Category: Trump Chaos

Trump Continues to Push Agony on Investors – More tariffs on the Way

March 8, 2025

Yesterday, I watched the stock markets intentely during the opening bell and at closing. There were millions of dollars changing hands, and the brokers seemed not to know whether to buy or to sell.

The markets seem so volatile. And yes it was. Why? Mainly because of Donald Trump’s tariff threats. Just before closing 2 nights ago, Donald Trump halted tariffs on Canada and Mexico, because I believe he finally saw the writing on the wall.

According to J.P. Morgan the following is very true…

If you know what to do in times like this, then you can survive. First, you must remain focused on ensuring your portfolio withstands uncertainties without derailing your near-term needs and long-term goals. A resilient portfolio is properly diversified and tailored to your long-term plan.

Friday at the final bell, the DOW closed at 42,801.72, which was a .52% increase in volume. That was a win. The DOW gained 222.64 points today. It opened at 42,503.07.

The stock market in general has had a pretty dismal performance in the last 3 months, but for the year, it is bearly hanging in the green with just a .61% gain from Dec 31, 2024. During the entire year of 2024, the markets were in the green at 10.53% from the previous year. So far, compared to 2024, this year is just a disaster. And it’s not even the end of the first quarter of trading for the year.

Trump finally cancelled his tarrifs on Canada and Mexico at least for a month until April 2, which was responsible for the slight gains today in the DOW. If he would stay away from taraffs and let the markets recover, the markets will stop spirling and inflation will ease.

But unfortunatey, that is not what Trump plans to do. He is an absolute sicko. When he found out that his 25% tariffs were going to tank the U.S. economy, now he has decided to go another route. His main goal seems to be to inflict “pain” on the American people.

He is ‘hell-bent’ on punishing Canada, our closest neighbor and friend. God only knows why. No other president, Democrat or Republican would be so foolish than to threaten neighboring countries with tariffs. So after just a single day of recoup of the DOW that ended in a positive note today, he has decide now to put new tariffs on Canada, now aiming a 250% on dairy products with Canada, which he claims is a reciprical tax on what Canada has been doing with exports to the U.S. regarding dairy products.

Out of the 5 trading days each week, this week there were just 2 days of uptick results but 3 days with a nose-dive in results with the DOW.

So what’s coming regarding tariffs now?

In a YouTube video, Trump again blamed the prior administration for dairy product tariffs, which he claimed under his watch during his first term. A single day doesn’t go by where he doesn’t try to justify why he initiates tariffs. If it isn’t for the country he blames, he blames Biden.

He claims because of the tariff, it is impossible to sell dairy products along with lumber into Canada. He stated that Canada has been…

“ripping us off for years on tariffs for lumber and dairy products.”

He claims that…

“Canada will be met with the exact same tariff unless they drop it. That’s what reciprical means, and we may do it as early as today or we will wait until Monday or Tuesday, but that’s what we are going to do. It’s not fair, and never has been fair. “

His reciprical tariff on Canada – 250%.

It seems that every hour Trump threatens with a new tariff, or holds back or delays. He’s now also threatening to tariff steel and aluminum imports next week.

So how are the markets going to handle that? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist on what’s about to happen. Well, the markets won’t be stable enough next week to handle Trumps latest tariff threat.   Now that Donald Trump couldn’t keep his upcoming tariff plans under a hat, the investors will have a field day with trading next week, and there will be more devestating losses throughout the week. But mark my words here. Trump is weak and is a coward. He will cave again when he sees where the markets are heading next week.

In April, there are tariffs that loom from the European Union, on autos and reciprical tariffs. Then later on this year, there will be tariffs on copper, timber, lumber and semiconductors. Not to mention the tariffs that were threatened today on dairy products from Canada. 

So there is so much uncertainty in trade policy at the moment, and the Trade Policy Uncertainty Index is going through the roof at the moment. It started to go crazy during his first term, and now again in 2025, more than ever. The markets don’t have a chance in hell to stablize and there will be no time in the near future where people can SAFELY invest in the markets. If you are a risk taker, there will be lots of risks you can take, but many more that you shouldn’t. For the normal investor if you bank your returns on the U.S. stock market from day to day, it is not a good bet to go that route.

