The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump changes his mind on tariffs again.

He's giving Canada and Mexico a reprieve until April 2.

He also made exceptions to U.S. auto makers for items imported from Canada and Mexico.

This is after Trump said there was no time to spare anymore for starting tariffs.


Trump rolls back most tariffs on Mexico goods for one month - live updates

 

Maybe some smart 5th grader explained the math to him.

 

Trump's March 2025 speech to Congress was 99 minutes long.

 

The 30-day tariff threat cycle by Trump is expected to continue for the next four years.

 

U.S. tourism industry could lose billions due to Trump's tariffs, real or threatened.


https://www.npr.org/2025/03/06/nx-s1-5316354/trump-tariffs-canadian-tourists

 

Trump’s Administration Orders Staffers to Stop Reading the News at Work
Employees at the Social Security Administration have been directed not to read “general news” content on their work computers
By Justin Glawe, Asawin Suebsaeng
March 6, 2025

Trump Administration Ordered Staffers To Stop Reading the News at Work

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Donald Trump’s administration — which is, in partnership with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, waging a sweeping, shambolic crackdown on the federal workforce — is now ordering employees to stop reading the news on their office computers.

In a Thursday email titled “Internet Browsing from Government Equipment,” which was blasted out to “all” staffers at the Social Security Administration (SSA), Trump officials announced that “SSA is implementing additional restrictions to the categories of websites prohibited from government-furnished equipment,” according to a copy reviewed by Rolling Stone. The email states that “effective today, March 6, 2025, the categories” now include “online shopping” and “sports,” and perhaps most conspicuously: “general news.” The message continues: “Employees with a legitimate business should submit an exception SAM request for their supervisor’s review.”

 

Trump won't sign executive order to dissolve Department of Education today: Sources

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"President Donald Trump is expected to take the extraordinary step this week of directing his secretary of education to dissolve the U.S. Department of Education by executive order, according to sources familiar with a draft.

A draft of the executive order calls on Education Secretary Linda McMahon to facilitate a department closure by taking all necessary steps "permitted by law," the sources said."

 

Trump's team plans to revoke legal status of 240,000 Ukrainian refugees, Reuters reports

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"The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the temporary legal status of 240,000 Ukrainians who fled to the U.S. from Russia's invasion, potentially paving the way for their deportation, Reuters reported on March 6, citing four undisclosed sources.

The plan predates U.S. President Donald Trump's public spat with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Feb. 28 and is part of broader efforts to revoke the legal status of more than 1.8 million people staying in the U.S. on humanitarian grounds, the news agency noted."

 

Panama president says Trump ‘lying’ about reclaiming the canal

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In a statement posted on X on Wednesday, Mulino said the man-made waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans “is not in the process of recovery” by Trump and the US government.

“Once again, President Trump is lying,” Mulino wrote on X.

 

Trump is the first president to 'deliberately engineer a severe depression': economist

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"A related key question is whether Trump has any master plan for the economy here, or whether he is just bats--t crazy," Kuttner muses. "The evidence is that Trump’s effort to destroy the government reflects a certain malign consistency, but that his effort to destroy the economy is based on sheer ignorance and impulsivity. His economic policy is internally inconsistent, and totally at odds with his political need to tame inflation. He is on track to have the kind of stagflation that did in Jimmy Carter, only far worse—and self-inflicted."

 

Trump is the first president to 'deliberately engineer a severe depression': economist
Brad Reed
March 5, 2025 8:48AM ET

Trump is the first president to 'deliberately engineer a severe depression': economist

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Economist Robert Kuttner believes that President Donald Trump will go down as the first president in American history to "deliberately engineer a severe depression."

Writing in The American Prospect, Kuttner runs down all the ways that Trump's policies are putting a severe damper on economic growth, starting with the massive tariffs he has slapped on all goods coming from Canada and Mexico.

Among other things, Kuttner notes that the tariffs are going to create havoc in manufacturing supply chains since some car parts make multiple border crossings during the car production process.

