The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump Lets Qatar Build a Military Facility in U.S. and MAGA Isn't Happy

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“The nation of Qatar, historically, has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level,” Trump said in June 2017 in an address at the White House, adding that “the time had come to call on Qatar to end its funding… and its extremist ideology.”

But in his second term, Trump has cozied up to Qatar’s authoritarian government. Earlier this year, Qatar gifted Trump a $400 million luxury jet that the U.S. will pay nearly $1 billion to transform into the next Air Force One, a move that also drew criticism from Loomer. Trump accepted the plane, nicknamed a “flying palace,” despite national security experts’ concerns that doing so could lead to security breaches since the Qatari government could have hidden listening or tracking devices on the plane.

 

Trump is trying the drug lord terrorist approach this time around to try to oust Maduro.


https://www.politico.com/news/magaz...drugs-venezuela-regime-change-column-00603440

 

Reporting in 'war-torn' Chicago, Pritzker mocks Trump's 'hellhole' narrative on 'Jimmy Kimmel'

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"Posing as a TV reporter clad with body armor, Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday mocked the Trump administrative narrative that National Guard troops are needed to quell chaos in “war-torn Chicago” in a bit for ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Kimmel has been asking viewers to send in videos with #showmeyourhellhole in Democratic cities President Donald Trump has targeted, including Portland and Washington, D.C. On Thursday night, he turned to a “very special report” filed by Pritzker.

“This is JB Pritzker, reporting from war-torn Chicago. As you can see, there’s utter mayhem and chaos on the ground. It’s quite disturbing,” he says on a downtown Chicago bridge. “The Milwaukee Brewers have come in to attack our Chicago Cubs.

“We’ve seen people being forced to eat hot dogs with ketchup on them, and our deep dish pizza, well, has gone shallow. So it’s a challenge to survive here in the city of Chicago, but there’s no hellscape that I’d rather be in,” Pritzker says."

 

'Come and get me,’ Pritzker says of Trump threat; Vance says governor ‘should suffer some consequences’

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"Why shouldn't federal troops empower the people in Chicago to live safe lives? When the governor and local -- the local mayor just simply refuse to do their job?" Vance added.

Pritzker disputed those claims from the vice president.

“Well, you know, they've said that Portland is on fire. Portland is not on fire. In Chicago, we've cut the homicide rate in half. We've got double-digit declines in all of our violent crime statistics. He says that we've got the highest crime rate in the entire world. That's ridiculous. We're not even in the top 25 cities in the United States,” Pritzker said.

 

Trump declares he has defeated inflation.


Trump says inflation is 'defeated' and the Fed has cut rates, yet prices remain too high for many

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation has risen in three of the last four months and is slightly higher than it was a year ago, when it helped sink then-Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign. Yet you wouldn’t know it from listening to President Donald Trump or even some of the inflation fighters at the Federal Reserve.

Trump told the United Nations General Assembly late last month: “Grocery prices are down, mortgage rates are down, and inflation has been defeated.”

 

The Labor Department of Trump's administration is warning of food shortages and price spikes because of Trump's deportation policies.


Labor Department Warns Immigration Crackdown Could Spark Food Shortages, Soaring Prices As Farm Workers Vanish - Benzinga

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"Foreign-born workers account for roughly 38% of jobs in farming, fishing, and forestry, and the Labor Department estimates that 42% of crop workers are now unable or unwilling to work due to the crackdown.

The agency noted that agricultural labor is physically demanding, involves long hours, and exposes workers to extreme weather, contributing to a persistent shortage of willing U.S. workers."

 

Trump might have to declare a food supply national emergency (that he caused).

It's a potential way for him to siphon money from one sector to pay for the injuries he did to another.

He used such a tactic during his first term when he declared a national security emergency for immigration which allowed him to siphon money from the military to pay to build his border wall (the one that intially stoked his ego, is unfinished, useless, painted black in his second term with squandered taxpayer money, and that he generally doesn't talk about anymore).

 

Another mess Trump created with his tariff wars.


'I’ve never seen anything like this before': US bound packages pile up amid tariff nightmare
By Adam Lynch
October 10, 2025

'I’ve never seen anything like this before': US bound packages pile up amid tariff nightmare - NewsBreak

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“Packages with values of $800 or less, which were previously allowed to enter the United States duty-free, are now subject to a range of tariffs and fees,” NBC reports. “They include hundreds of country-specific rates, or President Donald Trump’s so-called reciprocal tariffs, as well as new levies on certain products and materials."

International shipping to the United States today is “far more complex and costly than it was even two months ago,” NBC said, catching private individuals and veteran exporters alike in a “customs conundrum.”

 

Trump's UFC fight on the south lawn of the White House scheduled for his 80th birthday in 2026.


