# 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:** 172
**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:** [April 19, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3426 "2026-04-19T15:47:26Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > Trump has said he would donate money collected from the case to charity (From Reuters, not a quote by **PhillyGuy** ) Trump _says_ a lot of stuff. Very little of it bears any resemblance to the truth. So he gets a whack of money from the taxpayers and then does not donate a nickel to charity. So what? What’s anyone going to do? He does not give a shit. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2026, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3427 "2026-04-19T16:32:46Z")
“NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!!” > Iran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz A Total Violation of our Ceasefire Agreement! Many of them were aimed at a French Ship, and a Freighter from the United Kingdom. That wasn’t nice, was it? My Representatives are going to Islamabad, Pakistan –They will be there tomorrow evening, for Negotiations. Iran recently announced that they were closing the Strait, which is strange, because our BLOCKADE has already closed it. They’re helping us without knowing, and they are the ones that lose with the closed passage, $500 Million Dollars a day! The United States loses nothing. In fact, many Ships are headed, right now, to the U.S., Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska, to load up, compliments of the IRGC, always wanting to be “the tough guy!” We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years. IT’S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END! President DONALD J. TRUMP [![](https://i.ibb.co/VY91NLRM/https://fearitselfsdmb.imgbb.com/-20260419-120845-Chrome.jpg) ](https://i.ibb.co/VY91NLRM/https://fearitselfsdmb.imgbb.com/-20260419-120845-Chrome.jpg) ---
**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:** [April 19, 2026, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3428 "2026-04-19T16:35:51Z")
Trump thought acting ‘unstable’ online would speed Iran deal: report [Trump thought acting ‘unstable’ online would speed Iran deal: report](https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/trump-thought-acting-unstable-online-would-speed-iran-deal-report/ar-AA21eqAy) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3429 "2026-04-19T16:39:13Z")
Shh! Don’t tell the Iranians, or they won’t fall for it! ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2026, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3430 "2026-04-19T17:00:00Z")
Acting…riiiiight. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2026, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3431 "2026-04-19T17:04:05Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > So he gets a whack of money from the taxpayers and then does not donate a nickel to charity. So what? Then I get to post in the compendium of horrors that he corruptly accepted billions of dollars, from the IRS, previously pledged to charity. Almost every day there is some horror to post here that Trump actually did, as opposed to may do. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3432 "2026-04-19T17:09:07Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > “NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!!” It’s really pathetic that this could have been something he said a few weeks ago, too. And he can probably repeat it in a month. What’s that expression that Texans use? > [@](#): > > All hat, no cattle ---
**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:** [April 19, 2026, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3433 "2026-04-19T17:14:02Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > as opposed to may do. Why do you give a lying liar who lies any benefit of the doubt whatsoever? If a guy shits in your hat every day for a year, do you just hand him your hat and suppose that _today_, he might not drop a deuce in there? ---
**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:** [April 19, 2026, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3434 "2026-04-19T19:22:13Z")
Switching gears, the husband of Lori Chavez-DeRemer, the Secretary of Labor, has been [banned from his wife’s building](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/19/chavez-deremers-husband-barred-from-dol-headquarters-00790118). From Politico: > [@](#): > > Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband has been barred from the agency’s headquarters after at least two female employees alleged that he acted improperly toward them, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2026, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3435 "2026-04-19T19:43:56Z")
_wrong thread_ ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3436 "2026-04-21T06:55:33Z")
So this might have happened: > **[Trump 'blocked from accessing nuclear codes' by head of US military](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/trump-blocked-accessing-nuclear-codes-37045513)** > > US President Donald Trump is alleged to have received push-back from a senior military person in a meeting at the White House during an attempt to access his country's nuclear codes I am under the impression that The Mirror is a tabloid but at the same time, I could easily see Trumpy-Wumpy pitching a fit because the generals won’t let him play with the toys. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2026, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3437 "2026-04-21T07:16:40Z")
Don’t ask me when, but didn’t Trump once say, “We’ve got nukes. Why don’t we use them?” I’m glad that cooler heads prevailed this time. I hope they can do the same next time. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2026, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3438 "2026-04-21T09:54:10Z")
> during an attempt to access his country’s nuclear codes This is the really alarming part of that statement. The fact that he tried to access the codes. 😱 ---
**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:** [April 21, 2026, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3439 "2026-04-21T09:55:45Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Don’t ask me when, but didn’t Trump once say, “We’ve got nukes. Why don’t we use them?” [Multiple times](https://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/03/trump-asks-why-us-cant-use-nukes-msnbcs-joe-scarborough-reports.html), in fact. > “Several months ago, a foreign policy expert on the international level went to advise Donald Trump. And three times [Trump] asked about the use of nuclear weapons. Three times he asked at one point if we had them why can’t we use them,” Scarborough said on his “Morning Joe” program. And back in 2017 he had the idea of [nuking North Korea and blaming it on someone else](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-discussed-using-nuclear-weapon-north-korea-2017-blaming-someone-rcna65120). > Behind closed doors in 2017, President Donald Trump discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea and suggested he could blame a U.S. strike against the communist regime on another country, according to a new section of a book that details key events of his administration. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3440 "2026-04-24T01:22:16Z")
I may be missing something bigger, but my candidate for yesterday’s chief horror is firing the Secretary of the Navy in the middle of a heavily naval war – and not for anything to do with the war, but, apparently, because of the Trump battleship program. What’s confusing me is that some news reports seem to be saying that Sec. Phelan was fired for taking Trump’s insistence on quickly building a Trump Class Battleship more seriously than Hegseth. If it is true that Phelan advised using a foreign shipyard to get it done quickly (or at all), I can understand Trump not wanting to hear that. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2026, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3441 "2026-04-24T11:53:54Z")
The service Secretaries have almost zero to do with warfighting. So the idea that somehow replacing them during an episode of shooting is especially bad is unfounded. But for sure any decision of the current criminal regime is done for a bad reason, or maybe a random reason and for sure at a random time. So dumb for sure. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3442 "2026-04-24T14:46:01Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > some news reports seem to be saying that Sec. Phelan was fired for… I just assumed he was fired because he told Trump it’s not possible to drive his ships into the middle of Iran or something along those lines. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2026, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3443 "2026-04-24T17:09:10Z")
In next episode: “Why don’t we put wheels on ships???” I’m actually waiting for this. ---
**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:** [April 24, 2026, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3444 "2026-04-24T18:22:34Z")
‘For the 250th I have two words, aircraft carrier and reflecting pool. Get it done’ ~ DJT ---
**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:** [April 24, 2026, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3445 "2026-04-24T21:07:57Z")
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