The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump politicizing the military.


‘Horribly wrong’: US veterans condemn Trump’s politicization of military

excerpt:

His comments infuriated the military’s legal community.

“He uses sedition and treason very broadly and inappropriately,” said David Frakt, a retired air force officer and attorney in the judge advocate general (JAG) corps, the military justice branch. “The irony is that if anyone committed sedition or treason, it was the people that he urged to overthrow the government on January 6 [2021] – and you know, he pardoned all of those people and calls them patriots and martyrs and all the rest.”

 

“Training Grounds”: Trump's Attack on Democratic Cities | Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Washington, DC Office - USA, Canada, Global Dialogue

excerpt:

The stated justifications for these unprecedented acts are a red herring from the Trump administration's actual agenda. Experts have long warned that manufactured crises and declarations of emergency are a favorite in the authoritarian playbook. The federal takeover of Washington, DC was a first step in Trump's consolidation of power and control over the armed forces -- and a clear precursor to ever more extreme actions in other, Democratic-led cities and states.

Stephen Miller, Trump’s longtime senior aide and the architect of the most ruthless and cruel anti-immigration policies in both the first and current administration, played a key role in directing the DC takeover. He has since described the Oregon judge’s decision to stop the National Guard a “Legal Insurrection,” and the situation in Portland in existential terms: “This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.”

 

Stephen Miller needs to start acting like an adult.

 

Trump says grocery prices are down.

The public must be imagining those high prices at the cash register.

 

New Orleans is next on Trump's hit list.

The current mayor of New Orleans is LaToya Cantrell, a Democrat.

Mayor-elect of New Orleans is Helena Moreno, a Democrat.


New Orleans braces for Trump’s immigration crackdown: ‘We have rights’

excerpt:

"Trump floated sending in federal troops in September, when he declared New Orleans had “a crime problem”, adding: “We’ll straighten that out in two weeks.” The city’s violent crime rate is actually 20% lower than last year, including a historic drop in the number of murders."

 

Fox is quiet on Epstein and wants to talk about the Miss Universe Pageant instead.


Ignorance is bliss: rightwing media largely keeps quiet on Trump-Epstein saga

excerpt:

"Instead, Fox News appeared to have found a new topic to titillate its audience: the network had two stories about the Miss Universe competition on its website."

 

Trump's not known for being careful about reviewing documents before releasing them to the public. He's released them in the past when it suited him.


Ignorance is bliss: rightwing media largely keeps quiet on Trump-Epstein saga

excerpt:

"Ingraham asked Comer, the chair of the House oversight comittee, why Trump would not simply release the files of his own volition, if the president was so keen to have them out there.

Comer claimed the White House had released “what they can legally release”, which is not the case – Trump had the authority as president to release the documents himself, but chose not to.

“We’re getting the documents and as soon as we get them on the oversight committee we’re making them public, I think that’s what the president wants,” Comer said of Trump, who days earlier had been furious at the prospect of the documents being made public."

 

With the rest of the world at a climate summit, Trump administration announces major environmental rollbacks

excerpt:

"As representatives from nearly 200 nations were wrapping up talks at the United Nations' COP30 climate summit this week, the United States was not only absent, the Trump administration also introduced a series of sweeping proposals to roll back environmental protections and encourage fossil fuel drilling."

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene could have led the anti-Trump resistance but the mob boss got his way

excerpt:

"When it comes to crazy, Greene used to be most famous for endorsing the death penalty against her opponents, heckling Joe Biden’s State of the Union address and theorising that a wildfire was caused by a space laser controlled by a Jewish banking family. She argued in 2019 that Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, both Muslim women, were not “official” members of Congress because they used Qur’ans rather than Bibles in their swearing-in ceremonies."

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene could have led the anti-Trump resistance but the mob boss got his way

excerpt:

Explaining her decision, Greene said: “I have too much self-respect and dignity, love my family way too much, and do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the president we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms. I refuse to be a battered wife hoping it all goes away and gets better.”

 

Many Trump supporters seem to be afflicted with the battered wife pathology. They keep returning to Trump thinking that he will make their life better.

