# 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:** 134
**Author:** ![WalterBishop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@WalterBishop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WalterBishop)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2666 "2025-12-15T21:18:50Z")
This is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient. > **[Trump Posts Psychotic ‘TDS’ Insult to Murdered Rob Reiner](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-posts-jaw-dropping-insult-to-murdered-rob-reiner/)** > > The president’s shocking post came hours after the director and his wife were found slain in their home. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2667 "2025-12-16T02:26:16Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > This is not any ordinary case of just “being an asshole”, this is a serious mental pathology. And it’s not just some rando on the internet. It’s the fucking president and leader of the fucking Republican fucking party. (sorry, feeling very sweary at the moment) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2668 "2025-12-16T02:50:12Z")
If anyone wondered whether the inmates have taken over the asylum … ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2669 "2025-12-16T03:43:42Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sWLdZFCMx8Y/maxresdefault.jpg "Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWLdZFCMx8Y) ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2670 "2025-12-16T03:49:37Z")
I have a few factual questions about this part of Trump’s recent post: > [@](#): > > Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME Trump uses the word “reportedly.” That word implies that he got the claim about the perpetrator being pro-Trump from some obviously far-right media source. And it must have been very far right to say that. Do we know where Trump got this idea? And is it true that a person alleged to have killed the Reiners is a Trump supporter? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2671 "2025-12-16T03:54:13Z")
Come on, man. He pulls shit directly out of his ass and says, “someone told me.” And no, it’s not true that a person alleged to have killed the Reiners is a Trump supporter. The person who did kill the Reiners was their son and it had nothing to do with Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2672 "2025-12-16T04:34:32Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > It really is all “Me-me-me-me-me” with him, isn’t it?. Every second of every day. It always has to center on him. The Reiner murder was nothing remotely political but he just has to insert his crazy self and gibberish into the conversation. He truly is a never ending compendium of horrors. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2673 "2025-12-16T04:37:18Z")
Yes, he’s a malignant narcissist; as far as he’s concerned the universe revolves around _him._ ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2674 "2025-12-16T05:17:43Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > The person **who did kill** the Reiners was their son Alleged. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2675 "2025-12-16T05:29:25Z")
Yeah, well, I’ll lay odds. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2676 "2025-12-16T14:42:19Z")
> [@Ellecram](#): > > He [Trump] truly is a never ending compendium of horrors. It will never be accurately said of him: “He can’t possibly go any lower.” ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2677 "2025-12-16T14:48:38Z")
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**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2678 "2025-12-16T16:52:45Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > And is it true that a person alleged to have killed the Reiners is a Trump supporter? As already stated above… no. Not even remotely true. But I agree that Trump at some point _thought_ this was the case. How or why - who knows. Pulled it out of his ass, or someone else pulled it out of their ass and Trump saw it. But I think that Trump went with this because he wanted it to be true. He **wanted** to stoke the stochastic terrorism. To show that his violent MAGA army will kill for him. This is his dream scenario. ---
**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:** [December 16, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2679 "2025-12-16T17:51:03Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > But I agree that Trump at some point _thought_ this was the case. I don’t think trump _thought_ anything like that. IMHO it was purely a case of > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Pulled it out of his ass, or someone else pulled it out of their ass and Trump saw it. His M.O. is to approach **every** event as an opportunity to aggrandize/promote himself and criticize, insult, hurt, put down, and if at all possible, _destroy_ someone else in the execution of that. And I do mean _execution_. There are no benign or even neutral actions/behaviors in his world. EVERYTHING is win-lose–even a handshake–and for him to win, somebody else has to lose. Pretty basic. I’m not sure even one-celled creatures operate on this principle. 🦠 ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2680 "2025-12-16T23:00:12Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > He’s already done an awful lot. Accent on ‘awful.’ ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2681 "2025-12-18T18:33:40Z")
From speech last night: > [@](#): > > I am also proud to announce that more than 1,000, 450,000, think of this, 1,450,000 military service members will receive a special, we call warrior dividend before Christmas, a warrior dividend. In honor of our nation’s founding in 1776, we are sending every soldier $1,776. Think of that. And the checks are already on the way. Nobody understood that one until about 30 minutes ago. If Trump isn’t lying, that’s a felonious violation of the Antideficiency Act. I’m not sure why this isn’t being widely reported as such. What is being reported is this: [Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus](https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/trump-rebrands-congressionally-approved-troop-housing-subsidy-warrior-dividend-bonus/410250/) Problem is, Trump promised “every soldier” the money. But housing subsidies are for military members who do NOT live in government furnished barracks. Paying $1,776 to a soldier in a barracks is Trump and Hegseth looting the Treasury to send money to a favored constituency. ---
**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:** [December 18, 2025, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2682 "2025-12-18T19:26:08Z")
> Trump and Hegseth looting the Treasury to send money to a favored constituency. You say that like it’s a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2683 "2025-12-18T19:38:14Z")
Another hour, another violation of law. [Kennedy Center board votes to rename it ‘Trump Kennedy Center’](https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/18/politics/trump-kennedy-center-name) It was originally named the National Cultural Center – by law [S.3335 - National Cultural Center Act](https://www.congress.gov/bill/85th-congress/senate-bill/3335) Then, in 1964, Congress passed a law changing the name: [20 USC CHAPTER 3, SUBCHAPTER V: JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title20/chapter3/subchapter5&edition=prelim) > [@](#): > > **1964** —Subsecs. (a), (c). Pub. L. 88–260 substituted “John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” for “National Cultural Center” wherever appearing. Now the center board, chaired by Donald Trump, decides the name is up to them, not Congress. Trivial? Yes. A lot of the steps, along the road to full dictatorship are trivial, by themselves. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2684 "2025-12-18T20:08:51Z")
At least with a new name it will be easy to tell when the place was a classy center, and when it became enshittified. And unlike the gulf of Mexico being “renamed”, he cal actually put his name on the side of this one. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/2685 "2025-12-18T20:50:10Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > At least with a new name it will be easy to tell when the place was a classy center, and when it became enshittified. I’m really looking forward to stripping his name off everything 3.5 years from now. And removing those ridiculous plaques. (and ballroom) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774.md?page=133) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774.md?page=135)