Blue Mountain
Resident Skeptical Hobbit
As of the close of the day on March 25, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -364.
Keeping this list up-to-date is rather time consuming. I want to ensure I have web searchable references for everything I post here.
25 March 2025
+1: Executive Order: Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections
0: Executive Order: Modernizing Payments To and From America’s Bank Account
0: Executive Order: Protecting America’s Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
-1: Executive Order: Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block
-1: Trump calls Jeffrey Goldberg, journalist from The Atlantic, "a sleazebag" [107]
-1: Seen on X: Tulsi Gabbard claims she didn't know if she was in the Signal chat or not [108]
I'm willing to downgrade Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections if people can quote sections of it showing where they negatively impact the ability of Americans to vote. I read it over quickly and didn't see anything obvious, but I saw commentary about it being difficult for many people to get the identification they need in order to be able to vote.
References:
107. Trump: "The person that was on just happens to be a sleazebag, so maybe that's just coincidence. I don't know ... he's basically bad for the country."
108. You know it’s not going well when your Director of National Intelligence claims she does not know if she was part of the signal chat and literally a few moments later the Director of the CIA, sitting right beside her, confirms that she was.
24 March 2025
-2: Headline: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans [The Atlantic] (-2 for illegal)
-1: Headline: Trump says countries that purchase oil from Venezuela will pay 25% tariff on any trade with U.S. [CNBC]
-1: Trump was unaware of the security breach mentioned above [105]
-1: Pete Hegseth goes on the offense, attacking the reporter who was added to the Signal group [106]
References:
105 Trump: "I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic. To be it's a magazine that's going out of business. But I know nothing about it. You're saying that they had what?"
106 Reporter: "Can you share how your information about war plans was shared with a journalist?"
Hegseth: "So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes?"
23 March 2025
-1: Headline: ‘This is not your grandmother’s Easter Egg Roll’: White House seeks sponsorships for Easter event (CNN)
-1: Trump again rails against judges who are doing their job (this is so not an authoritative thing, right? /s) [102]
-1: Trumps revoke national security clearances from seven important individuals [103]
-1: US Border Czar Tom Homan says he doesn't care about judicial orders and will ignore them [104]
-1: US Border Czar Tom Homan says deportees aren't entitled to due process [105]
References:
102. Trump: "Unlawful Nationwide Injunctions by Radical Left Judges could very well lead to the destruction of our Country! These people are Lunatics, who do not care, even a little bit, about the repercussions from their very dangerous and incorrect Decisions and Rulings. Lawyers endlessly search the United States for these Judges, and file lawsuits as quickly as they find them. It is then the obligation of Law abiding Agencies of Government to have these "Orders" overturned. The danger is unparalleled! These Judges want to assume the Powers of the Presidency, without having to attain 80 Million Votes. They want all of the advantages with none of the risks. Again, a President has to be allowed to act quickly and decisively about such matters as returning murderers, drug lords, rapists, and other such type criminals back to their Homeland, or to other locations that will allow our Country to be SAFE. It is our goal to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and such a high aspiration can never be done if Radical and Highly Partisan Judges are allowed to stand in the way of JUSTICE. STOP NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS NOW, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. If Justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not fix this toxic and unprecedented situation IMMEDIATELY, our Country is in very serious trouble!"
103. Trump has revoked security clearances from Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, New York attorney general Letitia James, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg and former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman.
104. Homan on a judge blocking Trump's rendition flights to a slave prison in El Salvador: "I don't care what that judge thinks as far as this case. We're gonna continue to arrest public safety threats, national security threats. We're gonna continue to deport them."
105. Karl: "Do they have any due process at all?"
Homan: "Due process -- what was Laken Riley's due process?"
22 March 2025
-1: Headline: Weeks-long lockups of European tourists at US borders spark fears of travelling to America [9news.com.au]
21 March 2025
-3: Trump Shuts Down 3 Watchdog Agencies Overseeing Immigration Crackdown (New York Times)
-1: Headline: U.S. limits Canadian access to iconic Stanstead, Que., border-straddling library (CBC)
-1: Trump calls people vandalizing Tesla dealerships "terrorists" and suggests they be deported to El Salvador [96]
-1: Trump, who has railed constantly against the New York Times, calls it a "corrupt institution" [97]
-1: Trump goes on a strange ramble about rulers, both straight-edges and people [98]
-1: Trump thinks the $200 billion trade deficit with Canada is all that's keeping Canada afloat [99]
-1: Billionaire Secretary of Commerce says social security should stop paying accuse those who complain of being cheats [100]
-1: Just in time for tornado season, Musk's cuts to the National Weather Service forces cuts to data collection (Daily Kos)
-1: Headline: Trump Claims Not To Have Signed Alien Enemies Act Deportation Document. So Who Did? (Daily Kos)
-1: Trump says the US will sell "toned down" versions of the F-47 to allies in case they stop being allies [101]
References:
