The Donald Trump Score Card

As expected, Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.


Trump invokes 1798 Alien Enemies Act, orders deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members

 

Trump's cuts hit Voice of America, Radio Free Europe – DW – 03/15/2025

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"Meanwhile, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia, which are also funded by the US government, have seen their funding cut. All three outlets focus on broadcasting free information to audiences outside the US, including conflict zones like Ukraine, US rivals such as China and Russia, or dictatorships such as North Korea."

 

Young men swung to the right for Trump after a campaign dominated by masculine appeals

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“What is most alarming to me is that the election is clear that America has shifted right by a lot,” said William He, founder of Dream For America, a liberal group that works to turn out young voters and supported Harris’ presidential bid.

With his bombastic demeanor and a policy agenda centered on a more macho understanding of culture, Trump framed much of his campaign as a pitch to men who felt scorned by the country’s economy, culture and political system. Young women also slightly swung toward the former president, though not to the degree of their male counterparts.

 

Young men swung to the right for Trump after a campaign dominated by masculine appeals

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“I regret saying this, but a while ago I thought he was an idiot and that he wouldn’t be a good president,” said the 18-year-old first-time voter. “I think he’s a great guy now.”

Verhaeghe isn’t alone among his friends in suburban Detroit or young men across America. Although much of the electorate shifted right to varying degrees in 2024, young men were one of the groups that swung sharply toward Trump.

 

...or dictatorships such as the U.S.

 

Trump travel restrictions on 41 countries in the works.


Trump Travel Restrictions: New US Visa Ban on 41 Countries in the Works | - The Times of India

 

Trump isn't just acting like a dictator. He is a dictator.

 

Trump's quest to conquer Canada is confusing everyone

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What also confounds Republicans about Trump’s idea is that annexing Canada would potentially add millions more Democrats to American voter rolls. Canada is a liberal-leaning nation with a population larger than California. Were Canada to become a state, it could mean 50 more House seats and two additional senators — auguring a real power shift in government.

"They’d have a sizable delegation in the House," Amodei said. “"I don’t think anybody thinks that’s a great idea. Oh, by the way, how many Electoral College votes are they going to get?"

 

Trump changed his stance from sharing a border to commandeering Canada.


Trump's quest to conquer Canada is confusing everyone

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"Eight years ago, President Donald Trump spoke about the U.S.-Canada relationship in glowing terms.

He hosted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House in February 2017 for one of his first joint appearances alongside a foreign leader. Trump opened by noting the nations "share much more than a border," highlighting "the special bonds that come when two nations have shed their blood together — which we have."

"America is deeply fortunate to have a neighbor like Canada," Trump said. "We have before us the opportunity to build even more bridges, and bridges of cooperation and bridges of commerce."

Fast-forward to Thursday, weeks after Trump initiated a full-scale trade war with Canada, and it’s clear the president doesn’t believe the U.S. should share a border — or much else — with its Canadian neighbors."

 

Elon Musk reportedly stops funding for feeding bomb-sniffing dogs while Trump celebrates K-9 day.


Elon Reportedly Orders Government to Stop Feeding the Bomb-Sniffing Dogs

 

Trump stares down reporter after being hit in the face with a boom mic

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"President Trump was inadvertently struck in the face by a boom microphone Friday as he fielded questions from reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

The fuzzy end of the extended microphone – sometimes referred to as a “dead cat” in the industry – struck the 45th and 47th president in the mouth and slid across part of his face as he closed his eyes and leaned back to avoid further contact."

 

Trump has been ranting that he doesn't like the straight border line between the U.S. and Canada from the west coast to the Great Lakes. He says it's arbitrary.

Therefore, he thinks he's entitled to commandeer Canada and erase that nasty arbitary border.

 

Canada becoming a U.S. state would cause about 50 electoral votes to be allocated to Canada For a winner-take-all format, all the electoral votes would likely go to a Democratic presidential candidate, similar to how California votes.

It would be like adding another state of California to the presidential electoral college.

An extra two Canadian U.S. Senate seats would alter the composition of the Senate. The U.S. House would add close to 50 seats to represent Canada. It would be a significant increase in Democratic votes in the House.

 

The last time it was used was during WWII when the government rounded up Japanese people in the U.S.

 

Eggings, swastikas and dog poop: Tesla bears brunt of people’s ire against Musk

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"As the protests have multiplied, so has vandalism against Tesla’s brick-and-mortar business and individual vehicles. The Guardian has tracked at least three separate incidents involving molotov cocktails, the coordinated theft of nearly 50 Tesla tires and spray-painted swastikas on Tesla facilities from New York to New Mexico. Nearly 20 Tesla showrooms and charging stations have seen deliberate fires set, while dozens of owners have had their cars egged, pooped on and hit with Kraft cheese singles."

 

Trump says richest man in the world Musk has been ‘treated very unfairly’

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Trump said he wants to label people who attempt to vandalize the cars as “domestic terrorists.”

“I'll do it,” Trump warned. “I'm going to stop them … because they're harming a great American company. I've stuck up for a lot of American companies.”


Federal workers have been treated very unfairly by Musk, to put it mildly.

 

Trump says richest man in the world Musk has been ‘treated very unfairly’

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“But because he’s finding all sorts of terrible things that have taken place against our country, we want to penalize him in an economic sense. And I just think that’s very unfair,” the president added, referring to the backlash against Musk’s work carving up the federal government via the Department of Governemnt Efficiency (DOGE).

 

Is Trump the end of the international rules-based order?

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"But the first few weeks of US President Donald Trump’s second term upended all expectations. Now, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy finds himself berated in the Oval Office by Trump and his Vice President JD Vance, who sent out friendly feelers to Russia.
JD Vance

Greenland, Panama and one of the US’s closest allies, Canada, find themselves the subject of Trump’s imperialist rhetoric.

Trump has made clear that the old rules are out of the window. His posture towards Ukraine and his push for trade tariffs against allies is part of an isolationist, “America First”, mentality – which sees the world’s issues as not the US’s business, and international cooperation as weak."

 

Judge slams Trump administration for stonewalling.


A Federal Judge Is Fed Up With the “Sham” Excuses for Trump’s Mass Firings

 

Trump DOJ 'refused to make any further effort' to get at truth in OPM firings case: Judge

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On Thursday, Alsup tore into the Trump administration for its mass firings of probationary employees — calling it a “sad day” when the government would terminate “good” workers supposedly on the basis of performance knowing “good and well that’s a lie,” the judge said as he ordered agencies to “immediately” rehire those who have been booted.