A weekly podcast documenting the very worst the Donald Trump presidency has to offer.
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The Trump Scorecard is going on hiatus, but first I talk about the things that make Trump so uniquely terrible: the racism, the lies, the corruption, and making the world more dangerous.由Jesse Berney
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Trump suffers his biggest loss at the ballot box since he lost the election by 3 million votes, the administration tells the truth (I swear!) about climate change, and yet another Trump pushes her weight around the White House.由Jesse Berney
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Robert Mueller (finally!) starts to hand down some indictments, John Kelly is pretty racist, Scott Pruitt hates science, and Rick Perry is extremely not smart.由Jesse Berney
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Donald Trump shapes reality to suit his needs, calls a Gold Star widow a liar, does Russia's bidding, gives banks a boost, and destroys the life of a 10-year-old girl with cerebral palsy. What a guy.由Jesse Berney
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Trump manages to turn a simple phone call into a week-long scandal, immigrants are kept out of the military and out of abortion clinics, and learn how to profit off the weather!由Jesse Berney
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Trump fails a basic test on how the economy works, and we're all looking forward to him failing an IQ test too. He threatens to pull out of Puerto Rico and gives away the game on Pence's NFL stunt.由Jesse Berney
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President Trump genuinely embarrasses himself in Puerto Rico, attacks LGBT rights on multiple fronts, and ruins Rex Tillerson's week. I talk to Dr. Leah Torres about the 20 week abortion ban Trump supports that would make it harder for her to care for her patients.由Jesse Berney
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President Trump certainly has his priorities straight. Despite the disaster in Puerto Rico, scandals in his cabinet, and a new Muslim ban, he focuses on what really matters: kneeling NFL players.由Jesse Berney
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It's time to recommit to the notion that This Is Not Normal, but Trump makes it easy. He posts memes, hires the worst lawyers, and threatens to destroy an entire nation. I talk about that last one with Stephen Miles of Win Without War.由Jesse Berney
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Trump maybe possibly reverses himself on DACA, Michael Flynn -- both of them -- are in hot water, a cartoon villain doesn't get what he wished for, and I talk with Mark Joseph Stern about gay cakes. Or something like that.由Jesse Berney
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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.由Jesse Berney
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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.由Jesse Berney
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President Trump soaks the Secret Service, declares his nonstrategy for Afghanistan, and gives your environment away to the highest corporate bidder.由Jesse Berney
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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.由Jesse Berney
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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.由Jesse Berney
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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.由Jesse Berney
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The back-biting in the White House reaches new levels with an exciting new character, Trump says some incredibly dumb stuff, Trumpcare dies (for now), and Trump makes the military weaker.由Jesse Berney
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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.由Jesse Berney
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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.由Jesse Berney
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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.由Jesse Berney
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Trump is a sexist jackass on Twitter (again), doesn’t have any idea what’s going on with health care (again), and makes enormous mistakes in the Middle East (again, again, and again).由Jesse Berney
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Ever wonder what Donald Trump’s worst tweet is? Find out! Trump holds his first 2020 fundraiser — and pockets some of the cash. And the Senate GOP joins the take-away-your-health-care party.由Jesse Berney
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A horrific shooting targeting Republican congressman leads to a great conversation on gun control (on the podcast, anyway), and we finally learn Trump is under investigation.由Jesse Berney
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James Comey goes to the U.S. Senate to call the president a liar, and I take to the podcast to call on Donald Trump to resign. Plus, discover what Eric Trump always thought of you.由Jesse Berney
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While you were paying attention to President Trump destroying the planet, he was also taking away your civil rights and your birth control. Plus, Jared Kushner has been a very naughty boy.由Jesse Berney
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Trump releases his first big boy budget and goes on his first big boy foreign trip. Which is more of a disaster? That’s for you to decide. Also, the Russia investigation gets much, much worse.由Jesse Berney
