The Donald Trump Score Card

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/28/maga-trump-voters-divide-00670647

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"What does this all mean ahead of the fast-approaching midterms? Already, we have evidence from the off-year elections that the 2024 Trump coalition isn’t holding, with Latino and young male voters shifting back to Democrats. On generic ballot vote intention, 92 percent of MAGA Republicans backed the Republican candidate, while 62 percent of non-MAGA did.

There’s something in the MAGA Republican voter mentality — a kind of economic optimism — that is durable even amid the current turmoil. Trump’s definition of reality permeates their own."

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/...ng-shows-intensified-anti-migrant-stance.html

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He downplayed the fact that the suspect in the Washington shooting, an Afghan who had worked with C.I.A.-backed forces to help the United States in Afghanistan, had received asylum from the U.S. government in April, when Mr. Trump was president, according to three people with knowledge of the case who were not authorized to speak publicly. Mr. Trump had an answer ready to go when he was asked about that on Thursday.

“When it comes to asylum, when they’re flown in, it’s very hard to get them out,” he said. “No matter how you want to do it, it’s very hard to get them out. But we’re going to be getting them all out now.”

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/...ng-shows-intensified-anti-migrant-stance.html

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Since the shooting, Mr. Trump has seemed to fixate on Somalian refugees in Minnesota in particular.

“We’re not taking their people anymore,” Mr. Trump said on Thursday. He later wrote on social media that Tim Walz, the Democratic governor of that state, was “seriously retarded” for welcoming immigrants from Somalia.

Asked Thursday at Mar-a-Lago what Somalis in Minnesota have to do with the accused Afghan shooter in Washington, Mr. Trump replied: “Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble.”

 

Trump intensifies his anti-immigrant stance.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/...ng-shows-intensified-anti-migrant-stance.html

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In social media posts near midnight on Thanksgiving, he vowed to “permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries” and threatened to strip U.S. citizenship from naturalized migrants “who undermine domestic tranquillity.”

He threatened to “end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country” and deport foreigners deemed to be “non-compatible with Western Civilization.”

 

Article from September 2025.


https://www.americanimmigrationcoun...itary-lawyers-to-serve-as-immigration-judges/

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"On August 28, the DOJ published a final rule that eliminated certain requirements to serve as a temporary immigration judge. Previously, to be a temporary judge, a candidate must have served (1) as a former immigration judge or appellate immigration judge, (2) as an administrative judge within another executive branch agency, or (3) as a DOJ attorney with at least 10 years of immigration law experience.

The Trump administration removed those requirements and now the DOJ can select any attorney to serve as a temporary immigration judge, including military attorneys and attorneys from the private sector with no immigration experience."

 

Trump, 79, Turns National Guard Death News Into Selfish Rant
Cameron Adams ReporterUpdated Nov. 28 2025 3:27AM EST
Published Nov. 27 2025 9:20PM EST

Trump, 79, Turns National Guard Death News Into Selfish Rant

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"Trump then repeated his story about beating a 27-year-old golfer last year, and claimed he has a “very low” handicap in the game.

“I’ve won 38 of them, legitimately. Every one legitimately,” he insisted, despite persistent claims of cheating during games.

“It has to be legitimate, because you have a lot of people following you during club championships,” Trump said."

 

Trump says he has the highest poll numbers ever.

Trump job approval has dropped to 36%.


Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low

 

Trump rages over ‘seriously retarded Governor’ Tim Walz in furious Thanksgiving message
By Emily Crane
Published Nov. 28, 2025, 7:32 a.m. ET

Trump rages over ‘seriously retarded Governor' Tim Walz in furious Thanksgiving message | New York Post

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"President Trump ripped Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as “seriously retarded” — and suggested Rep. Ilhan Omar “probably came into the USA illegally” — in a rage-filled Thanksgiving message about immigration."

 

COMMENTARY: Trump policies are making America poor again … and he knows it

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“The available data strongly demonstrates a persistent and systemic lack of sufficient numbers of qualified, eligible and interested American workers to perform the kinds of work that agricultural employers demand,” the department said.

That’s true in other critical industries as well, from construction and landscaping to meatpacking and health care. For example, if you eliminated the foreign-born workers in American hospitals and assisted living facilities, most would collapse immediately.