96. Trump: "I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!"
97. Reporter: "What do you say to military families who are seeing Musk at the Pentagon, hearing about DoD cuts, & their thoughts are immediately going to the safety of their loved ones?"
Trump: "We're making our country strong... what they should do is realize that the NYT is a corrupt institution."
98. Doocy: "Are you concerned that if Canada became the 51st state, it would be a very very blue state?"
Trump: "You have that artificial line that looks like it was drawn by a ruler. I don't mean a ruler like a king, I mean a ruler like a ruler. It's just an artificial line ... is it liberal? Maybe."
99. "We don't need anything from Canada, and yet it costs up $200b in subsidy to keep Canada afloat. So when I say they should be a state, I mean that. I really mean that ... some people don't have the cards."
100. Howard Lutnik: "Let's say Social Security didn't send out their cheques this month. My mother-in-law, who's 94, she wouldn't call and complain. She just wouldn't. She thinks something got messed up and she'll get it next month. A fraudster always makes the loudest noise screaming, yelling, and complaining. And all the guys who did PayPal, like Elon knows this by heart, right? Anybody who's been in the payment system and the process system knows the easiest way to find the fraudster is to stop payments and listen.” (Daily Kos)
101. Trump: "It will ensure the USA continues to dominate the skies. We have given in order for a lot. We cannot tell you the price because it would give away some of the technology and sizable planes—a good-sized plane. This contract also represents an historic investment in our defense industrial base, helping keep America at the cutting edge of technology. Our allies are calling constantly—they want to buy them also. Certain allies, we will be selling them, perhaps, a toned-down version. We like to tone it down about 10%, which probably makes sense, because maybe some of them are not our allies, right?"
Keeping this list up-to-date is rather time consuming. I want to ensure I have web searchable references for everything I post here.
25 March 2025
+1: Executive Order: Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections
0: Executive Order: Modernizing Payments To and From America’s Bank Account
0: Executive Order: Protecting America’s Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
-1: Executive Order: Addressing Risks from Jenner & Block
-1: Trump calls Jeffrey Goldberg, journalist from The Atlantic, "a sleazebag" [107]
-1: Seen on X: Tulsi Gabbard claims she didn't know if she was in the Signal chat or not [108]
I'm willing to downgrade Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections if people can quote sections of it showing where they negatively impact the ability of Americans to vote. I read it over quickly and didn't see anything obvious, but I saw commentary about it being difficult for many people to get the identification they need in order to be able to vote.
References:
107. Trump: "The person that was on just happens to be a sleazebag, so maybe that's just coincidence. I don't know ... he's basically bad for the country."
108. You know it’s not going well when your Director of National Intelligence claims she does not know if she was part of the signal chat and literally a few moments later the Director of the CIA, sitting right beside her, confirms that she was.
24 March 2025
-2: Headline: The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans [The Atlantic] (-2 for illegal)
-1: Headline: Trump says countries that purchase oil from Venezuela will pay 25% tariff on any trade with U.S. [CNBC]
-1: Trump was unaware of the security breach mentioned above [105]
-1: Pete Hegseth goes on the offense, attacking the reporter who was added to the Signal group [106]
References:
105 Trump: "I don't know anything about it. I'm not a big fan of The Atlantic. To be it's a magazine that's going out of business. But I know nothing about it. You're saying that they had what?"
106 Reporter: "Can you share how your information about war plans was shared with a journalist?"
Hegseth: "So you are talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes?"
