The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump threatens 35% tariff on Canada (again, months after the previous threat for which he TACO'ed).


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Brazil states that it will impose retaliatory tariffs on U.S. if Trump goes ahead with 50% tariff on Brazil.

Trump is upset that his buddy Bolsonaro is being prosecuted and is trying to coerce Brazil to stop it.


https://www.npr.org/2025/06/10/nx-s1-5428548/bolsonaro-brazil-coup-trial

 

Trump is late on that one.

The trial is already transpiring and Bolsonaro has taken the stand for cross-examination.

 

News must come to Trump on a slow-moving barge.

 

Federal officers use force on protesters during immigration raids at California farms | Trump administration | The Guardian

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“ICE was conducting a raid using disproportionate displays of force against local farm workers and our agricultural community,” Carbajal said in a statement after the incident. “As a member of Congress and representative of the Central Coast, I have the right to conduct oversight and see first-hand what ICE was doing here. As soon as I walked up, I was denied entry and was not allowed to pass. This was completely unacceptable.”

“And let me be clear,” Carbajal added, “these militarized ICE raids are not how you keep our communities safe. This kind of chaos only traumatizes families and tears communities apart. They are also a gross misuse of limited resources and a betrayal of the values that define us as Americans.”

 

Trump readies blanket tariffs as he brushes off inflation worries

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Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin appeared on local and national news programs across the country this week, telling voters that their Republican representatives “betrayed” them by voting for the bill.

“This is, as I call it, the big, beautiful betrayal. All Republicans, every single one of them, put their oath to Donald Trump ahead of the oath to their constituents that they were elected by,” Martin told “PBS NewsHour” on Wednesday.

 

Seeing as "The Donald" decided to rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of California, he needs to change the name of Canadian Geese to American Geese:

- They were born here on American soil,
- They are loud, obnoxious, and territorial
- They are chubby
- They fly around and poop on everything

What is more American than that?

 

Harvard Abruptly Caves to Trump After Months of Fighting

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"Harvard just quietly dismantled its undergraduate school’s offices for diversity, equity, and inclusion amid the university’s ongoing battle with Donald Trump’s administration.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which houses Harvard College, announced internally Wednesday that it would shutter its diversity office and replace it with the “Office for Academic Culture and Community,” according to The Harvard Crimson.

The sudden concession came the same day that Trump’s departments of Education and Health and Human Services went to Harvard University’s accreditor claiming that there was “strong evidence to suggest the school may no longer meet” accreditation standards. If the accreditor agreed, that would mean the school would lose access to federal student aid."

 

Navarro at Fox having more fantasies.


How the CBO got it wrong again: Trump's economic bill set to generate trillions in surplus, not debt

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"The truth – backed by both historical experience and robust economic analysis – is the exact opposite. President Trump’s OBBB will not only boost jobs and take-home pay for America’s working-class families. It will slash deficits by trillions of dollars even as its targeted expenditures will strengthen our national defense and secure our borders. As a bonus, OBBB will rapidly accelerate the deportation of millions of illegal aliens now stealing jobs from American citizens and driving down wages."

 

That's the same Navarro from Trump's first term.

Navarro was convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about Trump's plot to overturn the 2020 election.

Now he thinks Trump's policies are going to generate trillions of dollars of surplus.

 

Yeah, I believe in Santa Claus, too.

 

Trump readies blanket tariffs as he brushes off inflation worries

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“I don’t know. I didn’t hear anything about Hasbro. I don’t care about their prices,” Trump said, adding later, “But if they make their toys here, if they made their toys here, they wouldn’t have a price increase.”

 

Trump emboldened by markets doing well.

That doesn't mean they will continue to do well if he follows through with threats of high tariffs.


Markets So Unfazed By Tariffs That It’s Making Trump Bolder

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“Trump often opens negotiations with maximalist rhetoric, but policy outcomes tend to be more moderated,” said Patrick Armstrong, chief investment officer at Plurimi Wealth LLP. “The market’s relatively muted reaction reflects this skepticism.”

With Trump seeing markets endorse his economic policies, it raises the question of why would he retreat. Back in April, the pause on tariffs came in the midst of soaring Treasury yields and a selloff that sent the Nasdaq 100 into a bear market.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/world/europe/trump-tariffs-global-trade-deals.html

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"Six months into his new administration, President Trump’s assault on global trade has lost any semblance of organization or structure.

He has changed deadlines suddenly. He has blown up negotiations at the 11th hour, often raising unexpected issues. He has tied his tariffs to complaints that have nothing to do with trade, like Brazil’s treatment of its former president, Jair Bolsonaro, or the flow of fentanyl from Canada."

 

Lack of flow of fentanyl from Canada.

 

It pays to remember just how stupid trump is!