The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump has done only two post-2024 election rallies. One in DC and another in Las Vegas.

In the 2016 election, he did nine post-election victory rallies, all in December 2016. He also did ten post-inauguration rallies from February 2017 to the end of 2017.


List of rallies for the 2024 Donald Trump presidential campaign - Wikipedia

List of Donald Trump rallies (December 2016–2022) - Wikipedia

 

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/g-s1-54206/el-salvador-mega-prison-cecot

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"The arrival of the immigrants, alleged by the U.S. to be members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, took place under an agreement for which the Trump administration will pay the government of President Nayib Bukele $6 million for one year of services.

Bukele has made the Central American country's stark, harsh prisons a trademark of his fight against crime. In 2023, he opened the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, where the immigrants were sent over the weekend even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring their deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members."

 

'Made-up emergency': Democrats try to block Trump tariffs on Canada

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"President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on the Senate to keep the United States' tariffs on Canada in place -- hours before Democrats in the upper chamber could potentially force a vote aimed at blocking the president from imposing tariffs on the ally country.

Democratic Sens. Tim Kaine, Amy Klobuchar and Mark Warner are leading the effort to end the international emergency -- which Kaine has called a "made-up emergency" -- that Trump has declared against Canada, thereby shunting his administration's authority to unilaterally impose tariffs. Trump has derived his authority to impose tariffs by declaring a national emergency caused by the flow of fentanyl and undocumented migration from Canada, Mexico and China. But Democrats are now challenging that emergency status."

 

Trump accidentally deported a Maryland man originally from El Salvador to El Savador. He has the protection of a 2019 court order to prevent deportation.


A man was sent to El Salvador due to 'administrative error' despite protected legal status, filings show

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"The government, however, alleges that Garcia was an "active member of the criminal gang MS-13," citing an unidentified informant at a 2019 bond hearing.

Garcia's lawyers strenuously deny this and claim the government "has never produced an iota of evidence to support this unfounded allegation." Garcia left El Salvador to escape gang violence, his lawyers say, after gangsters threatened to kill him in an attempt to extort his parents.

They do not deny that they had no legal authority to send him there.”

 

A man was sent to El Salvador due to 'administrative error' despite protected legal status, filings show

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Vice President JD Vance weighed into the case and falsely said on X Tuesday that Garcia was a "convicted MS-13 gang member." Garcia has no criminal convictions in the U.S. or in El Salvador, his legal team said in the lawsuit.

In a follow-up post on X Tuesday, Vance stood by his comments and called Garcia "an illegal immigrant with no right to be in our country," despite the 2019 protection order against his removal from the U.S.

 

Elon Musk's disclosure of planned Social Security fraud arrest troubles top law enforcement officials: Sources

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"Musk, discussing the alleged planned arrest, said, "This is someone who actually stole 400,000 social security numbers and personal information from the Social Security database, and was selling social security numbers and all of all the identification information in order for people to basically steal money from Social Security."

Musk did not say how he came to know about the alleged planned arrest, but sources familiar with the matter told ABC News that Musk was referring to an ongoing federal investigation, and that his public disclosure of the matter disturbed top law enforcement officials with knowledge of the probe.

Previewing an arrest before it takes place would conflict with standard practice intended to protect potentially sensitive law enforcement operations and those involved in carrying them out."

 

Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say | The New Republic

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“In the simplest terms, the freeze was ill-conceived from the beginning,” AliKhan wrote in her ruling. “Defendants either wanted to pause up to $3 trillion in federal spending practically overnight, or they expected each federal agency to review every single one of its grants, loans, and funds for compliance in less than twenty-four hours. The breadth of that command is almost unfathomable.”

 

Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say | The New Republic

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A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “climate” and “vulnerable,” as well as the phrase “safe drinking water.”

Other baffling entries on the memo’s banned language list are “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy,” “diesel,” “affordable housing,” “prefabricated housing,” “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” “sediment remediation,” “water collection,” “water treatment,” “rural water,” and “clean water,” among dozens of others.

 

Trump's claimed energy national emergency


https://www.npr.org/2025/02/14/nx-s1-5287971/trump-emergencies-tariffs-energy

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Late in the evening on his first day in office, President Trump spoke casually with reporters as he signed a slew of executive orders. He paused briefly when he got to the one declaring a "national energy emergency" — one of multiple emergencies he declared that day.

"That's a big one," he said. "You know what that allows you to do? That means you can do whatever you have to do to get out of that problem."

That's not quite true: Emergency declarations don't grant infinite powers. But they do grant expansive powers.