 

COMMENTARY: Trump policies are making America poor again … and he knows it

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"One sector that is really suffering is agriculture. Last month, Trump’s own Department of Labor issued this stark indictment of his policies: “The near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens, combined with the lack of an available legal workforce, results in significant disruptions to production costs and threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers."

 

Trump and his supporters face a dilemma.

How to gain ideological satisfaction from blaming and deporting immigrants and other groups they don't like while dealing with the pragmatic economic injury they are inflicting onto themselves because of it.

 

COMMENTARY: Trump policies are making America poor again … and he knows it

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"For once, Trump was telling the truth and accepting economic reality. He’s spent his career igniting and exploiting xenophobic fears and demonizing foreigners as hardened criminals and moral reprobates who defile women, deal drugs, steal jobs and are “poisoning the blood” of native-born (read: white) Americans.

But here’s the rub: Trump’s nativist politics directly contradict his economic intelligence. He seems to know that immigrants make vital and valuable contributions to national prosperity. But he has been “poisoning” the minds of his own acolytes for so long that many now reject his economic reasoning — just as Ingraham did — a reasoning shared by virtually all reputable economists."

 

More than 220 judges have now rejected the Trump admin’s mass detention policy
The number has skyrocketed in recent weeks and includes at least 20 judges appointed by Trump himself.
Appeals courts have just begun grappling with ICE's detention policy and could issue rulings in weeks or months that help stem the tsunami of litigation
By Kyle Cheney
11/28/2025 07:00 AM EST

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/28/trump-detention-deportation-policy-00669861

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"In contrast, only eight judges nationwide, including six appointed by Trump, have sided with the administration’s new mass detention policy."

 

Trump sending additional 500 National Guard to DC.


Trump administration sending 500 more National Guard troops to D.C. after shooting, Hegseth says

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"The 500 additional service members will join roughly 2,200 troops who were deployed in D.C. as of Sunday morning. That includes around 900 members of the D.C. National Guard and more than 1,200 members of several states' Guard forces, according to a press release from the military's Joint Task Force – District of Columbia."

 

Trump is on the receiving end of his abuse this time compared to his riot at the Capitol when thousands of his rioters were attacking the police and National Guard.

A National Guard member this week lost her life because of an attack in DC by a violent person.

This time Trump didn't tell the attacker to go home in peace and love and remember this day forever.

 

New Gallup poll has Trump approval at 36%, new low! 60% disapproval! Best news in months!

 

Trump order to keep Michigan power plant open costs taxpayers $113m
Critics say JH Campbell coal-fired plant in western Michigan is expensive and emits high levels of toxic pollution
Tom Perkinsin Detroit, Michigan
Fri 28 Nov 2025 08.00 EST

Trump order to keep Michigan power plant open costs taxpayers $113m

 

DC National Guard terror suspect suffered mental problems from fighting for CIA-backed 'Zero Unit' | New York Post

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"Lakanwal was part of an elite group of Afghan fighters known as the “Zero Units” — or alternatively, “death squads” — which battled the Taliban alongside US forces for over a decade."

 

Trump's pardon of Giuliani and others for trying to overthrown the 2020 election is written so broadly that it can be interpreted as applying to just about anyone else who tried to illegally overthrow the 2020 election.


Trump may have inadvertently issued mass pardon for 2020 voter fraud, experts say

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The case is still in its early stages. Last week, Laiss’ lawyers, public defenders Katrina Young and Elizabeth Toplin, argued that the charges should be thrown out because Trump had pardoned him.

They argued that Trump’s 7 November pardon was sweeping. It applies to any US citizen for conduct relating to the advice, creation, organization, execution, submission, support, voting, activities, participation in, or advocacy for or of any slate or proposed slate of presidential electors, whether or not recognized by any state or state official, in connection with the 2020 presidential election.” And while it lists a number of people the pardon specifically applies to, it also says the pardon is not limited to those named.

That language is so broad, lawyers for Laiss wrote, it also applies to their client.

“When Mr Laiss cast two votes in the general election for President Trump for the office of president of the United States in Pennsylvania and Florida, he support[ed], vot[ed for] … [and] advoca[ted] for [a] slate or proposed slate of presidential electors … in connection with the 2020 presidential election,” they wrote. “By its plain language, the pardon extends to Mr Laiss, and his motion to dismiss should therefore be granted.”

 

U.S. troops mistakenly storm beach in Mexico.


US troops INVADE Mexico in dramatic escalation of tensions as Pentagon scrambles to contain the fallout | Daily Mail Online