Author: Jesse Berney

Donald Trump only sees happiness in a hurricane shelter, puts the fox in charge of the coal mine, and drains the swamp into his pockets. I talk to Nita Chaudhary of Ultraviolet about Betsy DeVos’s attack on sexual assault victims.

Segment 1: Happy Harvey

Trump: Harvey Victims Happy With Response

Segment 2: DACAdent

Trump Chooses Sessions, Longtime Foe of DACA, to Announce Its Demise

Segment 3: Let’s All Laugh at Jeff Sessions

DOJ to Retry Woman Who Laughed During Sessions’ Confirmation Hearing

Segment 4: Swamp Thing

Trump Gets Millions From Golf Members. CEOs and Lobbyists Get Access to President

Segment 5: Miner Inconvenience

Trump Nominates Former Coal Exec to Run MSHA

Segment 6: Taxing My Patience

Republican Leaders in the Room ‘Shell-Shocked’ Following Trump Deal With Democrats

Trump’s Team and Lawmakers Making Strides on Tax Reform Plan

Segment 7: We Don’t Need No Education

Education Dept. Ends Partnership With CFPB

Betsy DeVos Says the Title IX System Has ‘Failed’ Both Survivors and the Accused

Segment 8: Daddy Dear…God No

Trump: Ivanka Said ‘Daddy, Can I Come With You’ to North Dakota

 

 

Trump’s behavior in the wake of his first major national disaster is bizarre, and we come back to Russia. I talk to undocumented advocate Juan Escalante about what it means to cancel DACA.

Segment 1: The Rain on Trump’s Parade

Trump Relishes Role as Chief Executive of Harvey Response

Segment 2: A Flood of Distractions

Trump Accused of Using Hurricane Harvey as Cover for Arpaio Pardon, Transgender Ban

Trump: I Dropped Arpaio Pardon During Harvey Because of Ratings

Segment 3: Russian to Conclusions

Trump’s Business Sought Deal on a Trump Tower in Moscow While He Ran for President

Top Trump Organization Executive Asked Putin Aide for Help on Business Deal

Mueller Teams Up With New York Attorney General in Manafort Probe

Mueller Enlists the IRS for His Trump-Russia Investigation

Segment 4: Thanks for the Tanks

Trump Lifts Ban on Military Gear to Local Police Forces

Segment 5: Oxymorons

Does Trump Represent U.S. Values? ‘The President Speaks for Himself,’ Tillerson Says

Mattis Contradicts Trump on North Korea

Segment 6: Quick Hits

Trump Administration Slashes Funds for Obamacare Enrollment

Trump Treasury Secretary Won’t Commit to Putting Harriet Tubman on $20 Bill

Trump Administration Selects Former DeVry Official to Lead College Enforcement Unit

Segment 7: DA/CA

Report: Trump Could Announce End to DACA as Early as Friday

Segment 8: Tariffying Behavior

Trump Vents in Oval Office, “I Want Tariffs. Bring Me Some Tariffs!”

President Trump soaks the Secret Service, declares his nonstrategy for Afghanistan, and gives your environment away to the highest corporate bidder.

Segment 1: The Best Strategy Is No Strategy

Full Transcript and Video: Trump’s Speech on Afghanistan

Segment 2: Rising Like a Phoenix From the Gutter

As Trump Ranted and Rambled in Phoenix, His Crowd Slowly Thinned

..(enthusiastic, dynamic and fun) and the American Legion – V.A. (respectful and strong). Too bad the Dems have no one who can change tones!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 24, 2017

Segment 3: Heavy Flow Days

Kelly Moves to Control the Information Trump Sees

Segment 4: Harvey Wall-of-Water-Banger

Trump FEMA Chief Supports Cutting Coverage for Flood-Prone Homes

Segment 5: Trans Ban Plan

White House Sets Rules for Military Transgender Ban

Segment 6: I Can’t Keep a Secret Service

Secret Service Says It Will Run Out of Money to Protect Trump and His Family Sept. 30

Segment 7: Not Exactly Enviromint Condition

Interior Secretary Recommends Trump Alter at Least Three National Monuments, Including Bears Ears

National Parks Put a Ban on Bottled Water to Ease Pollution. Trump Just Sided With the Lobby That Fought It.