So the downturn will continue in the markets next week. I’ll post a report on the Dow futures on Sunday Evening, and we can get a glimpse before the opening bell on Monday on how the markets will begin with trading which should be very volitile for the next week.

Trump will make concessions, like the weak man he is, that’s after people will loose millions thanks to his tariff policies. Then, he will just initiate another tariff, because he is very good at what he does best, and that is to inflick “pain” on the American people.

Again, I ask my Republican friends. What do you think now of Trump in his ability to save the economy. Friends, it’s cratering, and sooner than later we may be in recession territory. You will know when that time comes. The news folks will be talking all about it. But by then, it just may be too late.

Canada, Mexico, China, Japan, and the European Union are not waiting for Trump to change. They know that global trade must go on, with or without the United States, and they will trade without America if they have to.

Trump Posts One TRUTH ON TRUTH SOCIAL, The Rest are LIES

March 7, 2025

Here is what Donald Trump just posted today on Truth Social…

Wow..  What a statement.   If it were anyone else writing it, you would believe it. The only thing I can say is “What an ignorant S.O.B”.

Let’s pick that statement apart, shall we…

He starts with a ‘Truth’ on Truth Social. Now that’s a first. Can you believe it, Donald Trump is telling the truth. Yes, Russia is ABSOLUTELY “pounding” Ukraine on the battlefield right now”. They were today, yesterday, and every day since he was president, and even before by some 3 years or so. Ukraine is in ruins. Is he stating ANYTHING that we don’t already know? The answer is ‘NO’ but now he’s admitting it. Why because he is nothing but a failure regarding negotiating peace. He claimed the war would be over on ‘Day 1’ of his presidency. And the American people fell for it. He never once invited Ukraine to the peace table, NOT EVEN ONCE. Again, what a coward Donald Trump is.

So now he wants to consider large scale Banking Sanctions and TARIFFS on Russia. Wow, this guy is actually sick. Just because he fails miserably on pushing tariffs on Canada and Mexico, now he uses his most beloved word again, “TARIFFS”. He’s been in office for 3 months now, and he’s finally saying something on the order that he wants to PUNISH PUTIN. Can anyone believe that? I don’t. Trump is a liar and a fool. Trump IS a disgrace to America, and to Democracy.

Then to complete his statement, he says that he is “considering large scale Banking Sanctions, Sanctions, and Tariffs on Russia until a Cease Fire and FINAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT ON PEACE IS REACHED.”

The end of that sentence is something that Donald Trump will burn in HELL for. He says this, indicating that they need to come together to come up with a mutual agreement. I thought that was ‘Marco Rubio’s job’ I thought it might be the Secretary of State’s job. Trump has been discouraging this ever since he gained control of government.

Where was Ukraine when Trumps delegation went to speak to Putin. The president of Ukraine was not even invited. Why? So that Putin and Trump could come up with such a concocted statement such as the one I’m discussing here. Trump never planned on sanctioning Russia.

He states “To Russia and Ukraine, get to the table right now, before it is too late. Thank you.!!!

Why would he say that even if it were his true wish? Oh my God, it’s because he knows that Russia is now taking advantage of the fact that Trump himself has decided to stop sending weapons to Ukraine so they cannot truly defend themselves. This was his tactic from the beginning. And now that he realizes that the people of the United States knows that Trump actually supports Putin, making this statement clears Trumps name. Really?

President Trump is not only a coward, but an ignorant one. He thinks we don’t know what he’s doing. He’s trying to get Ukraine to come to the table on Russia’s terms. He wants President Zelinsky to concede, give up all the land that Putin has taken from him and then call it a peace. And at the end, Trump will finally get to take FULL CREDIT for it, saying that if it weren’t for him, there never would be peace. Really !!!?    TRUMP IS AN IGNORANT AND COWARDLY MAN.

And one final note. Trump doesn’t think that people are looking at the stock market now that he’s lifed tariffs from Canada and Mexico. Well the traders on Wall Street don’t buy Trump’s lies. The market continues to fall. Right now the DOW is teatering at being at the even mark. There will be ups and downs in the market all day today which everyone knows will happen, including Trump. Noone trusts Trump. The American people have lost their faith in him and so has the world.

