# 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:** 89
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1762 "2025-06-11T18:28:43Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > My link is to a good news web site that does real independent reporting, [www.miliatry.com](http://www.miliatry.com). And carefully spell-checked, too! 😉 ---
**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:** [June 11, 2025, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1763 "2025-06-11T18:42:48Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > The entire premise is the feds provide the money, the states provide the management, and the locals provide the manpower. > > …snip… > > No state can afford a big disaster event unless the Feds step in with their bottomless wallet. Well, Dear Leader begs to differ. (From @wolfpup’s CNN link above) > “The FEMA thing has not been a very successful experiment,” Trump said Tuesday. “It’s extremely expensive, and again, when you have a tornado or a hurricane or you have a problem of any kind in a state, that’s what you have governors for. They’re supposed to fix those problems.” So there neener neener neener. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2025, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1764 "2025-06-11T19:55:29Z")
Yes of course. My point is that absent federal money, the entire federal, state and local enterprise will fail. Which to you and me is obviously a bad thing. trump’s point is the same. Except that in his twisted view, it’s a good thing. Or at least a thing that doesn’t bother him since it’s not his house that was destroyed. Were his house to be destroyed, the taxpayers would rebuild it better not via FEMA, but via some special kings-only program with massive graft. ---
**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:** [June 11, 2025, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1765 "2025-06-11T22:55:10Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Except that in his twisted view, it’s a good thing. Eggs-zackly. The only point of having a federal government is to receive taxes raised by the states. The use: for him to improve his personal quality of life. Oh yeah, and to maintain an army in case anyone else doesn’t see it that way. Let the states fend for themselves in everything-- weather reports, road/infrastructure maintenance, mail delivery, anything and everything involving health, education! Let’s just shut down the whole federal gummint. Hey, that’s way Elon tried to do, and he almost succeeded. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2025, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1766 "2025-06-12T06:23:40Z")
The carnage to America’s most important institutions continues: > All 12 members of the board overseeing the prestigious Fulbright scholarships resigned Wednesday, protesting the Trump administration’s alleged meddling with the selection of award recipients for the international exchange program. > > A [statement](https://frmrffsb.substack.com/p/fulbright-foreign-scholarship-board) published by the board members said the administration usurped their authority by denying awards to “a substantial number of people” who had already been chosen to study and teach in the U.S. and abroad. Another 1,200 foreign award recipients who were already approved to come to the U.S. are undergoing an unauthorized review process that could lead to their rejection, the board members said. > > “To continue to serve after the Administration has consistently ignored the Board’s request that they follow the law would risk legitimizing actions we believe are unlawful and damage the integrity of this storied program and America’s credibility abroad,” the statement reads. > **[Entire Fulbright scholarship board quits, accusing Trump administration of...](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fulbright-board-resigns-accusing-trump-meddling/)** > > The board that oversees prestigious Fulbright scholarships accused the Trump administration of meddling that could "damage the integrity of this storied program." I imagine that CBS will be threatened with license suspension for reporting on this. 🙄 ---
**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:** [June 12, 2025, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1767 "2025-06-12T06:29:59Z")
Too bad CBS doesn’t have a license. Well, it does have a few of them, but the vast majority of so-called “CBS licenses” are held by CBS affiliates, who just carry CBS programming. If Trump threatens “CBS license suspension,” it just demonstrates that he really doesn’t know how this all works. Not really surprising. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2025, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1768 "2025-06-12T07:23:32Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > If Trump threatens “CBS license suspension,” it just demonstrates that he really doesn’t know how this all works. He may or may not know. What’s important is that he doesn’t _care_ whether he does or doesn’t know. He’s just making belligerent mouth-noises because he knows his idiot _followers_ don’t know the things he’s saying don’t make any sense. Thus it ever was, thus it ever shall be. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1769 "2025-06-12T10:38:11Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Too bad CBS doesn’t have a license. Well, it does have a few of them, but the vast majority of so-called “CBS licenses” are held by CBS affiliates, who just carry CBS programming. The vast majority of tiny market stations, that is. Our biggest cities all are served by [network-owned stations](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_News_and_Stations#Current). If Trump actually has those licenses pulled, this will make it much harder for Democrats to get their message across to average Americans. At that point, Trump would be a real dictator, not a wannabe. