The Donald Trump Score Card

During the Covid pandemic, Trump talked like the cure for it was worse than the disease.

The same can be said about his tariff war that he thinks will cure his faulty perception of trade deficits as being money stolen from the U.S. by other countries.

In contrast to Covid, what Trump perceives as a problem isn't even real. He's invoking a remedy for a fake problem that is creating a problem worse than what he perceives as the problem.


This is the stock market’s worst start to a presidential term in modern history
Harry Enten and Matt Egan, CNN
Mon, Apr 7, 2025, 3:37 AM

This is the stock market’s worst start to a presidential term in modern history

 

Some Trump voters have started to accept the fact that he is injuring them financially.


Transcript: Trump Voters Suddenly Shocked at How Badly He Screwed Them
As farmers start realizing they will be devastated by Trump's tariffs, the author of a book about MAGA country digs into the true nature of his rural support—and how Democrats should try to reverse it.
The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent
April 7, 2025

Transcript: Trump Voters Suddenly Shocked at How Badly He Screwed Them | The New Republic

 

Trump warned that Harris would cause a stock market meltdown.


This is the stock market’s worst start to a presidential term in modern history
Harry Enten and Matt Egan, CNN
Mon, Apr 7, 2025, 6:37 AM

This is the stock market’s worst start to a presidential term in modern history

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President Kamala Harris would be a vote for a market meltdown.

“You want to see a market crash? If we lost this election, I think the market would go down the tubes,” Trump said at a Pennsylvania rally in late October.

Weeks earlier, Trump confidently predicted that if he lost, “the result will be a Kamala economic crash, a 1929-style depression.”

Trump won the election, but he may have been right about a crash occurring after the election.

Trump and his tariffs have taken a bull stock market and are on the precipice of turning it into a bear faster than any president has overseen in modern history. If the stock market closes in bear territory – a drop of 20% from a recent peak – it would be the earliest in a new administration a bull market has turned into a bear in the history of the S&P 500, which dates back to 1957.

These same tariffs may also take a booming economy and turn it into a recession.

 

Trump will still blame it on Biden and Harris.

 

Trump warned that Harris would cause a stock market meltdown.


This is the stock market’s worst start to a presidential term in modern history
Harry Enten and Matt Egan, CNN
Mon, Apr 7, 2025, 6:37 AM 6 min read

This is the stock market’s worst start to a presidential term in modern history

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The S&P 500 had lost 15% of its value since Inauguration Day as of Sunday night. And that doesn’t even count the massive losses set for Monday’s opening bell.

The only similar drop for an elected president so quickly into his presidency was under George W. Bush in 2001.

The next largest drop after Bush and Trump was Carter in early 1977. That decline was under 6%, to give you an idea of just how far the rabbit hole the market is right now.

The current market wipeout hit a crescendo after Trump’s “Liberation Day” event, where he shocked and alarmed the business world by promising to increase tariffs at an unprecedented pace. Indeed, two-thirds of the 15% fall in the S&P 500 has been since Liberation Day.

 

Newsmax host shocked by how badly Trump's tariffs have tanked his personal wealth.

But it was worth it to keep the dogs and cats in Springfield, Ohio safe from the immigrants who were abducting and eating them.


'Looked at my 401(k) and gasped': Newsmax host shocked after tariffs hit personal wealth - NewsBreak

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"I looked at my 401k and gasped," Glasgow told former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) on Sunday. "I mean, do you think that a lot of Americans are gonna give the Trump administration this grace period here while they trust in his plan?"

 

Some of Trump's supporters will continue to give him another four years no matter what happens,

 

Santorum thinks the remedy is for Trump to portray himself as a free trader while everything he does confirms he's not a free trader.


'Looked at my 401(k) and gasped': Newsmax host shocked after tariffs hit personal wealth - NewsBreak

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Santorum predicted the markets would "react positively" if Trump painted himself as a free trade president.

Glasgow ended the segment by calling Trump's tariff policy "the most bold move a president has ever made in the history of the United States."

 

Trump spares Russia from his tariffs.

About a week ago he threatened to impose tariffs on Russia if he thought it was the cause of not ending the war in Ukraine that Putin started. But Trump also said he wasn't sure about Putin being the problem for not ending the war (the one he started).