 

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-emergency-powers/

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Three recently declared emergencies — one involving the southern border with Mexico, a second involving the northern border with Canada, and a third on the involvement of Chinese companies with synthetic opioid supply chains — are at the heart of the executive authority Trump has recently used in setting and removing tariffs on each of these countries, seemingly on a day-by-day basis.

 

Trump thinks a severe trade war with Canada is worth it to try to combat 43 lbs of fentanyl coming through the Canadian border illegally.


A Senate vote to reverse Trump's tariffs on Canada tests Republican support

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"A small fraction of the fentanyl that comes into the U.S. enters from Canada. Customs and Border Protection seized 43 pounds of fentanyl at the northern border during the 2024 fiscal year, and since January, authorities have seized less than 1.5 pounds, according to federal data. Meanwhile, at the southern border, authorities seized over 21,000 pounds last year.

Kaine warned that tariffs on Canadian goods would ripple through the economy, making it more expensive to build homes and military ships."

 

Some Republicans in Congress are contemplating overriding Trump's fake national emergency that he has been using to impose tariffs.


A Senate vote to reverse Trump's tariffs on Canada tests Republican support

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"WASHINGTON (AP) — With President Donald Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” of tariff implementation fast approaching, Senate Democrats are putting Republican support for some of those plans to the test by forcing a vote to nullify the emergency declaration that underpins the tariffs on Canada.

Republicans have watched with some unease as the president’s attempts to remake global trade have sent the stock market downward, but they have so far stood by Trump’s on-again-off-again threats to levy taxes on imported goods."

 

The end of Putin's war on Ukraine doesn't seem likely to happen soon.


Ukraine-Russia war live: Moscow responds to ‘very angry’ Trump while Putin drafts 160,000 men for war
Putin remains open to contact with Trump, says Kremlin spokesperson
By Arpan Rai and Alex Croft
Tuesday 01 April 2025 14:50 BST

Ukraine-Russia live: Moscow responds to ‘very angry’ Trump while drafting 160,000 men

 

‘Whiplash’: Ohio Republicans Press MAGA Agenda in Barrage of Culture War Bills

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"Ohio, the state with the sixth most students, is one of several passing similar bills — but the number and speed of them reflects the state’s shift to the right in recent years. Ohio was once one of the most reliable bellwether states in presidential elections, voting for the national winner in 14 straight elections from 1964 to 2020. But Ohio voted for Trump in 2020 and has now backed him in three state elections and the state is drawing some national attention for what some consider extremism on education and other issues such as abortion."

 

Special elections in WI and FL could be a referendum on Trump.


Cory Booker breaks record for longest speech by US senator as he condemns Trump policies for more than 24 hours – live | Trump administration | The Guardian

 

White House abruptly fires career Justice Department prosecutors in latest norm-shattering move

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The terminations marked an escalation of norm-shattering moves that have embroiled the Justice Department in turmoil and have raised alarm over a disregard for civil service protections for career lawyers and the erosion of the agency's independence from the White House. That one of them was fired on the same day a conservative internet personality called for his removal adds to questions about how outside influences may be helping to shape government personnel decisions.

“The integrity of our legal system and the independence of DOJ requires that laws are enforced impartially, which cannot happen when the White House fires career prosecutors to advance a political agenda,” said Stacey Young, a former Justice Department lawyer and founder of Justice Connection, a network of department alumni that works to support employees.

 

Advocacy group files suit against Trump's orders that seek overhauling the U.S. election system.


Organizations file suit challenging Trump's effort to overhaul election system

 

Denmark and Canada join to boycott American goods.


Shoppers in Denmark boycott American goods over Trump admin’s push to own Greenland

 

Is NJ Sen. Corey Booker still speaking ?

 

Booker finally did the book after a 25-hour speech.

Cory Booker does 25-hour speech in Senate to protest Trump.

It broke Strom Thurmond's record set in 1957.


Cory Booker sets record for longest Senate speech in anti-Trump remarks that exceeded 25 hours

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"This is a moral moment. It’s not left or right; it’s right or wrong. Let's get in good trouble," Booker said as he concluded his remarks and was met by a standing ovation from Senate colleagues. "I yield the floor."

Democratic lawmakers have been facing pressure from their constituents to respond more forcefully to the Trump administration’s sweeping policy changes, including massive cuts to the federal workforce, ramped-up deportations and sweeping tariffs.

Booker's remarks clearly resonated with many viewers. A live feed of the speech on his TikTok account had more than 220 million likes by early Tuesday night, before he exceeded 24 hours on the floor, and users were posting fan edits.