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2025, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1770 "2025-06-12T11:20:50Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > > [@Spoons](#): > > > > If Trump threatens “CBS license suspension,” it just demonstrates that he really doesn’t know how this all works. > > He may or may not know. What’s important is that he doesn’t _care_ whether he does or doesn’t know. He’s just making belligerent mouth-noises because he knows his idiot _followers_ don’t know the things he’s saying don’t make any sense. Thus it ever was, thus it ever shall be. It’s also the case that no matter how it’s _supposed_ to work on paper, he can probably lawlessly remove their licenses and force them off the air. Or at least coerce their managements into behaving in exchange for their businesses being allowed to continue to exist. It’s the various observers who keep saying “He can’t do that; it’s against the law/rules” who’re being fantasy-driven. trump isn’t engaging in flights of fantasy: he’s remaking reality into his fantasy. And successfully so. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1771 "2025-06-12T15:04:45Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > It’s the various observers who keep saying “He can’t do that; it’s against the law/rules” who’re being fantasy-driven. trump isn’t engaging in flights of fantasy: he’s remaking reality into his fantasy. And successfully so. I would switch that around to “He is making fantasy into HIS reality” And somehow this moron is doing it. With the help of 70 million other morons. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1772 "2025-06-12T15:18:40Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > The vast majority of tiny market stations, that is. Our biggest cities all are served by [network-owned stations](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS_News_and_Stations#Current). Not just “tiny” markets; yes, pretty much all of the biggest media markets, and a few at the next tier, have owned-and-operated CBS stations, but most CBS stations in mid-level markets (as well as the little ones) aren’t owned by the network. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1773 "2025-06-12T16:41:01Z")
Long ago the maximum number of OTA stations the traditional networks could own was five. I don’t know if that’s been relaxed lately. ---
**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:** [June 12, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1774 "2025-06-12T16:52:15Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > > [@Cervaise](#): > > > > > [@Spoons](#): > > > > > > If Trump threatens “CBS license suspension,” it just demonstrates that he really doesn’t know how this all works. > > > > He may or may not know. What’s important is that he doesn’t _care_ whether he does or doesn’t know. He’s just making belligerent mouth-noises because he knows his idiot _followers_ don’t know the things he’s saying don’t make any sense. Thus it ever was, thus it ever shall be. > > It’s also the case that no matter how it’s _supposed_ to work on paper, he can probably lawlessly remove their licenses and force them off the air. Or at least coerce their managements into behaving in exchange for their businesses being allowed to continue to exist. > > It’s the various observers who keep saying “He can’t do that; it’s against the law/rules” who’re being fantasy-driven. trump isn’t engaging in flights of fantasy: he’s remaking reality into his fantasy. And successfully so. Yes, exactly right. And the reality that Trump is creating is the one espoused by his MAGA cult, where science, education, culture, and even basic news are all suppressed, and ignorance is celebrated. It’s the cult of idiocracy. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1775 "2025-06-12T22:29:39Z")
Trump was asked today about the “No Kings” protests scheduled for Saturday. He said “No, we’re not a king.” But he’s trying out that Royal We, though. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1776 "2025-06-12T22:44:09Z")
Umm… Royal? ---
**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:** [June 12, 2025, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1777 "2025-06-12T22:56:37Z")
> **[Royal we](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we)** > > The royal we, majestic plural (Latin: pluralis majestatis), or royal plural, is the use of a plural pronoun (or corresponding plural-inflected verb forms) used by a single person who is a monarch or holds a high office to refer to themself. A more general term for the use of a we, us, or our to refer to oneself is nosism. > In 1902, after the United Kingdom had been asked to arbitrate a boundary dispute between Argentina and Chile, King Edward VII issued the adjudication of the requested arbitra... As in the apocryphal comment by the late QE-II - “We are not amused.” The “we” is she and only she. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2025, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1778 "2025-06-12T23:02:34Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > Umm… Royal? No, 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**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1779 "2025-06-13T00:02:04Z")
I’m not thinking royal as Inclusiveness. I’m thinking royal as in king. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2025, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1780 "2025-06-13T00:19:03Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > No, Royale Your cite is defective. > [@enipla](#): > > I’m not thinking royal as > Inclusiveness. I’m thinking royal as in king Not following you. Sorry. Criminal trump means he is royalty and the country is his property. He’s not speaking on behalf of us; he’s speaking about us. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1781 "2025-06-13T00:58:52Z")
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