The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump Administration Says It Is Halting Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students

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"The latest move intensifies the administration’s attempt to upend the culture of higher education by directly subverting the ability of one of the nation’s premier universities to attract the best and brightest students from all over the world. That capability, across all of academia, has long been one of the greatest sources of academic, economic and scientific strength in America.

It is also likely to prompt a second legal challenge from Harvard, according to another person familiar with the school’s thinking who insisted on anonymity to discuss private deliberations. The university sued the Trump administration last month over the government’s attempt to impose changes to its curriculum, admissions policies and hiring practices."

 

U.S. Supreme Court lets Trump fire heads of labor boards for now.

The case is working its way through the appeals courts.


Supreme Court lets Trump fire heads of independent labor agencies for now

 

Oklahoma to require schools to teach Trump's 2020 election conspiracy theories

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"Advancing Trump's debunked claims about his 2020 presidential election loss on young people is one of many changes made by State Superintendent of Education Ryan Walters, including requiring bibles in every classroom. The new curriculum also removed a prior proposal for lessons about George Floyd's murder and Black Lives Matter, and teaches as fact the hotly contested theory that COVID-19 emerged from a lab leak."


"These reforms will reset our classrooms back to educating our children without liberal indoctrination," Walters, a former history teacher, wrote in a post on X on April 29. "We’re proud to defend these standards, and we will continue to stand up for honest, pro-America education in every classroom."

 

Trump is ranting about ficitious genocide while he ignores the deaths caused by the world dictators whom he praises.


https://www.npr.org/2025/05/22/nx-s...nger-in-south-africa-after-oval-office-ambush

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"What is particularly galling to many though, is Trump's derisive treatment of the head of state of a constitutional democracy. Several local newspaper articles pointed out he doesn't treat authoritarian leaders with dubious human rights records like he treated the South African president."

 

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/22/nx-s...nger-in-south-africa-after-oval-office-ambush

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"Debunking disinformation

Despite the South African delegation's attempts to explain the facts to the U.S. leader, Trump again and again repeated a right-wing conspiracy theory that there is systematic persecution and "genocide" of white South Africans, using disinformation to support his allegations.

He misrepresented a video showing a protest, where people placed white crosses in a field to commemorate a farmer and his wife who were murdered in a 2020 home robbery, as a "burial site." South African news site News24 said there are no bodies at the site and the number of crosses do not relate to the number of killings."

 

Erdogan says he wants to visit Trump.

He should first round up a 747 as a gift to Trump.


Turkish President Erdogan says he may visit US, hopes to meet Trump

 

Leader of South Africa tells Trump at White House: "Sorry, I don't have a plane to give you."

Trump's response: 'I wish you did. I'd take it.'


'I'm sorry I don't have a plane to give you,' South African president tells Trump

 

Court blocks Trump from continuing to destroy the Department of Education.


Judge Blocks Trump Administration Plan To Gut Education Department

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Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced the mass layoff, known in government parlance as a “reduction in force,” on March 11, which her agency said was being carried out as part of the Education Department’s “final mission.”

 

'final mission' = destroy the Department of Education

 

MAGA savings accounts.

MAGA stands for Money Account for Growth and Advancement.


GOP Is Proposing Two New Tax-Advantaged Savings Accounts--Including One With a $1,000 Bonus for Babies

 

Trump ambushes another leader at the White House.


Golfers, guile and gifts: South Africa's president follows the new playbook for handling Trump

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"There was February’s stunning bust-up by Vice President JD Vance against Zelenskyy. The same month, Abdullah could not hide his chagrin as Trump spoke at length about his plans to take control of the Gaza Strip.

So, South Africa's Ramaphosa seemed unsurprised when Trump ambushed him Wednesday — the U.S. president even dimmed the lights for a screening of news clips alleging that white farmers are victims of a genocide in South Africa.

Most experts agree this is a false, baseless claim, seized upon by Trump since employing as an adviser the South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, who was in the Oval Office on Wednesday."

 

Trump tax bill clears the House in a victory for Republicans, advances to the Senate

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"Major indexes fell Wednesday, as analysts and corporate leaders worried that Trump's expensive spending bill will lead to exploding federal deficits and weaker long-term fiscal health for the nation. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond yield hit 5.09%.

Democrats, likewise, are vehemently opposed to the bill's steep cuts to the social safety net in order to pay for some of the tax cuts Trump promised on the campaign trail last year."

 

They did it before going on vacation for the Memorial Day holday weekend.

The U.S. Senate will try to pass it by the July 4th holiday.

 

Opinion | There’s a reason Republicans want to hide what’s in their megabill

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"House Republicans have consistently claimed that the bill’s work requirements for Medicaid recipients are meant to get the “able-bodied” into the workplace. Such people, according to the No. 2 Republican in the House, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, are “living in their mom’s basement playing video games.” In fact, nearly two-thirds of those on Medicaid are already working. Almost all other recipients aren’t working because of caregiving, school, illness or disability."

 

Trump's followers can keep pretending that it's only hurting the people they don't like, such as those young men who are supposedly unemployed, living off Medicaid, and playing video games all day long.

Thank goodness Musk and Johnson are cutting Medicaid to force those people back to work.

Trump's supporters will experience the cuts personally eventually.

 

Opinion | There’s a reason Republicans want to hide what’s in their megabill

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"Early Wednesday, when most Americans were snuggled in their beds, Republicans in the House of Representatives were working hard to take away the health care of millions of Americans, blow a $3 trillion hole in the budget deficit and make the wealthiest people in America richer and the poorest Americans poorer."


"The bill would slash $267 billion in federal spending for SNAP, which more than 42 million low-income people rely on to put food on the table for their families. And it would cut nearly $700 billion from federal funding for Medicaid.

The CBO estimated Tuesday that the Medicaid cuts could cause roughly 8 million people to lose their health insurance coverage, and that number could rise to 15 million thanks to other provisions in the legislation."

 

Trump has a knack for just barely getting what he wants and escaping being held accountable.

The assassination attempt is a prime example. He incurred a minor injury and the incident revived Trump for the 2024 election. It was the best possible type of incident for him.

After making statements before the 2024 campaign season that indicated he didn't want Trump to be reelected, Musk used the incident to blatantly support Trump in full force after having been quiet about his underlying support for Trump for months. It culminated in early 2025 when was right in the Oval Office and firing thousands of federal workers.

 

And a complete clown show that was. Ramaphosa took it all in stride and didn’t really get animated, from what I could see. That was embarrassing!

 

The United States Constitution needs an Amendment to bar any person with a felony conviction from ever being:
- President of the United States
- Vice President of the United States
- Speaker of the House of Representatives
- A U.S. Senator
- A Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Attorney General of the United States
- A Member of the Supreme Court of the USA
- Any position within the Line of Succession to the Presidency of the United States.

Anyone convicted of a felony while serving as one of the above positions gets removed from office and
penalized as any average person would be.
No President is allowed to pardon a person who is on the felony conviction list.

 

Delusional statements by Trump.


Trump shows photo from Congo to support his 'white genocide in South Africa' charge - Times of India

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A photo displayed by US President Donald Trump during his White House meeting with South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa, is from the Democratic Republic of Congo, and not South Africa.

"These are all white farmers that are being buried," said Trump, holding up a print-out of an article accompanied by the picture.

Since assuming office in January, beginning his second and final presidential term, the Republican has repeatedly accused South Africa of "genocide" of its white population.