 

Final Stock Market update March 6, 2025 – Removal of Tariffs

March 6, 2025

I have never been a great predictor for stocks, but even I must say that my conclusions of what’s happening in todays US Stock Market has been nothing less ‘right on’. Yes, I deserve to pat myself on the back at times, and for the last 6 weeks I’ve been more right than wrong.

So again, at the beginning of the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by 400 points, by just looking at what happened throughout the night in Europe. And I was hopeful that the market would really pick up. Early in the morning, it picked up most of the value it had but then something happened, which I will detail later when I know what happened.

But in its present course, the market will end the day of more than 400 points lost. Just one more day to go and the week of trading will be over and the country will know that what I have been saying all this time is actually what is happening. Investments, savings, and so much more is being lost by investors, who only want the markets to do better so that they can do better, so that their companies and portfolios can grow.

Unfortunately, that’s not what’s on Donald Trump’s mind. Sometimes you wonder what the heck is on his mind. The markets have now officially closed.  The DOW lost another 1% of it’s value. The closing figure is 42,579.08. I can report what I have been seeing each and every day. What is interesting and especially evident at the end of a trading day, if the markets are doing well throughout the day, there will be a spike at the very end before closing. Likewise, if the markets are doing bad, and as of this minute in time, the stock market values of DOW will drop.

So what’s the fallout for today. For the Dow, it spiraled down another 516 points or 1.2% after falling 600 points earlier today. and other major markets, the NASDAQ and S&P500 both fell.

Obviously Donald Trump was aware of the stock market drops today. So what does he do? Our weak president now put on the brakes to Mexico tariffs and Canada Tariffs. But it’s a little to late for that. Canada is already dealing with new trading partners and Mexico said that Trump had until tomorrow before they would decide the tariffs they were going to put on the U.S.

Trump caved, just like he always does. The leaders of other countries now know what he’s going to do. They will always be one step ahead of him to keep him in check. This morning he stopped tariffs from those two countries on just the products the auto makers need to make cars in this country. After his not so teriffic speech to the joint session of Congress, the big three auto makers in the United States gave Trump an ear full.  So he backed down, just like the coward he is and always has been. But to keep chaos on track, he now moved the next tariff implement date to April 2nd. Now that’s just great Donald Trump. Right before tax day, just when everyone has to dip in their savings in some cases just like me to pay their taxes.  He thinks that will help the stock market and his rich buddies who invest in it. Maybe he’s right, but all indications say that the markets will continue to be very volitile until he elliminates them all together. When April 2nd comes around and Trump lets the tariffs kick in again, prices are going to soar in this country.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad that he did remove the tariffs,  but it shouldn’t have taken the auto makers to complain or the stock markets to plummit before he would listen to reason. So you may ask if I think Trump is a reasonable man, and of course I would say NO. He doesn’t know what ‘stands to reason’ means.

What’s his first 100 days so far look like. Well that’s a story for another day, but so far, it’s going to be pretty bad. Maybe the people will wake up. Maybe the Repubicans and my friends will wake up and admit that Trump is no good for our economy, after he ran on saying he was going to do so much to bring down prices. Did he say that the country will have to experience some “pain” first before things get better?

Where are we when it comes to “NO TAXES ON TIPS”? Where are we now about when Trump claimed that Social Security Taxes should be eliminated? I can tell you at this moment, Trump is nowhere on those topics. Congress hasn’t a clue on what they want to do. The one thing he kept his promise on was that America will ‘feel PAIN’ before things get better. Did Trump ever say that he was going to gut all the Federal programs and furlow so many Federal workers, gut Medicade and Medicare, which is what he plans to do next? He has the Republican votes to do just that in Congress in the near future, but will they wake up in time like John McCain did during the vote on Obamacare to save Medicade and Medicare? That would free up tons of money that he can use to be able to give a tax break to the rich. Then it’s Social Security on the block. Will it end? Hopefully it will end before everyone looses everything and he completely destroys our country.

 

Stock Market Update and Trump Tariffs

March 6, 2025

All the gains made by the stock market yesterday are gone, and market trading for the day is only half over.

Yesterday the DOW gained about 500 points, but immediately after the opening bell this morning, the DOW fell 400 points, because the European markets were falling throughout the night. There was a bit of reprieve around 10 AM and it looked like the losses were being made up around 1:30PM ET, but just short of the even high mark from yesterday, the DOW spiked downward again. It dropped down to 42,398 which is the worst mark of the day. But again, it is rebounding but indicators show that it will continue to drop more than rise. Soon the world will look at the United States as NOT the richist country in the world, as they already no longer admire us. Thank you President Trump!

