The Donald Trump Score Card

Such as what? Why it was unsuccessful?

 

Barron Trump will be facing NYU professors who signed a public statement that his father is a threat to democracy.


Barron Faces NYU Professors Who Signed Letter Saying Trump Was ‘Threat’ to the Republic

 

Music to Trump's ears: Whitewashing Jan. 6 riot with song

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"Experts on extremism and propaganda say the song is another example of how Trump and his most ardent allies are trying to gloss over an avalanche of evidence proving the Capitol riot was anything but an act of patriotic resistance.

And it shows how such revisionists have dug deep into authoritarian playbooks that rely heavily on the use of national identity to sway public opinion. In this case, Trump and his allies are ironically relying on America’s most patriotic song in their efforts to whitewash an insurrection that contributed to five deaths and left more than 120 police offices injured, experts said.

“We should not be surprised that this propaganda is effective, but it is shocking to see this in this country,” said Federico Finchelstein, chair of the history department at the New School for Social Research in New York, an expert in authoritarian disinformation. “What they are demanding is that reality be put aside for the loyalty of the leader. And that leader in this case is Donald Trump.”"

 

Americans fought against that type of fascist mindset and behavior in WWII and lost over 400,000 service people because of it.

Today, about half of America embraces what it was fighting against in the 1940's era and wants it back in the White House for a second four-year term, run by Trump who didn't visit a WWI cemetery in France with U.S. service people buried there because the wind and rain would have disrupted his hair (but who visited Arlington cemetery and whose entourage shoved an Arlington worker out of the way to do an unauthorized photo-op to promote his 2024 campaign).

It's a sorry state of affairs into which the U.S. has descended.


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Music to Trump's ears: Whitewashing Jan. 6 riot with song

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"The 20 inmates singing in the J6 Prison choir make up a tiny fraction of the 1,000 people who have been charged with federal crimes related to the riot. More than 600 have pleaded guilty or been convicted, and more than 450 have been sentenced, with over half receiving prison terms ranging from seven days to 10 years.

Just one choir member has been identified: Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, now serving four years in prison for his actions during Jan. 6. Hale-Cusanelli is a family friend of Cynthia Hughes, a New Jersey woman who leads a separate organization raising money for Jan. 6 defendants. A spokeswoman for Hughes confirmed Hale-Cusanelli’s participation on the song but said Hughes was too busy to respond to questions.

Before he joined the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, Hale-Cusanelli was an Army reservist who sometimes styled his mustache like Hitler and who alarmed coworkers with his comments about women and Jews."

 

Trump is praising those type of people.

Trump has been using the J6 prisoner song at the start of his rallies while saluting them. He makes a statement about how his rioters are supposedly being treated so unfairly.

 

I wonder if he realizes that most that could benefit from the child tax credit actually pay little tax anyway....

 

Trump calls Dick Cheney a RINO!!! That's makes a s much sense as calling Shirley Temple a serial killer!!!

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/us/politics/trump-enthusiasm-tariffs.html

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"But in recent weeks, Mr. Trump has made even more expansive claims about the power of tariffs, including that they will help pay for child care, combat inflation, finance a U.S. sovereign wealth fund and help preserve the dollar’s pre-eminent role in the global economy.

Economists have been skeptical of many of these assertions. While tariffs generate some level of revenue, in many cases they could create only a small amount of the funding needed to pursue some of the goals that Mr. Trump has outlined."

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/us/politics/trump-enthusiasm-tariffs.html

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"The tariffs Mr. Trump has promised to impose if re-elected dwarf those previous levies. He has floated a blanket tariff of 10 percent to 20 percent on nearly all imports and of 60 percent or more on Chinese goods, as well as a plan to match the tariffs other countries impose on U.S. products on a reciprocal basis.

Part of Mr. Trump’s pitch for these tariffs is their revenue-raising possibilities. As he raised tariffs as president, the amount of revenue that the government earned from levies did increase substantially. The customs bureau went from earning $41.6 billion in tariff revenue in 2018 to $111.8 billion in 2022.

Some of this revenue, however, had to be paid out to compensate American businesses that suffered as a result of an ensuing trade war. As president, Mr. Trump gave $23 billion to American farmers to help them offset losses, after foreign countries imposed their own tariffs on American exports in response and U.S. agricultural exports plummeted."

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/us/politics/trump-enthusiasm-tariffs.html

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"Mr. Trump has contended that his tariffs would lower inflation, because they would increase manufacturing and the productive capacity of the United States. But most economists say that tariffs of the size he is proposing would increase consumer prices and add to inflation. A recent report from Nomura’s Global Economics team predicted that, if Mr. Trump won the election, inflation in 2025 would be “notably higher” by 0.75 percentage points, as the fiscal deficit grew and tariffs boosted prices."

 

Trump may have forgotten the high costs of goods likes clothing and consumer electronics before they became readily available from Asia and other places. People who are too young to remember the 80's and earlier don't realize the costs of those items when they were made in the U.S. They want to go back to the good old days of made in the U.S. but don't realize how much it would cost.

Trump knows this from his clothing import businesses. He and his daughter import clothing from Asia, Mexico, and other places because of the low cost. Trump could start his own companies in the U.S. to manufacture such goods but he doesn't because he knows it would likely cost more. When a journalist asked him about it, he said that there simply weren't any clothing manufacturers in the U.S. He didn't offer any remedy, such as starting up his own factories in the U.S. to produce such goods.

 

Trump starting a massive trade war isn't going to bring jobs to the U.S. via U.S. owned and operated companies. They will relocate to countries outside the U.S. to avoid the retaliatory tariffs that make their good too costly to foreigners. Companies oversees will move to the U.S. to avoid the U.S. import tariffs that make their goods too expensive for American consumers.

Trump was actually raving about companies from foreign countries coming to the U.S. during his trade war because he felt it was a retaliation against American companies like Harley-Davidson that said they were moving part of their operations from the U.S. to other countries to avoid the retaliatory tariffs. It's shows the convoluted thinking of Trump. It felt good to him that American companies were being disrupted and damaged because they weren't loyal to his trade wars.

 

Trump damaged the U.S. farmers during his trade war but they didn't have an easy option to avoid it, such as moving operations overseas. Trump would tell them to stick with the war and keep taking it on the chin for him until he wins it, which he said would probably require a second term of him as president.

He issued direct government payments to them. He bragged at his 2020 rallies about the tens of billions of welfare dollars he gave to the American farmers. He lied and said it came from China. It came from higher costs consumers paid for goods because of the tariffs.

 

Another war of Trump retaliating against U.S. companies on top of his trade wars.

It's one layer of war on top of another with Trump.

A lady interviewed briefly on the street during the 2020 campaign summed it up. She said she wasn't voting for Trump again because he was too divisive.

It's one fight after another with him.

 

He just enjoys the fight and seeing what he can get away with. Some people just thrive on conflict and imposing their misery on others.

 

That will be interesting

 

Trump's words just after nearly being assassinated were "Fight fight, fight."

His final words just before death will probably be the same.

 

Melania should have showed up in court for at least some of Trump's recent civil and criminal cases. It would have been a show of moral support that would have helped earn her the right to talk like she (supposedly) cares about Trump and the assassination attempt on him.

It took a near-death assassination attempt on Trump for Melania to seemingly be jolted out of her favorite and ongoing ambiguous-as-ever attitude.

As of now, she has little ammunition to recite a narrative that she really cares about Trump.