The Donald Trump Score Card

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/14/the-week-trump-rocked-california-00405932

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California Democrats have long battled Donald Trump. But they’ve never faced such a ferocious offensive as they did this week.

Between the deployment of federal agents to Los Angeles, the gutting of climate standards and the manhandling of the state’s senior U.S. senator, the state absorbed one show of force after another from the president. And in the balance of power between the Trump administration and the nation’s most populous state, California was on the losing end.

“We’re at DEFCON 1 in the conflict between California and the Trump administration,” said Democratic strategist Katie Merrill. “It’s orders of magnitude more than what we’ve seen, ever.”

 

Traffic jams and tanks: Washington DC braces for Trump’s military parade

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“Trump is using this as an excuse to benefit and to prop up himself up for his birthday. And by doing that he not only politicizes the military in that way to support him and his ego, but also it really demeans the soldiers as well, because it’s using them as a political prop.”

 

Florida sheriff fires off blunt message to violent anti-Trump protesters: 'We will kill you graveyard dead'

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Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey cautioned against violent behavior during the upcoming "No Kings" protests expected across the country this weekend during a news conference alongside Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier.

"Throw a brick, firebomb or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at," Ivey said. "Because we will kill you graveyard dead. We’re not going to play."

 

Trump should start up a weekly reality TV military pageantry show complete with beautiful women sitting on the tanks as they roll by.


'This would make great TV': How Donald Trump got the military parade he wanted

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"In June 2024, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George and his aides were at a Virginia military base where the service was putting on one of its live-action shows for kids and families.

The event -- a decades-long tradition known as the "Twilight Tattoo" -- was a spectacle. Soldiers from ceremonial units reenact the history of the Army, complete with Revolutionary War garb, music, theatrical vignettes and military pageantry, all meant to serve as a kind of salute to Army soldiers and their families.

George and his top communications adviser, Col. Dave Butler, were attending with several media executives, when one of them leaned over.

"This would make great television," the executive said, according to Butler."

 

Trump administration retracts Rand Paul's invitation to White House picnic with no explanation.


Rand Paul attacks ‘immaturity’ of White House after rescinded picnic invitation, says he’s lost a ‘lot of respect’ for Trump

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"Paul, a libertarian-minded deficit hawk who has been raising deep concerns over President Donald Trump’s sweeping policy bill, said his family – including his nearly six-month-old grandson — had been planning on attending Thursday’s bipartisan picnic on the White House lawn. But Paul said their invitation was abruptly rescinded with no real explanation, even as the move came after Trump and his aides have been bashing Paul over his position on the president’s bill for days.

“The level of immaturity is beyond words,” Paul said of the White House, adding that he’s lost “a lot of respect” for Trump."

 

In nixing EV standards, Trump strikes at two foes: California and Elon Musk

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"Thursday’s resolutions gave Trump a chance to skewer one of Newsom’s signature environmental achievements: a state mandate that would have gradually required new cars in California to produce zero greenhouse gas emissions."

 

Trump missed the opportunity to have the troops groove to the Village People's YMCA and doing the arm dance with him.

 

Trump vows changes to immigration crackdown to protect migrant farmers, hotel workers

"The Trump family's company, the Trump Organization, has a history of relying on labor from undocumented immigrants to staff Trump-owned hotels, the Washington Post reported in 2019, citing accounts from 48 former and current Trump workers. The migrants included hotel housekeepers, groundskeepers, waiters and stonemasons."

 

Trump wants 20,000 troops to hunt migrants. Cost estimate: $3.6 billion.


Trump wants 20,000 National Guardsmen to hunt, transport immigrants

 

One person shot and seriously injured during Utah 'No Kings' march.

10,000 marched in Salt Lake.


One person ‘critically injured,’ one arrested after shooting as 10,000 march in Salt Lake City during No Kings protest

 

Trump is ten steps ahead of everyone.

 

He and Trump should be upset about Trump's rioters at the Capitol.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/middleeast/israel-iran-strikes-intl-hnk

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"Friday’s operation goes much further than previously seen. CNN’s security analyst Beth Sanner said that removing Salami is akin to taking out the US chairman of the joint chiefs of staff: “You can imagine what Americans would do,” she said.

Iran is now “under existential threat” and as such, the Israelis will be expecting “a massive, much bigger retaliation than what they saw last time,” Sanner added."

 

Israel launches sweeping military strikes on Iran.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/middleeast/israel-iran-strikes-intl-hnk

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“Moments ago, Israel launched operation Rising Lion, a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival,” Netanyahu said in a televised address.

“This operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat.”

 

Israel made the same remarks about Gaza.

Putin made the same remarks about Ukraine.

 

Putin's war on Ukraine rages on after Trump promised to stop it in 24 hours (Trump's been in office 5 months).

Iran and Israel are at war with each other now that Trump is president again.

Four people in MN shot by gunman, including state legislators. Two are dead.

A person shot and critically injured at what had been a peaceful 'No Kings' march in Salt Lake.

MO governor declared an emergency and activated National Guard over concern about 'No King' rallies (which were peacefule except for Trump supporters using cars and guns against rallygoers).

Violence in CA and elsewhere because of Trump's heavy-handed deportation policies.

Peace was supposed to be breaking out all over the world after Trump was reelected.

 

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