The Donald Trump Score Card

Being an asshole is undoubtedly a requirement to be a President, but by itself is not sufficient.

 

Chairman Trump: has the US turned its back on free-market capitalism?

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"What would Reagan make of a country that, in a matter of weeks, became the largest shareholder in a microchip manufacturer; demanded a cut of firms’ overseas sales in exchange for export licenses; and fired a statistics official after government data embarrassed its ruling party?

In just the past week, senior government officials in the country have pushed to exert control over its central bank; ordered a tech giant to strike a deal with a supportive media conglomerate; and successfully urged a restaurant chain to reverse a rebrand.

This is not China. It is the United States, under a Republican president, in 2025."

 

‘Racist as hell’: Trump’s cabinet is almost all white, and he keeps firing Black officials

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"A day after Donald Trump announced that he was firing Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the board of governors of the Federal Reserve, the White House proudly released a photo. It showed Trump, his cabinet and other officials giving a thumbs-up. Of the 24 people in the Oval Office, only one was Black."

 

Missouri GOP governor calls special session to help Trump with gerrymandering.


Missouri's Republican governor calls special session on redistricting


Democrats were quick to express outrage. Missouri state House Minority Leader Ashley Aune called Kehoe a "Trump puppet" attempting to "steal a congressional seat for Republicans" and gut the ballot initiative process.

It "marks the worst threat to the integrity of our state government since pro-slavery lawmakers voted for Missouri to join the Confederacy in 1861," Aune said in a statement.

Missouri is represented in the U.S. House by six Republicans and two Democrats — Cleaver and Rep. Wesley Bell in St. Louis.

 

Supreme Court sides with Trump, 5-4.

Trump has had a long string of emergency ruling wins in the Supreme Court..

Trump will be allowed to selectively cut funds to programs he doesn't like.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/21/supreme-court-nih-funding-grants-00518782

 

DC appeals court rules most of Trump's tariffs are illegal.


https://www.npr.org/2025/08/29/nx-s1-5522457/tariffs-trump-trade-supreme-court

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An appeals court ruled that most of President Trump's tariffs are illegal, but held off on enforcing the decision for now given expectations that it will be appealed to the Supreme Court.

The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., focused on the "reciprocal" tariffs Trump imposed back in April, as well as separate tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico that cite emergency powers.

 

Article from April 2025.


NEW: 100 Days In, Trump is Blocking At Least $430 Billion Dollars in Funding Owed to American People

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As the tracker details, President Trump has—through a variety of different means—frozen, cancelled, clawed back, illegally impounded, and slow-walked federal funding for all manner of key priorities. Among much else, this includes investments in:

• Critical research into Alzheimer's disease, women's health, cancer, diabetes, and much more, throwing research already conducted into the shredder and setting back treatments and cures.
• Public safety, including COPS grants, Office of Violence Against Women grants, and programs to help victims of crime.
• Relief for states and communities responding to and recovering from natural disasters.
• Farmers and local agriculture businesses, making it more expensive for hardworking people to run their farms and cutting off research they count on.
• School lunches and food for child care institutions at the detriment of the farmers who rely on these local markets.
• Head Start. Head Start programs are already beginning to close their doors as this administration slow-walks funding, kicking kids out of their classrooms and sending parents scrambling to find new preschool options.
• Critical investments in transportation projects—for roads and bridges, airports, public transit, ports, and more—and energy projects across the country that are creating new, good jobs and lowering families’ monthly energy bills.
• Our national security and efforts to prevent and end global conflicts.
• Essential health services like birth control and cancer screenings for over 800,000 patients—and resources to protect people from public health threats.

 

Demands, bullying, threats, revocations, prohibitions, impositions, and takeovers.

Mobster behavior.

 

Trump Nixes Patent Office, Weather Service, NASA Unions (1)

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President Donald Trump nullified more government unions Thursday, expanding a March executive order that has sharply limited federal-sector collective bargaining.

 

Trump is supposedly so security conscious of agencies, such as the weather service, NASA, and the patent office, that he is ending their collective bargaining because he says it's a security issue.

Yet Trump lets Musk, a 19-year-old DOGE operative known as 'Big Balls', and other unqualified operatives who are a security risk, rummage through people's Social Security, IRS, Medicare, and Medicaid files.

Plus Trump unleashed thousands of his rioters on the U.S. Capitol in one of the biggest security beaches in U.S. history that precipitaed the biggest federal investigation and prosecution in U.S. history.

 

Trump plans immigration crackdown in Chicago.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/us/politics/trump-chicago-immigration-naval-base.html

 

Trump wants another military parade.

The previous one wasn't good enough for him.


Trump’s Military Parade Was So Bad That Now He Wants a Redo

 

Trump uses pocket rescission to revoke $4.9 billion Congress issued.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...d-amid-threat-of-pocket-cancellation-00535396

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"His decision is likely to send the case surging back to the appellate courts, and possibly even the Supreme Court, to determine whether Trump’s pocket rescissions withstands legal scrutiny. It’s unclear whether the comptroller general, Gene Dodaro, intends to take any additional legal action to force the restoration of funds."

 

Pirro's office fails three times to indict.

One of them was the sandwich-throwing incident.


Jeanine Pirro’s office fails three times to convince grand jurors to return indictment

 

Zelensky didn't receive the red carpet treatment like Putin.

Trump ambushed Zelensky at the White House and Vance was using his little pea shooter like a preschooler.

 

After multiple polls have showed Trump's immigration tactics souring with the public, Trump shifts attention to crime.

DC has been an easy target for him because of its unique legal status that allows Trump to more easily control it than generic cities.


About half of U.S. adults approve of Trump's approach to crime, AP-NORC poll finds

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"In March, an AP-NORC poll found about half of U.S. adults approved of the way he was handling immigration — putting it above other key issues like the economy.

But that advantage had disappeared by the summer, when a July AP-NORC poll found only 43% of U.S. adults approved of his approach. Other polls found the same, suggesting that Americans might be souring on his aggressive action amid headlines about college students being whisked off city streets by masked federal agents and men who were alleged to be gang members wrongly sent to a notorious Salvadorian prison with no due process."

 

Bolsonaro supporters pray for Trump rescue as coup plot trial verdict nears

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Bolsonaro could face decades in jail for allegedly leading a murderous conspiracy to seize power after his leftwing rival Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beat him in the 2022 presidential election. But Costa believes her populist leader can still be saved – if her prayers are answered and Donald Trump intervenes.

“I believe in God and I believe God will touch Donald Trump’s heart and that he will help us,” Costa proclaimed as she stood in her garden clutching the American flag she waves at pro-Bolsonaro rallies. “I’m convinced God has chosen him as a liberator,” she says of the US president. “And I believe God will empower him – and all Americans – so they come to love and liberate my land.”

 

Additional ones later in the week.


He's firing over 500 workers at Voice of America.

His administration will be targeting Portland and Seattle with ICE crackdowns.

He's sending the military into Chicago and Boston.

He once again praised his buddy Kim Jong Un, the former dictator of North Korea.

He's issuing an executive order requiring stringent voter ID to vote in all states.