Trump Just Killed a Study Looking Into the Health Effects of Coal in Central Appalachia

Trump Officials Rewrite Energy Dept. Study to Make Renewables Look Bad, Fail Anyway

Segment 8: Natty Clean Coal

Meaning of ‘Clean Coal’ Mentioned by Trump Unclear

Trump manages to hit a new nadir as he sides with white supremacists after their protests, violence, and even murder in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. Avis Jones-DeWeever joins me as co-host to discuss what this week means for America.

1/ The thing about being Jewish in America is that most of the time, you don't think about it. Because you look like them. You pass.

— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) August 16, 2017

Fox Guests Weep Over ‘Morally Bankrupt’ Trump, While Host Tries to Pivot to Defending Statues

Trump’s Long History of Racism

Republicans Must Tell Trump to Go – Now

Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017

…can't change history, but you can learn from it. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson – who's next, Washington, Jefferson? So foolish! Also…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017

…the beauty that is being taken out of our cities, towns and parks will be greatly missed and never able to be comparably replaced!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017

 

President Trump and I are both on vacation, so it’s a truncated version of The Trump Scorecard this week. But I couldn’t skip the last episode before we’re all vaporized in a nuclear conflict with North Korea.

Segment 1: Nukorea

Working in Bedminster, N.J., as long planned construction is being done at the White House. This is not a vacation – meetings and calls!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2017

Trump Doubles Down on Threats Against North Korea as Nuclear Tensions Escalate

Segment 2: Always Looking Out for the Big Guy

Under Trump, Coal Mining Gets New Life on U.S. Lands

How Trump’s FCC Aided Sinclair’s Expansion

Fight Over Right to Sue Nursing Homes Heats Up

Jeff Sessions targets black people who have the audacity to want to go to college. The administration targets immigrants. Lara Trump targets fake news. And Robert Mueller targets… everybody.

Segment 1: The Race Cardinal Sin

Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions

Segment 2: Grand Jury-Rigged

Trump Dictated Son’s Misleading Statement on Meeting With Russian Lawyer

Special Counsel Robert Mueller Impanels Washington Grand Jury in Russia Probe

Tillerson Spurns $80 Million to Counter ISIS, Russian Propaganda

Trump’s Signing Statement on the Russia Sanctions Bill, Explained

The Trump administration has shown its total weakness by handing over executive power to Congress in the most humiliating way

— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) August 2, 2017

Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us HCare!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2017

Segment 3: Lara Crafting the Truth

Trump Has Launched a “Real News” Program on His Facebook, Hosted by His Daughter-in-Law

President Trump’s Budget Proposal Calls for Deep Cuts to Education

Secret Service Vacates Trump Tower Command Post in Lease Dispute With President’s Company

Segment 4: Thief of Staff

ICE Is Just Arresting Everyone Now

Trump Backs Plan That Would Curb Legal Immigration

During Trump’s ‘Made in America’ Week, Mar-a-Lago Club Seeks More Foreign Workers

Trump Rejects the Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free

Segment 5: Boy Scouts II: Electric Jamboroo

A Scout Is Trustworthy—but Is the President?

The back-biting in the White House reaches new levels with an exciting new character, Trump says some incredibly dumb shit, Trumpcare dies (for now), and Trump makes the military weaker.

Segment 1: Scara–I Said No Bohemian Rhapsody Jokes

Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon

Segment 2: The Browdown That Became a Throwdown

Donald Trump Doesn’t Want Loyalty – He Wants Fealty

Segment 3: You’re Fired! (For Being Gay)

The Justice Department Just Argued Against Gay Rights in a Major Federal Case

Segment 4: Alaska If She’ll Vote for the Bill

Trump Administration Threatens Retribution Against Alaska Over Murkowski Health Votes

Segment 5: Don’t Nuke the Deal

US Seeks to Test Iran Deal With More Inspections

Segment 6: Seriously, He’s Losing It Folks

A Major Psychiatry Group Has Said Its Members Can Defy a Long-Standing Rule and Discuss Trump’s Mental Health

In Tweet Storm, Trump Decries ‘Illegal Leaks’ and Asserts ‘All Agree’ He Has Complete Power to Pardon

Segment 7: Presidential Dysphoria

After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow……

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017

….Transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming…..

