# 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:** ![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:** [April 18, 2025, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1399 "2025-04-18T23:00:09Z")

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I wrote this in another thread but it really fits best here:

> [@Investment general discussion thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/investment-general-discussion-thread/1015169/507):
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> All of this, the tariffs, the HHS, the Fed, the proposed invasions, all of it is a pattern. A pattern of a seemingly incompetent vandal who’s actually on a well-planned demolition mission to deliberately destroy every pillar of US policy & power. Which will comprehensively undermine the entire West. The Russians are about to win the Cold War after all. Reagan put up his figurative “Mission Accomplished” sign about 40 years early. The only way this makes sense is if trump and the inner circle …

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