The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump tariff blow to Shein and Temu.


Trump's tariffs deliver fatal blow to two of Americans' favorite stores | Daily Mail Online

 

Noem says she can't wrap her head around the floods in Texas.


'Can't wrap my head around it': Kristi Noem admits trouble dealing with TX flood - NewsBreak

 

Rural Trump country healthcare will be hit hard by the big beautiful budget he signed.


Rural Trump country will be hit hard — impacting the health of the whole U.S. economy

 

Send Musk to the flood-damaged areas so that he can prance around with a giant chainsaw preaching about how he improved the efficiency of the National Weather Service and NOAA.

 

That's OK--it won't affect him. Sort of like when told of guns on Jan 6th--""that's ok--they're not coming for me"!!

 

Musk is a "great" one to start a new party---after all, he has shown how much he cares for working people!

 

Active shooter shot and killed after exchanging fire with law enforcement agents at Border Patrol facility in TX.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/us/border-patrol-mcallen-shooting

 

Trump sending letters to S. Korea and Japan saying he will impose 25% tariffs on them starting Aug. 1.


Trump announces 25% tariffs on imports from Japan and South Korea, starting Aug. 1

 

Aug. 1 will be about the four-month mark from when Trump initiated his 'Liberation Day' tariffs on countries around the world.

He rescinded the tariffs on April 9 because of the damage it was inflicting onto the global markets.

 

The damage to U.S. and global markets caused by Trump could be deemed a national emergency that should be used to stop Trump from needlessly damaging the markets. Congress could act on such a premise.

Instead, Trump has declared a national emergency by citing what he sees as unfair trade practices. He used it impose tariffs on countries around the world without Congress being involved.

To date, the GOP members in Congress have sat and let him do what he wants.

If Trump hadn't rescinded his 'Liberation Day' tariffs on April 9, about a week after imposing them, the damage to markets might have been enough to invoke GOP members in Congress to stop him.

Trump has been playing an in-between game of trying to coerce countries around the world to obtain trade deals he wants without doing enough damage at the moment to cause Congress to stop him.

 

Why can Trump just say everything is an “emergency” and do whatever he wants?

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"So they don’t have to point to a specific statute to say they have the authority to act; instead, they claim that some of their authority during emergencies is fundamental presidential power. “For example, we saw the administration of George W. Bush taking the position in secret memos that the president has inherent powers that allow him to violate laws against warrantless wiretapping, and that he has inherent powers that allow him to violate laws against torture,” Goitein said."

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/28/trump-tax-bill-trade-deficits/

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Because the government would need to borrow more money to cover that shortfall, interest rates would likely rise. A stronger dollar — a side effect of higher rates — would make U.S. exports more expensive and encourage Americans to buy imports, producing a wider trade gap, economists said.

“If you take Trump at his word that the persistent trade deficit is an economic emergency, then you couldn’t possibly endorse this,” said Benn Steil, director of international economics for the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. “This is clearly pushing in the direction of further persistent, and indeed, higher trade deficits.”

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/28/trump-tax-bill-trade-deficits/

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"The president is relying on the highest tariffs since the 1930s to shrink the trade deficit, return manufacturing jobs to the United States and spur a “blue-collar boom.”

But the trade deficit is determined by broad economic forces such as the level of national savings, not individual trade barriers, according to most mainstream economists. Tariffs on key inputs such as steel also raise costs for businesses that use industrial metals, hurting prospects for factories that employ far more workers than the mills do, said Maurice Obstfeld, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

“We’re going in exactly the wrong direction because we’re increasing the fiscal imbalance, which is already dangerous, and we’re harming the real economy through tariffs,” said Obstfeld, a former IMF chief economist."

 

Trump is oblivious to such facts.

His trade wars are based on a personal peeve dating back to the 1980's that, in his mind, countries around the globe have been ripping off Americans badly.

 

Unfortunately, the USA has no manufacturing remaining for much of the goods he's spanking with a tariff. What's he going to do if China decides to shut off silicon or chip packaging? They and Taiwan are pretty much the only game in town.

 

Also Malaysia, Kazakhstan, South Africa, Laos, and Myanmar.


Trump announces steep tariffs on five more countries starting Aug. 1

 

The Trump administration wants Garcia in ICE custody, in prison, or deported but not free in the U.S. as he awaits a trial because of the Trump administration indicting him for human smuggling.


Trump administration says it will deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia before his trial if he’s released from criminal custody

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"Xinis, of the federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland, is overseeing a civil case brought by Abrego Garcia and his family after he was deported to El Salvador earlier this year in violation of a 2019 court order that barred his removal to that country. Attorneys for the administration said Monday that if he’s released from criminal custody they will attempt to unwind that 2019 court order or remove him to a third country, though they didn’t say what nation that could be."

 

This long saga started because the Trump administration deported Garcia by mistake, which it even admitted.

Trump can't admit he made a mistake.

Now he's trying to snooker Garcia any way possible such that he will either be in jail while awaiting trial for the DOJ charges of human trafficking (which weren't there when he was first mistakenly deported) or will be deported if he is released from jail while awaiting trial.

 

U.S. Supreme Court expansive view of presidential power is solidly pro-Trump.


Supreme Court's expansive view of presidential power is 'solidly' pro-Trump: ANALYSIS

 

Beware of DOGE.


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