All of this is unfortunate. People are loosing millions of dollars in stocks alone, as Donald Trump claims that we need to feel a little pain. Maybe a million dollars here and there is nothing for Trump or Musk, but it means someone’s entire life savings to the rest of us.

Years ago, I invested heavily in stock, and I lost my butt. I will never recover from that, as it was the majority of my retirement savings. It hurts me to see that what is actually happening is chaos created by one man and his selfishness, and his ignorance to leave what was actually working before, to just leave it alone. He is making the entire country experience what I had to. I know the feeling of loss. It never went away. The financial crisis of 2008 is nothing compared to what is about to happen if Trump doesn’t get off of his high horse and try to right at least some of the things he has done wrong. Unfortunately, what Trump has done already will be felt by Americans for years to come because noone would expect an immediate rebound if Trump decided to stop all Tariffs and mass firings of many working people of this country. All because he claims the country will have to feel some “pain” before things get better.

Trump has never felt real financial pain. He never lived on the streets. He never had to worry about having enough food to feed his family or try to find money to pay his bills. He is so corrupt that even with the fact that he has money, he didn’t pay all of his bills or his taxes. He was born afluent. His dad gave him millions of dollars and he floundered it, just like he is making us loose our money today.

Before Trump, we did not have our closest neighbor, Canada initiating tariffs on us. We never needed a wall to keep them out of our country. They are our friends, or used to be. Because of Trump’s tariffs, the country of Canada is informing its citizens not to use American made products, and the American made products that the companies already purchased from America to be distributed out to customers are being pulled off of the shelves, which means that Canada won’t pay the tariffs that Trump demands, they will just no longer import those goods. In the mean time, they initiated reciprical tariffs.

Canada has stated time and time again that they are not in favor of any trade war, and would never initiate tariffs on the United States like we are on them. Donald Trump needed to have that mindset. For heaven’s sake. They are our friend and closest ally by far. But he has turned all the citizens of Canada against the United States. Because of what Trump has done, now there is hardship on them. In a recent poll conducted by Canada, citizens say that they now dislike the United States. Our closest neighbor, now that is saying something.

A majority of Canadians who have property in the United States are selling their properties now. They want no part of the United States.

The sentiment in Europe is the same. Countries supporting the EU are making deals amongst themselves without any consideration from the United States, because they now feel that Trump has abandoned them and so they are out on their own. They will make all of their decisions without the United States.

Soon, Trump may decide to leave NATO. If he does that, his actions will hurt NATO greatly and make Putin of Russia very happy. But everything Trump has done since he has become president makes the Russian president happy. Case in point, Trump has stopped all military support to Ukaraine. All weapons and materials that were in flight to Ukaraine were stopped and turned around to return to the United States. Putin loved that. So what does Trump do. He decides to no longer share military intelligence with Ukaraine. So now, the war-torn country of Ukaraine has no idea what Putin plans to do next. Trump is punishing Ukaraine. He has taken sides with Vladamir Putin of Russia. Europe can no longer trust us. The free world can no longer trust us.

The Ukaraine president may cave into Trumps demands to stop the war. It’s been raging for 3 years now.  Trump claims that he is communicating directly with Russia in negotiations to stop the war, but NOT with Ukaraine involved in the talks. Why? Because Trump is a friend of Putin and not of the President of Ukaraine. So Trump expects that when he clicks his fingers, that the Ukaraine president will jump. Who in the hell does Trump think he is? If he thinks he is the leader of the free world, soon he won’t be. Trump is causing permanent harm to the United States.

 

 

The Stock Wrap-up for Tuesday March 4, 2024

March 4, 2025

No one should be suprised. This outcome has been inevitable, but it was preventable. The following note found on ‘The Daily Beans Podcast’ says it all.

I don’t say this lightly. All you have to do is look at the trending data from the U.S. Stock markets. The DOW dropped 680.23 points or 1.55% just today alone, because our president decided to activate tariffs he’s been threatening for the last 6 weeks. The S&P 500 dropped 1.22%, and the Nasdaq Composite shed 0.35%. The Nasdaq, which is tied closely to tech-heavy industry, dipped more than 2% at its lowest point and came within striking distance of correction territory, which is a term that refers to an index falling 10% from a recent peak.

