The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump has been promising the 1950's to people since he announced he was running for office in June 2015. His phrase is: "It' all coming back!"

Ten years later, it hasn't come back.

 

Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Garcia.


Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return

 

Trump continues to ramp up attacks on Powell.


Can Trump Fire Jerome Powell?

 

Retirees at risk because of Trump's policies.


Social Security Changes Proposed by President Trump Could Be Bad News for Retirees | The Motley Fool

 

Just having to do a layover in the U.S. on a flight to another country is risky.


‘I don’t want to give money to this America’: tourists’ fears of US travel under Trump

 

Tourists fearful of what might happen to them in the U.S.


‘I don’t want to give money to this America’: tourists’ fears of US travel under Trump

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“I am very uneasy about travelling because I fear being denied entry – or worse, being detained for whatever reason – and never being able to set foot in the US again,” he said. “As my fiancee and I are planning on getting married in the US in the autumn, this would seriously jeopardise our plans.” For now, he plans to fly.

 

Trump appoints two Fox celebrities to Homeland Security board.


Trump appoints Fox News host Mark Levin and others to lead ‘revamped’ Homeland Security Advisory Council

 

Trump changes his mind about who he thinks is the boss depending on the situation. For the Garcia saga, Trump says he has to do what his lawyers tell him.


Maryland Sen. Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador amid court fight over US return

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“I have to refer, again, to the lawyers,” he said in the Oval Office. “I have to do what they ask me to do.”

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/business/america-brand-trade-war/index.html

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When stocks fell in response to tariffs, the market for US government bonds — the boring-est, safest, most vanilla of assets — should have been the go-to place for investors. That didn’t happen.

Sleepy Treasuries started behaving like risk assets, a sign that investors are losing confidence in America’s ability to pay its debt and manage its economy. That’s the financial equivalent of a five-alarm fire.

Meanwhile, the value of the US dollar has been falling — another sign investors are shying away from what has historically been the market’s safe haven.

“I think this is one of the biggest ‘own goals’ to US credibility in financial markets that I’ve ever seen in my lifetime,” said Heidi Crebo-Rediker, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, in an interview. “You can look at the global financial crisis as being a hit to US credibility in terms of financial markets, but this is different… Covid was an external shock. This comes straight out of the White House.”

 

U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments on whether Trump can ban birthright citizenship.


Supreme Court to hear arguments on whether Trump can implement his birthright citizenship plan

 

Trump's revenge campaign.


‘We are all afraid’: Murkowski says fear of retaliation from Trump administration is ‘real’

 

Trump says he's looking at the legal ramifications of deporting U.S. citizens. He said publicly this week that he would love to deport some people who are U.S. citizens.



Statement by federal appeals court judge about the tactics being used by Trump.


Court denies Trump administration’s appeal against order to ‘facilitate’ return of man wrongly deported from US – as it happened | Trump administration | The Guardian

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"The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done.

This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear."

 

Trump 'voter ID' quest.


'Mass surveillance': Conservatives sound alarm over Trump admin's REAL ID rollout

 

Trump's RCP favorability rating is down to a negative 5.5% margin after he eked a positive 1% margin briefly after the election.

The post-2024 election slapstick stupor people felt for him has evaporated.

He's heading back to his usual 42% favorable rating.


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The real reason Trump is destroying the economy

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"For a more recent example, look at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The disaster began with Putin’s personal obsession with the idea that Ukrainian nationhood was fake and that the territory was rightfully Russian. This notion went from Putin’s personal obsession to actual war because no one could stop him.

Trump’s tariffs will, if fully implemented, be remembered as their own cautionary tale. While he campaigned on them, he wouldn’t have been able to implement the entire tariff package had he gone through the normal constitutionally prescribed procedure for raising taxes. The fact that America isn’t functioning like a normal democracy, with public deliberation and multiple checks on executive authority, is what allowed Trump to act on his idiosyncratic ideas in the manner of a Mao or Putin."

 

Some Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump are now embraced as heroes and candidates for office

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“It was a protest that turned into a little bit of a scuffle later in the day for a couple of minutes, right?” he told the nodding crowd in Jackson, a midsize city west of Detroit that residents say hosted the first official meeting of the Republican Party in 1854.

 

No. It was a planned riot and insurrection.

The violence ensued for three hours while Trump watched it on TV and did nothing to stop it.

13 people died (8 rioters, 5 police officers) and 140 police officers were injured.

 

Some Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump are now embraced as heroes and candidates for office

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"Far from being sidelined, those who rioted, assaulted police officers or broke into congressional offices during the violent attack are now being spotlighted as honored guest speakers at local Republican events around the country. They are getting a platform to tell their version of events and being hailed as heroes and martyrs. Some are considering runs for office, recognizing that at least among a certain segment of the pro-Trump base, they are seen not as criminals but as patriots."

 

Donald Trump scorecard? I think it is a continuing series of own goals ( he just doesnt realize it yet) The World vs the USA and the USA has a terrible coaching staff who dont really understand the game and apply crazy tactics.

 

https://www.reuters.com/business/ae...us-china-victim-trumps-tariff-war-2025-04-20/

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"The return of the 737 MAX, Boeing's best-selling model, is the latest sign of disruption to new aircraft deliveries from a breakdown in the aerospace industry's decades-old duty-free status.

The tariff war and apparent U-turn over deliveries comes as Boeing has been recovering from an almost five-year import freeze on 737 MAX jets and a previous round of trade tensions.

Confusion over changing tariffs could leave many aircraft deliveries in limbo, with some airline CEOs saying they would defer delivery of planes rather than pay duties, analysts say."