The Donald Trump Score Card

UK campaigner targeted by Trump accuses tech giants of ‘sociopathic greed’

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"Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), is among five European nationals barred from the US by the state department after being accused of seeking to push tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.

Ahmed lives lawfully in Washington DC with his American wife and daughter, meaning he is at risk of deportation. Late on Thursday a court granted him a temporary restraining order to block any attempt to remove him from the US or detain him."

 

Trump's name everywhere.


Screw It. Let’s Rename the Moon.

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"Much of this is taking place at the White House itself, which Trump is busy tricking out as his own personal palace/man cave, paving over the Rose Garden to make himself a Mar-a-Lago-style patio and knocking down the East Wing to build himself a ballroom. This week, the president amused himself by installing trollish plaques beneath a row of presidential portraits at the residence, sketching out a brief narrative that reads all of U.S. history as mere prelude to the capstone project of his reign. (Sample text: President Andrew Jackson “was unjustifiably treated unfairly by the Press, but not as viciously and unfairly as President Abraham Lincoln and President Donald J. Trump would, in the future, be.”)

But even the White House has not presented a sufficiently large playground for Trump’s ego. His lackeys are suddenly splashing his name everywhere around D.C. Yesterday, Trump’s hand-picked board of the Kennedy Center, which he himself chairs, announced it would rename the historic venue the Trump-Kennedy Center. Earlier this month, the State Department announced it had renamed the U.S. Institute of Peace—or what remains of it after its dismantling by DOGE earlier this year—the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace. And in true Roman fashion, they’re scheming up plans to put him on a $1 coin next year, which would break a century-old precedent against putting living presidents on U.S. currency."

 

Trump receives Nixon peace award.

Tricia Nixon presented it to Trump.


Trump receives Architect of Peace Award from Nixon Foundation

 

The MAGA firebrands have a way of burning themselves out.

Matt Gaetz is gone.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is quitting the House.

Stefanik is quitting the House and dropped out of the NY governor race.

Eventually Trump will be gone, like Bush, Gingrich, Limbaugh, Palin, Carlson, and Kirk.

The GOP has no captain in sight to run the ship as the current crew decays.

 

Many of them are loudmouth, defiant, exclusionary, and insistent on obtaining everything they want.

When they don't obtain everything, they become frustrated and quit.

Tucker Carlson was like a runaway reaction at a nuclear power plant. The daily bombast coming out of his mouth had become increasingly extreme. It finally took a $1.5 billion defamation lawsuit by Dominion to put a stop to him. Fox fired him as part of a settlement it reached with Dominion hours before the defamation trial was to start.

 

U.S. labor unions gear up to fight against Trump’s ‘Billionaire First’ agenda.


US labor unions gear up to fight against Trump’s ‘Billionaire First’ agenda

 

Nasry Asfura, candidate backed by Trump, declared winner of Honduras' presidential vote

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"TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura won Honduras' presidential election, the country's electoral authorities said Wednesday afternoon, ending a weeks-long count that has whittled away at the credibility of the Central American nation's fragile electoral system.

The election is continuing Latin America's swing to the right, coming just a week after Chile chose the far-right politician José Antonio Kast as its next president."

 

Trump's Kennedy Center honors ceremony had low TV ratings.


Report: Last Night's Kennedy Center Honors Ratings May Be Lowest Ever, Half as Much as Last Year with Around 3 Million Viewers - Showbiz411

 

CBS cut down Trump Kennedy Center honor show remarks from 12 minutes to 2.

It also kept the original Kennedy name and didn't include the Trump name.


CBS Cut Down Trump’s Kennedy Center Remarks to Two Minutes, Didn’t Use New Name

 

Federal judge blocks ICE from arresting immigrants who show up for court appointments in Northern California


Federal judge blocks ICE from arresting immigrants who show up for court appointments in Northern California

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“This circumstance presents noncitizens in removal proceedings with a Hobson’s choice between two irreparable harms,” Judge P. Casey Pitts wrote in his Christmas Eve decision.

