# The current second Trump administration: a compendium of horrors

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**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")\
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**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:** [October 20, 2026, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3786 "2026-10-20T18:41:29Z")

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I don’t have access to _The Atlantic_, either, but I have seen the article referred to on MSNOW.

HC Richardson quotes Hillary Clinton saying something similar, in today’s column:

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> … As Clinton wrote today: “In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine, hampering the country’s defenses during a devastating Russian attack; and Trump waived sanctions on Russia that Congress, led by his late friend Lindsey Graham, had pushed for. Now, Putin has proposed a summit with Trump and Xi to decide Ukraine’s fate for them, bulldoze a century of international cooperation, and frame Russia as an equal to the U.S. and China. **“We’ll see if Putin’s puppet continues to dance on his strings.”**

My bolding; it’s a reference to the exactly-10 years-ago today debate, in which she called Donald Putin’s puppet, and Donald brilliantly reposted “No puppet. You’re the puppet.”

> **[October 19, 2026](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-19-2026)**
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> I am just through the door from several days’ travel and am wiped out, so this will not be a real letter.

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**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2026, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/3787 "2026-10-22T01:23:43Z")

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[Millions of Amazon settlement checks credit Trump ahead of the midterms](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/21/amazon-trump-midterms-settlement-01130666)

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> A notice with the checks in question uses the phrase “President Trump’s Federal Trade Commission” three times.

But actually it was the Biden administration that sued Amazon.

There might be a question here of whether it is an Amazon horror or a Trump administration horror. Perhaps Amazon did this in anticipatory compliance to the dictator, but back when the U.S. was a representative democracy (as opposed to the current hybrid regime), it could not have happened.

There also could be a question as to whether this is timed for the midterm election, in which case it would go into a different thread. But I think the administration is responsible for this kind of thing regardless of election timing.

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