# The current second Trump administration: a compendium of horrors **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 6, 2024, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774 "2024-11-06T09:17:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 108
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2142 "2025-08-26T00:14:47Z")
As long as there LEOs who will enforce a non-existent law and courts who will back them, nothing, I guess.Other than to vote and make as much noise as possible. . BTW, I read he’s already backing off on this one. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2143 "2025-08-26T00:15:17Z")
> [@from Slight\_Off\_Hand's link](#): > > President criticized Democratic-led cities of being ungrateful for his administration deploying federal law enforcement to help curtail crime If he did that to cities in Republican states he would get some gratitude, from at least their governors. But that’s not really the point because It’s not actually about crime. He is not concerned with helping Republican states because he already got their votes. His only concern is bullying the Democratic states who didn’t vote for him. If MAGAs had half a brain you’d think they would realize that. He’s not interested in making things better for them, just making things much worse for others. But I guess in the end they are ok with that. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2144 "2025-08-26T00:18:02Z")
According to [this episode](https://youtu.be/u1_AxAvcmJA?si=xQGIKQQHZf8vfESf) of Jack Cocchiarella’s YouTube channel, Alex Jones is claiming that Kash Patel and/or Pam Bondi will be fired within the next six months if more indictments don’t start dropping and paying dividends. Of course, it’s Alex Jones, so take that for what it’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2145 "2025-08-26T01:06:30Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > BTW, I read he’s already backing off on this one. Tina Peters? Do you have a link, or more info? ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2146 "2025-08-26T01:26:11Z")
AFAIK Trump went almost the whole day today without a new compendium of horrors item, but he has now made up for it: [President Trump fired Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook](https://www.axios.com/2025/08/26/trump-fires-federal-reserve-lisa-cook) ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2147 "2025-08-26T01:41:45Z")
Flooding the zone works rather well doesn’t it. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2148 "2025-08-26T02:01:40Z")
Non-paywalled/registration-walled version: > **[Trump says he has fired Fed governor Lisa Cook, escalating his battle against...](https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/business/trump-fire-fed-governor)** > > President Donald Trump on Monday said he has fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, according to a letter addressed to her posted on his social media — the first such instance in the central bank’s 111-year history. Gotta love this part, coming from a lifelong financial fraudster and convicted felon: > “In light of your deceitful and potentially criminal conduct in a financial matter … I do not have such confidence in your integrity. At a minimum, the conduct at issue exhibits the sort of gross negligence in financial transactions that calls into question your competence and trustworthiness as a financial regulator,” Trump added in his letter. The independence of the Fed in setting monetary policy has been an essential pillar of the nation’s economic stability for more than a hundred years. Now it’s gone. Those still on the board of governors had better watch what they say and do, lest they offend Dear Leader. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2149 "2025-08-26T02:06:04Z")
Addressing this situation on Rachel Maddow’s show tonight, Paul Krugman said this is a “five-alarm fire.” 🔥 ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2150 "2025-08-26T02:07:38Z")
He’ll now be able to establish his MAGA majority on the board now. Independence is dead and will be dead for decades. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2151 "2025-08-26T02:08:40Z")
But it’s not nonsense Epstein News so no one cares. ---
**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2152 "2025-08-26T04:35:11Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > AFAIK Trump went almost the whole day today without a new compendium of horrors item, but he has now made up for it: > > [President Trump fired Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook](https://www.axios.com/2025/08/26/trump-fires-federal-reserve-lisa-cook) He CLAIMS to have fired Cook. Surely he can’t do that legally? :snerk: Certainly the Federal courts and SCOTUS will say this illegal? /s #### not. holding. my. breath. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2153 "2025-08-26T11:40:43Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Trump ordered that flag burning is again a crime despite SCOTUS having ruled otherwise. Quoth Trump: > When you burn the American flag, it incites riots at levels that we’ve never seen before. People go crazy. Ah. So the problem is _not_ the insane uber-nationalists who ‘go crazy.’ The _problem_ is the free speech itself. Got it. I see the people from [**Charlie Hebdo**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Hebdo_issue_No._1011) nodding _vigorously_ in assent. [**Merci beaucoup**](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/merci%20beaucoup) for clearing that up. > **[Flag burning incident near White House leads to arrest hours after Trump's...](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/man-arrested-burning-flag-white-house-trump-executive-order-rcna226727)** > > The arrested man identified himself as a combat veteran and said he was burning the American flag in protest of an executive order Trump signed Monday targeting flag burning. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2154 "2025-08-26T16:46:40Z")
It also featured in Krugman’s Substack today. He pointed out that Jerome Powell is now on the hot seat to support Cook in order to maintain the Fed’s independence. But if he does back Cook - will Trump use this as a way to fire him? Is Trump provoking this crisis as a way to get at Powell? And if all this happens, what will the Supremes say about it? And will they matter? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2155 "2025-08-26T18:40:48Z")
I was reading this story today. It goes back to the beginning of this whole mess, but it highlights how the Trump administration isn’t just incompetent, it’s actively malicious. Try reading this and not concluding that “depraved indifference” isn’t a good descriptor. They deliberately attacked this guy, destroyed his life, and endangered his family, to sell a manufactured narrative, that they had the evidence in hand to prove was bullshit. > **[DOGE targeted him on social media. Then the Taliban took his family.](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/26/2340111/-DOGE-targeted-him-on-social-media-Then-the-Taliban-took-his-family?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_8&pm_medium=web)** > > Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for ... ---
**Author:** ![TeroSunbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terosunbear/32/14748_2.png) [@TeroSunbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeroSunbear)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2156 "2025-08-26T19:20:12Z")
RFK Jr pleasing his boss. Windmills are killing the whales. > **[Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads](https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DN04sca0pjn?xmt=AQF0rQ-3HtsX-NEveR6cUJItOwhQ6RM9kOhz0J3MTVfRSA)** > > RFK Jr claims that windmills are "wiping out the whale population" in the Atlantic ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2157 "2025-08-26T19:27:18Z")
This is confusing. Shouldn’t wiping out the whales be a **good** thing according to these counterfactual troglodytes? They have to be careful lest their calamitous ideology might accidentally do something useful. I guess they figure that killing wind turbines is more important than killing whales and liberals. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2158 "2025-08-26T19:38:05Z")
“From hell’s heart I blow at thee!” ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2159 "2025-08-26T19:42:40Z")
But wouldn’t that make the windmills spin faster and generate more power? ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2160 "2025-08-26T23:30:33Z")
Based on his current pattern I suspect that a list of cities likely to be targeted can be found here. > **[Black Mayors - BlackDemographics.com](https://blackdemographics.com/culture/black-politics/black-mayors/)** > > Black Mayors In 1967, Carl Stokes of Cleveland and Richard Hatcher of Gary, Indiana became the first African Americans elected as mayors of major U.S. cities. Over fifty years later, Black mayors have become common in cities large and small across... ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2161 "2025-08-26T23:41:42Z")
He’s also spoken of doing Boston in the next round. But then, this is the current mayor: > **[Michelle Wu](https://www.boston.gov/departments/mayors-office/michelle-wu)** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774.md?page=107) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774.md?page=109)