The Donald Trump Score Card

Breakdown between Trump and Newsom deepens as L.A. crisis intensifies

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The White House is not actively discussing or planning Newsom’s arrest. But Newsom took the threat seriously, vehemently decrying Trump’s remarks as the mark of an authoritarian.

“The President of the United States just called for the arrest of a sitting Governor. This is a day I hoped I would never see in America. I don’t care if you’re a Democrat or a Republican this is a line we cannot cross as a nation — this is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism,” Newsom wrote on X.

 

Trump needs to watch video of his rioters at the Capitol attacking police officers.

He doesn't have the courage.

 

Wind vane Musk supports Trump again after the unrest he instigated in LA.


Musk does immediate 180 on Trump as soon as LA riots rage

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"This moment calls for decisive leadership," Vance said, sharing a screenshot of a post from Trump about how his administration would address the riots. "The president will not tolerate rioting and violence."

 

Unless rioters are rioting in support of Trump.

Then Trump pampers them by calling them peace-loving patriots who were treated so unfairly and pardons them.

 

'Can't you just shoot them?' Inside Trump's threat to deal with 'radical left thugs' in America

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A broader assault on democracy

This deployment comes at a time of crisis for US democracy more broadly. Trump’s longstanding attacks against independent media – what he describes as “fake news” – are escalating. There is a reason that during the current protests, a law enforcement officer appeared so comfortable targeting a journalist, on camera.

The Trump administration is also actively targeting independent institutions such as Harvard and Columbia universities. It is also targeting and undermining judges and reducing the power of independent courts to enforce the rule of law.

Under Trump, the federal government and its state-based allies are targeting and undermining the rights of minority groups – policing the bodies of trans people, targeting reproductive rights, and beginning the process of undoing the Civil Rights Act.

Trump is, for the moment, unconstrained. Asked overnight what the bar is for deploying the Marines against protesters, Trump responded: “the bar is what I think it is”.

 

The Fuhrer has spoken!

 

'Can't you just shoot them?' Inside Trump's threat to deal with 'radical left thugs' in America

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In 1970, members of the National Guard shot and killed four students protesting the war in Vietnam at Kent State University. In 1992, the National Guard was deployed during protests in Los Angeles following the acquittal of four police officers (three of whom were white) in the severe beating of a Black man, Rodney King.

Trump has long speculated about violently deploying the National Guard and even the military against his own people.

During his first administration, at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests, former Secretary of Defence Mark Esper alleged that Trump asked him, “Can’t you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?”

 

During his first term Trump talked at various times about sending the feds into Chicago and DC to try to stop general crime.

He's currently using the military to go after immigrants and migrants.

 

Trump during his first term.

Rational people like Esper aren't in Trump's second term.

Article from May 2022.


https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1097517470/trump-esper-book-defense-secretary

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"The president was enraged," Esper recalled. "He thought that the protests made the country look weak, made us look weak and 'us' meant him. And he wanted to do something about it.

"We reached that point in the conversation where he looked frankly at [Joint Chiefs of Staff] Gen. [Mark] Milley and said, 'Can't you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?' ... It was a suggestion and a formal question. And we were just all taken aback at that moment as this issue just hung very heavily in the air."

 

Australian news reporter hit in leg by rubber bullet.


Reporter hit by rubber bullet while covering ICE protests in downtown LA

 

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/la-protests-ice-raids-trump-06-09-25

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Mayor slams deployment: Mayor Karen Bass said the city is being “used for an experiment” by the federal government as they bring in military forces, and a “test case” for taking power away from local authorities. She pushed back against comments that LA is being “invaded and occupied by illegal aliens and criminals,” saying that things had been peaceful until the federal government intervened.

 

Invaded and occupied by Trump.

 

https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/la-protests-ice-raids-trump-06-09-25

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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has described footage capturing Nine News US correspondent Lauren Tomasi being shot by a rubber bullet while covering the LA protests as “horrific,” the outlet reported.

“She was clearly identified. There was no ambiguity,” Albanese told reporters at the National Press Club on Tuesday.

Albanese said he had raised the issue with the Trump administration.

Footage aired on Sunday showed Tomasi speaking on camera in Downtown Los Angeles about the protests and police visible in the background. Moments later, a loud bang was heard behind her and she was hit by a rubber bullet. The reporter yelled in pain before the clip was cut.

 

Jan. 6 riot victims, Democrats see hypocrisy in Trump's response to L.A. protests

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Brendan Ballou, a former federal prosecutor who handled some Jan. 6 criminal cases, told CBS News, "For Trump, the law applies to his enemies but not his friends. He calls protesters in Los Angeles 'insurrectionists' while praising those who attacked the Capitol on January 6 as 'patriots' and 'warriors.'"

 

RFK Jr. doublecrossed Sen. Cassidy who voted to confirm him to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.


RFK Jr. Removes All CDC Vaccine Panel Experts

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The decision directly contradicts a promise Mr. Kennedy made to Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of Louisiana, during his confirmation hearings, when he said he would not alter the panel, called the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

“Of course, now the fear is that the ACIP will be filled up with people who know nothing about vaccines except suspicion,” Senator Cassidy wrote on X.

 

Trump freely uses the word 'insurrection' but not when his followers attacked the U.S. Capitol.

Trump called the act of people voting him out of office in 2020 an insurrection.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/09/politics/insurrection-trump-los-angeles-analysis

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Among the situations Trump has previously attached the “insurrection” label to:

Antifa (“they’re causing insurrection”)

His baseless claims of a “stolen” 2020 election (“the real insurrection happened on November 3rd”)

Unspecified enemies within the United States (“insurrectionists roam free”)

A border influx (“when you talk about insurrection, what they’re doing, that’s the real deal”)

Then-President Joe Biden (“I’m not an Insurrectionist … Crooked Joe Biden is!!!”)

 

Trump threatens to use what sounds like military force against protesters who might spoil his birthday-military parade on Saturday.


Los Angeles protests: arrests as curfew begins in downtown LA; Newsom decries Trump’s ‘assault’ on democracy – live | Los Angeles Ice protests | The Guardian

 

That could turn out to be interesting. The military people in Trump's parade might actually be used against people protesting the parade.

 

Sadat was assassinated at his own military parade by people who sneaked in, similar to how someone sneaked in at Trump's rally in Butler, PA.


SADAT ASSASSINATED AT ARMY PARADE AS MEN AMID RANKS FIRE INTO STANDS; VICE PRESIDENT AFFIRMS 'ALL TREATIES'

Assassination of Anwar Sadat - Wikipedia

 

We can only hope. But then what?