# 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:** 110
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2182 "2025-08-31T01:25:27Z")
Every day, there are a few candidates to add to this compendium of horrors thread. The one I’m picking today may seem not quite a full horror, but for the likely innocent contractor who Dictator Don is charging a penalty and barring from bidding on future contracts (almost surely in violation of the Federal Acquisition Regulation), it is a horror. See: > **[Donald Trump Banishes White House Contractor After Spotting 'Huge Gash' in...](https://people.com/donald-trump-banishes-contractor-over-gash-in-patio-white-house-rose-garden-11801043)** > > Donald Trump slammed a White House contractor in an Aug. 30 Truth Social post after discovering a 'gash' in the limestone of the White House Rose Garden, and vowed 'never' to let the contractor return. The post comes as he and Melania Trump finish... ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2183 "2025-08-31T05:15:26Z")
> “The Rose Garden is completed, and far more beautiful than anyone ever had in mind when it was conceived of, decades ago,” No Donny, no it isn’t. ---
**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 31, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2184 "2025-08-31T15:49:30Z")
Hmmm…let’s see… a profusion of flowers in full bloom v. a concrete slab–which is more beautiful? 🤔 Sorry, that’s too hard to figure out. Makes my brain hurt. /s ---
**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 31, 2025, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2185 "2025-08-31T15:51:54Z")
Not to put too fine a point on it, but … > **[https://i.redd.it/2mlgrqoxbugf1.jpeg](https://i.redd.it/2mlgrqoxbugf1.jpeg)** ETA: [![](https://people.com/thmb/ySMM1XVQqmQtSk6wukbEd5ZEv54=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(749x0:751x2)/white-house-rose-garden-0-080125-970163e35fb7489bb8ebf3c38fea5238.jpg) ](https://people.com/thmb/ySMM1XVQqmQtSk6wukbEd5ZEv54=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(749x0:751x2)/white-house-rose-garden-0-080125-970163e35fb7489bb8ebf3c38fea5238.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2186 "2025-08-31T18:51:55Z")
Random thought I had while looking at @DavidNRockies pictures. He’s remaking the white house to look more like Mar-a-Lago. I wonder if he’s charging people to sit on “his” patio. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2187 "2025-08-31T18:58:25Z")
Anyone know in what language does _Mar-a-Lago_ translate to _Wolf’s Lair_? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2188 "2025-08-31T18:59:23Z")
I’m pretty sure that it translates to “Home of the Petty One Without Honor” in Klingon. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2189 "2025-08-31T19:10:48Z")
It is my hope that the next administration’s combined intelligence will exceed that of the Rose Garden’s blue cone. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2190 "2025-09-02T23:17:02Z")
[Reuters: US military kills 11 people in strike on alleged drug boat from Venezuela, Trump says](https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-military-kills-11-people-strike-alleged-drug-boat-venezuela-trump-says-2025-09-02/) > [@](#): > > The decision to blow up a suspected drug vessel passing through the Caribbean, instead of seizing the vessel and apprehending its crew, is highly unusual and evokes memories of the U.S. fight against militant groups like al Qaeda. . . . > > Speaking to reporters, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said: “These particular drugs were probably headed to Trinidad or some other country in the Caribbean.” So, my country is responding to alleged criminal activity involving two countries, neither one the United States, with an act of war. That definitely belongs in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2191 "2025-09-03T00:33:55Z")
Re my last post, the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, where the alleged drug criminals were supposedly headed, is [Trump-friendly](https://newsday.co.tt/2025/08/25/kamla-bats-for-trump/) and disagrees with my categorization of today’s attack as a horror: [PM: US military should “kill them all violently”](https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/pm-us-military-should-kill-them-all-violently-6.2.2390747.79d6204d7c) > [@](#): > > She added that restricting illegal guns, drugs, and human trafficking “will decrease the violence in the region and in particular our country,” and asked for divine protection for US military personnel engaged in the interdiction mission. > > “May god bless and protect the members of the US military who are engaged in the drug interdiction mission. Their efforts will save many lives in our country and the region,” she said. If this next middle of the road sounding article is fair, it is in the Trinidad and Tobago national interest for PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar to suck up to Trump: > **[What’s next for Trinidad and Tobago’s new prime minister?](https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/whats-next-for-trinidad-and-tobagos-new-prime-minister/)** > > On April 28, Kamla Persad-Bissessar was elected as the next prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago. While she is returning to the role, she’ll find a country that is different from her first term. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2025, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2192 "2025-09-03T00:42:57Z")
You know it’s only a matter of time before innocent people (fishermen, e.g.) who aren’t smugglers get blowed up real good. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2193 "2025-09-03T00:48:27Z")
Nah, they’ll all be declared collateral damage anyway. Death is the verdict that the United States military imposes for whatever crime it seems necessary. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2194 "2025-09-03T01:01:22Z")