“First, they may appear in immigration court and face likely arrest and detention,” the judge wrote. “Alternatively, noncitizens may choose not to appear and instead to forego their opportunity to pursue their claims for asylum or other relief from removal.”

 

That's the predicament Trump wants.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/media/60-minutes-cbs-news.html

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The main thrust of the report, however, is the ordeal of the Venezuelan men, who described being shackled, tortured and sexually abused in the prison. Two of the men speak extensively on camera about their experiences, with one describing a guard beating him and breaking one of his teeth. “‘Welcome to hell,’” he recalled a guard saying. “‘I’ll make sure you’ll never leave.’”

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/business/media/60-minutes-cbs-news.html

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"But because of the last-minute postponement, CBS News had already transmitted a version of Sunday’s episode that included Ms. Alfonsi’s segment to the network that airs “60 Minutes” in Canada, Global TV."

 

A look at the experts racing to decode Trump’s tariff rules

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Many shipments that entered duty free now are tariffed. Other imports that had minimal levies that might cost a company a few hundred dollars have had their bills balloon to thousands. For Raffa and his crew, the ever-expanding list of tariffs means a given product could be subjected to taxes under multiple separate tariff lines.

“That one line item of cheese that previously was just one tariff, now it could be two, three, in some cases five tariff numbers,” says 53-year-old Raffa, who has had jobs in trade since he was a teenager and who has a button emblazoned with “Make Trade Boring Again.”

 

Trump brags about how he supposedly is reducing red tape in the government.

He has created a tangled web with his tariffs.


A look at the experts racing to decode Trump’s tariff rules

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NEW YORK -- After a half-century immersed in the world of trade, customs broker Amy Magnus thought she’d seen it all, navigating mountains of regulations and all sorts of logistical hurdles to import everything from lumber and bananas to circus animals and Egyptian mummies.

Then came 2025.

Tariffs were imposed in ways she’d never seen. New rules left her wondering what they really meant. Federal workers, always a reliable backstop, grew more elusive.

“2025 has changed the trade system,” says Magnus. “It wasn’t perfect before, but it was a functioning system. Now, it is a lot more chaotic and troubling.”

 

Trump rings in Christmas Day with a flurry of posts denouncing perceived foes

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“Merry Christmas to all, including the many Sleazebags who loved Jeffrey Epstein,” he wrote.

For Trump, sprinkling partisan grievance into holiday cheer has become something of a tradition.

As president-elect during Thanksgiving last year, he offered good wishes to everyone, even the “Radical Left Lunatics.”

 

Teenager detained by ICE for 6 months speaks out: "We're all human"
By Jesus Mesa
Dec 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM EST
updated Dec 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM EST

Teenager detained by ICE for 6 months speaks out: "We're all human"

 

So This Is Why Trump Didn’t Want to Release the Epstein Files
Sarah Fitzpatrick
December 24, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...n-files-justice-department-redactions/685455/

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Nearly two years ago, Donald Trump kicked off the presidential-campaign season with a declaration: “I was never on Epstein’s Plane, or at his ‘stupid’ Island,” he posted on Truth Social in January 2024. Reports to the contrary, he insisted, were the fault of AI—and of his political rivals: “This is what the Democrats do to their Republican Opponent, who is leading them, by a lot, in the Polls.”

But this week, the documents released by Trump’s own Justice Department—including flight logs and emails—told a different story. Federal prosecutors determined in January 2020 that Trump had been a passenger on the notorious private jet owned by Jeffrey Epstein—who would later be charged with sex trafficking—far more often than they had realized.

Many of the flights on what came to be known as the Lolita Express took place “during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case,” a federal prosecutor in New York told colleagues. Epstein’s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell was subsequently convicted and is now serving a 20-year prison sentence for her role in the sex-trafficking operation, including using the plane for “transporting a minor to participate in illegal sex acts.”

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/9r_WEw6yF7A?si=Xpk6cG8gaCImAPdL

 

Joe Rogan criticizes Trump for his increasingly insulting antics at the White House.


Joe Rogan criticizes Trump's presidential plaques