# 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:** 176
**Author:** ![Sylvanz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Sylvanz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylvanz)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3506 "2026-04-30T15:10:25Z")
I don’t live near an ocean. I live near the Great Lakes. My question is if you go 8 miles out on the Great Lakes or the ocean. Isn’t it a lot deeper than 6 feet? This seems pretty stupid to me. Of course we’re talking trump and maga. Am I wrong here? ---
**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:** [April 30, 2026, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3507 "2026-04-30T15:14:03Z")
> [@Sylvanz](#): > > My question is if you go 8 miles out on the Great Lakes or the ocean. Isn’t it a lot deeper than 6 feet? This seems pretty stupid to me. Of course it is. It’s a tortured justification/interpretation to back Trump. And, it’s mixing metaphors, with “6 feet deep” probably referring to the term “six feet under,” meaning “dead and buried.” ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3508 "2026-04-30T15:16:29Z")
I heard The Big Dummy spew this nonsense and screamed at my TV " name one". When I did an AI query asking if it’s been used in movies and it said yes. I asked it to name some and it came back with two. One of which is The Candidate (1972), where one character says it, referring to Robert Redford’s sideburns. I asked again and got a list but it doesn’t say the context in which it’s used, but I bet it’ s not referring to homicide. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3509 "2026-04-30T17:29:56Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Not to go too far afield here, but wouldn’t a Kid Rock lyric be better than that **[trash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus)** from Emma Lazarus? “Give me your whites, your models, your barely legal hotties yearning to trade sexual favors for green card status”. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2026, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3510 "2026-04-30T22:53:44Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > I heard The Big Dummy spew this nonsense and screamed at my TV " name one". > When I did an AI query asking if it’s been used in movies and it said yes. I asked it to name some and it came back with two. One of which is The Candidate (1972), where one character says it, referring to Robert Redford’s sideburns. I asked again and got a list but it doesn’t say the context in which it’s used, but I bet it’ s not referring to homicide. Thanks for checking that; I’d wondered if there were any actual uses of ‘86’ to mean ‘murder’ in extant tv shows or movies. But I bet we can count on it appearing in several Scott Baio and/or Jon Voight productions that will be greenlit ASAP! ---
**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 30, 2026, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3511 "2026-04-30T23:09:33Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Thanks for checking that; I’d wondered if there were any actual uses of ‘86’ to mean ‘murder’ in extant tv shows or movies. Every time I hear the term “86” I think of “Get Smart,” where Maxwell Smart (played by Don Adams) was Agent 86. According to the Wikipedia page on the show, “[Mel] Brooks decided on Smart’s code number, 86, as a reference to the [slang term](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86_(term)), meaning to forcibly eject someone, such as a patron from a bar or casino.” Notice that Brooks did not say that it meant to kill someone. Here’s the “Get Smart” wiki page from which that quote came: > **[Get Smart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Smart)** > > Get Smart is an American comedy television series parodying the secret agent genre that had become widely popular in the first half of the 1960s with the release of the James Bond films. It was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and had its television premiere on NBC on September 18, 1965. It starred Don Adams (who was also a director on the series) as agent Maxwell Smart (Agent 86), Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as The Chief. Henry said that they created the show at the requ... ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3512 "2026-05-01T00:33:07Z")
“EIGHTY-SIX. Item on the menu not on hand” from Harold W. Bentley, “Linguistic Concoctions of the Soda Jerker,” _American Speech_ 11:1 (Feb., **1936** ), pp. 37–45, citation from p. 43. "‘Eighty’ means water… Perhaps this ‘eighty’ started as ‘H20’ and later metamorphosed into “eighty” for brevity’s sake. ‘Eighty-six!’ may signify either “Six glasses of water!” or “We do not have the item ordered by the customer” (p. 53) “Eighty: water Eighty-one, eighty-two, etc: One, two, etc., glasses of water. Eighty-Six: 1) Six glasses of water. . . . . . . . . . . 2) We do not have the item ordered” p. 55 from John Lancaster Riordan, “Soda Fountain Lingo,” _California Folklore Quarterly_ Jan. **1945** 4:1, pp. 50–57. This is just to challenge the silly notions, which nobody here believes anyway, that the phrase originates in some murder metaphor. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3513 "2026-05-01T01:29:12Z")
Good. Fucking. Grief. 🤦🏽 > # Trump Administration Casts Host of Policies Under Biden as Anti-Christian > > A new report is the latest effort by the Justice Department to argue that it is removing political bias from prosecutorial decision-making. > > [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/politics/trump-report-christians-biden.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.fFA.ehcr.w4trkopUGoou&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/politics/trump-report-christians-biden.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fFA.ehcr.w4trkopUGoou&smid=url-share) > The Justice Department on Thursday accused the Biden administration of pushing policies that were unfair to Christians, releasing a report that amounted to the latest rhetorical broadside by the Trump administration over what it calls the “weaponization” of government. > > The 197-page document, released by a task force led by the department, sought to portray what President Trump’s advisers contend was anti-Christian bias among those who worked for President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who is Roman Catholic. The report, which refers to decision-making at more than a dozen agencies, comes weeks after Mr. Trump publicly attacked the pope. > > “The Biden administration’s policies regularly clashed with a Christian worldview and burdened traditional religious practices,” the report said. “These conflicts frequently arose over abortion, gender ideology and sexual orientation.” > > The document is the Justice Department’s latest effort to argue that it is removing purported political bias from the work of prosecutors. … > … When is the so-called trump administration going to impeach Biden and remove him from office _ex post facto_? ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3514 "2026-05-01T01:35:24Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](#): > > I heard The Big Dummy spew this nonsense and screamed at my TV " name one". To be accurate, “86 him” has _on occasion_ been used to mean “kill him”, but that is not the usual meaning, and there’s no indication it was used in that meaning in this instance. [cite](https://www.dance-forums.com/threads/swing-jargon.1029/) (from 2003) \<\< Hey. I found this cool link which lists swing jargon of the 20’s, 30’s and 40’s and today.\* \*[[DPS: Swing Lingo](https://web.archive.org/web/20040920063403/http://www.geocities.com/DavesPieShoppey/sl.html)] \* _ **Dave’s Guide to the Lingo of the NeoSwing Era** _ \*86 --vb., to stop or kill something (“Take care of the trouble maker, 86 him.” “Ok boss!”)\>\> ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3515 "2026-05-01T01:45:10Z")