So it’s happened. Since March 1st, the trend has been spiraling downward. The State of the Union Address comes tonight, and it will be very eye-opening on how Trump will portray the State of our Union. Before it even happens, I can assure you that his speech will be filled by lies. The Republican Senators will applaud him. The Democratic Senators will stay silent. Has even one Republican Senator helped even just one of their constituents. Find me the proof and I’ll believe it, but there is absolutely no proof that any Republican lawmaker who is following Trump, is helping ANY of their constituents.

Yesterday, the markets were signaling to the American people what was about to happen today. Many Americans have decided to run this out, but what will they have to loose to ride this wave of stock market sell-offs before they realize that it is going to affect them, even though they voted for this president.

Then, it will be too late. The question now is what is it going to take to prevent a further free-fall. It’s normal for the stocks to go up and down. That’s what’s great about our economy. But in the end, they should always go up more than they have been going down, and there is just no indication in the foreseeable future to say that the declines will reverse any time soon.

I know that this report is very glim and bleak, but as they say, “it is what it is.” These are the facts. We are now living a World Wide Trade War in this year of 2025, initiated by Donald Trump himself, for all of his rediculasly foolish reasons.  This situation should have never come about, but it has.

 

Tuesday – The Day of Recogning

March 4, 2025

It didn’t take a rocket scientist to predict what was about to happen today. The DOW dropped nearly 500 points today and the markets are not even closed yet, and the Nasdaq is flirting with correction territory. Why? Because Donald J. Trump has foolishly initiated a trade war.

People close to me, including my wife have been checking their stock values all day. My wife is upset, but I informed her that this day was coming. In a single day, she lost $500.00 in less than 4 hours. The markets have a few hours to go.

U.S. stocks saw losses mount on Tuesday as our felon president, Donald J Truimp put tariffs on key trade partners, which our partners were waiting for a signal to initiate their own tariffs on the United States. So what we have now is a global trade war and escalating fears of the national economy cracking.

Our fearless president instituted 25% duties on Canada and Mexico that took effect at midnight. Trump also slapped an additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods.

Monday’s plunge in the market didn’t phase Trump, because it ONLY amounted to a 1.2% drop. That drop was about 650 points. The S&P shed .8%. But that small percentage amounted to millions of dollars lost.

Nasdaq Composite didn’t feel the crunch as much, as they were cushioned by gains by Nvidia and Alphabet.

In reality up until today, the trading was not as bad as it will start with today’s free fall. That’s because the traders really weren’t sure if Trump would pull off this sick stunt, but now he has.

After Trump imposed tariffs on Canada of 25%, Justin Trudeau initiated their retaliation tariff on the United States of 25%. So what does Trump do? He said that he would add even higher tariffs on Canada.  So what’s next? Will oil now be cut off by Canada? Before Trump became president, Canada was exporting 97% of all of their oil production to the United States. No tariffs, as a result of the Trump USMCA agreement made by Trump and his neighbors of Canada and Mexico. But Trump has decided that he would no longer be bound by the USMCA agreement, the one that he instituted and our neighboring countries accepted during his first term.

Trump is no less than a RAT. He is undermining our economy, and hurting the world with his selfish actions. The markets were at an all-time high before he came into office. Now they are tanking. Millions and millions of dollars of investments by Americans have already been thrown out the window. Some Americans will never recover from this.

Trump was right when he stated that the country will feel ‘PAIN’. Is this what the people elected him to do? What about lowering prices for the middle class. What about NO TAX ON TIPS. Oh wait. The only thing Trump wants to do is help is rich friends with tax cuts.

I am making a very bold prediction here. I can feel it in my blood. If things continue with the way things are going with the economy, things like Social Security can fail within the next 3 months. You can laugh at this prediction saying that you have been paying into the fund your whole life. Well if that doesn’t get your gander up, nothing will, because I have been predicting this day for the last 6 weeks, and noone, not even my close friends and family members beleived it would happen. But here we are. Actually, I was suprised that my social security check arrived on time this month. Again I hope I’m wrong.

