The Donald Trump Score Card

Federal judge indefinitely blocks Trump shutdown layoffs


Federal judge indefinitely blocks Donald Trump's shutdown layoffs

 

Judge orders Trump's deportation attack dog, Bovino, to meet with her every day for update on ICE operations.


Judge orders senior Border Patrol official to meet her daily to discuss use of force

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"U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis on Tuesday ordered a senior U.S. Border Patrol official to meet her daily “to hear about how the day went” after weeks of confrontations between immigration agents and the public in the Chicago area.

The immigration sweeps from Operation Midway Blitz have produced more than 1,800 arrests and complaints of excessive force.

Ellis also asked Border Patrol’s Greg Bovino to submit by Friday all use-of-force reports from Border Patrol agents involved in the operation from Sept. 2 through Tuesday."

 

26 states sue Trump administration over ending of food benefits on November 1st if government shutdown continues.


Illinois, 25 other states sue Trump administration over SNAP halt

 

Indiana governor calls special session for gerrymandering to help Trump retain control of the U.S. House in the 2026 midterm elections.


Indiana governor calls a special session to redraw US House maps as redistricting battle spreads

 

Ultimate grifting corruption tactic by Trump.

Have his former personal criminal defense attorney who is now U.S. Deputy Attorney General issue him a personal check for $230 million of U.S. taxpayer money.

 

US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says

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"Shocking video shows a chaotic scene on a quiet Chicago street as Border Patrol agents in tactical gear drag a 67-year-old man from his car while children in Halloween costumes look on in horror.

According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding."

 

Trump formally appeals his NY hush money conviction of 34 felony counts..


Trump formally appeals his New York hush money conviction

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"Trump was found guilty in May 2024 after a six-week trial over what prosecutors called a scheme to conceal a $130,000 payment his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to keep her from talking about a long-denied affair ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Trump reimbursed Cohen in monthly installments that prosecutors said amounted to falsified records."

 

ICE deploy tear gas on children's Halloween parade in Chicago.


Border Patrol agents under fire for allegedly disrupting children's Halloween parade in Chicago
"You're scaring our children to death," one resident yelled at federal agents.
By Bill Hutchinson
October 27, 2025, 5:00 PM

Border Patrol agents under fire for allegedly disrupting children's Halloween parade in Chicago

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"Video footage that was verified by ABC News showed agents deploying tear gas and tackling and arresting several people, including U.S. citizens, outside homes decked out in Halloween decorations."

 

Why SCOTUS Is Finally About to Deal Trump a Stinging Blow

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The Supreme Court typically doesn’t take these types of evidentiary questions, particularly in civil cases, she said. In Trump’s case, there’s even less reason to add the case to the Supreme Court docket because of the federal appellate court’s findings, she added.

“Here, the Second Circuit concluded that even if the court had been incorrect in admitting her testimony, it’s what’s called ‘harmless error’ because we had another 10 or 11 witnesses, and they had zero,” Kaplan said.

 

Senate Republicans defy Vance's warning, vote to block Trump's Brazil tariffs amid shutdown

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"Senate Republicans offered a rare rebuke against President Donald Trump and his trade strategy on Tuesday, despite still remaining largely in lockstep amid the ongoing government shutdown.

A handful of Senate Republicans joined Senate Democrats to end Trump’s use of emergency powers to implement steep, 50% tariffs on Brazil. While the resolution, led by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., advanced from the upper chamber, but it can’t be taken up in the House until early next year."

 

Nvidia CEO turns tech conference into celebration of Trump


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...conference-into-celebration-of-trump-00626160

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"Politics at a tech conference: Huang’s speech was notable for its sharp political turn. In previous versions of the conference, usually held in San Jose, Calif., his keynote has focused chiefly on the chipmaker’s technology and the evolution of AI.

But Huang has spent the past year working to ingratiate himself with Trump’s Washington, making appeals to the president at $1 million-per-head dinners at Mar-a-Lago and joining Trump on official state visits to the Gulf region and United Kingdom, where the president unveiled multibillion-dollar tech deals.

He even used the president’s campaign slogan: “Thank you all for your service in making America great again,” Huang said to attendees to close out his keynote."

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/25/trump-venezuela-monroe-doctrine-00618322

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"Trump, now in his second term, consciously revives this lineage — Monroe’s sphere, McKinley’s tariff fortress, Roosevelt’s managerial empire — but repackages it for the 2020s. He no longer describes the Western Hemisphere as a neighborhood to protect, but as a domain to dominate. Monroe’s shield becomes Trump’s sword.

This up-tempo Monroeism isn’t about resisting foreign interference; it’s about expelling foreign presence outright. The target isn’t Europe this time, but China, whom Trump puts on notice by implicitly stating that “Here in the Western Hemisphere, we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expansionist foreign powers.” That framing harkens back to Monroe himself, but with 21st-century tools: economic sanctions, tariff blackmail, naval shows of force and strategic investments designed to suffocate Chinese alignments in Argentina, Brazil, Peru and Venezuela."

 

Two unidentified men who called Trump 'sir'.


White House East Wing demolished, new images appear to show

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Trump himself, at a dinner for the donors earlier this month, said he was told by "two men" that he could make changes quickly, without approval.

"I said, 'How long would it take?' They said: 'Sir, you can start tonight. You have zero zoning conditions. You have no approvals,'" Trump said at the dinner. "I said, 'You gotta be kidding.' He said, 'Sir, this is the White House. You're the president of the United States. You can do anything you want.'"

 

No charges will be sought over Trump-Epstein image projection on to Windsor Castle during Trump's visit.


No charges over Trump-Epstein projection on to Windsor Castle

 

Trump seeks to proceed with $10 billion lawsuit over WSJ story on Epstein's birthday book.


Trump seeks to proceed with $10B lawsuit over WSJ story on Epstein's birthday book

 

9th Circuit vacates ruling that had allowed him to use National Guard troops in Portland.


9th Circuit Vacates Trump Judges’ Ruling Allowing National Guard Troops To Deploy To Portland

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"The full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals voted Tuesday night to vacate a panel’s decision allowing the National Guard to deploy to Portland, and will rehear the case."

 

Trump says he could send "Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines" into U.S. cities "if it was necessary" - CBS News

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"And I'd be allowed to do whatever I want," Mr. Trump added. "But we haven't chosen to do that because we're very well — we're doing very well without it. But I'd be allowed to do that, you understand that, and the courts wouldn't get involved, nobody would get involved, and I could send the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, I can send anybody I wanted. But I haven't done that because we're doing so well without it."

 

Trump has threatened military action against a dozen U.S. cities, all led by Democratic mayors.


https://www.npr.org/2025/10/10/nx-s1-5567177/national-guard-map-chicago-california-oregon