The Donald Trump Score Card

Scaramucci thinks Trump will dump Vance.


Former White House Aide Predicts Trump Will Sack Vance

 

Trump administration reportedly warns European companies to comply with anti-DEI order

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"The Trump administration is broadening its anti-DEI campaign to European companies.

Government officials have reportedly sent letters to companies in France and the European Union that hold U.S. government contracts, warning them to comply with an executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs if they want to keep their contracts."

 

Canada PM Mark Carney says old relationship with US 'is over'


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I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

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"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.

Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts.

The more detainees, the more money they make. It stands to reason that these companies have no incentive to release people quickly. What I had experienced was finally starting to make sense."

 

Canada Announces Bombshell Break With U.S. Over Trump | The New Republic

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"The White House has pretended that the steep tariffs on Canada are a bargaining chip to help curb illegal drug trafficking—a threat so minor that it warranted no mention in the Trump administration’s first Annual Threat Assessment—but Trump openly admitted that he hoped to use tariffs to bully Canada into becoming a U.S. state. His bullying has since escalated into an all-out trade war, which could potentially devastate states along America’s northern border."

 

The Biggest Scandal of the Second Trump Term Isn’t “Signalgate” | The New Republic

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Masked agents snatching legal residents off the streets and disappearing them—not so long ago, this would be unthinkable in the United States. Now it is not only a regular occurrence but something that the Trump administration boasts about.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson claimed that Ozturk “engaged in activities in support of Hamas,” adding, “Glorifying and supporting terrorists who kill Americans is grounds for visa issuance to be terminated.” But DHS has provided no evidence that Ozturk supported Hamas—indeed, the group is not mentioned in the offending op-ed. When asked Thursday about the student’s detention, Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismissed the uproar. “We revoked her visa … once you’ve lost your visa, you’re no longer legally in the United States,” he said. “If you come into the U.S. as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don’t want it. We don’t want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country.”

 

Trump says his auto import tariffs are permanent.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/business/trump-auto-prices-tariffs/index.html

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“I couldn’t care less,” Trump said. “I hope they raise their prices, because if they do, people are gonna buy American-made cars. We have plenty.”

 

Trump lays off most of Institute Of Peace in latest salvo on federal workers.


https://thehill.com/homenews/admini...f-institute-of-peace-in-latest-federal-purge/

 

Trump claims the right to ban 700k federal workers from having union representation
The administration has claimed that federal employee unions are at war with "President Trump's agenda"
By Griffin Eckstein
Published March 28, 2025 9:58AM (EDT)

https://www.salon.com/2025/03/28/cl...00k-workers-from-having-union-representation/

 

Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out

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"No, I never take military force off the table. But I think there's a good possibility that we could do it without military force," Trump said. "We have an obligation to protect the world. This is world peace, this is international security. And I have that obligation while I'm president. No, I don't take anything off the table."

 

Trump makes a statement like that about his supposed desire to protect the free world after siding with Putin and blaming Zelensky of Ukraine for not making a deal with Putin that supposedly would have prevented Putin's war on Ukraine.

 

Trump is all over the place about his tariff wars.


Trump tariffs: The US firms welcoming the fight on trade

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But analysts warned that those hoping that Trump plans to use his reciprocal tariffs to negotiate changes elsewhere may be disappointed, as the president has also indicated he could be satisfied by simply hitting back.

"Some days it's about revenge and just equalising things and other days it's about lowering tariffs and then other days, third days, it's about bringing manufacturing to the United States," said William Reinsch, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington thinktank.

"He's used them all at different times - there's not a single thread here that you can rely on."

 

The latest in Trump's reasons for tariffs is that he wants Americans to by American-made cars, even if the price goes up substantially.

In reality, a solely American-made car doesn't exist. They are manufactured via a web of companies around the world producing and assembling parts.

Trump's mind is in an era of many decades past.

 

This seems to contradict the concept of a free market, but whatever.

 

The GOP in decades past had tenets of free-market and limited military interference overseas.

Even though Trump is in the GOP, he has drifted far from it and the rest of the party keeps supporting him.

A politician in Canada said this week that the U.S. doesn't seem recognizable compared to past decades with Trump using plain clothes people to arrest students and others because of their opinions, such as pro-Palestian, his incessant trade wars and bullying, and professing in the public domain that he wants to commandeer Panama, Canada, Ukraine, and Greenland.

 

Wow…smh!

 

I can go all the way back to ‘94 when I bought my Ford Probe GT: American produced exterior parts….engine made by Mazda!

 

Ahem. Back to basics ; severe tariffs will not only make America self sufficient but also will make US as profitable as we were in the late 1890's and early 1900's. Trump may not be perfect but a good 40% tariff to all foreigners makes dollars and sense.

 

Police say ICE tactics are eroding public trust in local law enforcement
Meg Anderson
March 30, 20255:00 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/30/nx-s...eroding-public-trust-in-local-law-enforcement