The Donald Trump Score Card

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'I thought consumers weren't paying?' MAGA rips Josh Hawley over 'out of touch' proposal

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“So a government drowning in trillion-dollar deficits borrows $150 billion more at 4.5% interest rates that taxpayers will be paying forever, in order to compensate us for higher prices that they deny are actually resulting from the tariffs,” posted Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Jessica Riedl. “Makes sense.”

“Here's a crazy idea,” Riedl then added. “Instead of using some debt-ridden gimmick to address the pain of the tariffs, why not just repeal the tariffs?”

“I thought consumers weren’t paying the tariffs,” said another commenter, repeating President Donald Trump’s claims that other nations would be funding the tariff increases.

 

Trump and Epstein.

Two chuckleheads fighting over their underage girls.

 

List of Russians who fell out of windows since Putin invaded Ukraine.


Full list of Russians to fall out of windows since Putin invaded Ukraine

 

The fate of Putin critics.


Poisonings, plane crashes and falls from windows: What happened to Putin's most vocal critics

 

Trump said publicly that the $1 trillion cut to Medicaid won't even be felt by the public. He said it was nothing but cuts to fraud and waste.


Democrats use new tactic to highlight Trump’s gutting of Medicaid: billboards in the rural US

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When uninsured people get sick, they are more likely to delay care, more likely to use hospital emergency rooms and more likely to struggle to pay their bills. In turn, the institutions that serve them also suffer.

“This is what Donald Trump does – screw over the people who are counting on him,” said Martin, the DNC chair. “These new DNC billboards plainly state exactly what is happening to rural hospitals under Donald Trump’s watch.”

 

Donald Trump Jr. is currently age 47 and he's still spending his time doing animations of Vance in a police car chasing Obama.

 

ICE raids leave construction industry in limbo.


ICE raids leave future of construction labor in limbo

 

Epstein still had Mar-a-Lago membership 7 years after he 'stole' girl from Trump: author

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"Jeffrey Epstein was actually still on the Mar-a-Lago membership logs up to 2007," Levine said. "So Trump was still getting money from Jeffrey Epstein up until 2007 ... Jeffrey Epstein was still paying for his membership at Mar-a-Lago, according to the Miami Herald. And that of course is a year after Jeffrey Epstein's arrest in Florida in 2006."

 

Even though Trump says he parted ways with Epstein circa year 2000 because of a squabble over what was then an underage girl massage worker at Mar-a-Lago, Epstein was still a member of Trump's Mar-a-Lago until 2007, a year after Epstein's arrest.

A reporter should ask Trump to explain it.

Trump will probably respond with his angry, "Be quiet!"

 

Ratcliffe thinks the statute of limitations hasn't expired against Obama, Clinton, Brennon, and Clapper.


Ratcliffe suggests Clinton, Brennan won’t have statute of limitations protection in Russiagate case

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“They conspired against President Trump, they conspired against the American people. So, I’ll leave it to Pam Bondi and our DOJ and Kash Patel and our FBI to investigate the conspiracy to do what, and what charges that they’re capable of bringing,” Ratcliffe said on Fox News.

“I don’t think statute of limitations are going to impact, because in a conspiracy, Maria, the statute of limitations doesn’t start to run until the last act in the furtherance of that conspiracy,” Ratcliffe said. “Part of why this is so important is that the people behind this are still furthering the conspiracy.”

 

This Guy just needs to shup up about a Fed Rate Cut. The Fed in an independent agency not in any way subject to a President.

No matter the other powers Trump has taken to himself: he cannot fire a Fed Board Governor.

Rates were cut a total of 1 point in separate rates cuts late last year.

Mr. Trump has gotten everything else that he wants. Just shut-up and let the economy work.

 

Fed keeps interest rate the same for fifth straight time.


https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/federal-reserve-interest-rate-07-30-25

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...for-prosecuting-trump-ally-bolsonaro-00484538

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"The Treasury Department has sanctioned a Brazilian judge overseeing the prosecution of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who is accused of organizing a coup — the latest Trump administration foray into the trial of one of President Donald Trump’s ideological allies."

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...bles-as-trump-s-tariff-excludes-refined-metal

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"The US copper market suffered its largest intra-day fall on record after President Donald Trump shocked traders by exempting the most widely imported form of copper from his planned tariffs."

 

De minimis exemption slated to end in 2027

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"The de minimis exemption will be eliminated in two years after President Donald Trump signed a sweeping policy bill into law on Friday.

As part of the package introduced as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” the U.S. will repeal the exemption allowing imports under $800 to enter the country duty and tax free, effective July 1, 2027. Exemptions will remain in place for eligible items bought during travel and bona fide gifts from foreign citizens to U.S. residents."

 

Trump is suspending de minimus exemption.


Trump suspends de minimis exemption for low-value imports

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"President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order suspending what's known as a de minimis exemption allowing low-value parcels that are shipped to the United States to avoid tariffs."

 

Trump has implemented trade wars via declaring national emergencies.

Trump ended the de minimus exemption early in his second term, but he changed his mind and delayed the suspension until the Commerce Department could try to figure out how it would handle the shear number of small packages and small dollar amounts.

 

As expected, Hawley wants the proposed rebate checks to go to Trump voters, not Biden voters.


Sen. Josh Hawley wants to exclude ‘Biden voters’ from $600 Trump tariff rebate checks

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Senator Josh Hawley says the legislation he proposes will send $600 tariff rebate checks to Americans, but not to “Biden voters,” only to “Trump blue-collar voters.”

 

The proposed rebate checks are a small portion of the tariff revenue collected by Trump from, ultimately, American consumers. to be given back to Americans, but selectively (to Trump supporters, not Biden supporters).