The Donald Trump Score Card

How Trump's proposed tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada (and now Russia?) could affect you

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“When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so,” Trump tweeted in 2018. “It will always be the best way to max out our economic power. We are right now taking in $billions in Tariffs.”

 

Trump says he can stop wars and prevent them with tariffs.


How Trump's proposed tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada (and now Russia?) could affect you

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“I can do it with a phone call,’’ he boasted in August. “We’re going to charge you 100% tariffs.’” And all of a sudden, the president or prime minister or dictator or whoever the hell is running the country says to me, ‘Sir, we won’t go to war.’”

 

How Trump's proposed tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada (and now Russia?) could affect you

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"Consider the auto industry. A single car or truck can move back and forth between the U.S. and Canada up to eight times before it’s fully assembled. The entire car seat industry is based in Mexico. Ford’s Maverick pickups, Bronco Sport SUVs and Mustang Mach-E EVs are made in Mexico too. All told, S&P Global estimates that Trump’s tariffs could cost automakers up to 17% of their annual core profits — which could translate into a $3,000 price hike for the average car, according to Kelley Blue Book."

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/politics/federal-judges-speak-out-january-6-pardons/index.html

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"Former US Capitol Police Staff Sgt. Aquilino Gonell posted screenshots to social media on Wednesday of phone calls and emails he said he got from the Justice Department this week. Gonell suffered repeated assaults at the hands of the rioters on January 6, including in one of the most brutal hourslong battles in a tunnel leading into the Capitol.

“Each email and call log is a different violent rioter who assaulted me in the tunnel,” Gonell wrote in an X post. “If you are defending these people who brutally assaulted the police, maybe you ARE NOT a supporter of the police and the rule of law to begin with.”

 

Judges who sentenced Trump's rioters speak out against his pardons.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/politics/federal-judges-speak-out-january-6-pardons/index.html

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Tanya Chutkan, the judge who oversaw Trump’s 2020 election federal criminal case, wrote some of the most graphic descriptions as she dismissed one of the pending rioter cases before her on Wednesday.

Dismissing the case, Chutkan wrote, “cannot whitewash the blood, feces, and terror that the mob left in its wake. And it cannot repair the jagged breach in America’s sacred tradition of peacefully transitioning power.”

 

Summary of Trump executive orders.


Everything Trump did in the first executive orders and actions of his presidency

 

U.S. military moving thousands more troops to border with Mexico.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/politics/laken-riley-act-house-immigrant-detention-vote/index.html

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“We’ve been told to treat this like a national emergency because it’s been declared a national emergency,” the official said. “Don’t be surprised if you see Marines being dropped off by helicopters.”

The number of Marines deployed as part of the border mission could ultimately climb to 2,500, the official said. The senior military official said the Marines had been on call to support the response to the California wildfires but had been released from that mission as they were no longer needed.

 

Trump melds government with entertainment by signing an executive order at a rally at Capitol One arena in DC.

He could top that stunt by signing executive orders on stage while he dances with the Village People.


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King Donald issues a decree to the world to lower interest rates immediately.


Trump says he will 'demand' lower interest rates

 

'Blatantly unconstitutional': US judge temporarily blocks Trump's ban on birthright citizenship

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Coughenour said Thursday that the executive order banning birthright citizenship "boggles the mind," and told the court he could not remember in his more than 40 years on the bench seeing a case so "blatantly unconstitutional."

 

'Blatantly unconstitutional': US judge temporarily blocks Trump's ban on birthright citizenship

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Trump's order seeks to clarify the 14th Amendment, which states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

It clarifies that those born to illegal immigrant parents, or those who were here legally but on temporary nonimmigrant visas, are not citizens by birthright.

 

The phrase 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof' presents an avenue for Trump's legal team can use to try to reinterpret the 14th Amendment in a way that ends birthright citizenship.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/23/poli...enship-14th-amendment-wong-kim-ark/index.html

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"Former Chapman Law professor John Eastman, one of the most prominent critics of birthright citizenship and a strategist behind Trump’s failed challenge to the 2020 election results, argued the 14th Amendment covered individuals subject to “complete” political jurisdiction with no allegiance elsewhere.

“Justice Gray simply failed to appreciate … that there is a difference between territorial jurisdiction and the more complete, allegiance-obliging jurisdiction that the Fourteenth Amendment codified,” Eastman wrote in the University of Richmond Law Review, contending the 1898 court wrongly construed the “jurisdiction” restriction to cover a discrete category such as the children of diplomats."

 

Trump's legal team will try to argue that jurisdiction doesn't apply to people that they consider an 'invasion'.

 

Trump apparently hasn't yet used a derogatory name for her yet, such as 'Bishop Butt'.

 

Hegseth clears Senate test vote.

Only two GOP members voted against him: Murkowski and Collins.


Pete Hegseth, Trump's Pentagon pick, clears Senate test vote