The Donald Trump Score Card

It's an admission by Trump that his tariffs are a tax on the American consumer.

At the same time, he still lies and says the tariff money is pouring into the U.S. from other countries.

 

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Convicted felon to arrive in Scotland.


Scottish newspaper headline about Trump visit referred to him as 'convicted US felon'?


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Trump offers states $608 million in FEMA money to build detention camps modeled after Florida's Alligator Alcatraz.


Trump admin offers $608M for states to build migrant camps modeled after ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

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"The Trump administration is offering $608 million to states willing to expand migrant detention efforts.

The money, announced through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) new Detention Support Grant Program (DEP), is aimed at helping states build or enlarge temporary detention facilities modeled after Florida’s Everglades compound known as "Alligator Alcatraz," according to FEMA documents."

 

Trump, Suer-in-Chief.

He keeps getting his way with his lawfare.


From Columbia University to Paramount, Trump keeps getting his way as America’s 1st 'suer in chief'
Andrew Romano, Reporter
Updated Fri, July 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM UTC

From Columbia University to Paramount, Trump keeps getting his way as America’s 1st 'suer in chief'

 

Trump says Obama 'owes him big' because Trump, as a result of his own criminal behavior, initiated the Supreme Court ruling for presidential immunity, which means Trump can't fivolously prosecute Obama who isn't a criminal.


After accusing Obama of treason, Trump now says the former president 'owes me big'

 

Another example of dog-chase-tail mindset and behavior of Trump.

Whatever it is, it always comes back to Trump praising himself.

 

The money could have went to natual disaster relief, like the floods in Texas, or to the farmers who are being injured by bad weather, compounded by Trump deporting migrants needed for farm work.

Instead, the money is going to build concentration camps for workers who used to work on farms.

 

A more articulate expression of what Trump was trying to say:

"Because of the immunity awarded to me (and, unfortunately Democratic presidents) by the conservatives on the Supreme Court who want to protect me from prosecution for my blatant criminal behavior, Obama can't be frivolously prosecuted by my administration for crimes he didn't commit."

 

'Walking a tightrope': Millions of Trump voters are about to get bigger bills — here's why
Noam N. Levey, KFF Health News
July 26, 2025

'Walking a tightrope': Millions of Trump voters are about to get bigger bills — here's why

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The president and his Republican congressional allies have brushed off the health care cuts, including hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid retrenchment in the mammoth tax law. “You won’t even notice it,” Trump said at the White House after the bill signing July 4. “Just waste, fraud, and abuse.”

 

Trump could just as well tell his followers to 'eat' the increased medical costs, like he told American companies to 'eat' his tariffs that they have to pay.

 

A trillion dollars of Medicaid cuts are, according to Speaker Johnson, supposedly eliminating the waste, fraud, and abuse of healthy, young men unemployed by choice and living off Medicaid while playing video games all day.

Trump's supporters can believe it if they so choose.

 

Fox tries to put a positive spin on Trump being humiliated by Powell.


Trump tours Federal Reserve, confronts confused Powell about renovation price tag
Fox News
July 24, 2025.

Trump tours Federal Reserve, confronts confused Powell about renovation price tag | Fox News Video

 

An accurate title:

Powell puts a confused Trump in his place by informing him that Trump's figures include a building that was completed five years ago that Trump mistakenly thought was being built now.

 

Federal judge tosses Trump's sanctuary city policy for Chicago.


Federal judge tosses Trump DOJ lawsuit against sanctuary policies in Chicago

 

Trump accuses Democrats of being communists while he melds the military with equities.


Under Trump, Uncle Sam is becoming an active investor at a scale not seen outside war or major crises

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"This is the biggest public-private cooperation that the mining industry has ever had here in the United States," Baskaran said. "Historically, DOD has never done equity in a mining company or a mining project."

Trump's unique hold over the Republican Party gives him the ability to intervene in companies on a scale that would be difficult politically for a Democratic president, Danzman said.

"The Democrat would have been accused of being a communist and a lot of other Republicans probably would not have felt comfortable moving in this particular direction because of their greater commitment to market principles," Danzman said. Trump is expanding the range of what is possible in the U.S. in terms of state intervention in markets, she said.

 

If Trump is winning more legal battles, it's because he finally gave up on his own incompetent lawyers, who were given cushy government jobs instead of payment. He is using those big corporate lawyers who bent their knees to Trump. They're doing all this pro bono, for free!

 

"bent their knees" is a euphemism for kissing his fat ass!

 

Trump is using the power of the presidency to coerce people and groups into doing what he wants by withholding federal money that Congress allocated and threatening to not allow transactions that agencies such as the FCC would have otherwise done had they been behaving objectively.

Plus other abuses, such as widespread firings of federal workers and promoting his personal business ventures, such as his new golf course in Scotland, by adding them to presidential trips.

It's called corruption. The way Trump is doing it, mafia style.

'That's a nice family you have there. It would be terrible if something happened to it.'

 

Some of the corruption by Trump isn't explicitly lawfare initiated by him. It's using the power of the presidency in a corrupt manner that forces others to either comply with him or sue him, which requires time and money and which may not be practical when Trump is withholding a sum of federal money on the order of $1 billion from a group such as a university (Columbia, Harvard) or making the FCC not approve an expensive media company merger (CBS Paramount).