The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump's comment this week describing the Iranian government treatment of the public (which is not unlike the way he is treating Americans who disagree with him).


Trump:

"Every time they have a riot or somebody forms a group, little or big, they start shooting people. You know, they kill people. All of a sudden people start getting shot and that group disbanded pretty quickly."

 

Trump is cutting off child care money to Minnesota.


Trump administration says it's halting federal child care payments to Minnesota after viral fraud claims
The Department of Health and Human Services move comes after a video purported to show Minnesota day care facilities that aren’t operational but were receiving government funds.
By Raquel Coronell Uribe
December 30, 2025

Trump administration says it's halting federal child care payments to Minnesota after viral fraud claims

 

Trump is currently starting trouble with Venezuela to start trouble with Iran by stopping the oil business between the two. He's also starting trouble with China because China buys oil from Venezuela. That could cripple any improvements that were made recently for China to resume the purchasing of soy from the U.S. after the trouble Trump started with his trade wars.

Trump is agitating Venezuelans and Iranians to turn against their government.

Trump is starting trouble in MN to try to stop Walz from being reelected governor in 2026. Trump is cutting off childcare money to MN. Trump election truther Mike Lindell announced he is running for governor of MN. Trump is agitating the public to turn against Walz.

Newly released data from a judge show that Trump's DOJ officials were more involved in starting trouble for Garcia than initially anticipated, contradicting their claims that they didn't engage in such behavior.

Trump is starting trouble in Colorado because the governor isn't aligned with his anti-immigration crusade and the governor isn't going to pardon election truther Tina Peters. Trump has cut off various funding for Colorado.


Anti-Iran regime protests grow across country as Trump admin boosts demonstrators offering support
By Efrat Lachter, Fox News
December 30, 2025

Justice Dept. leaders pushed to charge Abrego Garcia, emails show, contradicting prosecutors’ assertions.
Alan Feuer
Dec. 30, 2025, 6:18 p.m. ET

Trump vetoes bill to fund Arkansas Valley Conduit in Colorado
President Trump vetoed a bill to fund a pipeline project to bring clean drinking water to communities on the Eastern Plains between Pueblo and Lamar.
Author: Marilyn Moore, Kyle Clark
Published: 5:24 PM MST December 30, 2025
Updated: 5:24 PM MST December 30, 2025

 

Trump's golden age of awful.


Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful
Susan B. Glasser
December 30, 2025

Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Awful

excerpt:

A partial catalogue of the horrors of 2025 that not even the most prescient Trump-watcher could claim to have fully predicted: gutting cancer research in the name of expurgating diversity programs from the nation’s universities. Shutting the door to refugees—except for white Afrikaners, from South Africa. Empowering the world’s richest man to cut off funding for the world’s poorest children. Welcoming Vladimir Putin on a red carpet at an American Air Force base. Razing the East Wing of the White House, without warning, on an October morning. Alienating pretty much the entirety of Canada.

 

Various distilleries have been shutting down or filing for bankruptcy during Trump's trade wars that have caused retaliatory tariffs and boycotts of American goods.


Jim Beam shutting down production at Kentucky distillery for a year
By Megan Ziegler
Published December 23, 2025 9:52am EST

An Ohio Whiskey Distillery Has Filed for Bankruptcy in Another Blow to the Industry
Jonah Flicker
December 30, 2025

 

GOP is bracing for a shellacking in the 2026 midterm elections.

Various GOP in Congress have announced retirements, citing wanting to spend more time with family.


GOP 'waiting for Trump to die or quit' as midterm blowout looms: analyst
Ewan Gleadow
December 30, 2025 8:59AM ET

GOP 'waiting for Trump to die or quit' as midterm blowout looms: analyst

 

A very bungled act by Trump's ICE that could have easily caused a shooting death of Parias.


Officer video raises questions about ICE shooting of TikTok streamer

excerpt:

“Without knowing specifically what training ICE officers get in situations like this, I will just say that that is a poor example of how to remove somebody from a car that doesn’t want to get out of the car and you have that car completely boxed in,” Bueermann said. “There’s all kinds of poor police procedures involved in this.”

Bueermann added that it appeared that the officer experienced “an accidental discharge.”

“The gentleman in the car is probably very fortunate that as a result of that discharge that the other officers did not engage in what’s called contagious fire, where they think the driver shot at them,” he said. “He’s very, very fortunate that they didn’t kill him.”

 

Trump will fix it.

 

Trump will fix it.

 

Santa Trump.

Here comes Santa Claus, right down Santa Claus lane.


