# Trump's enemies list **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-enemies-list/788794 "2017-06-12T18:33:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-enemies-list/788794/1 "2017-06-12T18:33:39Z")
Nixon rather famously had an [“enemies list”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon%27s_Enemies_List) that was sent by Nixon to John Dean (later served 4 months after pleading guilty to obstruction). The purpose of the list was to > [@](#): > > “screw” Nixon’s political enemies, by means of tax audits from the Internal Revenue Service, and by manipulating “grant availability, federal contracts, litigation, prosecution, etc.” Does anyone think that Trump has formulated a similar list? I think he has. If so, who is the holder of the list? I say Bannon And if so, who is on the list? I think the list is very long. - everyone at the NY Times, Gawker, BuzzFeed, Foreign Policy, Politico, Fusion, Univision, Mother Jones, the New Hampshire Union Leader, the Des Moines Register, the Daily Beast and Huffington Post. - many Republican politicians; McCain, Romney, Cruz, Kaisch, Jeb Bush, Graham, Pataki, etc. - the US intelligence community - celebrities; Jody Foster, Alec Baldwin, the whole SNL cast and crew and their families, most of Hollywood, etc. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-enemies-list/788794/2 "2017-06-12T18:44:52Z")
Everyone outside of his family, and he’s not entirely sure of Melina. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-enemies-list/788794/3 "2017-06-12T19:13:15Z")
His friends list has got to be much shorter and easier to fit in his breast pocket. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-enemies-list/788794/4 "2017-06-12T19:34:19Z")
There’s approximately 7 billion people on it. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-enemies-list/788794/5 "2017-06-12T19:42:38Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > There’s approximately 7 billion people on it. No way he has over [511 million](http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/) friends. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-enemies-list/788794/6 "2017-06-13T04:05:03Z")
What about Paul Krugman? He blasts the “failing” New York Times regularly, and numerous journalists by name – but I’m not aware of him ever mentioning Krugman by name. Does he? Has he ever even heard of Krugman? Is Trump able to understand a word that Krugman writes? ---
**Author:** ![davida03801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-enemies-list/788794/7 "2017-06-13T10:42:02Z")
In recent years to ““screw” your political enemies, by means of tax audits from the Internal Revenue Service,” is an Obama tactic. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-enemies-list/788794/8 "2017-06-13T12:03:08Z")
No, it isn’t. That idiotic lie has been disproved more times than can be counted. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-enemies-list/788794/9 "2017-06-13T12:32:00Z")
I hope I’m on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-enemies-list/788794/10 "2017-06-13T14:09:56Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I hope I’m on the list. Trump only has the best enemies! I’m afraid you don’t made the cut. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-enemies-list/788794/11 "2017-06-13T14:21:04Z")
> [@Pleonast](#): > > Trump only has the best enemies! I’m afraid you don’t made the cut. 😉 Sad. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-enemies-list/788794/12 "2017-06-13T14:22:30Z")
I’m his biglyest enemy. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2017, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-enemies-list/788794/13 "2017-06-13T14:24:18Z")
I wonder if Jeff Sessions is now on it: > **[Sessions offered to resign before Trump’s trip abroad](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/06/jeff-sessions-trump-resign-239226)** > > Sessions’ recusal from the Russia investigation has been an ongoing source of conflict.