UFC White House - Wikipedia

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"In an interview on September 11, 2025, White stated that the seating capacity for the event would be under 5,000 people, citing security concerns. This marked a significant revision from President Trump's earlier estimate of 20,000 to 25,000 attendees. White also mentioned plans to set up large screens at a nearby park capable of hosting up to 85,000 spectators for a public viewing experience.[8] The promotion is also expected to spend $700,000 replacing the White House's lawn after the event.[9]

During a speech at Naval Station Norfolk on October 6, President Trump announced that the event would take place on June 14, 2026, coinciding with his 80th birthday.[10] "

 

Trump is ‘obsessed’ with seeming pro-worker – but his actions suggest otherwise
Agriculture and other sectors are suffering under the administration’s policies, adding up to a grim outlook
Robert Tait in Washington
Sat 11 Oct 2025 09.00 EDT

Trump is ‘obsessed’ with seeming pro-worker – but his actions suggest otherwise

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The tax-and-spending provisions in Trump’s flagship “big beautiful bill” (passed by Congress in the summer), tariffs and the administration’s agenda of mass deportation of undocumented people are all taking a toll on workers’ living conditions, by raising costs and driving down wages.

“Trump is obsessed with a lot of the aesthetics of being pro-worker,” said Samantha Sanders, government affairs director at the Economic Policy Institute, a thinktank.

She cited an appearance at the White House in April in the company of coal miners and a giant banner of Trump’s face hung from the Department of Labor building in Washington DC.

“But when it comes down to actual actions, we know, from his personal life to his policy life, he just does not deliver on those things,” she said.

 

Trump tariffs live updates: Trump downplays China tensions; Goldman sees US consumers paying 55% of costs

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"Americans are set to pay more than half of President Trump's tariffs as companies raise prices, according to Goldman Sachs. Americans will likely bear the brunt of 55% of tariff costs by the end of the year, with US companies taking on 22%."

 

Americans are paying for the tariffs in other ways, such as businesses reducing their labor force to try to cut costs to mitigate Trump's tariffs.

 

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/don...-claim-threatened-200-percent-tariffs-9443776

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Since the truce was announced in May 2025 following Operation Sindoor, Trump has repeatedly claimed he played a monumental role in halting military escalation, often attributing it to his trade and tariff policy. New Delhi, however, maintains that the decision to pause hostilities was reached via direct talks between the military leadership of both sides, without third-party mediation.
On Shifting Focus

Trump further claimed that the Gaza ceasefire will be the eighth conflict which he has ended and alluded to shifting his focus to tensions between Kabul and Islamabad next.

"This will be my eighth war that I have solved, and I hear there is a war now going on between Pakistan and Afghanistan. I said, I'll have to wait till I get back. I am doing another one. Because I am good at solving wars," he said aboard Air Force One.

 

The price of gold went over $4,000 per ounce today, courtesy the uncertainty in the markets Trump created by talking about imposing an extra 100% tariffs on China.

It was about $2,600 before Trump took office. It rose to about $3,500 after Trump had tariffs on China as high as 140% in April, which rattled the markets.

 

I think I just barfed in my mouth a little bit... .

 

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

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"Maria Greeley, 44, was on her way home from her job at Beach Bar earlier this month when she was surrounded, seized, and zip-tied by three ICE masked agents without cause or warning and interrogated for an hour. ICE determined she was an undocumented immigrant because she didn’t “look like” a Greeley. Greeley, who was born in Illinois, is Latina and adopted. She had her U.S. passport on her when she was detained."

 

Speaker Johnson to act as cheerleader to rally nations to nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize.


Johnson announces plan to rally nations in nominating Trump for Nobel Prize

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/us/politics/trump-china-tariffs.html

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“The Chinese have unfortunately turned our soybean farmers into pawns,” Mr. Bessent said. “They’re trying to manipulate them, and our farmers overwhelmingly back President Trump.”

 

The immigration crackdown is ‘much, much worse’ for business than tariffs, some CEOs say | Fortune

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"This past week, several CEOs privately shared the impact that they’re already seeing in their businesses.

Fewer Customers. From the travel operator who told me the immigration crackdown is “much, much worse” for their business than tariffs to the manufacturer who said sales of their products are down by double digits in some southern states, concern about immigration action is causing some people to stay away or stay home. South Korea’s LG and other foreign firms have put limits on business travel to the U.S. after workers on temporary visas were detained earlier this year. The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August fell 19% over last year, which means billions less in spending.

Less Productivity. This manifests itself in several ways. There is the obvious challenge in terms of the shortfall of workers in industries like agriculture, which could soon lead to food shortages and higher prices, according to the Labor Department. But companies that don’t have an issue with undocumented workers are facing the friction of having employees pulled aside by ICE officials. One CEO told me that these status checks are costing his company millions in delays and lost productivity."

 

The thing is, he screwed them before and he SAID what he was going to do again and the all lined up and voted for him. How's that working so far?