The Donald Trump Score Card

Tesla shares drop again.


US stocks drift ahead of Thursday’s jobs report | DC News Now | Washington, DC

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"Tesla fell 5.3%. It has lost just over a quarter of its value so far this year, 25.5%, in large part because of Musk’s and Trump’s feud."

 

Trump wins his suit against CBS like he did ABC.


Paramount, CBS forced to pay eight figures, change editorial policy in settlement with President Trump

 

The Wall Street Journal has highly edited its interviews with Trump to make him look coherent, including one in 2016 when he was running for president.

Someone leaked the 2016 WSJ interview transcript that showed the extent to which Trump's brain is scrambled.

WSJ and Fox should be forced to abide by the type of agreement CBS and ABC reached with Trump.

 

Disgraced TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart has died at age 90.

Trump posted a tribute to him on his social media.

 

Swaggart is known for his prostitution scandals.

After he got caught with a prostitute, he did an act on one of his shows with fake tears rolling down his face and crying out loudly that he had sinned.

A while later, he was caught with another prostitute.

 

Jimmy Swaggart - Wikipedia

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"Swaggart was known for scandals involving prostitutes and revolutionary groups accused of war crimes in southern Africa. One prostitution scandal gave rise to a televised February 21, 1988, speech by Swaggart known as his "I have sinned" speech. After Swaggart was defrocked by the Assemblies of God due to sexual immorality, he moved on to become a non-denominational minister."

 

People For The American Way made a commercial showing Swaggart on stage waving a Bible in the air and yelling "This is the Constitution of the United States!"

Swaggart was furious at the commercial and mentioned Norman Lear. On one of his shows he told Lear angrily and sarcastically to go ahead and keep showing his mugshot on TV.

It was expected that Trump would applaud Swaggart after his death.

 

Murkowski had opposed the budget bill along with Paul, Collins, and Tillis.

She changed her mind after being offered goodies for her state of Alaska, which was just enough for the bill to pass with the tie-breaking vote of Vance.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2025/07/01/senate-big-beautiful-bill-vote-count/

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/...enators-no-vote-bill-collins-paul-tillis.html

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"A fourth Republican who had been vocal about her concerns about the measure’s Medicaid and food assistance cuts, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, withheld her vote until the very end of negotiations on the bill. Had she joined the trio in opposition, the measure would have failed.

But G.O.P. leaders stuffed the legislation full of benefits for her state, including provisions to exempt or insulate her constituents from the most painful cuts. After what she called an “agonizing” round of haggling with party leaders, she ultimately voted yes."

 

Judge blocks Trump's early termination of TPS for Haitians.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/01/judge-blocks-haiti-tps-termination-00436418

 

Wisconsin liberal Supreme Court strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban.


Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority strikes down 176-year-old abortion ban

 

Powell says fed would have cut interest rates already if it weren't for Trump's tariff wars.


Fed would have cut US interest rates by now if it weren’t for Trump’s tariffs, says Jerome Powell – as it happened | Trump administration | The Guardian

 

Trump liked Powell when he nominated him in 2017 to be fed chairman..


https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo...erve-insider-jerome-powell-to-be-its-chairman

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Trump said there's a need for "strong, sound and steady leadership at the Federal Reserve" and that Powell will "provide exactly that type of leadership."

 

Trump slashes $1 billion for youth mental health.


Trump admin 'abandoning our children' by slashing youth mental health funding, states say

 

How Republicans got Murkowski to yes on Trump's megabill

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"But Murkowski — at times wrapped in a blanket or carrying around legislative text and pen to her colleagues — was able to extract key concessions for her state as she huddled on the floor with leadership, staff and fellow Alaska GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan. She won victories on clean energy tax credits, delaying changes to food aid for her state and the promise of massive revenues from oil and gas drilling leases, among other priorities she can take back home.

In the end, she voted for a bill that makes up the core of her party’s domestic agenda."

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/20/alina-habba-new-jersey-prosecutor-00360470

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Five days after taking office, Habba, outfitted in a bulletproof vest, attended a raid in Newark, personally escorting some of the defendants to law-enforcement vehicles after they had been handcuffed. The move raised eyebrows in the legal community, both because it is highly unusual for a U.S. attorney to attend an arrest and because her presence could have legal consequences.

“All in all, it’s probably better if our prosecutorial chiefs do not do that just for appearances sake,” said Stephen Gillers, a professor at New York University law school who specializes in legal ethics. He added that “as U.S. attorney, her conduct in the field may be subject to investigation or challenge by the defense lawyers, and it’s best to avoid that if possible.”

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/20/alina-habba-new-jersey-prosecutor-00360470

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U.S. District Court Judge Donald Middlebrooks fined Habba and Trump nearly $1 million in sanctions for filing a lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and dozens of former Justice Department and FBI officials that the judge called “completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose.”

 

Under intense pressure, House must now decide if Trump's bill is good enough

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"But it may be a tough pill for some House Republicans to swallow.

It includes massive new funding -$70bn - for Trump's immigration priorities. It boosts defence spending and makes the tax cuts Republicans passed in Trump's first term permanent. To offset this loss, it cuts funding for Biden-era environmental programmes and Medicaid, the health insurance programme for low-income Americans.

The financial ledger isn't nearly balanced, however, as the package adds more than $3tn to the federal debt and raises the US borrowing authority by $5tn."

 

Trump calls Biden a son-of-a-bitch during his visit to the grand opening of Alligator Alcatraz.


'He wanted me in here': Trump calls Biden a 'son of a b----' in visit to 'Alligator Alcatraz'

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"Biden wanted me in here, OK," Trump said July 1 next to chain-link cages with beds that will house detained migrants beginning Wednesday. "He wanted me. Didn't work out that way, but he wanted me in here that son of a b----."

 

Just a teensy bit.....we're still short on the gas chambers and crematoriums though...