The Donald Trump Score Card

ICE Plots $100 Million ‘Wartime Recruitment’ Drive Aimed at Hiring Gun Enthusiasts
The propaganda blitz will be aimed at “people who have attended UFC fights, listened to patriotic podcasts, or shown an interest in guns and tactical gear,” according to the Washington Post.
Brad Reed
Dec 31, 2025

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"The propaganda blitz will be targeted at highly specific demographics, including “people who have attended UFC fights, listened to patriotic podcasts, or shown an interest in guns and tactical gear,” according to the Post.

The ICE drive would also use an ad-targeting technique called “geofencing” to send recruitment ads to users’ phone browsers if they are in the vicinity of certain locations, such as military bases, NASCAR races, college campuses, and gun shows."

 

ICE Arrests Are Forcing American Moms to Leave Their Jobs
A new analysis shows that increased immigration enforcement is reducing labor in the child care workforce. The ripple effect is impacting mothers with young children.
By Barbara Rodriguez
December 31, 2025

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"A jump in immigration enforcement arrests under the Trump administration is having a detrimental impact on America’s child care system, reducing the number of immigrant workers available and prompting mothers with young children to leave their jobs as they scramble for stable care."

 

Detailed article about Medicaid system and fraud.


The Minnesota Welfare Fraud Story Is Really About a Broken Medicaid Bureaucracy
Federal Medicaid policy creates little incentive for states to stop potential fraudsters. Fixing that should be the priority, not demonizing Somali immigrants.
Eric Boehm
12.30.2025 1:15 PM

The Minnesota welfare fraud story is really about a broken Medicaid bureaucracy

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"There's no doubt that the scandal has become a bigger story because of Walz, who gained national prominence last year as Kamala Harris' running mate, and because it presents an opportunity to scapegoat the entire Somali immigrant and Somali-American community in Minnesota for crimes committed by a tiny fraction of those individuals.

Still, the real problem here is a much more boring and less partisan one, and it starts with Medicaid.

Technically, Medicaid is a joint federal-state program, but the federal government's share has grown dramatically in recent decades while the state funding has flatlined. That's due to two provisions in federal law. First, there is the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) rate, which varies by state and program. By law, a state's FMAP rate can be no less than 50 percent and no more than 83 percent.

Second, and thanks to the Medicaid expansion included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Medicaid services provided to enrollees covered by the ACA are funded at 90 percent by the federal government."

 

Chinese-flagged VLCC en route to Venezuela despite US blockade
By Greg Miller
30 Dec 2025

Chinese-flagged VLCC en route to Venezuela despite US blockade

 

Kennedy Center renaming prompts a new round of cancellations
By MEG KINNARD

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"Those moves come after musician Chuck Redd canceled a Christmas Eve performance last week. They also come amid declining sales for tickets to the venue, as well as news that viewership for the Dec. 23 broadcast of the Kennedy Center Honors — which Trump had predicted would soar — was down by about 35% compared to the 2024 show."

 

Judge blocks White House’s attempt to defund the CFPB, ensuring employees get paid
By KEN SWEET

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"NEW YORK (AP) — The White House cannot lapse in its funding of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal district court judge ruled on Tuesday, only days before funds at the bureau would have likely run out and the consumer finance agency would have no money to pay its employees."

 

Trump should have the Village People on standby to fill in for such cancellations.

 

Zelenskyy suggests Trump fly to Ukraine to help 'end the war'
Zelenskyy said peace talks include the possibility of U.S. troops in Ukraine.
By David Brennan
December 31, 2025, 5:25 AM

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"I told him that we would be glad to see him. It is very useful for Ukraine. If U.S. President Trump flies to Ukraine, and it is desirable that he flies by plane not to Poland, but to Ukraine, then this will indicate that we definitely have the opportunity to count on a ceasefire," Zelenskyy said.

 

Trump gold phone delayed again.

The Trump phone monthly rate is $47.45 (his presidential numbers)


Trump family business delays launch of $499 gold smartphone
US-made device planned by end of year hit by recent government shutdown affecting shipments
Joanna Partridge
Wed 31 Dec 2025 07.59 EST

 

$47.45 is more than $45.47.

 

Project Syndicate
Jorge G. Castañeda
Dec 12, 2025

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"If there are about 14 million undocumented immigrants in the US, as some estimate, it will take decades to deport them all, at the current rate. And this assumes that third countries would continue to accept them – hardly a foregone conclusion. The refusal or reluctance of many governments, such as Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela, to accept their own nationals is a key reason why deportees are being sent to third countries."

 

Trump received another $4.5 billion under the One Big Beautiful Bill in 2025 to continue with construction of his border wall.

In July 2025 Trump diverted $200 million from the Pentagon to his border wall.

 

Greene says she was so naive to fall for Trump.


‘I Was Just So Naïve’: Inside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Break With Trump
How the Georgia congresswoman went from the president’s loudest cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic.
By Robert Draper
Published Dec. 29, 2025
Updated Dec. 31, 2025

 

Trump says Venezuela's Maduro has been captured after US conducted 'large scale strike' on country
REGINA GARCIA CANO and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN
Sat, January 3, 2026 at 6:33 AM UTC

Trump says Venezuela's Maduro has been captured after US conducted 'large scale strike' on country

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"CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has been captured and flown from the country, President Donald Trump announced early Saturday after confirming that the U.S. forces conducted what he called “a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader.”

In a post on social media, Trump said Maduro’s wife was also seized in the operation conducted along with U.S. law enforcement. Trump said he planned to deliver a statement later Saturday morning."


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Never.

They’re rabid animals without conscience.

 

These will be the type of people behind those masks. Most of these clowns couldn’t pass a background check! I see these deportation efforts becoming very, very violent……

 

During his Saturday press gathering, Trump said his administration is going to be running Venezuela.

He said the big U.S. oil companies will be very much involved with the oil in Venezuela.

After Trump captured Maduro, VP Vance issued a statement that included a remark that the Trump administration wants the oil back from Venezuela that it supposedly stole from the U.S.

 

Trump the armed oil robber and someone who will never be satisfied until his tentacles reach every nation rich in natural resources across the globe.This is not a war on drugs, it's a power grab by the most dangerous and powerful man on Earth.