 

Marjorie Taylor Greene could have led the anti-Trump resistance but the mob boss got his way

excerpt:

"It was not to be. Instead Greene follows the likes of fellow dissenters Liz Cheney, Bob Corker, Jeff Flake and Adam Kinzinger in heading for the exit. Trump has presided over the homogenisation of the Republican party: you are loyal to him or you are out. He drives out opposition with the fear and intimidation tactics of a mob boss.

Trump’s backing can make all the difference in Republican primary contests that select which candidate will run for Congress. He endorsed a challenger to Cheney in Wyoming and she was duly unseated. Weary of Greene’s independent streak, he called her “wacky”, accused her of going “far left” and pledged to endorse a primary challenger “if the right person runs”.

Greene could have fought a primary in her Georgia district and maybe won. But it would have taken place in a poisonous and violent political climate. She says the insults from Trump have already led to unwanted pizza deliveries, hoax emergency calls and death threats. He has given his antagonists too many reasons not to run."

 

Trump in panic mode, surrounded by weaklings.


Trump 'in panic surrounded by weaklings' as bad news mounts: conservative

excerpt:

“Needless to say, Pete Hegseth is no Jim Schlesinger, Marco Rubio is no Henry Kissinger, Susie Wiles is no Al Haig, and JD Vance is no Gerald Ford,” Kristol wrote, comparing Trump’s administration to their Nixon-era counterparts. “We have a president in panic surrounded by weaklings who will submit to his diktats and sycophants happy to egg him on. And so we enter a period more dangerous than the last months of Nixon.”

 

,,,and Vance is no Abe Lincoln.

Trump's people have referred to Vance as looking like Abe Lincoln after he grew a beard.

 

Trump’s Ukraine Peace Deal Appears to Be Translated From Russian

excerpt:

The U.S. peace plan presented to Ukraine appears to have been translated from Russian.

The syntax of certain phrases are more common in the Russian language, such as the third point of the 28-point plan: “It is expected that Russia will not invade neighbouring countries and Nato will not expand further.”

“It is expected” is not commonly used in English, but it is common in Russian and appears to come from the phrase ожидается or ozhidayetsya, according to The Guardian’s Luke Harding. Other words that appear to be translated from Russian include “ambiguities” (неоднозначности) and “to enshrine” (закрепить).

 

That remark by Stephen Miller is what should be said about Trump's rioters at the Capitol.

Miller makes such a statement to snub the courts that are reasonably placing limits on Trump's brash use of power which Trump mistakenly thinks is infinite and unquestionable.

 

Durbin: Trump's deployment of National Guard in Illinois cost taxpayers $20 million directly.

Indirectly it damaged businesses which caused financial losses.


President Trump's deployment of National Guard in Illinois cost taxpayers nearly $20M: Sen. Durbin

excerpt:

"Ninety eight percent of that money was wasted, wasted, to create a reign of fear and terror in the Chicago community," Durbin said. "How many people were actually detained and arrested? Six hundred: How many of that number, 600, were dangerous to the community? Sixteen people."

 

Knowing the Trump administration, his people could have went online and made an AI-generated document by searching for: "What type of Ukraine peace deal would Putin like?"

Trump's people appear to have gone online and searched the term 'sanctuary city' to find all the cities for Trump to attack and quickly posting it without review.

The government of one city that was threatened with withholding of federal money used the term 'sanctuary city' to describe what it felt was the right for its people to own guns.

The Trump administration days later deleted the entire list of cities it had targeted.

 

It's a matter of how much more American farmers are willing to injure themselves financially in the name of supporting Trump's ideological hangups.

For those farmers who like a president's favoritism toward ultra-billionaires and right-wing leaders of agricultural competitor countries, and who don't like renewable energy, immigrants, and free-trade, they can keep supporting Trump.

The family farms will go bankrupt like they are right now at an increasing rate, but the farmers can sleep easy at night knowing that they gave up their livelihood for Trump.

 

Court rules Trump can’t expand fast-track deportation process

excerpt:

"A federal appeals court on Saturday declined to clear the way for Donald Trump’s administration to expand a fast-track deportation process to allow for the expedited removal of immigrants who are living far away from the border."