The Donald Trump Score Card

'Not optional or negotiable': Judge excoriates Trump admin for repeatedly 'refusing to comply' with discovery and court orders in humanities grant-funding lawsuit
Colin Kalmbacher
Dec 19th, 2025, 5:51 pm

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Judge excoriates Trump admin for 'refusing to comply' with discovery in grant-funding lawsuit

 

The Trump administration thinks it can cut off Congressionally issued funds to a group and then not respond to discovery requests by that group that has filed legal action against it.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/us/politics/trump-renaming.html

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"President Trump’s long love affair with his own name and likeness is peaking in his second term. There’s now the Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace and the Trump Kennedy Center, the performing arts venue. There are Trump Accounts for newborn babies and Trump Gold Cards for wealthy U.S. residency-seekers. Giant Trump portraits have been hung from select federal buildings and smaller ones will appear on national park passes. Coming soon: a so-called Trump class of battleships for the Navy and a Trump commemorative coin to celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary."

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/us/politics/trump-renaming.html

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"Alexander the Great did it, naming around 70 cities after himself in the empire he assembled in the 4th century B.C. through military might and massacres. So did Stalin, the Soviet leader who renamed Tsaritsyn as Stalingrad while also naming other cities across his domain for himself. Napoleon rechristened the Louvre as the Musée Napoléon when he was in power. Plazas named Adolf-Hitler-Platz proliferated in Germany and territories occupied by the Nazis. Mao Zedong’s cult of personality was all-inclusive, including his giant portrait overlooking Tiananmen Square and his “Little Red Book” of sayings that was required reading (and memorization) across China."

 

The real reason 7 major distilleries filed for bankruptcy in 2025 as fewer Americans are drinking than ever

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“Persistent trade tensions are having an immediate and adverse effect on U.S. spirits exports,” Distilled Spirits Council of the United States CEO and President Chris Swonger said. “There’s a growing concern that our international consumers are increasingly opting for domestically produced spirits or imports from countries other than the U.S., signaling a shift away from our great American spirits brands.”

The export decline was most noticeable in Canada, where U.S. spirit exports fell 85%, which came after Canada imposed retaliatory tariffs on U.S. spirits.

Canada removed the tariff on September 1. However, most Provinces still have a ban on American spirits, keeping products off their shelves.

 

Trump will fix it (the problem he caused).

Cue the cartoon showing Trump smashing buildings while driving a wrecking ball machine with the label 'Trump Will Fix It'.

 

Rogan is like the spring peeper, new to the world and wondering why particular attributes about it are the way they are.

Joe Rogan needs to read the snake poem like Trump did at many of his 2024 campaign rallies, the one about knowingly taking in a snake and being bitten by it.

Trump was stewing in his anger for four years during the Biden administration. It was clear to rational people that a reelected Trump would return with an extreme vengeance for an unending list of perceived wrongs against him.

 

When the rational people pointed out to people like Rogan the risks of a second Trump term, they were dubbed as being afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome, like they were when they expressed concerns about Trump and his people possibly going violent at the Capitol at the end of his first term when he felt like a wild animal cornered with no options left.

 

Loomer ran for a U.S. House seat in Florida in 2020 and 2022. She lost both times.

 

Dragged down by Trump, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing,.


Dragged down by an unpopular president, Republicans are bracing for a midterm trouncing

 

In spite of Rand Paul's objections, this is what Trump is doing. He can be expected to keep doing it throughout his second term.

If he disposes of Maduro, he will start more fights with other leaders around the world and try to oust them.

 

Tiny Pacific Island country to accept deportees from U.S.


Tiny Pacific nation to take up to 75 deportees as Trump administration accelerates mass removals

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"Palau has struck a deal with the U.S. to accept up to 75 deportees from the U.S. in exchange for $7.5 million in foreign aid.

The agreement will allow "third-country nationals" who have never been charged with a crime to live and work in the Pacific nation, which has a population of about 18,000 people, according to announcements Wednesday from President Surangel Whipps Jr.’s office and the U.S. Embassy in Koror."

 

$7.5 million U.S. taxpayer money to a tiny Pacfici island to take 75 deportees.

That's $100,000 dollars per deportee.

Yet Fox and some of Trump's people are still supporting him for spending their money in that manner.

At what price would Trump's supporters start questioning whether their disdain for immigrants is worth their tax dollars.

 

Judge cancels Trump administration's criminal trial of Garcia.


'Prima facie showing of vindictiveness': Judge cancels criminal trial for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, gives government one final chance to salvage human smuggling case
Colin Kalmbacher
Dec 27th, 2025, 11:16 am

Judge cancels criminal trial for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, gives government one more chance

 

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/21/1082124528/ukraine-russia-putin-invasion

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"So they had this faith that the West would stand by them, or certainly the United States, the signatories, and Great Britain, would stand up for Ukraine should it come under threat. Although, the precise way was not really proscribed in the memorandum.

Russia just glibly violated it."

 

ACA subsidies lapse at the end of 2025.


https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/politics/small-businesses-health-insurance-aca

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"But starting in January, the Frankenfelds might need to ask for the same treatment from their own doctors, since they will become uninsured. The Point Pleasant, New Jersey, couple will no longer be able to afford their Obamacare plan after the enhanced premiums subsidies lapse at year’s end. They decided to forgo coverage after learning that their plan’s premium will skyrocket to $1,928 a month, up from $340 this year."

 

Six hurdles Trump faces in 2026.


Inside the 'daunting challenges' Trump will face in 2026

 

Article from July 2016.


Trump: VP Pick Pence 'A Man of Honor, Honesty'
BY TWC News Staff & Associated Press Decision 2016
PUBLISHED 1:09 PM ET Jul. 16, 2016

Trump: VP Pick Pence 'A Man of Honor, Honesty'

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Trump says the man who will join him on the Republican presidential ticket is a "man of character, honor and honesty."

 

US President Donald Trump found with makeup, ‘small hole’ on his hand: Social media reacts, ‘They stuff him with drugs’ | Mint

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Social media users have spotted Donald Trump’s hands and questioned his health. Some of them spotted a “small hole at the site of discolouration”.

“Not only was Trump's right hand discoloured on Christmas Eve, but it appears his left hand is now discoloured too,” came one comment.

Another posted, “That's an old IV site. It looks like the IV was removed a couple of days ago.”

“You can clearly see the bruising on Trump's left hand here, as well as the makeup that covers the bruising on his right hand. Will the White House try to tell us that's from "shaking a lot of hands" too?” asked one of them.