23 March 2025
-1: Headline: ‘This is not your grandmother’s Easter Egg Roll’: White House seeks sponsorships for Easter event (CNN)
-1: Trump again rails against judges who are doing their job (this is so not an authoritative thing, right? /s) [102]
-1: Trumps revoke national security clearances from seven important individuals [103]
-1: US Border Czar Tom Homan says he doesn't care about judicial orders and will ignore them [104]
-1: US Border Czar Tom Homan says deportees aren't entitled to due process [105]
References:
102. Trump: "Unlawful Nationwide Injunctions by Radical Left Judges could very well lead to the destruction of our Country! These people are Lunatics, who do not care, even a little bit, about the repercussions from their very dangerous and incorrect Decisions and Rulings. Lawyers endlessly search the United States for these Judges, and file lawsuits as quickly as they find them. It is then the obligation of Law abiding Agencies of Government to have these "Orders" overturned. The danger is unparalleled! These Judges want to assume the Powers of the Presidency, without having to attain 80 Million Votes. They want all of the advantages with none of the risks. Again, a President has to be allowed to act quickly and decisively about such matters as returning murderers, drug lords, rapists, and other such type criminals back to their Homeland, or to other locations that will allow our Country to be SAFE. It is our goal to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, and such a high aspiration can never be done if Radical and Highly Partisan Judges are allowed to stand in the way of JUSTICE. STOP NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS NOW, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. If Justice Roberts and the United States Supreme Court do not fix this toxic and unprecedented situation IMMEDIATELY, our Country is in very serious trouble!"
103. Trump has revoked security clearances from Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, New York attorney general Letitia James, Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg and former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissman.
104. Homan on a judge blocking Trump's rendition flights to a slave prison in El Salvador: "I don't care what that judge thinks as far as this case. We're gonna continue to arrest public safety threats, national security threats. We're gonna continue to deport them."
105. Karl: "Do they have any due process at all?"
Homan: "Due process -- what was Laken Riley's due process?"
22 March 2025
-1: Headline: Weeks-long lockups of European tourists at US borders spark fears of travelling to America [9news.com.au]
21 March 2025
-3: Trump Shuts Down 3 Watchdog Agencies Overseeing Immigration Crackdown (New York Times)
-1: Headline: U.S. limits Canadian access to iconic Stanstead, Que., border-straddling library (CBC)
-1: Trump calls people vandalizing Tesla dealerships "terrorists" and suggests they be deported to El Salvador [96]
-1: Trump, who has railed constantly against the New York Times, calls it a "corrupt institution" [97]
-1: Trump goes on a strange ramble about rulers, both straight-edges and people [98]
-1: Trump thinks the $200 billion trade deficit with Canada is all that's keeping Canada afloat [99]
-1: Billionaire Secretary of Commerce says social security should stop paying accuse those who complain of being cheats [100]
-1: Just in time for tornado season, Musk's cuts to the National Weather Service forces cuts to data collection (Daily Kos)
-1: Headline: Trump Claims Not To Have Signed Alien Enemies Act Deportation Document. So Who Did? (Daily Kos)
-1: Trump says the US will sell "toned down" versions of the F-47 to allies in case they stop being allies [101]
References:
96. Trump: "I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Perhaps they could serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions!"
97. Reporter: "What do you say to military families who are seeing Musk at the Pentagon, hearing about DoD cuts, & their thoughts are immediately going to the safety of their loved ones?"
Trump: "We're making our country strong... what they should do is realize that the NYT is a corrupt institution."
98. Doocy: "Are you concerned that if Canada became the 51st state, it would be a very very blue state?"
Trump: "You have that artificial line that looks like it was drawn by a ruler. I don't mean a ruler like a king, I mean a ruler like a ruler. It's just an artificial line ... is it liberal? Maybe."
99. "We don't need anything from Canada, and yet it costs up $200b in subsidy to keep Canada afloat. So when I say they should be a state, I mean that. I really mean that ... some people don't have the cards."
100. Howard Lutnik: "Let's say Social Security didn't send out their cheques this month. My mother-in-law, who's 94, she wouldn't call and complain. She just wouldn't. She thinks something got messed up and she'll get it next month. A fraudster always makes the loudest noise screaming, yelling, and complaining. And all the guys who did PayPal, like Elon knows this by heart, right? Anybody who's been in the payment system and the process system knows the easiest way to find the fraudster is to stop payments and listen.” (Daily Kos)
101. Trump: "It will ensure the USA continues to dominate the skies. We have given in order for a lot. We cannot tell you the price because it would give away some of the technology and sizable planes—a good-sized plane. This contract also represents an historic investment in our defense industrial base, helping keep America at the cutting edge of technology. Our allies are calling constantly—they want to buy them also. Certain allies, we will be selling them, perhaps, a toned-down version. We like to tone it down about 10%, which probably makes sense, because maybe some of them are not our allies, right?"