The Santa Presidency
Trump is trying to fix the economy—by handing out cash.
By Toluse Olorunnipa
December 28, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/trump-cash-tariffs-dividends-economy/685336/

excerpt:

"In recent weeks, Trump has been pitching half a dozen schemes to, in the words of White House officials, put money “straight into the pockets of the American people.” After a year in which Americans’ pocketbooks have been walloped by Trump’s tariffs, cuts to the social safety net, and apparent nonchalance in the face of spiking health-care costs, the president is turning to the allure of sweepstakes-style checks from the government to help coax voters out of their financial malaise ahead of next year’s midterm elections. It likely won’t work, economists from across the political spectrum told me; one likened the payments to a bandage over a bullet wound."

 

Trump's New Year message.


Trump kicks off New Year’s Eve celebrations by telling fellow Republican to ‘rot in hell’

excerpt:

“Hard to wish her a Happy New Year, but to the Scumbag Governor, and the disgusting “Republican” (RINO!) DA, who did this to her (nothing happens to the Dems and their phony Mail In Ballot System that makes it impossible for a Republican to win an otherwise very winnable State!). I wish them only the worst.

He added: “May they rot in Hell. FREE TINA PETTERS! [sic]”

 

Trump thinks his approval rating is 64%.


Donald Trump disputes polls on approval rating

 

Boebert hits back at Trump after veto of Colorado water bill, raises retaliation concerns

excerpt:

"President Trump decided to veto a completely non-controversial, bipartisan bill that passed both the House and Senate unanimously. Why? Because nothing says ‘America First’ like denying clean drinking water to 50,000 people in Southeast Colorado many of whom enthusiastically voted for him all three elections," Boebert said in a statement posted by journalist Kyle Clarke.

Boebert raised the possibility that the veto was retaliation for her vote to release the Epstein files earlier this year.

 

Kennedy Center Altered Rules So Only Trump-Appointed Board Members Could Vote on Name Change
Emily Zemler
December 31, 2025

Kennedy Center Altered Rules Ahead of Trump-Inspired Name Change

excerpt:

"The Kennedy Center changed its bylaws earlier this year to limit voting to board members appointed by the president.

In a new report, The Washington Post confirmed the performing arts center adopted a revised set of rules in May to specify that board members designated by Congress — known as ex officio members — could not vote or count toward a quorum. Only those who were presidentially-appointed by Donald Trump would have their vote counted. This preceded a vote on Dec. 18 in which the board voted to change the D.C. institution’s name to the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts."

 

Trump's Nobel Peace Prize in jeopardy again.


WHAT PEACE DEAL? Putin orders fresh invasion landgrab in Ukraine to seize MORE territory in 2026 in brazen snub of Trump peace bid
Putin's continued battlefield aggression comes after 'terrific' talks between Trump and Zelensky in Florida
Georgie English , Senior Foreign News Reporter | Will Stewart
Published: 04:03, 31 Dec 2025

Putin orders fresh invasion landgrab in Ukraine to seize MORE territory in 2026 in brazen snub of Trump peace bid

excerpt:

“The Northern Group of Forces has completed the liberation of Kursk region in accordance with the instructions of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief [Vladimir Putin], while establishing a security buffer in the border areas of Ukraine’s Sumy and Kharkiv regions.

“The President of the Russian Federation [Putin] has set the task of continuing to expand the security buffer next year in order to ensure the peaceful lives of residents of Belgorod and Kursk regions.”

ISW experts, who have been studying the war for its entirety, often rubbish Russia’s blown-up claims over how much land it has seized.

Across the whole year, Russia claims to have taken 6,000 sq km of land from the Ukrainians.

 

Trump's potential target cities in 2026.


Here are the top US cities Trump could target with National Guard deployments in 2026

 

Trump talks like he's not sleeping. The cameras are catching him when he blinks.


Trump, in interview, defends his energy and health, offers new details on screening he underwent

excerpt:

“I’ll just close. It’s very relaxing to me,” he said. “Sometimes they’ll take a picture of me blinking, blinking, and they’ll catch me with the blink.”

 

Trump said he'd cut energy prices in half in 12 months. It hasn't happened.

He still has about three weeks left in his first year of his second term in office to do it.


Trump Said He’d Cut Energy Prices in Half in 12 Months: Here’s Where They’re at Today

 

Trump says his 2026 New Year's resolution is "Peace on earth".

 

Trump administration delays tariff increases on furniture and kitchen cabinets by a year

excerpt:

"The postponement follows a November rollback by the Trump administration of tariffs on imported foods such as beef, coffee and bananas, as affordability concerns have weighed on consumer sentiment about the U.S. economy. Furniture prices have been outpacing inflation, with living room, kitchen and dining room furniture rising 4.6% in November from a year earlier, compared with a 2.7% annual increase in the overall Consumer Price Index."