I will give another update here when the markets close later today. In the meantime, I need to console my wife as she is pretty upset with her investment strategy at the moment.

 

Trump’s First 30 Days – Nothing but Chaos

February 19, 2025

Well Republicans,  How’s Donald Trump doing? Is he getting things done? Are you happy with his continuance of breaking the laws and not abiding to the U.S. Constitution? Are you excited that he hasn’t done a damn thing for the middle class and is now openly pushing for another tax cut for the rich?  Besides isolating Canada, Mexico, China and Greenland and the EU, he has created legal chaos. Within the first month of his presidency, he has been presented with over 100 lawsuits.

THIS IS THE GREAT PRESIDENT THAT YOU AS REPUBLICANS VOTED FOR. YOU VOTED FOR A CONVICTED FELON, THEN YOU PUT HIM IN THE WHITEHOUSE, AND THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.  ENJOY YOUR LIVES FOR THE NEXT 4 YEARS. 

The answer is an astounding YES! He’s getting things done, But actually for not even a single good reason, or of a reason that would be good for anyone except for himself and his millionaire buddy Elon Musk.  He hasn’t achieved even one campaign promise that would help the American people. Trump is testing laws and breaking the laws that’s been on the books for a long time just because he has Executive Immunity and he now can break the laws as he sees it because he says it’s best for America.  Trump is enjoying the freedom from prosecution and now acts like a king.

But what Trump has done his first 30 days as president has been nothing short of chaos. He’s promoting tariffs on our closest trading partners of Canada and Mexico.  His reckless actions are causing a very unstable stock market, along with the economy that will soon tank and prices will go up on just about everything.

Day One – January 20

Executive Orders..

  1. Order to End Birthright Citizenship – As Trump ignores the 14th Amendment of the Constitution which says that anyone born here, even from undocumented immigrants now become U.S. citizens. Why should he abide by the Constitution? After all, during the Inauguration when he was sworn into office, he never put his hand on the bible, but raised his right hand swearing he would abide by it. He cannot be convicted of going against the Constitution, even though he swore that he would abide by it during his Inauguration.
  2. Asylum Access termination – As it is a violation of a congressional act and an attempt to bypass Congress.
  3. Firing of Federal Employees – Trump reinstates ‘Schedule F’ to make it easier to fire Federal employees. Trump openly is in violation of due process and civil service protections.
  4. Established the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – Aimed to cut Federal spending, which is a new department that is not in compliance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
  5. Transgender Recognition – The Federal Government is now directed to only recognize two sexes, preventing transgender female inmates from serving time in women’s prisons and end gender-affirming care for those in federal prison.

Day Two – January 21

Executive orders..

Ending DEI Programs – (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) including at the Federal Aviation Administration.

Day 5 – January 24

  1. Firing Inspectors General – Trump and Musk fire 17 inspectors generals without giving Congress its legally required 30 days’ notice before removing the federal watchdogs. Eight inspectors general sued the Trump administration over this, claiming their firings were unlawful.

Day 8 – January 27

  1. Banning of Transgender Military Service – Any troops that are transgender are now not allowed to openly serve in the military. This is a discriminatory action and faces litigation in federal court as a violation of the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection guarantee.
  2. Federal Funding Freeze – Trump has decided to temporarily pause all federal foreign and domestic aid, which different federal courts blocked on January 28 and January 31st.

Day 9 – January 28

  1. Ending Gender-Affirming Medical Care – No further federal support of gender-affirming medical treatments for people under 19, which was challenged by the ACLU and others for infringing on individuals’ rights and for exceeding the president’s constitutional authority over determining how congressional appropriations are used.
  2. Federal Worker Buyout – Donald Trump is forcing federal employees with an offer to a buyout if they resigned from their roles. Labor unions are challenging the plan as the buyout violates federal administrative law.

Day 10 – January 29

Trump posted a presidential memorandum directing the secretaries of the Defense and Homeland Security departments to expand the use of Guantanamo Bay to house migrants.  On February 9th, a federal judge blocked the deportation of three Venezuelan migrants to Guantanamo who argued in a lawsuit filed by various advocacy organizations that they are falsely accused of being associated with the Trun de Argua gang.

