The Donald Trump Score Card

Threats follow Michigan lawmaker who said she had surgery to remove reproductive organs

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“Pretty much all of these executive orders have come straight out of Project 2025, and that same document outlines a process for limiting access to contraception,” she said.
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After Trump’s election, physicians reported a rise in women seeking both long-term birth control and permanent sterilizations. Trump told a Pittsburgh television station in May that he was open to supporting regulations on contraception, and later walked back his comments saying that he “has never and will never” advocate for restricting birth control and other contraceptives.

 

Handling of the news media by Trump and Nixon.


Trump’s Blueprint for Bending the Media Has Nixon Written All Over It

 

Watchdog group, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, virtually shut down as DOGE and Russ Vought take over.

Voight is an architect of Project 2025 that Trump still says he doesnt know.


https://www.npr.org/2025/02/08/nx-s1-5290914/russell-vought-cfpb-doge-access-musk

 

Trump Orders NASA to Purge All Mentions of Women in Leadership On Its Websites
Frank Landymore
Sun, February 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM UTC

Trump Orders NASA to Purge All Mentions of Women in Leadership On Its Websites

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The list of verboten terms includes "DEIA," "accessibility," "indigenous people," "environmental justice," and finally: "anything specifically targeting women," such as "women in leadership, etc."

Speaking anonymously to 404, a NASA employee confirmed that leadership were serious about the changes.

"We were absolutely required to scrub all DEI related or DEI adjacent topics and terms from all external websites by 5pm the 22nd," the employee said.

 

Janet Petro does an about-face on diversity.


Trump Orders NASA to Purge All Mentions of Women in Leadership On Its Websites

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To lead the agency down this path, Trump hand picked Janet Petro as the space agency's acting head — a nomination that's reportedly surprised even NASA officials — which makes her the first woman to serve as the agency's adminstrator.

"These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination," Petro wrote in a memo about the agency's termination of diversity programs.

That's funny, because when Petro was the director of the Kennedy Space Center, she said this in a 2021 interview: "At NASA and Kennedy Space Center, our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility has been paramount to mission success. The entire NASA leadership team stands behind this commitment," Petro said. "KSC has embraced the link between diverse teams and innovation," she added.

 

Musk calls for impeachment of judge who blocked DOGE access at Treasury
by Ian Swanson
02/09/25 8:18 AM ET

Musk calls for impeachment of judge who blocked DOGE access at Treasury

 

Musk's remark:

“A corrupt judge protecting corruption. He needs to be impeached NOW.”

 

Trump continues to strip security clearances of those he doesn't like.


Exclusive | Trump stripping the security clearances of numerous antagonists — including NY AG Letitia James, DA Alvin Bragg

 

Putin's war on Ukraine is approaching its third anniversary.

He started the war in February 24, 2021 and called it a 'special military operation'.

Putin's invasion started about a year after Trump left office after Putin milked Trump for everything he could to make the world situation the most favorable to Putin for an invasion (Trump helping Putin disparage the EU, NATO, UN).


https://www.npr.org/2022/02/24/1082...aine-invasion-as-a-special-military-operation

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"You know, also, online footage seems to show Russian ground forces crossing into Ukraine from all directions- the north from Belarus, in the south in annexed Crimea and also in the east, closer to where I am.

So I think put another way, this is basically the scenario the U.S. predicted - a Russian invasion force massed around Ukraine in order to move in. And U.S. warnings that Russia always dismissed as hysteria have all proven true."

 

Putin dismissed all of the concerns about his potential invasion of Ukraine. Similar to concerns about Trump, it could be dismissed as Putin Derangement Syndrome.

Putin had already effectively annexed Belarus socially, politically, and economically rather than by an outright military invasion.

 

Trump and the NOAA chart he doctored to try to cover a mistake he made about the hurricane supposedly on track to hit Alabama.

Trump coerced an unnamed official at NOAA to wrongly state publicly in a written letter that Trump was correct all along.

Project 2025 is directing Trump to dismantled NOAA because it is upset that it's involved with forecasting climate change that it thinks is fake.

Trump's farmers need the NOAA forecasts to properly manage their crops that Trump recently compromised by senselessly dumping billions of gallons of water in California so that he could claim that he 'won' the 'water war'.


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NASA Astronaut Recruitment Faces Trump’s Moves Against D.E.I.

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For NASA to consider race and gender at all in the choosing of astronauts appears to run counter to an executive order that Mr. Trump signed on Jan. 22. That order declares that hiring for federal jobs will “not under any circumstances consider D.E.I.-related factors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements.”

On the same day, echoing language in a template used by agency heads across the federal government, Janet Petro, the current acting administrator, told NASA employees that D.E.I. programs “divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination.”

 

A Sweeping Ban on D.E.I. Language Roils the Sciences

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But the Academies’ priorities changed abruptly on Jan. 31. Shortly after receiving a “stop work” order from the Trump administration, the institute closed its Office of Diversity and Inclusion, removed prominent links to its work on D.E.I. from its website’s homepage and paused projects on related themes.

Now the website highlights the Academies’ interest in artificial intelligence and “our work to build a robust economy.”

 

NASA scrambling to conform to Trump's anti-DEI initiatives.


https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/02/06/congress/kash-patel-fbi-confirmation-00202842

 

Trump is so off the wall that he could order deleting women from photos that show they have authority.


Hasidic newspaper regrets editing Hillary Clinton out of photo

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The Jewish Week subsequently suggested the photograph had been altered because including women in photographs "could be considered sexually suggestive."

 

Then delete the men from the photo and keep the women.

 

House Republicans consider taxing college scholarships to help pay for renewal of Trump's 2017 tax cuts.


House Republicans mull taxes on scholarships and changes to student loan programs

 

List of lawsuits filed against Musk and Trump since the start of his second term.


All The Big Lawsuits And Rulings Against Trump And Elon Musk’s DOGE

 

Trump's remark about revoking Biden's security clearance:


“We’ve done it with Biden himself. Biden himself. We think our country is not as safe when you gave him clearance. We don’t think he knows what he’s doing and what he’s done to this country is a disgrace, and what he’s done in terms of allowing criminals, murderers, drug lords into our country, people from mental institutions into our country, he should be ashamed of himself.”

 

Judges ‘Aren’t Allowed’ To Control Trump, VP Vance Claims After Courts Block Policies

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Vance and Vermeule’s posts have been met with heavy pushback, with Georgetown Law professor Stephen Vladeck saying in response to Vermeule, “Just to say the quiet part out loud, the point of having unelected judges in a democracy is so that *whether* acts of state are ‘legitimate’ can be decided by someone other than the people who are undertaking them.”