Trump’s HORRIBLE Record

Trump Administration HORRIBLE RECORD for Workers

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• Failed to support adequate fiscal stimulus during the coronavirus pandemic
• Diminished the integrity and accuracy of the 2020 U.S. Census
• Stopped funding for Social Security
• Dismantled fiduciary protections for retirement savers
• Engaged in persistent efforts to take away workers’ health care
• Narrowed the scope of ‘protected concerted activity’ under the NLRA
• Persisted in attempts to end DACA
• Suspended the issuance of green cards
• Failed to act to protect the health of workers during the pandemic
• Issued guidance that allows states to deny unemployment insurance (UI) benefits to workers who
• Issued an executive order that intimidated local health departments from closing meat-processing
• Excluded millions of workers from paid leave provisions in the Families First Coronavirus Relief
• Significantly narrowed benefits under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program
• Allowed poultry plants to increase line speeds during the coronavirus pandemic
• Issued interim guidance that removed most employer responsibility to investigate or record
• Pushed to lower wages for migrant farmworkers
• Suspended all union elections
• Completed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s (anti-worker) wish list
• Obstructed workers’ right to fair union elections
• Narrowed the joint-employer standard under the NLRA
• Encouraged offshoring
• Denied workers more bargaining power on the job
• Narrowed the joint-employer standard under the FLSA
• Allowed states to privatize employment services
• Decreased workplace safety inspections
• Proposed a rule that would lower the earnings of tipped workers
• Sought to expand the use of the fluctuating workweek method, which makes it easier for
• Undermined job security for service workers
• Hindered workers’ ability to organize during nonwork hours
• Sought to exclude student employees from the NLRA
• Prevented millions of workers from receiving overtime
• Put forward anti-worker DOL nominations
• Neglected to address overvaluation of the U.S. dollar
• Denied workers a minimum wage increase
• Allowed misclassification of gig workers
• Issued a rule allowing hog slaughter facilities to function at unsafe speeds
• Proposed a rule allowing young workers to perform unsafe tasks in health care occupations
• Undercut public-sector workers’ freedom to organize
• Denied workers the right to class or collective claims by reversing the Justice Department’s prior
• Eroded the collective bargaining rights of federal workers
• Weakened standards for mine safety inspections
• Appointed anti-worker NLRB members
• Hid economic analysis on the ‘tip stealing’ rule
• Allowed employers to gerrymander bargaining units
• Passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—which benefits the wealthy at others’ expense
• Removed the public record of worker deaths from OSHA’s homepage
• Removed requirements that employers disclose their use of union-avoidance consultants
• Repealed a requirement that employers report workplace injuries and illnesses
• Delayed enforcement of a rule protecting workers from exposure to silica dust
• Made it easier for contractors who violate basic labor and employment laws to be awarded

Trump’s HORRIBLE Ethical Violations

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• Use of Government to Hold Onto Power
  • Crimes Committed in Connection with Ukraine Abuses
  • Mounting Hatch Act Violations
  • Attacks on the Postal Service and Voting by Mail
• Using Government Office for Personal Financial Benefit
  • Emoluments Clause Violations
  • Conflicts of Interest
  • Hosting the G-7 at His Own Resort
• Cronyism and Patronage
  • Nepotism and Other Ethics Abuses by Ivanka and Jared
  • Coronavirus Response
• The Trump Rogues Gallery
  • Criminals in the White House
  • Corruption in the Cabinet
• Attacks on the Rule of Law
  • Bill Barr’s Department of Justice
  • Firing Comey and Potential Acts of Obstruction
  • Interference in DOJ Investigations
  • Assault on Inspectors General
• Industry Influence
  • EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
  • Energy Secretary Rick Perry
  • NOAA Nominee Barry Myers
• Unprecedented Transparency Failures
  • Failure to Disclose Tax Returns
  • Separating Children without Records to Reunite Them
  • Use of Private Email

Trump’s Fines and Settlements Through The Years

• 1988: $750K Anti-trust lawsuit Bally
• 1990: $750K Defamation for accurately predicting Trump Taj Mahal would fail
• 1991: $200K Removing black workers from casino floor
• 1991: $30K Circumventing state regulations
• 1998: $1.4M Hiring of undocumented workers
• 1998: $447K Money laundering violations
• 2000: $250K NYS Lobby Commission
• 2006: $100K Palm Beach flag ordinance
• 2015: $799K Defamation Trump University Student
• 2015: $10M Money laundering violations
• 2016: $50K Data & credit card breaches
• 2016: $1.3M FEC disclosure errors
• 2017: $25M: Trump University fraud
• 2019: $2M: Trump Foundation fraud
• 2019: $290K: Scotland wind farm
• 2021: $122M: Trump campaign forced to refund to donors
• 2022: $110K: Contempt of Court
• 2022: $750K: Funneling Inaugural funds to his business
• 2022: $1.6M Guilty 17 counts criminal tax fraud
• 2023: CFO sentenced to prison
• 2023: $10K for attacking court personnel
• 2023: $1M Court sanctions bogus lawsuit including $171K to be paid to Hillary
• 2023: $5M E Jean Carroll sexual assault
• 2024: $83.3M E Jean Carroll defamation
• 2024: $392K Court sanctions bogus lawsuit- NY Times
• 2024: $453M business fraud

Summary of Trump’s Failures

(By ChatGPT – Article March 2020)

• Modern presidents often fail when they can’t master the government they inherit, focusing more on communication than governance.
• Presidential campaigns prioritize entertainment and inspiration, leading presidents to mistakenly believe that the same tactics will work in governing.
• Presidential scholars argue that placing communication over negotiation leads to failure, as seen in both Obama’s and Trump’s presidencies.
• Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic exposed his administration’s organizational and rhetorical failures, notably a lack of sufficient testing.
• Trump’s inability to learn from previous administrations, such as disbanding the pandemic preparedness team, further worsened the crisis.
• As Trump fails to lead effectively during the pandemic, other leaders at various levels are stepping in to fill the leadership vacuum.