather the pandemic, and which has been a magnet for fraudsters and a massive headache for the IRS. I’m not sure this is the kind of experience with the tax system we’re looking for in the next IRS commissioner. Nor is the fact that he was one of 144 co-sponsors of a bill to terminate the tax code and replace it with … something better? … as well as another bill to eliminate the estate tax."

 

Another fox in the hen house.


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

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"The podcast was titled “Secret Tax Credit That Could Put Thousands Back in Your Pocket with Billy Long.” Long even had the words “Employee Retention Tax Credit” emblazoned on his auctioneer’s cap.

Eventually the IRS caught on to what was supposed to cost the government $55 billion. As millions of claims were filed, the cost soared to over $230 billion, with some estimates showing the tax scam could reach over $500 billion, despite IRS efforts to tighten the requirements.

Tapping Long as IRS commissioner would be like putting a fox in a hen house."

 

Trump will blame Billy Long's tax-cheating scheme on Biden for creating the tax break, like he is now blaming Zelensky for supposedly causing Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

 

Hegseth, who is now running the entire military, blames Biden for the IRS auditing him.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/17/pete-hegseth-irs-audit-biden-administration-00204626

 

Billy Long completed a three-day course.


How a Consulting Firm and Trump’s I.R.S. Pick Pushed a Problematic Tax Credit

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"Mr. Long received the certificate after attending a three-day course offered by Excel Empire, a Florida tax consulting company, a spokesman for the company told The Springfield News-Leader. Excel Empire was founded by Mr. Pearson, the man who settled his lawsuit against the founders of Lifetime."

 

“They’re Scared Shitless”: The Threat of Political Violence Informing Trump’s Grip on Congress

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In private, Republicans talk about their fear that Trump might incite his MAGA followers to commit political violence against them if they don’t rubber-stamp his actions.

“They’re scared shitless about death threats and Gestapo-like stuff,” a former member of Trump’s first administration tells me.

 

Trump's approval rating slips as the public becomes more concerned about the economy.


https://www.reuters.com/world/us/tr...ips-americans-worry-about-economy-2025-02-19/