Trump's Second Term

He wanted to close Harvard down for having foreign students.

Q: "In May, Sec. Rubio said they were aggressively removing visas of Chinese students. Yesterday, you said you wanted to allow 600 thousand Chinese students to study in the U.S....What is the policy on Chinese students?"

Trump: "I'm getting along very well with President Xi. I think it's very insulting to say their students can't come here...I like that other countries' students come here. And you know what, if they didn't our college system would go to hell really quickly."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1960414108412731560
 
Burn the Witch!

Bessent on Lisa Cook: "If a Fed official committed mortgage fraud, this should be examined and they shouldn't be serving as one of the nation's leading financial investigators. What we haven't heard from Ms. Cook is we haven't heard her say 'I didn't do it.' She just keeps saying the president can't remove her."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1960675562076160437
 
U.S. Federal Housing FHFA, alleges in a Criminal Referral to the Department of Justice that Federal Reserve Governor, Lisa D. Cook, committed mortgage fraud by designating her out of state condo as her primary residence, just two weeks after taking a loan on her Michigan home where she also declared it as her primary residence.

When someone commits mortgage fraud, they undermine the faith and integrity of our System.

It does not matter who you are - no one is above the law.

We have sent a Criminal Referral to the Department of Justice with regard to the allegations against Ms. Cook, and the DOJ should go wherever the facts may lead them.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1958111353505189889
 
Andy_Ross said:
Stephen Miller on @seanhannity: “The Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1960162849025589382
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Oh look. It's starting.

But... it's not fascism. Just because MAGA is happily walking in the steps the Nazi's did when they grabbed power. It's a pure coincidence.
And checks and balances.
Just one of Trumps main advisors whose every whim has been catered to thus far saying things which clearly will never happen.
Honest.


Look, a trans person went to the wrong bathroom!!!!
 
Tero said:
MAGA voters were some 30-40 million. They have issues. We are all ripping THEM off. But can they be so stupid as to believe the flattery session disguised as a cabinet meeting? Trump likes to believe it. It makes him happy for a few seconds. But a good number of MAGA are not quite as stupid as Trump.
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Asked to comment on that cabinet meeting, Charlie Sykes said

Spittle doesn't lick itself.​

3point14 said:
God, he's a ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ moron. I want to see that headline: "Trump is a ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ Moron" all over every outlet. Followed by a detailed breakdown of all the utterly moronic things he's said and why they have little or no connection to reality.
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Yes, Trump is objectively stupid. But it's not just Trump. Many of his appointees are objectively stupid. A few memorable examples of some utterly stupid things they've said, limited to two from each:

President Donald Trump:
  • “You know, we’ve cut drug prices by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500 per cent.”
  • “We need Greenland. And the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark. Denmark has to have us have Greenland. And, you know, we'll see what happens. But if we don't have Greenland, we can't have great international security.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi:
  • “Since you have been in office, President Trump, your DOJ agencies have seized more than 22 million fentanyl pills, 3,400 kilos of fentanyl since you've been, your last 100 days. Which saved – are you ready for this, media? — 258 million lives.”
  • “You know, you were overwhelmingly elected by the biggest majority.”
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem:
  • “Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country.”
  • “I remember when I met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un." (She wrote that in her book with the title No Going Back, but later admitted she would have to go back to correct that lie and several other "errors".)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent:
  • Under oath, Bessent was asked “Who pays tariffs?” His non-answer: “It’s a very complicated question.” As his interrogator had to explain to him: “It’s not complicated.”
  • “Again, the president is probably the most economically sophisticated president we have had in 100 years, maybe ever.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr:
  • “There are no vaccines that are safe and effective.”
  • “I never said that.” (His live television interviewer responded by saying “Play the clip.” The clip was played.)
FBI Director Kash Patel:
  • “I’d shut down the FBI Hoover building on day one and reopen it the next day as a museum of the deep state.”
  • “These documents, particularly those linked to Epstein and Diddy, could shed light on matters the American people deserve to understand. It’s time to clear the air and reveal who’s been involved in covering up the truth.” (That wouldn't have been such a stupid thing for most people to say, but Patel was and still is trying to cover up the truth about the compulsive liar who appointed him.)
Secretary of Education Linda McMahon:
  • “I heard...there is a school system that's going to start making sure that first-graders or even pre-Ks have A-one teaching, you know, every year starting, you know, that far down in the grades....Now, OK, let's do, see, A-one and how can that be helpful?” (A1 is a steak sauce. She thought she was talking about AI.)
  • “We should hear all sides.” (This was part of her evasion when asked whether schools should be allowed to teach the fact that Joe Biden won the presidential election of 2020.)
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth:
  • “That was in the teleprompter. I read it. I don’t know if I even believe it.” (Hegseth said this right after reading from a Fox News teleprompter that had him admit “state election officials have not reported serious irregularities with the vote that would affect the outcome of the” 2020 presidential election.)
  • “So you’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again, to include the, I don’t know, the hoaxes of ‘Russia, Russia, Russia,’ or the ‘fine people on both sides’ hoax or ‘suckers and losers’ hoax. This is a guy that pedals in garbage. This is what he does.” (Hegseth was insinuating that Jeffrey Goldberg's article about being added to Hegseth's Signal chat was just a hoax. As one of Hegseth's former colleagues responded: “Oh, for God’s sake, the administration has already confirmed the authenticity of the message.”)
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard:
  • “I've had employees come and talk to me and say they were expected to spend half of their day within the intelligence community focused on DEI work.”
  • “No matter how powerful, every person involved in this conspiracy must be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.” (No, she wasn't talking about 6 January 2021.)
 
