As of the close of the day on February 8, my positive/negative score on the current administration stands at
-91.
8 February 2025
- -1: Trump rambles on about groceries and misses why eggs are so expensive (avian flu) [17]
- -1: DOGE kids aged 19, 20, 21 years are interviewing federal officials to determine if they should keep their job [18]
- -1: Elon Musk claims California schoolchildren are being indoctrinated with DEI, racism, sexism, and communism [19]
- -1: Four more respected news outlets at the Pentagon replaced with (mostly) right-wing sources [20]
Footnotes:
17. Trump: I hear so much about the word groceries. I used to use groceries a lot on the [campaign] trail. Groceries, sort of an old fashioned word. But groceries is the most accurate word…You take a look at eggs today, the eggs are double, triple, quadruple…
18. Federal employee: "My colleagues are getting 15-minute one-on-one check-ins with 19-, 20-, and 21-year-old college graduates, asking to justify their existence. Supervisors are being told not to tell their staff anything, withhold information, and today we got word that supervisors must now fill out a justification form, and that there's going to be just a 30% rank-and-yank with all staff at my agency. And to top it all off, one of Musk's top lieutenants and his wife and young child have shacked up on the sixth floor of our agency, and are now living there."
19. Musk: "Teachers in California spend their time indoctrinating kids in DEI racism & sexism & communism, instead of teaching them the skills that help them succeed in life. This needs to STOP!"
20. The Washington Post, CNN, The Hill, and The War Zone will be swapped out for the Washington Examiner, Newsmax, The Free Press and the Daily Caller
I re-evaluated two previous items rated at 0 and reduced their score to -1:
- From January 20, Executive Order 14158 creating the Department of Government Efficiency (-1 because it's a clown show)
- From February 7, Executive Order "Addressing Egregious Actions of The Republic of South Africa"
I added four items not previously listed:
- From February 4, -1: Executive Order 14199: US to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council
- February 4, -1: Executive Order 14199: US cuts funding to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)
- February 5, -1: Attorney General Pam Bondi disbands the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force
- February 7, -1: DOGE employee, 19, had been fired from an earlier internship for giving information to a competitor
And lastly, I removed one item because it appeared to false:
REPORTER: "So to be clear, you’re fine with DOGE collecting Americans' private financial data?"
TRUMP: "Look, if DOGE didn’t do it, somebody else would. That’s the way it works, folks."
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