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Every day this week brought a new earth-shattering revelation, but each story was part of a larger picture. I break down the Russia/FBI/Flynn craziness, and talk to Cato's Jonathan Blanks about how Jeff Sessions wants to put pretty much everyone in prison.由Jesse Berney
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The president of the United States fired the FBI director to obstruct a federal investigation into possible collusion with a foreign power to fix an election. Yeah, that really happened由Jesse Berney
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Republicans pass a Trumpcare bill that could take health care away from millions of Americans, and we hear a few of their heartbreaking stories. Trump believes religious liberty means the freedom to discriminate, and apparently he's cool with slavery.由Jesse Berney
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We're just about at the 100-day mark, and historian Alexis Coe helps me put this landmark into perspective. (He's not doing very well.) Trump continues to shit all over immigrants, Ivanka launches a fund for Ivanka-lites, and Trump hits the red button on his desk. (Really.)由Jesse Berney
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It's a vacation-shortened episode of The Trump Scorecard, and for once I'm the one going on vacation, not the president. But let's take a quick dive into a few big issues: ethical violations, despotism, and the Mystery of the Missing Aircraft Carrier.由Jesse Berney
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It's OK to be afraid when a giant orange toddler is in charge of your nuclear arsenal, especially when he seems more focused on cake than on diplomacy. We answer the age-old question, which is more disgusting: Jeff Sessions or Mar-a-Lago?由Jesse Berney
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Donald Trump launched an attack on an air base in Syria, and we hear from Win Without War's Stephen Miles on the horror that could be coming our way. We're still stuck in Russia, Kushner and Bannon have a slap fight, and we go a little nuts with the quick hits.由Jesse Berney
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Mike Pence dines alone, Devin Nunes is caught in a lie, Rex Tillerson says "nah we're good" on human rights violations, and I do my first ever listener call-in segments. And did you know Donald Trump never makes mistakes?由Jesse Berney
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The news just kept coming in Trump's ninth week. Russia! Health care! And because we're talking about Donald Trump: inappropriate sexual comments! I talk to Ian Millhiser of Think Progress about Trump's SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch. (He's bad.)由Jesse Berney
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Was this the worst week yet for the Trump presidency? Health care is off the rails. His Muslim ban gets blocked. His budget is evil. And he gets into a fight with Snoop Dogg. I talk to Summer Brennan about how Trump wants cripple the United Nations.由Jesse Berney
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In week seven of the Donald Trump presidency, the Republicans finally introduced their health care bill, and it's as bad as you'd expect. I get all the gory details from Obama administration health care expert Andy Slavitt. Also, deranged Trump tweetstorms! Separating mothers and children! Abortion! Ben Carson! And much more...…
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Trump's sixth week as president started and ended the same way: mired in scandal about his campaign's Russia connections. I speak to Rep. Dwight Evans about why Jeff Sessions need to resign, and tell you about the worst thing Donald Trump has ever done.由Jesse Berney
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We've passed the one-month mark under Donald Trump, and somehow we've survived. This week I take a look at his terrifying relationship with Alex Jones. We go on a magic budget roller coaster and meet Trump's two black friends. I also talk with Sarah McBride of the Human Rights Campaign about Trump's attacks on transgender children.…
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In the fourth episode of The Trump Scorecard, Trump faces his first big resignation and his first Cabinet nominee withdrawal and holds the craziest press conference of all time. I talk to Gabe Ortíz of America’s Voice about the rash of ICE raids and deportations.由Jesse Berney
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In the third episode of The Trump Scorecard, the White House and President Trump are in full meltdown mode, and I talk to Hunter Blair of the Economic Policy Institute about how Trump is trying to bring back the economic disaster of 2008.由Jesse Berney
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Episode 2: Trump Bans Muslims, Almost Starts Three Wars, and Doesn't Know Who Frederick Douglass Is
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In Donald Trump’s second week as president, he issued an executive order targeting Muslim immigrants and banning many of them from entering the United States. I speak to Iraqi refugee Taif Jany about the ban. Trump also nearly started three wars and said some extraordinarily stupid things.由Jesse Berney
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The inaugural episode of The Trump Scorecard, a weekly podcast documenting the very worst the Donald Trump presidency has to offer.由Jesse Berney
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