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/06/us/trump-news-updates

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"Announcing the tariffs last week, the U.S. notably did not target Russia. Asked about the exclusion, Hassett said there is “obviously an ongoing negotiation” involving the war in Ukraine, before posing the question: “Would you literally advise that you go in and put a whole bunch of new things on the table in the middle of a negotiation that affects so many Ukrainian and Russian lives?” He said that is “not appropriate.” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News last week that Moscow was spared because sanctions imposed on the country after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 mean that U.S.-Russian trade had effectively stopped."

 

Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador

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"Every administration back to 1798 has understood this is wartime authority to be used when the United States is at war with a foreign government," Gelernt said. "The administration is saying, 'Not only are we gonna use it against a criminal organization, but you the courts have no role. You cannot tell us that we're violating the law or stop us.'"

According to Gelernt, the U.S. does not have the legal right to send someone who's been deported from the country to a foreign prison.

Gelernt pointed to World War II, when the U.S. government invoked the Alien Enemies Act to detain certain immigrants from Italy, Germany and Japan

"We sent people back to their home country. We didn't send them to a foreign prison," he said

 

The agreement Trump reached with El Salvador.


Trump eyes asylum agreement with El Salvador to deport migrants there

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"The arrangement, known as a "Safe Third Country" agreement, would empower U.S. immigration officials to deport non-Salvadoran migrants to El Salvador, blocking them from requesting asylum in the U.S. Instead, the migrants would be deported with instructions to seek asylum in El Salvador, which would be designated a "safe third country."

The plan, if finalized, would revive an agreement the first Trump administration brokered with El Salvador's government, though that accord was never implemented and was eventually terminated by former President Joe Biden's administration.

A safe third country agreement could be a significant breakthrough for the Trump administration's aggressive immigration plans, allowing it to deport migrants from different countries, including Venezuela, that limit or outright reject U.S. deportations of their citizens."

 

Trump administration deports gay makeup artist to prison in El Salvador

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"Every administration back to 1798 has understood this is wartime authority to be used when the United States is at war with a foreign government," Gelernt said. "The administration is saying, 'Not only are we gonna use it against a criminal organization, but you the courts have no role. You cannot tell us that we're violating the law or stop us.'"

According to Gelernt, the U.S. does not have the legal right to send someone who's been deported from the country to a foreign prison.

Gelernt pointed to World War II, when the U.S. government invoked the Alien Enemies Act to detain certain immigrants from Italy, Germany and Japan

"We sent people back to their home country. We didn't send them to a foreign prison," he said

 

The invoking of state secrets privilege is another example of the tactics Trump is using to circumvent oversight by the courts in addition to the El Salvador agreement and the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.


Trump administration invokes state secrets privilege in deportation case

 

Texas bakery raided.


Texas county that swung to Trump grapples with immigration crackdown after bakery is targeted

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"When Homeland Security Investigations agents showed up at Abby’s Bakery in February and arrested the owners and eight employees, residents of Los Fresnos were shocked.

But the bakery’s owners, Baez and Avila-Guel, a Mexican couple who are legal U.S. permanent residents, could lose everything after being accused of concealing and harboring immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally. It’s a rare case in which business owners face criminal charges rather than just a fine."

 

If Harris caused a 2% dip in the stock market, they would have had her head on a post. My 401k is now a 301k.

 

Trump is threatening an additional 50% tariff on China if it doesn't retract it's retaliatory tariffs by toorrow.

Plus he says he will end all talks with China if it doesn't comply.

Trump tells Americans "Be strong, courageous, and patient, and greatness will be the result!"


Trump threatens more tariffs on China as global markets shudder over how much pain economy can take

 

Former Wisconsin Supreme Court member who promoted Trump's stolen election narrative has agreed to surrender his law license.


Former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who led 2020 election probe agrees to surrender law license

 

Trump calls for open borders while trying to answer a question about tariffs.


Cognitive Decline? Trump Calls for Open Borders in Rant on Tariffs

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“Well, it can both be true,” Trump responded. “There can be permanent tariffs and there can also be negotiations, because there are things that we need beyond tariffs. We need open borders.”

 

tRump is giving me a headache the size of Nebraska.