The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump Officials Are Gaming Out How to Ship Citizens to El Salvador

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Trump said last weekend he would “love” to send American criminals there — and would even be “honored” to, depending on “what the law says.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this “if it’s legal.” El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, has for months been offering to hold U.S. citizens in his country’s prison system, which he has turned into “a judicial black hole” rife with “systematic torture,” as one human rights advocate recently told Rolling Stone.

Legal experts agree that sending American citizens to prison in El Salvador would be flagrantly illegal under both U.S. and international law — and that the idea itself is shockingly authoritarian, with few parallels in our nation’s history.

 

Another gold statue of Trump.


MAGA Businessman Gifts Trump a Seven Foot Statue of Himself - NewsBreak

 

The Trump administration says it's saving Americans money by outsourcing its prisons to El Salvador.

That's the opposite of America First. Trump should be doing it in America.

He's acknowledging that he's supportive of exporting jobs to other countries to cut costs, what he has been whining about for years.

 

The leader of El Salvador is portraying Garcia as a terrorist and says it's impossible to send him back to the U.S.


https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-presidency-tarrifs-bukele-visit-04-14-25/index.html

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Despite a Supreme Court ruling that the US must “facilitate” Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s return, White House officials have argued it’s up to El Salvador whether to do so. Asked directly by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins whether he plans to return Abrego Garcia, Bukele argued the notion of doing so would be “preposterous.”

“I hope you’re not suggesting that I smuggle a terrorist into the United States,” Bukele said. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? Of course I’m not going to do it. The question is preposterous.”

 

In spite of a court order, Trump is still barring the AP from White House events because he says it won't comply with him and refer to the Gulf Of Mexico as the Gulf Of America.

 

Trump threatens more tariffs on smartphones days after exempting them.

Trump says he never really exempted them. They're simply going into another one of his various tariff bins.


Trump threatens new tariffs on smartphones days after exempting them

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...tion-illegal-deportation-el-salvador-00286877

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"U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis scolded the administration for refusing to provide even “basic” details about Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s location, despite her demand for an update by Friday morning.

“I’m asking a very simple question. Where is he?” Xinis asked Justice Department attorneys at a court hearing.

“I do not have that information,” replied Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign.

The administration’s stonewalling, which Xinis described as “extremely troubling,” raised the specter that it is defying the order that the judge issued last week and that the Supreme Court largely upheld Thursday."

 

Trump administration contends it has no duty to return illegally deported man to US

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"The Trump administration insisted Sunday that it has no legal obligation to arrange for the return of a Maryland man illegally deported from the United States, arguing that a Supreme Court ruling last week only requires officials to admit him into the country if he makes it back from a high-security prison in El Salvador.

Justice Department lawyers told a federal judge that they don’t interpret the Supreme Court’s Thursday ruling — that the administration “facilitate” Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s release — as obligating the administration to do anything more than adjust his immigration status to admit him if El Salvador’s government chooses to release him."

 

Trump targets national African American history museum to try to whitewash the past.


Could Trump whitewash D.C.'s African American history museum?

 

Trump's changes his mind again on reprieve for i-Phones and computers and says they will be subject to more tariffs in the future.


Trump warns exemptions on smartphones, electronics will be short-lived, promises future tariffs

 

Trump threatens new tariffs on smartphones days after exempting them

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In its own tit-for-tat tariffs, China imposed levies of 34% on US goods, before increasing it to 84% and then 125%, which took effect on Saturday.

In announcing its latest tariffs, China's commerce ministry said last week that it would "fight to the end" if the US "insists on provoking a tariff war or trade war".

 

Trump administration is delaying even after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against it.

The Trump administration is saying that trying to recover Garcia would interfere with presidential diplomatic relations.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/13/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-trump-administration-00288502

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"With El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele set to meet President Donald Trump Monday, DOJ attorneys argued the courts have no power to require the administration to engage with the Salvadoran government to reach a diplomatic solution. They contend such a potential order would amount to a violation of the separation of powers and an intrusion into what they allege is unfettered presidential power to conduct foreign relations."

 

Trump didn't make such excuses when he recovered three sports players from China who admitted to theft while in China.

 

Trump sends U.S. military to border to assist in detaining migrants and constructing his border wall.


Trump Sends Military to US/Mexico Border to Ramp Up Migrant Detentions and Border Wall Construction

 

List of some of Trump's perpetual perceived emergencies.


A trade deficit emergency.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/...p-trade-deficit-tariffs-economist-doubts.html


A drug flow emergency.

https://www.npr.org/2017/10/26/5600...ay-declare-opioid-epidemic-national-emergency


A border emergency.

Trump’s Emergency Declaration at the Border Is an Abuse of Power


An energy emergency.

Demystifying President Trump’s “National Energy Emergency” and the Scope of Emergency Authority - Climate Law Blog


A lumber emergency.

What Trump’s "emergency" logging declaration could mean for Colorado’s US Forest land

 

https://www.vox.com/policy/407861/trump-tariff-national-emergency-trade-deficit-presidential-powers

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There is no legal definition of an emergency. Anything can be an emergency, so long as the president deems it to be one. And while some crises — like, say, a pandemic — warrant an emergency declaration, presidents often invoke their emergency powers over events that hardly merit that level of urgency.

That might be why it sometimes feels like America is in a perpetual state of crisis. Since taking office, Trump has declared emergencies over immigration, drug trafficking, and trade. He even declared a national emergency over the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

 

DOJ Wants to Give Capitol Rioters a Refund for Damage They Caused
Court documents filed this week suggest some insurrectionists could receive a check for their troubles.
Will Neal
Updated Apr. 13 2025 11:22AM EDT
Published Apr. 13 2025 10:16AM EDT

DOJ Wants to Give Capitol Rioters a Refund for Damage They Caused

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During an interview with Newsmax earlier in March, the president said there had already been talk about some sort of compensation fund to cover “lost opportunities” and “lost income” as a result of legal proceedings related to the insurrection.

“We have a lot of people, a lot of the people that are in government now talk about it because [we] really like that group of people,” Trump said. “They were patriots as far as I was concerned.”

 

How the President Is Misusing Emergency Powers to Impose Worldwide Tariffs

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"The Brennan Center has proposed a number of reforms to emergency powers. One key proposal is to amend the National Emergencies Act to require emergency declarations to expire after 30 days unless approved by Congress. This would shore up Congress’s role as a check against presidential overreach. The Brennan Center has also proposed reforming the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to curb its potential for abuse — including by prohibiting its use for tariffs."

 

Why not take a REALLY BIG SHIP, fill it with deportees, and drop them off at the shores of Greenland? Then, eventually, Greenland pays the US to take them back. At a large markup.

 

Judge launches inquiry into Trump administration's refusal to recover man that it admitted it wrongly deported to El Salvador.


Judge launches inquiry into Trump administration’s refusal to seek return of wrongly deported man