> [@](#): > > Speaking to reporters, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said: “These particular drugs were probably headed to Trinidad or some other country in the Caribbean.” Let me guess, probably a trillion billion doses of probably Fentanyl that we probably can’t prove because probably the ship is on the probably bottom of Caribbean. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2195 "2025-09-03T01:10:24Z")
> # L.A. Ruling Complicates Trump’s Threats to Send Troops to More Cities > > As Democratic cities brace for possible military deployments, Democratic governors see in a lower-court ruling the potential for legal protections. > > [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/us/trump-military-cities.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.jE8.xmxk.n4YcC2CZgZ5S&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/us/trump-military-cities.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jE8.xmxk.n4YcC2CZgZ5S&smid=url-share) I invite you to read the opening clause in that subhead over, oh… 10 to 100 times. 🤨 And ponder it. **“As Democratic cities brace for possible military deployments…”** These would be deployments of **American** troops in **American** cities against **Americans.** “Braced,” meaning the cities don’t want these troops. What the ever-loving fuck. * * * From the link: > Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, a Democrat, responded defiantly Tuesday afternoon. > > “When did we become a country where it’s OK for the U.S. president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don’t want?” he asked reporters in Chicago. “Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?” Yes, Gov. Pritzker, we have. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2196 "2025-09-03T01:15:40Z")
Is there, anywhere, a list of the horrors of Trump and his minions? You know, one that is added to daily (or more often). Things like firing the heads of the CDC or CFPB, or the Bureau of Labor and Statistics or FBI agents and DOJ attorneys that worked on the January 6 shit show etc. I know the list would be very long but there ought to be one. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2197 "2025-09-03T01:21:46Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > Things like firing the heads of the CDC or CFPB On first scan, I read ‘firing the heads’ as ‘firing squads’. Ordinarily, I’d just laugh at myself. But times aren’t ordinary. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2198 "2025-09-03T01:27:30Z")
‘Firing squad, it’s such an old-fashioned term but a beautiful term: firing squad, it sort of says “You’re fired” with different things in it.’ ~ DJT ---
**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:** [September 3, 2025, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2199 "2025-09-03T02:08:49Z")
Check out “[What the fuck just happened today](https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/)” for a website that keeps track of the daily horrors. One guy started it during T’s first maladministration and it’s been chugging along ever since. ETA: Holy fuck. I was glancing down through today’s entries and came across this: > 6/ **The Trump administration is weighing a plan that would give Palestinians a digital land “token” in exchange for their property so Gaza can be redeveloped into luxury resorts and “AI-powered” cities**. The 38-page proposal calls for the “voluntary” removal of Gaza’s 2 million residents, offering $5,000, rent and food subsidies to those who leave. The plan projects a fourfold return on $100 billion in investment funding and would place Gaza under U.S. control for at least a decade. ([Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/31/trump-gaza-plan-riviera-relocation/)) ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2200 "2025-09-03T02:11:52Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > Is there, anywhere, a list of the horrors of Trump and his minions? You know, one that is added to daily (or more often). In addition to what EddyTeddyFreddy mentioned above, this might be closest to what you want: > **[The Life & Crimes of Donald Trump - TrumpFile.org](https://trumpfile.org/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)** > > Documenting the disinformation, chaos, and criminality of Donald Trump, his administration, and his allies. This does not cover Trump 45: > **[TrumpWatch - Democracy 21](https://democracy21.org/trumpwatch)** > > Est. reading time: 4 minutes It also only covers Trump 47, but this thread you are now reading probably has some items the above missed. You could also look at the Trump threads in the Pit, although I stay away. For Trump45, there is a lot at my next link, but I do not see an easy way to consolidate the day to day overviews: > **[TrumpWatch, Day 663: Trump's Meltdown Continues as Melania Demands Firing of...](https://eaworldview.com/2018/11/trumpwatch-day-663-trumps-meltdown-continues/)** > > In a day turbulent even by Trumpian standards, angry and scared Donald Trump lashes out at France & Melania Trump's demand leads to firing of top official. For more ideas, go to [www.chatgpt.com](http://www.chatgpt.com) and enter this prompt: What web sites track Donald Trump’s misdeeds since approximately 2017 on a close to daily basis? ---
**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:** [September 3, 2025, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2201 "2025-09-03T11:13:07Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > You could also look at the Trump threads in the Pit, although I stay away. This is why I usually post administration atrocities in this thread. I think this thread gets more exposure to the overall Board. I’m guessing many people do not look in the Pit. /aside [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774.md?page=109) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774.md?page=111)