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017

….victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2017

Inside The Military’s Working Policies on Trans Service Members

Segment 8: Donnie Trumper Picked a Peck of Pickled Pickles

Did a 9-Year-Old Called ‘Pickle’ Really Write That Letter to Trump? Yep, He’s Real.

Will Trump fire Mueller? Pardon himself? Fire himself and pardon Mueller? Is Trumpcare dead? How about sex ed? Find out as Trump makes it halfway through his first year as president.

Segment 1: Don’t Cry, Sis

Ryan Rescues Trump, Strips Bipartisan Amendment to Repeal Authorization for Use of Military Force

Trump Team Seeks to Control, Block Mueller’s Russia Investigation

Marc Kasowitz and Mark Corallo Depart Trump’s Legal Team

Excerpts From the Times’s Interview With Trump

Mueller Expands Probe to Trump Business Transactions

Segment 2: Teenage Dream (to not Get Pregnant)

Trump Administration Suddenly Pulls Plug on Teen Pregnancy Programs

Segment 3: Around the World in 26 Weeks

Trump Says US Has Alternatives to Qatar’s Al Udeid Airbase

Tillerson to Shutter State Department War Crimes Office

Trump Ends Covert CIA Program to Arm Anti-Assad Rebels in Syria, a Move Sought by Moscow

Segment 4: Nice Assets

Jeff Sessions Is Letting Police Take More People’s Stuff Even if They Aren’t Convicted of a Crime

Segment 5: Trumpcare Died So You Don’t Have To

As I have always said, let ObamaCare fail and then come together and do a great healthcare plan. Stay tuned!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2017

Team Trump Used Obamacare Money to Run PR Effort Against It

Segment 6: Maid in America

During ‘Made in America Week,’ President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club Applies to Hire 70 Foreign Workers

Donald Trump Jr. releases evidence of collusion with Russia for some reason, while Trump Sr.’s lawyer calls a random Internet stranger a piece of shit. What a week for Russia.

Segment 1: Russian to Its Inevitable Conclusion

Trump Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Threatens Stranger in Emails: ‘Watch Your Back, Bitch’

Here's my statement and the full email chain pic.twitter.com/x050r5n5LQ

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 11, 2017

Here is page 4 (which did not post due to space constraints). pic.twitter.com/z1Xi4nr2gq

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) July 11, 2017

Trump Jr. Learned Everything From His Dad, and It Shows

Segment 2: Your Wife’s Booty Is Tres Bon

"You're in such good physical shape. Beautiful."
– Trump, about Brigitte, President Macron's wife.

Quel idiot.
(h/t @kylegriffin1) pic.twitter.com/ve2KhupPi6

— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly 🌸 (@AynRandPaulRyan) July 13, 2017

Segment 3: Alliance for Defending Our Freedom to Be Bigots

AG Sessions Under Fire for Closed-Door Speech to Alliance Defending Freedom

Segment 4: Title IX-11

Campus Rape Policies Get a New Look as the Accused Get DeVos’s Ear

 

The head of the Office of Government Ethics resigns because … well, wouldn’t you? And on the cusp of his meeting with Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump confirms his support for white nationalism.

Segment 1: Shaub We Dance

The US Ethics Czar Quit so He Can Talk About the Good, Bad, and Ugly in Government

#FraudNewsCNN #FNN pic.twitter.com/WYUnHjjUjg

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 2, 2017

The Network Against the Leader of the Free World

Segment 2: Gimme Your Money

Is Patriotism Possible in Trump’s America?

Support The Trump Scorecard on Patreon.com!

Segment 3: A Pride of Lyin’

Trump WH Declines to Recognize LGBT Pride Month

Segment 4: Roll It on Back

Counseled by Industry, Not Staff, E.P.A. Chief Is Off to a Blazing Start

Segment 5:  Pole Position

THE WEST WILL NEVER BE BROKEN. Our values will PREVAIL. Our people will THRIVE and our civilization will TRIUMPH! pic.twitter.com/sozuVgdp5T

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 6, 2017

Trump’s Poland Speech Shows That Stephen Miller Never Left 

Segment 6: Where You Check In But Never Check In Because You Forgot to Book a Room

President Trump Apparently Couldn’t Find a Hotel to Book for the G20 Summit