The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump wins in court as federal appeals court lifts block on lower court preventing him from trying to end collective bargaining by federal workers.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/appeals-court-federal-worker-unions-00355375

 

Noem is the head of the Department Of Homeland Security.

She's responsible for deporting Garcia and others.

Yet, like Sgt. Schultz ("I know nothing!"), she pleads ignorance when asked if the tattoo images are fake, the ones that Trump and his people in his administration have been using to try to justify deporting Garcia, even though real tattoos wouldn't be a legal justification for deportation anyway.

 

Judge on warpath presses Trump DOJ on Abrego Garcia deportation, answers leave courtroom in stunned silence

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Xinis previously criticized the administration for failing to comply with her court’s requests for information in the case – accusing officials in a blistering eight-page order of submitting "vague, evasive and incomplete" responses that she said demonstrated "willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations."

 

Trump reportedly working on plan to deport Palestinians to Libya.


Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya

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"The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News."

 

Trump is raging at Bruce Springsteen for promoting democracy.


Donald Trump Puts Bruce Springsteen on Notice Upon Return From European Tour: “We’ll See How It Goes for Him”

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During a pause in the show, Springsteen addressed the crowd: “The mighty E Street Band is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of rock ‘n’ roll in dangerous times,” he said. “In my home, the America I love, the America I’ve written about, that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration. Tonight we ask all who believe in democracy and the best of our American experiment to rise with us, raise your voices against authoritarianism and let freedom ring!”

 

Trump makes vague remarks, but it sounds like he's making a veiled threat that Springsteen will be given a hard time reentering the U.S. after his trip in Europe.

 

Judge Cannon in FL used the same rope-a-dope approach to drag the case out and eventually dismissed Trump's federal criminal documents case entirely (which she could have done at the start but didn't because she hadn't yet received the smoke signal from Justice Thomas on the Supreme Court who eventually said he thinks that special counsel don't have the authority to prosecute, at least in cases against Trump).

 

ICE admits to more errors.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...other-error-high-profile-deportation-00355377

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"ICE’s acknowledgment is the latest in a string of errors that have led judges to fault the administration for attempting to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign at a breakneck pace — often at the expense of due process.

It occurred in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man — accused of gang ties by the administration — who was hurriedly deported to his home country in violation of a court order that found he could be a target for violence by a local gang. It also occurred in the case of Daniel Lozano-Camargo, a Venezuelan man deported to El Salvador in March despite a court-approved settlement requiring the administration to adjudicate his asylum claim first."

 

Trump's frantic peacebrokering week hints at what he really wants

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"The problem is that this "art of a deal" strategy might work on easily reversible decisions such as tariffs. It is harder to apply to longer term diplomatic conundrums such as war."

 

Trump has tried to tie the ease of imposing tariffs on countries (and just as easily rescinding them) with the intricacies of diplomacy. He threatened Russia with tariffs if it doesn't end the war it started in Ukraine.

The threats of tariffs aren't going to stop Putin's war on Ukraine.

 

Wind vane Trump.


Trump's frantic peacebrokering week hints at what he really wants

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"Last Saturday the leaders of the UK, France, Poland and Germany visited Kyiv to put on a show of support for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. And in a group call with Trump on French President Emmanuel Macron's phone, they spelled out their strategy of demanding Russia agree an immediate 30-day ceasefire or face tougher sanctions.

This was Trump's policy too. The day before he wrote on social media: "If the ceasefire is not respected, the US and its partners will impose further sanctions." But then on Sunday, President Vladimir Putin suggested instead there should be direct talks between Ukraine and Russia in Turkey on Thursday. Trump immediately went along with this, backtracking on the strategy he had agreed with European leaders a day earlier."

 

Trump says there isn't time to work on trade deals with 150 countries.

He has changed his tariff war yet again to one of unilaterally determining tariffs on countries.


Trump says US will unilaterally set new tariff rates for scores of countries

 

Burisma?

 

Trump tells Walmart to eat his tariffs after it says it will be raising price because of Trump's tariffs.


Trump tells Walmart to 'eat the tariffs' after retailer warned it will raise prices

 

Trump has said many times that his tariffs are free money from other countries that is pouring into the U.S. That should be making Walmart and other businesses rich.

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet...illing-the-manufacturing-jobs-we-already-have

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"But what is clear is that bringing American manufacturing roaring back will likely require more than just slapping up tariffs or investing lots of money to build new factories. Leaders may need to regear our education system to help more Americans acquire the skills that manufacturers need for a productive and capable workforce."

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/planet...illing-the-manufacturing-jobs-we-already-have

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Cass believes that tariffs can help even the playing field with foreign competitors. And he stresses that one of the keys to reshoring manufacturing — while maintaining well-paying manufacturing jobs — is higher productivity.

" If somebody in the United States is 20 times as productive as somebody in China and you have to pay them 20 times as much, you are equally competitive," Cass says.

So if American manufacturers can prove to be much more productive than foreign competitors — meaning American workers can make more in less time — they can pay the higher wages needed to attract and retain American workers while still remaining globally competitive.

That, however, is a big if. American manufacturing has been seeing an alarming slowdown in productivity growth in recent years.

 

Trump has ranted about bringing manufacturing back to the U.S. yet he says he and his daughter import clothing for their clothing businesses because there aren't any textile mills in the U.S.

He can't even build something as straightforward as textile mills in the U.S. while claiming he's a great builder.

When David Letterman revealed the labels of Trump's ties (the ones Trump had been bragging about), they were made by people in places like Vietnam, Mexico, and China. An embarrassed (America First) Trump said sheepishly, "They have to work too."

 

Comey turns himself in to Secret Service over 86 47 seashell incident.


WATCH: Comey Surrenders to Secret Service Over ‘Assassination’ Post

 

Now Trump will probably be calling for Comey to be deported to a terrorist prison in El Salvador.