The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump couldn't keep his mouth closed about the Central Park Five case. He is still saying they were guilty even though they were exonerated.

His remarks caused a defamation lawsuit against him.

A judge has refused to dismiss the suit against him.


Donald Trump dealt legal blow by judge in defamation lawsuit

 

Trump has backtracked, but this is far from over

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"Tariffs at these sky-high rates are massively hitting business between two nations which together account for around 3% of the entire world's trade. The main motorway of the global economy is effectively shut.

The visible tangible consequences of all this will become very real very quickly: Chinese factories will close, workers will stroll from plant to plant looking for work.

Beijing will need to organise a stimulus package to account for the loss of whole percentage points of GDP, the kind of thing that happens when a natural disaster flattens a major city. Painful, but manageable at a cost, though not forever."

 

Federal Judge blasts Trump over his baseless claims about federal workers.


'Slap in the face': Judge tears into Trump admin over 'baseless claims' about federal workers

 

Trump wins in the House 216-214. The House will go forward with what Trump calls his big beautiful bill.

The holdouts gave in to Trump.


House approves budget framework for Trump's 'big' bill after intense wrangling sways GOP holdouts

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"Johnson stood with Senate Majority Leader John Thune early in the morning at the Capitol and said President Donald Trump's “big, beautiful bill,” which seeks as much as $1.5 trillion in cuts to federal programs and services, was on track. The speaker had abruptly halted voting Wednesday night."

 

Stock market today: Dow slides 1,000 points, Nasdaq, S&P 500 clobbered as stocks resume Trump tariff sell-off

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In a post on X early on Thursday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said a "Golden Age" is coming and that the economy would soon be "exploding."

 

Imploding.

 

Stock slide again after one day of the euphoria caused by Trump delaying delaying reciprocal tariffs.


Stock market today: Dow slides 1,000 points, Nasdaq, S&P 500 clobbered as stocks resume Trump tariff sell-off

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"Other parts of the president's trade-policy overhaul are still in effect, including a 10% baseline tariff on most trading partners, 25% duties on steel and aluminum imports, and 25% duties on auto imports. Those elements could still lead to consequences analysts have warned about, such as rising prices and slower economic growth."

 

H.R. McMaster receives accidental call from President Trump

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"The mistaken phone call on March 3 came several days before Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly added to a group chat with top Trump national security advisers that included a discussion of sensitive information about U.S. military strikes in Yemen."

 

Trump was spouting those same lines during his first term.

He's like a recorded message about shower heads, Hannibal Lecter, and the snake poem.

 

Trump aide accidentally called Trump's former McMaster.


H.R. McMaster receives accidental call from President Trump

 

Musk has psychiatric issues with himself.


When Elon Musk Hears About Lives He's Destroyed, He Reportedly Responds With Laugh-Cry Emojis

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"As billionaire Elon Musk continues to ravage the government's budget with the help of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency, sources inside the White House are increasingly getting fed up with his antics.

As Rolling Stone reported today, some senior State Department officials have come to call him "Crazy Uncle Elon," a nod towards his grating persona. But the story contained another alarming revelation: the depth of Musk's antipathy toward the people's whose lives he's been turning upside down."

 

U.S. fires Greenland military base chief for supposedly undermining Vance. She reportedly distanced herself from Vance in an email.


Commander of US base in Greenland fired for email critical of Vance visit

 

Bondi puts attorney on leave.


Justice Department places attorney who struggled to explain Maryland man's deportation on leave

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"A Justice Department attorney who struggled in court Friday to explain the Trump administration's deportation of a Maryland man to El Salvador has been placed on administrative leave, a department official said.

At the hearing, the government attorney, Erez Reuveni, expressed frustration over not having the information the judge was seeking in the case of the deported man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and made it clear he wasn’t getting much help from his superiors."

 

Justice Department places attorney who struggled to explain Maryland man's deportation on leave

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"Asked by Xinis why the United States couldn’t, practically speaking, get Abrego Garcia back to the country, Reuveni said he had the same question.

He said that when the case landed on his desk, “the first thing I did was ask my client the same question. I have not yet received an answer that I find satisfactory."

Abrego Garcia was deported to an infamous El Salvador prison on March 15. He is a protected legal resident and had been living in Maryland since 2011."

 

Trump hasn't given adequate reason why Garcia was deported to a prison in El Salvador and hasn't given a reason why he supposedly can't bring him back to the U.S.

Trump could call the president of El Salvador and initiate the return. He did it when he contacted China and retrieved UCLA athletes from the U.S. who shoplifted in China.


UCLA athletes arrested in China thank Trump for their release

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"I take full responsibility for the mistake I have made of shoplifting," Riley said. "I know this goes beyond me letting my school down — I’ve let the entire country down."

"To President Trump and the entire United States government, thank you for taking the time to intervene on our behalf," he added.

 

Trump can retrieve people who admitted to shoplifting halfway around the world, yet he supposedly can't retrieve someone he wrongly accused of a crime who he deported to a terrorist prison camp in nearby El Salvador. He is now using an excuse that he thinks he doesn't belong in the U.S.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/trump-tariffs-global-trade-war.html

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"As the breadth of the Trump revolution has spread across Washington in recent weeks, its most defining feature is a burn-it-down-first, figure-out-the-consequences-later recklessness. The costs of that approach are now becoming clear.

Administration officials knew the markets would dive and other nations would retaliate when President Trump announced his long-promised “reciprocal” tariffs. But when pressed, several senior officials conceded that they had spent only a few days considering how the economic earthquake might have second-order effects."

 

"some second-order effects" ... oh brother. You mean like wiping out 20% of the little people's life savings in the blink of an eye ?

I have a work colleague and we were talking about taking a bath with the recent market .. "oh, don't you think he's doing the right thing? You'll see all this industry come screaming back to the states...." Sigh. Do you have a clue what it will take to put together an iPhone on shore? It's not just little fingers putting in little screws. It's the entire supply line of the 2000 parts that go into it - that, just amazingly have to come from China. It would take ten years to revamp a contract manufacturer in the states to be able to handle the volume and complexity of an iPhone...or any phone - then they would need to cost $5000 by then. The same for Aluminum and Steel production. There are no Aluminum extruders in the states, beyond what is required to supply military and aircraft demands.

 

Trump can't even figure out how to set up something as simple as a textile factory in the U.S. to make the ties that his clothing businesses sell. He imports them from Mexico, Vietnam, Bangladesh, and China.

Yet he seems to think an i-Phone can be made completely in the U.S. and at a price similar to what is made in the global market. Trump said it would take about a year or two for such things to happen.