# 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:** 90
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1782 "2025-06-13T03:35:19Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > the apocryphal comment by the late QE-II - “We are not amused.” Attribution for that line goes back at least to Queen Victoria ---
**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:** [June 13, 2025, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1783 "2025-06-13T03:57:00Z")
> [@KarlGauss](#): > > No, 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Safari can’t open it. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2025, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1784 "2025-06-13T06:08:16Z")
I’ve been irritated by his use of the royal"we" since before the second coming 🤢 I winced when actually he used it in response to questions about the king comparison. Dolt. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1785 "2025-06-13T13:29:27Z")
Royale - I suspect this is a reference to the [Canadian toilet paper brand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royale_(brand)). If, not, it should be. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1786 "2025-06-13T14:14:26Z")
aawwww… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/V-rX6RpDT0U/hqdefault.jpg "Royale The Soft Touch Kittens 1970s") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-rX6RpDT0U) ---
**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 13, 2025, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1787 "2025-06-13T14:29:10Z")
The implication being, the toilet paper is as soft on your bunghole as this cute, fuzzy little critter? Why wouldn’t I cut out the middle man and just wipe myself with a kitten, then? ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1788 "2025-06-13T14:34:21Z")
So a bear and a rabbit are taking a shit in the woods . . . ---
**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, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1789 "2025-06-13T14:36:54Z")
Because kittens aren’t flushable? They tend to clog up drains something fierce. ---
**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:** [June 13, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1790 "2025-06-13T14:44:57Z")
Also, their cute little claws are still sharp. ---
**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 13, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1791 "2025-06-13T14:50:32Z")
Well, don’t flush it then. Cats clean themselves, right? Just keep a few around and reuse 'em as necessary. ---
**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, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1792 "2025-06-13T15:30:18Z")
You’re a genius! I was being too literal. D’oh! 🤦‍♂️ Lotta people keep a little wicker basket next to the toilet full of reading material. Just get a suitable basket with a lid and keep a dozen kittens in there. Replace as necessary as they grow up. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1793 "2025-06-13T15:36:42Z")
Except for those sharp little claws, that’s a brilliant idea. They need to be 4-6 weeks old to have learned to clean themselves, though. ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1794 "2025-06-13T16:43:46Z")
I have read no mention of Section 889 of the Big Beautiful Bill yet; it has had some coverage in the European business press. Here is a writeup by an accounting firm: [https://www.grantthornton.com/insights/alerts/tax/2025/insights/unpacking-section-899-the-unfair-foreign-tax-rule](https://www.grantthornton.com/insights/alerts/tax/2025/insights/unpacking-section-899-the-unfair-foreign-tax-rule) To me these provisions, if enacted, send a clear signal to European and other foreign companies and investors: **Do not invest in US assets. Do not build plants in the US.** (an aside: I have now learned that the act’s _official designation_ is “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”. How can a legislator introduce or promote such legislation without perishing of embarrassment? That’s the language of _young children_.) ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1795 "2025-06-13T16:57:21Z")
In other words, exactly at the level of most MAGAs ---
**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 14, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1796 "2025-06-14T13:15:22Z")
Hard not to see early signs of “and so it begins” in this. > **[Mar Hicks (@histoftech.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/histoftech.bsky.social/post/3lrkvlja4n22e)** > > “At least 3 people have been shot at the homes of Democratic lawmakers in Brooklyn Park and Champlin in Minnesota, according to law enforcement sources. The suspect is believed to be impersonating a police officer and is still at large. The first... (Click thru for linked news story.) ---
**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 14, 2025, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1797 "2025-06-14T13:35:01Z")
I predict the RW CTers will immediately label the fake cop a false flag op by leftists to discredit law enforcement. ---
**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 14, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1798 "2025-06-14T14:07:18Z")
This is real. There was a statement from Tim Walz and CNN has started putting together a story. ---
**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 14, 2025, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1799 "2025-06-14T14:50:01Z")
? When did I suggest it wasn’t real? ---
**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 14, 2025, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1800 "2025-06-14T14:56:13Z")
You didn’t. This was more in response to some of the early Twitter posts saying that major news organizations had not picked up the story yet. Now they have. My comment had nothing to do with you, just that there’s now confirmation from reliable sources on the kind of story that very early reports sometimes get wrong. That was all. ---
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Democratic Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed in the shootings. Democratic Senator John Hoffman and his wife were injured. But do tell me that the anti-ICE protestors are the real threat to our country. [Rep. Melissa Hortman killed, Sen. John Hoffman shot in 'targeted' shootings: Sources | FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul](https://www.fox9.com/news/melissa-hortman-john-hoffman-lawmakers-shot-minnesota) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774.md?page=89) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774.md?page=91)