The Donald Trump Score Card

DOJ investigating soaring egg prices.


Justice Department is now investigating soaring egg prices

 

SSA benefits could face disruption within 30 days.


Social Security benefits could face 'interruption' within 30 days

 

Trump administration cancels classes at National Fire Academy amid funding freeze

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"The country’s pre-eminent federal fire training academy canceled classes, effective immediately, on Saturday amid the ongoing flurry of funding freezes and staffing cuts by Donald Trump’s administration.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that National Fire Academy (NFA) courses had been canceled amid a “process of evaluating agency programs and spending to ensure alignment with Administration priorities”, according to a notice sent to instructors, students and fire departments. Instructors were told to cancel all future travel until further notice.

Firefighters, emergency medical service providers and other first responders from across the country travel to the NFA’s Maryland campus for the federally funded institution’s free training programs."

 

China Hits Canada With Tariffs in Indirect Riposte to Trump

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"China announced tariffs of up to 100 percent on canola, pork and other foods from Canada on Saturday, in retaliation for Canada’s decision last August to collect steep taxes on imports of Chinese electric vehicles, steel and aluminum.

The Chinese tariffs, which take effect on March 20, were also a clear warning to Canada — and, indirectly, Mexico — not to cooperate with the United States on trade. The Trump administration, like the Biden administration before it, has been demanding that Canada and Mexico not serve as back doors for low-cost Chinese goods to enter the U.S. market under North American free trade agreements."

 

Former SSA head says system will collapse.

Former SSA head Martin O'Malley says payment system will collapse

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"I know that the sort of wrecking ball that’s being taken to the agency, the number of firings, paying people to leave and paying them actually for a whole year to leave today. All of these things are going to reduce their staffing to a level that will lead to a cascading numbers of service interruptions, system shutdowns, and ultimately, i do believe an interruption of benefits. We already are seeing service timelines skyrocket."

 

JD Vance heard on hot mic discussing lengthy Trump speech: 'I don’t know how you do this'

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"A hot mic picked up a conversation between Vance and Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson ahead of the President's lengthy speech. "By the way, I think the speech is going to be great. But I don’t know how you do this for 90 minutes,” Vance told Johnson. The video shows Johnson then lowering the active microphone."

 

Did Trump really order 280 million acres of national forest to be cut down?

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"The USFS manages 193 million acres of forest and woodlands, according to its website.

The BLM manages 58 million acres, according to its website.

That’s 251 million acres in total — not quite the 280 million figure that’s been circulating on social media (and in some news reports), but still a lot.

Whether all 251 million acres are actually in danger of being “chopped down” or “clear cut,” however, is a different question. Even in the most extreme scenario, the U.S. logging industry wouldn’t have the sawmills or workers required to ramp up and raze forests “nearly three times the size of California” within the next four years."

 

'We are the easy targets': IRS worker laid off by DOGE had received just 1 paycheck before getting fired

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“If you voted for Trump, keep your eyes open and watch. What happens is on you,” Hudgins-Bradley said. “For everyone that didn’t or who regrets voting for Trump, stand together with other people that are hurt and need help.”

Hudgins-Bradley says he believes the administration’s job cuts have brought the country to a “tipping point.”

“They want to dismantle as much as they can so that for the next several decades everyone else is trying to recover,” he said.

 

'We are the easy targets': IRS worker laid off by DOGE had received just 1 paycheck before getting fired

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On his website, he has written about his illusory experience with economic stability, and says of probationary employees, “We are being cut because we are the easy targets.”

And there’s deep anger toward the man who is behind the gutting of the federal workforce.

 

Trump better have a good Secret Service.

He needs it plus a good FBI and CIA in a governent he is dismantling.

His Secret Service looked sloppy in July 2024.

 

Trump is becoming increasingly delusional.

He says he's going make the U.S. rich by taking in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs (from the American consumer).


Trump says intel pause on Ukraine has been 'just about' lifted; says tariffs will make America rich

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"Of course you hesitate. All I know is…we’re going to take in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, and we’re going to become so rich you’re not going to know where to spend all that money," Trump said. "I'm telling you; you just watch. We're going to have jobs. We're going to have open factories. It's going to be great."

 

Brooke Rollins suggests Americans should raise their own chickens.


Justice Department is now investigating soaring egg prices

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"On his Truth Social on Saturday, the president shared a story telling Americans to “shut up about egg prices.”

In her announcement of the administration’s five-part plan to combat rising egg prices, agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins suggested Americans should raise chickens in their backyards."

 

Trump names Walt Nauta to Naval Academy Board.

Nauta was one of Trump's co-defendants in the federal documents criminal case against him.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/08/trump-navy-board-of-visitors-00002938

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"President Donald Trump is nominating his close allies to serve on the board of visitors for the U.S. Naval Academy, a month after firing the previous board.

On the list is Walt Nauta, a Navy veteran who has served as Trump’s body man and was federally indicted alongside the now-president in the classified documents case.

Trump also nominated his former press secretary Sean Spicer, former White House physician Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) known as “Doc Ronny,” and former Navy SEAL Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.)."

 

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

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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.”

Law enforcement officials who battled rioters are aghast, calling the song a cynical effort to mislead Americans about the truth of what transpired during the Jan. 6 attack.

“Some of these people are trying to get a rise out of people, and some of these people are just using it to make a buck,” said Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, who received the Presidential Citizens Medal for his actions on Jan. 6. “People can believe whatever they want to believe, but this is real life.”

 

Carney's remarks about Trump.


Canada's next PM Mark Carney vows to 'win' US trade war

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"The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country," he said, adding "these were dark days brought on by a country we can no longer trust."

"We're all being called to stand up for... the Canadian way of life."

 

Trump has never beat a man in the presidential elections.

He beat Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

He lost to Joe Biden.

 

Trump has fantasized about beating a man, as evidenced by his Freudian slips about saying he beat Obama during his campaign rallies and his endless rants claiming Biden stole the election from him.

 

Trump's speech was 99 minutes.

 

Someone on the inside could pull a stunt. With all the disorderliness Trump is creating, it's an opportune time for such an event to occur.

 

Yeah, they looked like "nope, I'm sure as hell not shielding this guy from any bullet with my body......." They kind of half-assed hovered around him. Another shooter had miles of opportunity for a shot.