The Donald Trump Score Card

The UNITED STATES?? It was fun while it lasted. ( not so much if you were black or brown)

 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/trump-parade-china-putin-xi-kim/684113/

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"Wednesday’s military parade in Beijing is the most recent evidence that the world’s authoritarians consider Trump a lightweight. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and North Korea’s maximum nepo baby, Kim Jong Un, gathered to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. (Putin’s Belarusian satrap, Alexander Lukashenko, was also on hand.) The American president was not invited: After all, what role did the United States play in defeating Japan and liberating Eurasia? Instead, Trump, much like America itself, was left to watch from the sidelines."

 

The world no longer takes Trump seriously.


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/trump-parade-china-putin-xi-kim/684113/

 

Why Trump wants to change name of the Department of Defense to Department of War
The president has said he wants to rebrand the Pentagon to convey that the U.S. military is not just about defense but offense too.
Dylan Stableford, Reporter
Updated Fri, September 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM UTC

Why Trump wants to change name of the Department of Defense to Department of War

 

So that he can be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.

 

BBC Verify Live: What the data tells us about crime in Chicago as Trump threatens to send in troops

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"Chicago’s violent crime rate has roughly halved compared with the years leading up to the Covid pandemic and fell 11% last year from 2023 levels.

By comparison, Chicago’s violent crime rate last year ranked near the bottom of US cities with populations larger than 500,000 (29th out of 37 cities), according to FBI data.

Detroit, Baltimore and Kansas City had the highest rates with more than 1,500 violent crimes per 100,000 people.

In Washington DC last year - the first city Trump has targeted for his crime crackdown - it was 926 per 100,000."

 

The opposite for Canada.

Canada's trade deficit shrank in July 2025, partly due to exports to the U.S.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/july-trade-figures-1.7624836Canada

 

U.S. military strike kills 11 on alleged drug boat off Venezuela

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"You see the bags of drugs all over the boat. And they were hit, obviously, and they won't be doing it again. I think a lot of other people won't be doing it again when they see the video," Trump said Wednesday.

 

Hegseth says he has absolute authority to kill suspected drug smugglers.

The Trump administration is branding suspects to be terrorists and enemy combatants to try to justify killing them on-site without evidence.


Hegseth Declares He Has ‘Absolute Authority’ to Kill Suspected Drug Dealers

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In a Wednesday appearance on Fox & Friends, Hegseth said, “We knew exactly who was in that boat, we knew exactly what they were doing, and we knew exactly who they represented, and that was Tren de Aragua ... trying to poison our country with illicit drugs.” He has thus far declined to reveal how the Pentagon identified the boat or those aboard as belonging to Tren de Aragua.

“What we have, there in the Caribbean, is clear demonstration of military might,” Hegseth said.

 

Hegseth Declares He Has ‘Absolute Authority’ to Kill Suspected Drug Dealers

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters that the United States has “absolute and complete authority” to kill suspected drug smugglers in “defense of the American people.”

Hegseth was asked by a reporter on Thursday what legal authority the Pentagon invoked when it conducted an airstrike in international waters against a boat that the Trump administration alleges was carrying 11 “narcoterrorists” and members of the Venezuela-based crime group Tren de Aragua.

He responded, “We have the absolute authority and complete authority to conduct that.”

 

Extortion tactics by Trump.

After failing badly with its initial accusations, the Trump administration tried to coerce Garcia to plea bargain to human smuggling by threatening to deport him to Uganda.


ICE Barbie Kristi Noem’s Ugly New Attack on CBS Exposes Big Trump Scam | The New Republic

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"As for the “human smuggler” claim, the government has charged Abrego Garcia in Tennessee with trafficking migrants. But the whole case stinks: A senior prosecutor in that office resigned, reportedly because the case seemed dubious. More importantly, Abrego Garcia’s lawyers have plausibly claimed that the administration tried to coerce him to plead guilty to those charges by threatening to deport him to Uganda if he did not."

 

ICE Barbie Kristi Noem’s Ugly New Attack on CBS Exposes Big Trump Scam | The New Republic

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If you need more evidence that there’s zero percentage in trying to appease or bargain with authoritarians, check out what happened this weekend when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem attacked CBS News for supposedly editing her Face the Nation appearance in a deceptive way. Unsurprisingly, it concerned the wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, about whom Noem and other Trump officials have lied relentlessly for months on end.

Noem’s claim really amounts to a declaration that she is entitled to have her vile smears of Abrego Garcia air undisturbed, no matter how viciously dishonest. But what makes this even more galling is the larger context here, which has gone mostly unremarked upon: It comes after CBS News settled a massive lawsuit with Trump—to the tune of $16 million—in which he made a very similar, equally ludicrous charge of deceptive editing. Turns out that didn’t placate Trump officials or get them to back off these underhanded tactics in the slightest.

 

Makeup artist Romera was released from notorious El Salvador prison in July.


Gay makeup artist tearfully reunited with family after release from notorious El Salvador prison

 

House reportedly not planning to vote to extend Trump's military takeover of DC.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/09/04/trump-congress-police-takeover-vote/

 

Hiring slowdown continues in first jobs report since Trump fired commissioner.


Hiring slowdown continues in 1st jobs report since Trump fired commissioner

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"The totally groundless firing of Dr. Erika McEntarfer, my successor as Commissioner of Labor Statistics at BLS, sets a dangerous precedent and undermines the statistical mission of the Bureau," Beach posted on X.

McEntarfer did not respond to an earlier ABC News request for comment.

As a replacement for McEntarfer, Trump nominated E.J. Antoni, chief economist at the conservative-leaning Heritage Foundation. Antoni is a longtime critic of the BLS and a contributor to the conservative policy blueprint Project 2025.

 

Trump has tanked the U.S. labor market.
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Donald Trump Is Tanking America’s Labor Market

 

475 people detained in Georgia Hyundai raid by ICE, other agencies, officials say

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"The Pew Research Center, citing preliminary Census Bureau data, says the U.S. labor force lost more than 1.2 million immigrants from January through July. That includes people who are in the country illegally as well as legal residents."

 

ICE detains 475 at Hyundai plant in GA.


475 people detained in Georgia Hyundai raid by ICE, other agencies, officials say

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"ICE spokesman Lindsay Williams confirmed that federal authorities conducted an enforcement operation at the 3,000-acre site west of Savannah. He said agents were focused on the construction site for the battery plant."

 

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two such mortgages in quick succession.
by Robert Faturechi, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
Sept. 4, 2025, 3:15 p.m. EDT

Three Trump Cabinet Members Have Multiple Primary-Residence Mortgages — ProPublica

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"The Trump administration has vowed to go after anyone who got lower mortgage rates by claiming more than one primary residence on their loan papers.

President Donald Trump has used it as a justification to target political foes, including a governor on the Federal Reserve Board, a Democratic U.S. senator and a state attorney general."

 

The Divided States of America.

It's even worse than that.

Trump is literally attacking blue cities with the military, not unlike how he attacked the Capitol with his rioters (while not calling in the military to stop them).

Yet somehow the public is supposed to believe that Trump wanted 10,000 troops in DC to protect the Capitol from his rioters who he claims did nothing wrong.