"How on Earth do you levy tariffs on each border crossing without slowing down the production chain?" he wonders. "It is as if Trump wants to artificially recreate the supply chain crisis of the COVID years."

 

Trump is the Covid virus this time, both economically and psychologically, like a disease that has spread across the country.

 

Trump to try to lower egg prices by importing 100 million eggs during a tariff war that he started.


https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/experts-crush-donald-trumps-plan-1013014

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Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins outlined a new ‘five-part’ strategy last week to grapple with the crisis, caused by the ongoing bird flu outbreak. The $1 billion dollar scheme included a proposal to ‘temporarily increase egg imports and decrease exports’ to help with demand. Rollins later said she hoped the government could bring 70 million to 100 million extra eggs into the country.

Trump applauded Rollins’ action plan during his speech to Congress yesterday, as some residents face paying over $12 per dozen eggs. He admitted: “The egg prices, out of control. And we’re working hard to get it back down. Secretary, do a good job on that — you inherited a total mess from the previous administration.”

 

Trump's approach can be expected to be threatening other countries with import tariffs if they don't export their eggs to the U.S.

 

Musk hit financially with cancellation of contract due to Trump's tariffs.


‘Not going back’: Ford will cancel Starlink-Ontario deal even if tariffs are lifted | Globalnews.ca

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"Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his decision to rip up a contract with Elon Musk‘s internet service is permanent and won’t be reversed, even if Canada’s tariff war with the United States is resolved.

On Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped 25 per cent tariffs on the vast majority of Canadian imports, sparking a growing trade war between the two neighbouring countries.

As part of its response, Ontario removed U.S. alcohol from the shelves of the LCBO, banned American companies from bidding on provincial contracts and cancelled a deal between Musk’s SpaceX and the provincial government.

The cancelled contract is worth $100 million and was first signed in November 2024 to deliver Starlink satellite internet to rural and northern communities in Ontario."

 

Lutnick is accusing the Canadians of cheating on NAFTA (now USMCA).


Trump may meet Canada, Mexico ‘in the middle’ on tariffs Wednesday: Lutnick - National | Globalnews.ca

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Lutnick criticized Trudeau’s rhetoric, noting the prime minister is set to resign after a new Liberal party leader is elected on Sunday.

“Hopefully they’ll elect someone who’s clever, who comes down and says to Donald Trump, ‘We want to do business with you, we want to do business fairly, and we can get rid of all this nonsense,'” he said.

“What happened to the USMCA? I’ll tell you what happened: the Canadians like to cheat.”

 

Trump used the threat of tariffs to convince Canada and Mexico to revise NAFTA during his first term.

Now Lutnick is accusing Canada of cheating on NAFTA which supposedly justifies Trump threatening Canada with even more tariffs (against the NAFTA agreement) to try to obtain an even better deal for himself.

 

Door-in-the-face tactic.


Door-in-the-face technique - Wikipedia

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"The door-in-the-face technique is a compliance method commonly studied in social psychology.[1][2] The persuader attempts to convince the respondent to comply by making a large request that the respondent will most likely turn down, much like a metaphorical slamming of a door in the persuader's face. The respondent is then more likely to agree to a second, more reasonable request, than if that same request is made in isolation.[1][2] The DITF technique can be contrasted with the foot-in-the-door (FITD) technique, in which a persuader begins with a small request and gradually increases the demands of each request.[2][3] Both the FITD and DITF techniques increase the likelihood a respondent will agree to the second request.[2][3] The door-in-the-face technique was tested in a 1975 study conducted by Robert Cialdini."

 

Trump administration considering criminal referrals in USAID fight
Laura Kelly
Wed, March 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM UTC

Trump administration considering criminal referrals in USAID fight

 

I want to hear those who think kneeling during the anthem disrespects veterans try and defend this.

I know Hip Forums' trump simps won't comment, but I'm posting this anyway.

War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge

BTW I'm trans and a veteran of the 82nd Airborne