The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump ranted for an hour before trying to get back on course.


En-route to Mar-a-Lago, Trump tries sales pitch on economy to skeptical voters

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It took nearly an hour until the president appeared to return to his prepared remarks by launching into a series of unverifiable claims about how “100 percent” of jobs created during his presidency so far have been in the private sector and boasting of how he is building a “Trump economic boom” with “these factories, auto plants [and] AI plants.”

 

Trump says he is taking on the health insurance companies by cutting off money to the American public for the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Tens of millions of Americans use ACA for their insurance.


En-route to Mar-a-Lago, Trump tries sales pitch on economy to skeptical voters

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"Continuing his stream-of-consciousness remarks, the president began musing aloud about how he was “taking on the gigantic health insurance companies” by refusing to support extending tax credits that expire at the end of this year, causing premiums for millions of Americans to skyrocket."

 

Trump rational for cutting off money to the public for the Affordable Care Act.


https://www.wral.com/video/president-donald-trump-delivers-speech-in-rocky-mount/22288645/

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"This is Obamacare. This is Obamacare. This isn't Trump. But you don't need it because let the money not go to the insurance companies."

 

The ACA is also known as Obamacare. Trump has been hellbent on destroying the ACA. During his first term, he lost his quest to revoke the Affordable Care Act in part because Sen. John McCain voted 'no'. Trump has been holding a grudge against McCain, even after his death from cancer.

Trump's brass plauques that he hung on the wall in the White House insult Obama and Biden and refer to the ACA as the 'Unaffordable Care Act'.

If Trump thinks the ACA has been unffordable, he's making it even more unaffordable to the American public now by further sabotaging it by cutting off money to it.

 

Garcia was released from Trump's ICE detention on December 11, 2025 after a judge ordered his release.


'Vitriolic and prejudicial statements': Kilmar Abrego Garcia moves for sanctions after Trump admin 'repeatedly violated' court-issued gag order, motion says
COLIN KALMBACHER
DEC 20, 2025 3:35 PM

Kilmar Abrego Garcia moves for sanctions against Trump admin for allegedly violating gag order

 

Trump, 79, Rushes to Brag About Poorly Attended Rally

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"Although Trump may have been playing to a smaller crowd than usual, those who did spend the final Friday before Christmas in attendance were treated to a meandering performance covering everything from the “not easy” cognitive tests he’s mysteriously been taking to the way Melania stores her underwear."

 

Trump's former criminal defense attorney, Todd Blanche, whom Trump made Deputy Attorney General of the DOJ, says that no effort was made to redact Trump info from the released Epstein files.


Top DOJ official denies there's any effort to redact mentions of President Trump from Epstein files

 

Epstein survivors outraged over files release to ‘protect people in power’

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Haley Robson, another Epstein survivor who voted for Trump but has come to regret it, told The Independent, “I knew going into this and just how Trump likes to play his little tactics. I knew with all the obstacles we've already rendered and the administration's flip flop, I already knew that we were not going to see the files as we should be getting them.”

 

GOP U.S. Senator Lummis of Wyoming will not seek reelection in 2026.


https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/19/cynthia-lummis-crypto-retirement-00700961

 

Trump ally Stefanik announces she's not seeking reelection to Congress in 2026..

She also ended her campaign to try to become governor of NY.


Rep. Stefanik ends her campaign for New York governor, won't seek reelection to House

 

The Supreme Court is broken. Let's fix it. – The Moderate Voice

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"First, terms on SCOTUS must not be for life.

Second, presidents should have two predictable appointments per term.

Third, there should be a minimum of 10 members of the Court.

Fourth, the Court must have an enforceable code of ethics, like other US courts."

 

The place Trump did his rally in NC in Friday is in a newly gerrymandered district.


https://www.npr.org/2025/12/19/nx-s1-5648862/trump-visit-north-carolina-congress-midterms-economy

 

Trump would go even further.

Trump Rushmore (minus four).

A political cartoon during Trump's first term showed Trump and a construction person at Mt. Rushmore looking at the blueprints for the new Mt. Rushmore. Trump says "Make me slimmer and get rid of the other guys."

 

Johnny Carson did a humor routine on The Tonight Show in 1975 where he played the President and was taking questions from reporters while teasing and insulting them.


reporter: Mr. President, I don't think you take your job seriously enough.

President: Oh really? Why don't you get your head lanced, fat boy!


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50 years ago it was fiction and 'fat boy'.

Today it's real and Trump calling a female reported 'piggy'.

 

Why he would want to go to Rocky Mount, North Carolina is beyond me.....What a shit hole...definitely a town full of good ol' boys and voted one of the most likely places to be shot...

 

CBS and CNN Are Being Sacrificed to Trump


https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/trump-paramount-netflix-cnn-cbs/685349/

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"The fate of Warner Bros. Discovery is no longer a regulatory matter. It is a medieval tournament, in which the king invites rival bidders to compete for his approval. To acquire the media company, the aspirants—Paramount and Netflix—will have to offer a sacrifice: Whoever can damage CNN the most stands to walk away with the prize."

 

Trump's crony capitalism.


How Trump's 'crony capitalism' has shaken up U.S. business

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Several other tech CEOs also spent the year appearing to personally court Trump. Take Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who runs the world's most valuable company and is among the donors funding Trump's controversial plans to build a White House ballroom. This month, Trump said the U.S. would grant Nvidia permission to sell one of its more advanced semiconductor chips in China — as long as the U.S. government gets a 25% cut of sales.

Lipton calls this capitalism by "schmoozing," and warns that it could seriously damage the competitiveness of U.S. businesses, thus hurting the overall economy in the long term.

"We're not going to get the best innovations. We're not going to get the best products," she says. "If [businesses] are competing on their ability to schmooze, then that's bad for everybody."

 

Despite insults, praise, and much in between, Mexico keeps finding ways to work with Trump |
by Luis F. Carrasco | Columnist
Published Nov. 9, 2025, 8:00 a.m. ET

Despite insults, praise, and much in between, Mexico keeps finding ways to work with Trump | Luis F. Carrasco

 

Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results
The president predicted that Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam
By Greta Bjornson
Updated on October 28, 2025 10:24AM EDT

Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results