If I were to write “Take Out Trump” in sand and post that on Instagram, would that be a criminal act? This is all so fucking stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3516 "2026-05-01T02:24:05Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > The 197-page document Our tax dollars at work. Several well-compensated attorneys digging shit up and putting it on paper. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3517 "2026-05-01T02:25:34Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > Comey has been indicted again: At first glance I read this as “Comedy has been indicted again,” and frankly that’s also spot on with this administration. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3518 "2026-05-01T04:00:31Z")
Take ‘86’, and add a ‘1’ to it. Now it’s 186. Only, add the one to the six. Now it’s [187](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/187_(slang))! 😲 Not really 😲. ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3519 "2026-05-01T15:32:03Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Take ‘86’, and add a ‘1’ to it. Now it’s 186. Only, add the one to the six. Now it’s [187](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/187_(slang))! That’s sounding like the same logic Gus Portokalos (Michael Constantine) used to prove every word in every language could be traced back to Greek > Kimono, kimono, kimono. Ha! Of course! Kimono is come from the Greek word himona, is mean winter. So, what do you wear in the wintertime to stay warm? A robe. You see: robe, kimono. There you go! > [@Dr.Drake](#): > > Spoiler: they don’t literally kill the tomato. They don’t? 🙂 [![](https://www.marthastewart.com/thmb/gywVmmAgWhat5S9Q9HzV6a5ouCk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/how-to-cut-a-tomato-slices-getty-0223-2000-c435eb75e8604263984b0a8d73c53b91.jpg) ](https://www.marthastewart.com/thmb/gywVmmAgWhat5S9Q9HzV6a5ouCk=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/how-to-cut-a-tomato-slices-getty-0223-2000-c435eb75e8604263984b0a8d73c53b91.jpg) ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3520 "2026-05-01T15:57:20Z")
86 47. 8 + 6 + 4 + 7 = 25. 25th amendment. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2026, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3521 "2026-05-01T19:29:52Z")
> [@solost](#): > > “Give me your whites, your models, your barely legal hotties yearning to trade sexual favors for green card status”. Golf clap. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > When is the so-called trump administration going to impeach Biden and remove him from office _ex post facto_? Wait until you see the dirt they have on Chester A. Arthur! ---
**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:** [May 1, 2026, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3522 "2026-05-01T19:33:30Z")
It could be the big break Grover Cleveland’s campaign is waiting for! ---
**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:** [May 2, 2026, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3523 "2026-05-02T02:14:41Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Just sayin’. I’ve stolen this. ---
**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:** [May 2, 2026, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3524 "2026-05-02T02:29:50Z")
You and me both (I saw it on Twitter). ---
**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:** [May 4, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3525 "2026-05-04T13:54:19Z")
From [Heather Cox Richardson’s Substack dated May 3, 2026](https://substack.com/home/post/p-196388134). [Free to read, free to subscribe.] If the following isn’t the behavior of a total nutcase _(excuse the use of highly technical terminology)_, I don’t know what is.) 🤦🏽‍♀️ > Late on Friday night, President Donald J. Trump took to social media. > > At 11:03 he posted an AI-generated image of himself, alongside Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, all shirtless, along with an unidentifiable woman in a bikini, appearing to be relaxing in a swimming pool. But the “swimming pool” was the reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. > > Then, at 11:04, Trump posted an image of First Lady Melania Trump grinning at the press conference Trump held after the incident at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, when he said that incident proved he needed his proposed ballroom for his security. > > Then, at 11:13, Trump posted an image of House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), who is Black, holding a baseball bat. The caption calls Jeffries “low IQ,” “a THUG,” and “a danger to our Country.” > > Then, at 11:15, he posted an image of himself smiling and holding six wild cards from the game Uno. The caption read, “I HAVE ALL THE CARDS.” > > Then, at 11:22, he posted a profile image of himself in gold. > > Then, at 11:26, he posted an image showing him standing near Mt. Rushmore, with the angle arranged to make his head the fifth sculpture on the mountain, so from left to right they were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, and Donald Trump. > > Then, at 11:32, he posted an image of himself and the first lady. > > Then, at 11:37, he posted an image of himself and King Charles III. > > Then, at 11:40, he posted an image of what appeared to be the reflecting pool full of algae next to one that appeared to be the reflecting pool clean and with a bright blue color. Above the dirty image was the label “Hussein Obama,” and below it, the caption “Photo taken Sept[ember] 29, 2012”; the clean one was labeled with “Trump” and “Coming Soon.” Over the two together, the caption read: “This is what our Country was before, and after, “TRUMP!” > > Then, at 11:41, he posted an AI image of the reflecting pool appearing bright blue, under the caption “American Flag Blue.” > > Then, at 11:45, he posted another AI image of the reflecting pool appearing bright blue under the caption “American Flag Blue.” > > It was some 43 minutes. > … [Rest of _much longer_ post follows.] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774.md?page=175) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774.md?page=177)