Day 12 – January 31

DOGE Access to the Treasury Department – DOGE and Elon Musk accesses the payment systems that distribute trillions of dollars of benefits, grants and tax refunds. The federal Unions filed a lawsuit, calling the data-sharing illegal and a violation of privacy. A week later on February 8th, a federal judge blocked DOGE’s access, while 19 Democratic attorneys general suing the Trump administration and accusing the Treasury Department of overstepping its statutory authority and violating federal law and the separation of powers doctrine.

Day 13 – February 1

1) USAID Administrative Leave – Two top officials at USAID were put on administrative leave after they refused to let DOGE representatives without security clearances into restricted areas of the building. As a result, they joined dozens of other senior USAID staffers who had also been placed on leave, a move that resulted in a federal court issuing a temporary restraining order. The court found that the plaintiffs in the case – two unions representing USAID federal workers – “have adequately demonstrated that their members are facing irreparable injury from their placement on administrative leave, and that more members would face such injury if they were placed on administrative leave.”

2) Dismantling USAID – Elon Musk and Trump advocated for shuttering USAID – which provides aid to fight starvation and poverty, fund education and end epidemics overseas – following Musk’s determination that its spending was wasteful. But questions remain about whether a congressionally codified department like USAID  can be legally closed without Congress’ approval.

On Feb. 7, a federal judge paused the Trump administrations’s actions against USAID after two unions requested a temporary restraining order to stop employees from being placed on leave, as well as a funding freeze.

Day 16 – February 4

1) Taking over Gaza – Trump proposes in a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he plans to take the Gaza Strip, force hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the enclave. Gaza is recognized by the United Nations and the International Court of Justice, and international law prohibits taking the territory by force.

2) An acting FBI director Brian Driscoll turned over information on more than 5,000 FBI employees who worked on Jan. 6 cases, but two groups of FBI agents sued the Department of Justice in an effort to protect their identities.

Day 17 – February 5

Transgender Sports Ban – Trump signed an executive order effectively banning transgender women and girls from competing in female sports categories. On Feb. 12, two transgender teenage girls in New Hampshire challenged the order in court for violating their equal protection and Title IX rights.

Day 20 – February 8

Shuttering CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – Russell Vought, the Trump-appointing acting director of the CFPB, directed the agency to halt most of its work and closed its headquarters for the following week in an effort to essentially shutter the bureau. But the National Treasury Employees Union filed two lawsuits against Vought arguing that his directives are unlawful. The first lawsuit says Vought violated the separation of powers doctrine by “undermining Congress’s authority to set and fund the missions of the CFPB.” The second lawsuit says Vought violated the Privacy Act by allowing DOGE  (Elon Musk ) to access CFPB employee records.

Day 22 – February 10

Violation of Federal Funding Freeze Order – A judge previously blocked the Trump administration’s federal funding freeze on January 31 saying that the administration violated his temporary restraining order by continuing “to improperly freeze federal funds” and not resuming the “disbursement of appropriated federal funds.”

Day 24 – February 12

Dismissive Statements About the Judiciary – Elon Musk on social media suggested judges should be impeached for using their oversight to check the power of the Trump administration. But legal scholars believe that courts play a necessary role in the nation’s system of checks and balances. The Constitution says that federal judges, who typically serve life appointments, can be impeached for “treason, bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”, all of whom the judges are not guilty of but Donald Trump is guilty of all. Now as a sitting president, Trump’s Executive Immunity makes him above the law and can never be charged or impeached for these offenses, thanks to Republican Supreme Court justices that control the court and gave presidents powers to be above the law why officiating duties in office.

Day 26 – February 14

The Justice Department files a motion to Dismiss Charges Against New York City Mayor. – A corrupt Democratic Mayor Eric Adams who has been cozying up to Trump. An acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove III had previously ordered Danielle Sassoon, the acting district attorney for the Southern District of New York, to dismiss corruption charges against Adams. Seven lawyers, including Sassoon, resigned from the department over the decision, which has drawn allegations of amounting to an unethical quid pro quo.

Day 27 – February 15

Trump issues Provocative Water Suggesting He is Above the Law – In a social media post, Trump suggested that his efforts to “save” the country put him above the law. “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.” Trump posted on Truth Social and X, drawing criticism from Democrats like California Sen. Adam Schiff who said of the post, “Spoken like a true dictator.”