The Donald Trump Score Card

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/us/politics/trump-tesla-vandalism-prison.html

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Ms. Bondi, who developed a close relationship with Mr. Trump during her two terms as Florida’s attorney general, supported Mr. Trump’s pardon of Jan. 6 rioters, including people who had been convicted of violent crimes and weapons charges. The F.B.I. described those involved in the planning and perpetration of that attack as “domestic violent extremists.”

 

Trump threatens to put Tesla vandals in El Salvador prisons.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/us/politics/trump-tesla-vandalism-prison.html

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“I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20-year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla,” Mr. Trump said, adding, “Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!”

 

Trump revokes security clearance and access to clasified material for Harris, Clinton, Biden and his family members, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Letitia James. .


Trump revokes access to classified material for Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and Biden officials

 

Ice requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities
Momodou Taal, dual citizen of the UK and Gambia, received email from homeland security days after filing lawsuit
Maanvi Singh
Fri 21 Mar 2025 18.41 EDT

Ice requests Cornell student who sued Trump administration to ‘surrender’ to immigration authorities

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“Only in a dictatorship can the leader jail and banish political opponents for criticizing his administration,” Taal, 31, wrote in a statement accompanying the lawsuit, which was submitted by lawyers at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), a civil rights group, on 15 March.

Taal is pursuing a PhD at Cornell’s Africana Studies and Research Center, and was an outspoken activist on Cornell’s campus. He was suspended last year for his role in anti-Zionist protests at the university.

 

Trump's ICE is trying to detain Momodou Taal, a student at Cornell and activist


https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/21/us/trump-news

 

Trump is moving the handling of student loans from Education Department to other agencies.


https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/nx-s...epartment-student-loans-special-education-fsa

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"President Donald Trump continued the unwinding of the U.S. Department of Education on Friday, announcing that the management of the entire federal student loan portfolio and of the department's "special needs" programs would be moved to other federal agencies effective immediately."

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...d-is-gone-and-theres-no-turning-back-00240256

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In a display that ought to shame every American, the country’s top two constitutional officers acted like a king and his regent, demanding obeisance from a feudal supplicant. Within days, Trump suspended military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine, and while both were later restored, the message he sent was unmistakable: Not even an ally under military attack can depend upon Washington for support. Having abandoned Ukraine out of personal pique, Trump then returned to taking on the world’s other villains: Canada, Denmark and Panama.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...d-is-gone-and-theres-no-turning-back-00240256

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"In early 2017, less than two months into Donald Trump’s first term as president, I published a piece of speculative fiction. Set during a then-imaginary second Trump term, it depicts a nightmare scenario in which American troops abandon Europe, the pro-Russia Alternative for Germany wins 20 percent of the vote in a federal election, and Russia launches a full-scale invasion of Ukraine."

 

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/g-s1-55090/trump-dei-trees-removal-climate-change

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"SOUL's executive director, Susannah Burley, said she found it absurd to cancel the funding as an equity program.

"That has nothing to do with this grant funding. The word 'equity' is pervasive in the grants that were funded by this, but in a totally different context," Burley said, adding that in this context, equity meant planting trees in neighborhoods without them."

 

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/g-s1-55090/trump-dei-trees-removal-climate-change

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"The Trump administration's efforts to end federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs has hit an unexpected target: In February, communities around the country learned that funding was canceled for a nationwide tree-planting program aimed at making neighborhoods cooler, healthier and more resilient to climate change."

 

Trump's fascism will kill U.S.

 

Bannon says he and others are working on how to elect Trump in 2028 for a third term.


Steve Bannon Predicts Trump Will Run – and Win a 3rd Term – in 2028: ‘We’re Workin’ On It’

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“No,” Bannon said flatly. “I am a firm believer that President Trump will run and win again in 2028. So I’ve already endorsed for President Trump. A man like this comes on once every century. We’ve got him now. He’s on fire. I’m a huge supporter. I want to see him again in 2028.”

 

Options if a person defies a judge.


https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/20/trump-defy-courts-judge-interview-00239359

 

Trump takes aim at federal judges.


Trump demands Supreme Court step in after federal judges block his agenda: 'These people are Lunatics'

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"Unlawful Nationwide Injunctions by Radical Left Judges could very well lead to the destruction of our Country!" he wrote. "These people are Lunatics, who do not care, even a little bit, about the repercussions from their very dangerous and incorrect Decisions and Rulings."

 

Trump's move to break up education dept a conservative pipe dream since Reagan
Bernd Debusmann Jr
BBC News, Washington
March 20, 2025

Trump's move to break up education department a conservative pipe dream since Reagan

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"As he strode into Congress for his State of the Union speech in 1982, US President Ronald Reagan was prepared to deliver a message that resonated with many Republicans: let's end the Department of Education.

"We must cut out non-essential government spending," Reagan told lawmakers, vowing to cull the wider federal workforce by 75,000.

For 43 years, that vision for abolishing the education department - backed by members chafing at "big government" control over state issues - went unrealised.

But now, Donald Trump is attempting just that, through an executive order that instructs his Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take "all necessary steps" to shutter the department and "return education authority to the states", according to a White House-provided fact sheet."

 

Trump rescinds executive order after law firm agrees to provide $40m in free services

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"Donald Trump rescinded an executive order targeting a prominent Democratic-leaning law firm after it agreed to provide $40m in free legal services to support his administration’s goals.

The White House has targeted law firms whose lawyers have provided legal work that Trump disagrees with. Last week, he issued an order threatening to suspend active security clearances of attorneys at Paul, Weiss and to terminate any federal contracts the firm has.

But the president suddenly reversed course following a meeting between Trump and Brad Karp, the chair of the law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, over the White House order.

 

SF 2589 as introduced - 94th Legislature (2025 - 2026)

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"Sec. 2.

Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 245.462, is amended by adding a subdivision to
read:

Subd. 28. Trump Derangement Syndrome.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome" means the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump. Symptoms may include Trump-induced
general hysteria, which produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald J. Trump's behavior. This may be expressed by:

(1) verbal expressions of intense hostility toward President Donald J. Trump; and

(2) overt acts of aggression and violence against anyone supporting President Donald J. Trump or anything that symbolizes President Donald J. Trump."

 

It could also be stated that Trump supporters who are so sensitive to criticism of Trump that they introduce bills in the legislature defining Trump Derangement Syndrome may themselves be afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome.

 

Legal community shaken by a powerful law firm's decision to give in to Trump's demands

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Zaid said the targeting of law firms reminded him of a line from Shakespeare’s “Henry VI,” in which a character named Dick the Butcher says, “Let’s kill all the lawyers.”

“Everybody always looks at that statement as if it is an assault, attack, insult against lawyers,” Zaid said. “It’s actually quite the opposite, because Dick the Butcher was an authoritarian who was trying to take power, and he had to kill all the lawyers because the lawyers were the only ones who could get in his way and stop him. And I think what Trump is doing is exactly that.”