# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1471
**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:** [April 30, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774/1471 "2025-04-30T22:25:01Z")
In response to **[It’s Hegseth we need to get - Politics & Elections - Straight Dope Message Board](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-hegseth-we-need-to-get/1017720)**, I don’t know, there are so many horrors all over. If you haven’t seen _Last Week Tonight With John Oliver_ from last Sunday (April 27) I can’t even find words to express my feelings. It’s about across-the-board cuts to vital medical research and oversight in America’s key institutions like the NIH, and mass firings in all those places. And the spread of toxic disinformation by RFK Jr, a completely deranged lunatic in charge of it all. As Oliver points out, in even the best of times it’s hard to restart research programs after they’ve been terminated and the key people have been fired. This cadre of rampaging lunatics will have a direct impact on human health for decades to come. Is Hegseth even worse? It depends who or what you’re more likely to be victimized by, a fatal disease or a fatal encounter with the Trump Gestapo. I’ll say it again. This is a thousand times worse than I could ever have imagined. There are no checks and balances. Congress is spineless, and the Supreme Court is toothless. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-current-second-trump-administration-a-compendium-of-horrors/1009774)._