The Donald Trump Score Card

Not unlike Fidel Castro allowing 100s of Cubans to defect to the US. Taken in with open arms as a great moral propaganda victory it turned out they had all been released from Cuban prisons and mental health institutions. Miami and Florida in general quickly moved up the crime charts.

 

Trump Presses China to Make Tariff Offer to Calm Trade War

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“The ball is in China’s court. China needs to make a deal with us. We don’t have to make a deal with them,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday, reading what she said was a statement Trump dictated.

“There’s no difference between China and any other country except they are much larger, and China wants what we have, what every country wants, what we have — the American consumer — or to put another way, they need our money,” the statement continued.

 

‘People are feeling betrayed’: They paid taxes in good faith and now fear it could lead to their deportation

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For decades undocumented immigrants were told if they came forward, registered with the IRS and paid their taxes, their private information would stay secret.

This year, many undocumented families that previously paid their taxes in good faith now are reconsidering, Rivera says.

“It’s scary to think that you are going to be hunted through a method that you have used for years in order to give back to your communities,” she says. “And it also begs the question, ‘Why would they be using this tactic, which is based on my honesty…against me?’”

 

Harvard challenges Trump's anti-DEI stance.


Harvard's challenge to Trump administration could test limits of government power

 

Trump revokes student visas without notice.


Universities say student visas have been revoked without notice

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"Right now there are at least reports of 800 visas being revoked or students' records being terminated," Miriam Feldblum, president and CEO of the Presidents' Alliance, told UPI. "The throughline through all these visa revocations and student record terminations that have been done unilaterally under SEVIS is the lack of due process."

In the case of SEVIS records being terminated, Feldblum said this lays the groundwork for potential removals or deportations.

 

Trump plans to cut funding for NPR and PBS.


https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5352827/npr-pbs-public-media-trump-rescission-funding

 

The Trump slump in the U.S. tourism industry.


US’s $2.36tn tourism business fears ‘Trump slump’ over tariff turmoil

 

'Unheard of and improper': Trump admin refuses to produce high-ranking official to testify about controversial use of 'death master file' in pressuring migrants to self-deport
By Jerry Lambe
April 15, 2025

'Unheard of and improper': Trump admin refuses to produce high-ranking official to testify about controversial use of 'death master file' in pressuring migrants to self-deport - NewsBreak

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The Trump administration had rejected a federal judge’s request to make the acting Social Security Administration (SSA) commissioner available for a hearing on whether to issue a preliminary injunction barring the agency from granting the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) access to the personally identifiable information of millions of Americans.

The decision to prevent acting SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek from testifying comes on the heels of the administration adding more than 6,000 living migrants to the SSA’s “death master file” — effectively canceling their social security number — in an effort to force them to self-deport.

 

Trump is still blaming Zelensky for the Ukraine war that Putin started.


Trump blames Zelensky for starting war after massive Russian attack
Yang Tian & Ian Aikman
BBC News
April 15, 2025

Trump blames Zelensky for starting war day after massive Russian attack

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Joining Zelensky in Odesa, Rutte condemned the "terrible pattern" of attacks on civilians and said "Russia is the aggressor, Russia started this war, there's no doubt".

Trump on Monday had first described the Sumy attack as "terrible" but said he had been told Russia had "made a mistake". He did not give further detail.

 

After cutting off $2 billion from Harvard, Trump threatens to end its tax-exempt status for not going along with his anti-DEI stance.


Judge says Trump officials have done ‘nothing’ to return wrongly deported man to US despite order – live

 

Article from February 2024.


El Salvador's President Bukele wins re-election by huge margin

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Mr Bukele, a former mayor of the capital, San Salvador, has described himself as "the world's coolest dictator".

 

Trump blames Zelensky again for Putin's invasion and war.


Trump blames Zelensky for starting war day after massive Russian attack

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"Donald Trump has blamed Volodymyr Zelensky for starting the war with Russia the day after a massive Russian attack killed 35 people and injured 117 others in Ukraine.

The US president said the Ukrainian leader shared the blame with Russian President Vladimir Putin for "millions of people dead" in the Ukraine war.

"You don't start a war against someone 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles," he told reporters at the White House, also blaming former US President Joe Biden for the conflict."

 

Judge blocks Trump from revoking legal status for 530,000+ migrants who flew into US via Biden program
Louis Casiano By Louis Casiano, Bill Melugin
Published April 14, 2025 9:48pm EDT

Judge blocks Trump from revoking legal status for 530,000+ migrants who flew into US via Biden program

 

Trump’s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags
His plan to send American citizens to foreign prisons is the latest in a long series of affronts to the American constitutional order.
Matt Ford
April 14, 2025

Trump’s Wildly Unconstitutional Plot to Banish U.S. Citizens to Gulags | The New Republic

 

Trump officials cut billions in Harvard funds after university defies demands

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"In a letter to Harvard on Friday, the administration called for broad government and leadership reforms, a requirement that Harvard institute what it calls “merit-based” admissions and hiring policies as well as conduct an audit of the study body, faculty and leadership on their views about diversity.

The demands, which are an update from an earlier letter, also call for a ban on face masks, which appeared to target pro-Palestinian protesters; close its diversity, equity and inclusion programs, which it says teach students and staff “to make snap judgments about each other based on crude race and identity stereotypes”; and pressured the university to stop recognizing or funding “any student group or club that endorses or promotes criminal activity, illegal violence, or illegal harassment”.

The administration also demanded that Harvard cooperate with federal immigration authorities."

 

Donald Trump Again Lashes Out At CBS And ‘60 Minutes’ And Urges FCC Chair To “Impose The Maximum Fines And Punishment”

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“I believe, sadly, Russian narratives are prevailing in the U.S.,” Zelensky said. “How is it possible to witness our losses and our suffering, to understand what the Russians are doing, and to still believe that they are not the aggressors, that they did not start this war? This speaks to the enormous influence of Russia’s information policy on America, on U.S. politics, and U.S. politicians.”

 

The International Emergency Economic Powers Act: Origins, Evolution, and Use


https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R45618

 

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/14/us/trump-news-tariffs

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"The message from the meeting was clear: Neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Bukele had any intention of returning Mr. Abrego Garcia, even though the Supreme Court has ruled that he should come back to the United States. The case has come to symbolize Mr. Trump’s defiance of the courts and his willingness to deport people without due process."

 

How the President Is Misusing Emergency Powers to Impose Worldwide Tariffs

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Under the National Emergencies Act, a declaration of national emergency unlocks a menu of 150 statutory powers from which the president can choose. One of the most powerful is the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. That law can only be invoked, however, when the national emergency stems from an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to national security, foreign policy, or the economy. Trump’s invocation of the law in this case rests on the specious premise that our trading relationships with each and every country in the world — including those he has dismissed as nations that “nobody has ever heard of” — pose an “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States.

 

DT is a pompous, delusional, ill- educated, baffoonlike, narcissistic, psychopath.
Of course he favours Putin who has many of the same traits except Putin isnt a buffoon and is playing Trump like a fool. DT will not win a game of Russian Roulette.