The Donald Trump Score Card

Stephen Miller cites children of immigrants as a problem.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/stephen-miller-trump-immigrants.html

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Mr. Miller’s belief that seven decades of immigration has produced millions of people who take more than they give — an assertion that has been refuted by years of economic data — is at the heart of the Trump administration’s campaign to restrict immigration and deport immigrants already in the country.

But he is now stressing an argument that immigrants bring problems to the United States that extend through generations.

“With a lot of these immigrant groups, not only is the first generation unsuccessful. Again, Somalia is a clear example here,” Mr. Miller said on Fox News this month, adding, “You see persistent issues in every subsequent generation. So you see consistent high rates of welfare use, consistent high rates of criminal activity, consistent failures to assimilate.”

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/stephen-miller-trump-immigrants.html

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“This is the great lie of mass migration,” Mr. Miller wrote on social media. “You are not just importing individuals. You are importing societies. No magic transformation occurs when failed states cross borders. At scale, migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.”

Pratheepan Gulasekaram, a law professor at University of Colorado Law School, said that Mr. Miller was treating people as “forever branded by their origins, distinct and antithetical to the fabric of our community.”

“In short,” Mr. Gulasekaram said, “he views immigration solely through the lens of cultural threat.”

 

Operation Buckeye arrests spark debate over ICE transparency

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"COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — The recent arrests of ten men in the Columbus area as part of "Operation Buckeye" have ignited a heated debate over transparency and accountability. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) labeled the detainees as "the worst of the worst," citing charges and convictions including rape, assault, and drug trafficking. However, ICE has not disclosed where these crimes occurred, complicating efforts to verify the cases."

 

Over 200,000 federal jobs lost since Trump returned to office.


200K+ federal jobs lost in Trump’s 2025 workforce reduction – NBC4 Washington

 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/politics/supreme-court-blocks-trump-national-guard-chicago

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“He activated the National Guard to protect federal law enforcement officers, and to ensure rioters did not destroy federal buildings and property,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told CNN. “Nothing in today’s ruling detracts from that core agenda.”

“This is a significant repudiation of President Trump’s efforts to use federal troops to supplement immigration enforcement especially in Democratic-led jurisdictions,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at Georgetown University Law Center. “It’s hard to see how the administration can continue to use this obscure 1908 authority to try to deploy federalized National Guard troops.”

 

Why didn't Trump do that during his deadly riot at the Capitol.

As Commander-in-Chief he had direct and immediate control over the DC National Guard.

Pence and Pelosi were stuck in the basement of the Capitol and had to do it for him. They brought in troops from Virginia and Maryland to stop Trump's attack.

 

Trump loses in Supreme Court over issue to deploy National Guard in Chicago.

Alito, Thomas and Gorsuch were in favor of Trump.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/politics/supreme-court-blocks-trump-national-guard-chicago

 

CBS didn't air the 60 Minutes piece about prison camps in El Salvador where Trump sent the deportees.

But it is airing Trump's award ceremony at Kennedy Center (now Trump-Kennedy Center) December 23, 2025 with Trump as the master of ceremony giving awards to his favorite people.

He had construction people add his name to the outside of the Kennedy Center fast enough so that it was up for the awards ceremony.

 

At his McDonald's restaraunt summit in PA, Trump ranted about

dishwashing machines
showerheads
Filet-O-Fish (while making strange hand gestures and noises)
his air strike on Iran (while making strange hand gestures and airplane noises)
the name 'Gulf of Mexico'
lack of tartar sauce
the 2020 election supposedly being rigged against him
a fictitious signed copy of his speech at the McDonald's summit.

 

Then Trump rambled about his air strike on Iran in June 2025. To add effect, he made noises while doing his reenactment of the bombing.


Trump, 79, Makes Weird Noise as He Whines About McDonald’s

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“The equipment is so good. The B2 Bomber. Stealth. They never saw them,” Trump said after reenacting watching the strikes from the Situation Room, adding sound effects in the process. “It was the most amazing thing.”

 

At the McDonald's summit, Trump complained about insufficient tartar sauce on McDonald's Fillet-O-Fish while waving his hand around while making a noise, apparently to simulate a fish swimming.


Trump, one of McDonald's 'all time most loyal customers,' offers Filet-O-Fish suggestion

 

He also complained about modern showerheads and dishwashing machines again.


Trump, 79, Makes Weird Noise as He Whines About McDonald’s

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“You had no water. I was with some of the people who make them, Whirlpool and others. They said, ‘Sir, they won’t give us the water to use in our dishwashers or to use in our washing machines. The washing machines have no water. It’s like a glass of water, a half a glass of water. We need water,’” Trump said.

 

Another one of Trump's 'Sir' stories.

In that one, Trump supposedly met with people who make dishwashers.

Trump also supposedly met with a boat seller who said electric boats sink because the battery is too heavy.

Trump's people supposedly talked with a McDonald's manager in the San Francsisco area who is still working at the same McDonald's today that Harris worked at in 1984. He supposedly said that he doesn't remember Kamala Harris working there circa 1984, thereby proving that Harris never worked at McDonald's.

 

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In another universe.

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The Supreme Court should have issued such rulings when Trump first returned to office.

Giving the law the benefit of the doubt and at least temporarily preventing Trump from using it in ways and to extents that have never been used before would have been a reasonable way of dealing with it.

Instead, for the most part, the six conservatives on the Supreme Court have let Trump do what he wants until it is determined later (perhaps months or years) whether it's Constitutional.

That included deporting people without due process based on very sketchy legal arguments, such invoking the Alien Enemies Act and engaging in a mammoth tariff war using the Emergency Powers Act (declaring the trade deficit a national emergency) and using the tariff powers of Congress without Congress..

The Supreme Court did come to its senses when it told Trump to facilitate the return of Garcia to the U.S. from a terrorist prison in El Salvador where Trump had sent him without due process.

 

Garcia was deported to El Salvador in March 2025 the same way as Barrios, based on purported tattoos on his knuckles and a wild interpretation that it somehow meant he was a member of a gang (which in itself isn't a crime).

Trump brought Garcia back from an El Salvador terrorist prison after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled (sheepishly) that he facilitate his return. The ruling didn't explicitly order Trump to return him but rather 'facilitate' his return.

Garcia returned to the U.S. but then Trump had his DOJ charge Garcia with human trafficking because when he was stopped in his car he had other people with him.

Garcia was in detention in the U.S. until a judge ruled last week that Trump had to release him because he hadn't given a valid reason for keeping him incarcerated.

Garcia is currently free and in the U.S.

He's been a political football that Trump has kicked around for the past nine months.

 

Rep. Beatty sues to remove Trump's name from Kennedy Center.


Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty sues to remove Trump's name from Kennedy Center

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"I said, 'I have something to say,' and I was muted, and as I continued to try to unmute, to ask questions and voice my opposition to this, I received a note saying that I would not be unmuted," Beatty said to reporters. "I was not allowed to vote because I was muted. I would not have supported this."

 

Trump seeks to cancel thousands of asylum cases, saying applicants can be deported.


Trump administration seeks to cancel thousands of asylum cases, saying applicants can be deported to third countries

 

Now every Vice President and Speaker Of The House will need to prepare on their own for such a vile situation, defending themselves from an attack on the Capitol by the president of the U.S., as if being invaded by foreign terrorists

After Trump's riot, Congress debated about forming a quick-reaction force to protect itself from people like Trump, but nothing materialized.