# 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:** 65
**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:** [March 31, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1282 "2025-03-31T04:17:42Z")
Are you suggesting, [![](https://i.imgflip.com/9p6xri.jpg) ](https://i.imgflip.com/9p6xri.jpg) ---
**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:** [March 31, 2025, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1283 "2025-03-31T06:08:19Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > No comedian at this year’s WCHA dinner. > > [Amber Ruffin dumped from White House Correspondents Dinner](https://www.avclub.com/amber-ruffin-dumped-from-white-house-correspondents-dinner) _(googles Amber Ruffin)_ Yup, black. _And_ a woman. So of course they want to pander to Trump by getting rid of her. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2025, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1284 "2025-03-31T06:20:24Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > _(googles Amber Ruffin)_ > > Yup, black. _And_ a woman. So of course they want to pander to Trump by getting rid of her.   I have a somewhat more charitable interpretation. The WHCD traditionally pokes gentle fun (or occasionally not so gentle) at the sitting president, who is in attendance and takes it all in good humour. These are not the times we currently live in. When the current president is a savagely vengeful and unprincipled man-child, comedy has to be shelved for awhile. Late-night talk show hosts can still ridicule the tyrant – for now, at least – but White House correspondents cannot. These are not light-hearted times. That’s just the reality. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1285 "2025-03-31T06:36:33Z")
> [@wolfpup](#): > > These are not the times we currently live in. When the current president is a savagely vengeful and unprincipled man-child, comedy has to be shelved for awhile. Such as, permanently. This is about establishing the new normal, where not the _slightest_ criticism of the Maximum Leader will be allowed. And where non-white, non-male people are expected to stay silent under all circumstances. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1286 "2025-03-31T11:58:00Z")
That’s certainly the maximalist interpretation. Which we know you personally enjoy presenting at every opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1287 "2025-04-02T03:51:58Z")
Well, there’s a first time for everything, I guess-Trump just pardoned a corporation: [https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5224229-trump-makes-history-by-pardoning-a-corporation/](https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5224229-trump-makes-history-by-pardoning-a-corporation/) ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1288 "2025-04-02T06:38:18Z")
Another law firm capitulates to Trump to the tune of $100 million in free legal services. This time at just the _suggestion_ that an executive order was coming. It also happens to be the firm where Doug Emhoff is a partner. I wonder what he will have to say about it. This was in their memo to employees: > [@](#): > > _We were invited to contact the Administration on Sunday, and they outlined a proposed alternative to receiving an Executive Order._… > > _In making this difficult decision, we concluded, after due consideration of the implications of each possible course of action, that accepting the Administration’s final proposal was the path that best serves our clients’ needs and protects the Firm’s various stakeholders, avoiding potentially grave consequences._ “In making this difficult decision” and “avoiding potentially grave consequences”. Cowards and bootlickers. [Willkie Farr Surrenders To Trump - Above the Law](https://abovethelaw.com/2025/04/willkie-farr-surrenders-to-trump/) ---
**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:** [April 2, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1289 "2025-04-02T12:54:17Z")
Michael Waltz who criticized the Justice Dept for not going after Hillary Clinton for using a private email server decided Gmail was a great email service for his own federal work. Butt-his emails! > **[Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say](https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/apr/01/waltz-and-staff-used-gmail-for-government-communic/)** > > Members of President Donald Trump’s National Security Council, including White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have conducted government business over personal Gmail accounts, according to documents reviewed by the Washington Post and... ---
**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:** [April 2, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1290 "2025-04-02T14:44:42Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Michael Waltz who criticized the Justice Dept for not going after Hillary Clinton for using a private email server IOKIARDI. In other words, ‘BUTTERY MALES!’ ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1291 "2025-04-03T17:00:56Z")
So, Laura Loomer is making personnel decisions now? It feels like Trump is more and more a figurehead, now that he got his precious tariffs. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1292 "2025-04-03T17:27:48Z")
Re last post, suppose that someone walks into Stalin’s office and says “Joe, we may have missed in a few of our enemies in the last purge. Would you like the names I have?” Stalin says yes, and they get purged. This in no way means that Stalin is a figurehead. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1293 "2025-04-03T18:42:14Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > So, Laura Loomer is making personnel decisions now? I would have totally lost the “You’re fucking _kidding_ me” bet: > **[White House fires multiple administration officials after president meets...](https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/politics/nsc-firings-trump-laura-loomer-meeting/index.html)** > > The White House has fired multiple administration officials, including at least three National Security Council staffers, three sources familiar with the move told CNN. I did _not_ have this on my Fascist BINGO card! > The firings came after Laura Loomer, the far-right activist who once claimed 9/11 was an inside job, urged President Donald Trump during a Wednesday meeting to get rid of several members of his National Security Council staff, including his principal deputy national security adviser, claiming that they are disloyal. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1294 "2025-04-03T19:02:35Z")
If Laura “Looney” Loomer had waltzed into the Oval Office and told Trump to fire Mike Waltz because he was an incompetent idiot, I would’ve thought “…blind squirrel, acorn…” and let it slide. (I would’ve also made the “whipped” gesture) But firing some underlings because they were “disloyal”-- jeez what a shitshow. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1295 "2025-04-03T19:15:11Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > But firing some underlings because they were “disloyal”-- jeez what a shitshow. It underlines what we were saying all the way through the election - loyalty would be only criteria that matters in this administration. If you read the part about who these people are, every one of them was previously employed by one GOP official or another, in jobs that sounded kind of important, but even that wasn’t enough. They had the scent of “Never Trumper” on them, so they got purged. ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1296 "2025-04-03T22:38:37Z")
As a general rule, we’re not supposed to be using our personal cell phones at work. And yet, this week my federal employer announced that they were making wifi available for us to use for our personal cell phones. Given the current state of affairs, I can’t imagine anyone wanting to take advantage of this free “service.” ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1297 "2025-04-04T01:26:31Z")
I wonder who’s making a profit from this policy change? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1298 "2025-04-04T05:44:30Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > And yet, this week my federal employer announced that they were making wifi available for us to use for our personal cell phones. Given the current state of affairs, I can’t imagine anyone wanting to take advantage of this free “service.” You could connect to the wi-fi and then spend a few minutes every day browsing nothing but “Trump is teh awsomest” content. ---
**Author:** ![JoePockets](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8dc957/32.png) [@JoePockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoePockets)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1299 "2025-04-04T14:54:02Z")
I have to confess my 401k can’t handle any more of this Winning! It certainly is Winning like I’ve never seen before! ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1300 "2025-04-04T14:58:33Z")
The first Monday of March, I moved 99% of my T. Rowe Price Fund to a Money Market Fund. Since I’ve started keeping track, I’ve lost about $450 (out of $195K). I do wish I’d gotten to it the previous Friday. I still have 1% in my T. Rowe Price Fund, and my twice-monthly 401(k) contributions are going into that 100%. I’m losing money on it, but it’s not much and it should recover very nicely once the market bottoms out and I’m buying those shares at a third of their current price. ---
**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 4, 2025, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1301 "2025-04-04T16:24:58Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Law firms and lawyers will often cut their losses, entering a plea bargain or settling out of court because it’s cheaper than mounting a defense. One would think $40-million would provide a pretty hefty defense. My guess is that with the supposed ‘$40 million’ worth of pro bono legal work, the firm will not exactly be putting their best and brightest on the job, though they’ll be telling trump they are. And I’m sure there’s going to be a LOT of hour padding. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774.md?page=64) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774.md?page=66)