The Donald Trump Score Card

As polls show low approval for Trump on the economy, will taking his economic agenda to voters help?

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"But we just saw in Pennsylvania, where Trump was supposed to talk about the economy, and brings up all this other stuff, and all he does is get in the way of himself, and there's no reason to think that that's going to change.”

 

As polls show low approval for Trump on the economy, will taking his economic agenda to voters help?

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“A lot of voters, particularly working-class young men, voted for him last year because they were angry about the inflation under Biden and they believed Trump would make things better," he said. "That hasn't happened yet, and so we're beginning to see their disappointment."

 

Hegseth boasts about his vengeance attack on Syria.


US launches 'vengeance' attack on ISIS targets after National Guard soldiers killed

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"This is not the beginning of a war — it is a declaration of vengeance," he added. "The United States of America, under President Trump’s leadership, will never hesitate and never relent to defend our people."

 

Chocolate cake didn't seem to be involved in this bombing of Syria like it was during Trump's first term when he bombed Syria.

 

Halligan of 'Virgina'

Trump hires only the best.


Trump's disqualified prosecutor brutally mocked for glaring typo in her official signature

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"Unlawfully appointed interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan recently suffered another public embarrassment after a legal reporter noticed an obvious spelling error in her official signature.

On Thursday, NBC News reporter Ryan J. Reilly posted to Bluesky that Halligan had misspelled Virginia as "Virgina" in the block that's used for her signature on legal documents. Halligan's signature block reads: "Lindsey Halligan, United States Attorney Eastern District of Virgina[sic] Florida Bar No. 109481 2100," with her office's address."

 

Trump's DOJ is appealing ruling that threw out cases against Comey and James.

Halligan (of Virgina) clumsily tried to prosecute them.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/...t-halligan-james-comey-letitia-james-00701547

 

Brooks and Capehart on Trump's approval ratings and mental acuity

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"Right, a memorial to a slain president.

And yet — I take this to — back to the president's mental acuity, although this isn't him being crazy. This is him being a flat-out, full borne narcissist. He's already done it before. It's now the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace. He's got an Arc de Triomphe-like thing that's going to go on the other side of the Memorial Bridge.

He — I saw somewhere that memorials are usually done for people who have left us, either through murder or through death, who have done things that are worthy of note. We have not seen, at least I haven't seen, a sitting president out there skipping through Washington, slapping his name on anything and everything."

 

Brooks and Capehart on Trump's approval ratings and mental acuity

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"And I don't think he's panicked. Some people think he senses decline and panic. If you look at his overall approval rating, it's at 42 right now, which is like normal territory for him. I just think he's getting a lot more bellicose with age or with something, with stress. He's just a level of bellicosity at everybody and everything, including us, the American people."

 

https://minnesotareformer.com/brief...nesota-run-medicaid-services-sensationalized/

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“The fraud is not small. It isn’t isolated. The magnitude cannot be overstated,” said Thompson, who also announced new indictments.

But Walz, who is running for a third term, said the estimate is motivated by politics, and it’s a number created by the Trump administration, which has attacked the governor on multiple fronts in recent weeks.

 

Trump did a rally in NC on Friday night.

It was the same as the one he did in PA a week ago.

Signs were behind him that said 'Lower Prices, Bigger Paychecks'.

He will be using that routine on the public throughout 2026.


https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-administration-news-epstein-files-12-19-25


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Trump appointed Grenell to be interim president of Kennedy Center (now Trump-Kennedy Center)

Grenell has no work experience background in the arts.


Richard Grenell - Wikipedia

 

For that matter, why is Trump getting even one cognitive test.

During his rally in NC on Friday night, Trump once again bragged about his cognitive tests. He said he was able to identify a giraffe. He talked like other presidents don't go through cognitive test because they are afraid they won't do well on them.

 

If someone wrote a fiction novel a few decades ago about what is happening today during Trump's presidency, people would say it is the most outlandish thing that could never happen.

 

As anticipated, Trump waited until late Friday to release the Epstein files. They were redacted.

Trump's DOJ didn't release all of them, citing concerns about the safety of the victims of Epstein.

Trump has never expressed concern about the safety of others when he released other data, such as releasing data about the Russia investigation that compromised U.S. intelligence operatives and those of U.S. allies overseas.

 

Trump wants to be president of Europe.

He says leaders around the world want him to lead Europe.


Trump claims several countries want him to be 'leader of Europe' in bizarre rant

 

Trump's obsession with his cognitive tests is part of the reason people think he has cognitive issues.

 

Trump's health decline.


Trump does presidency via Truth Social – what are Americans missing out on?

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"As the Republican party, which is indelibly tied to Trump and his whims, gears up for crucial midterm elections, the question is whether Trump’s supporters will choose to believe what they are seeing, or opt to bury their heads in the sand.'

 

Trump's pardoning of criminals.


Thanks to Donald Trump, 2025 was a good year … for white-collar criminals

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"Then, as with Zhao, it unravelled. Trump announced in early December that Hernandez was “treated very harshly and unfairly” and would walk free. Hernandez spent months lobbying Trump acolytes and conservative media personalities, pitching himself as a pro-Trump “ally on migration and security” and casting himself as a victim of political revenge by the Biden administration that he said had also been used to target Trump. The play worked. And it would not be the last time.

One by one, white-collar criminals have marched to the White House, bleating their fealty to Trump – and watching their prison sentences evaporate as a result.

There was Charles Scott, a Virginia businessman sentenced earlier this year for manipulating stock values and defrauding investors at a lighting company – and who Trump later freed. A pair of reality television stars, Julie and Todd Chrisley, were caught out evading taxes, sentenced to three years in prison as a result – before Trump decided to pardon them. David Gentile was a former private equity head, convicted last year for conspiring to defraud investors (along with his partner) to the tune of some $1.6bn, receiving a seven-year sentence as a result. But just days into his prison term, Trump announced Gentile’s sentence would be commuted, and that he could walk free."

 

Trump seizes second tanker near Venezuela.


U.S. seizes a second vessel off the coast of Venezuela

 

NC has gerrymandered for the upcoming 2026 elections. It has been upheld by a court.


NC Republicans score win in redistricting lawsuit over 2026 congressional map