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W.D.Clinger said:
Asked to comment on that cabinet meeting, Charlie Sykes said

Spittle doesn't lick itself.​


Yes, Trump is objectively stupid. But it's not just Trump. Many of his appointees are objectively stupid. A few memorable examples of some utterly stupid things they've said, limited to two from each:


Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth:
  • “That was in the teleprompter. I read it. I don’t know if I even believe it.” (Hegseth said this right after reading from a Fox News teleprompter that had him admit “state election officials have not reported serious irregularities with the vote that would affect the outcome of the” 2020 presidential election.)
  • “So you’re talking about a deceitful and highly discredited, so-called journalist who’s made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again, to include the, I don’t know, the hoaxes of ‘Russia, Russia, Russia,’ or the ‘fine people on both sides’ hoax or ‘suckers and losers’ hoax. This is a guy that pedals in garbage. This is what he does.” (Hegseth was insinuating that Jeffrey Goldberg's article about being added to Hegseth's Signal chat was just a hoax. As one of Hegseth's former colleagues responded: “Oh, for God’s sake, the administration has already confirmed the authenticity of the message.”)
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On the plus side, Hegseth was not stopped for drunk driving yet. Maybe he is not allowed to drive now.
 
As of the close of the day on August 26, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -1172.

26 August 2025
-1: Trump says he can do anything he wants because he’s the President [548]
-1: Trump again says Ukraine started the war with Russia [549]
-1: Trump tells Linda(?) to get $500 million from Harvard [550]
-1: Yet again Trump says foreign countries are paying billions and trillions into US coffers [551]
-1: Trump claims countries are destroying themselves with wind farms and should go back to fossil fuel [552]
-1: Stephen Miller openly says, “The Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization.”
-1: Howard Lutnick says “The Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain” [553]
-1: Headline: Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation (BBC}
-1: Headline: Postal services around the world suspend deliveries to US: how will it affect you? (Guardian)

References:
548. Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: “I have the right to do anything I want to do. I’m the president of the United States.”

549. Trump: “People go into war, think they’re gonna win the war, and then they get their asses kicked and they lose their country and lose millions of lives. Nobody goes into a war thinking they’re gonna lose. I’m sure Ukraine thought they were gonna win. You’re gonna beat somebody that’s 15 times your size. Biden shouldn’t have let that happen.”

550. Trump: “Linda, how about it? We want nothing less than $500 million from Harvard. Don’t negotiate, Linda. They’ve been very bad.”

551. Trump: Foreign nations are paying hundreds of billions of dollars straight into our treasury. Numbers nobody has seen before. Many of those countries, just to sit at the table, are paying us hundreds of billions of dollars. Trillions of dollars is coming into our country. Trillions.”

552. Trump: “I’m trying to have people learn about wind real fast and I think I’ve done a good job, but not good enough, because some countries are still trying and they’re destroying themselves. I hope they get back to fossil fuel.”

553. Lutnick: “The Department of Commerce is going to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain, because you are the crypto president.”

25 August 2025
-1: Trump signs an executive order instructing the State Department to charge people burning American flags
-1: Trump claims Ukrainian president Zelenskyy was “fleecing” the US [536]
-1: Trump claims China forced everyone to use magnets [537]
-1: Trump claims it was the US that made the Seoul Olympics so successful [538]
-1: Trump downplays Japan’s resistance to acknowledge their use of Korean “comfort women” in WW II [539]
-1: Trump says taking a 10% stake in Intel isn’t socialism, just business [540]
-1: Trump insults black people by referring to Congo as “deepest, darkest Africa” [541]
-1: Trump posts a 160 word rant insulting and criticizing Chris Christie [542]
-1: Trump on Biden’s pardons: “It looks to me like those pardons are worthless.”
-1: Trump claims people visiting Washington, D.C. from other states are being murdered [543]
-1: Headline: Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook to sue Trump over order to fire her from Federal Reserve (BBC)
-1: Trump talks about Asian carp jumping into boats [544]
-1: Stephen Miller claims Washington. D.C. is super-safe now [545]
-1: Miller additionally claims people are now FREE! ... to do things they’ve always done [546]
-1: Kristi Noem claims people in Democratic-run cities are finally feeling freedom again [547]

References:
536. Trump: “We spend no money on Ukraine anymore. We were getting fleeced by a president that didn’t know what he was doing. I don’t blame Ukraine. Now we make money.”

537. Trump: “China intelligently went in and they sort of took a monopoly of the world’s magnets. Nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20 years ago, ‘let’s all do magnets.’ There were many other ways that the world could have gone ... we’re heavily into the world of magnets now.”

538 Trump to South Korea’s president: “If you remember, you were doing the Olympics and there was a time of great hostility with North Korea and you weren’t selling tickets because nobody wanted to be blown up in the stadium ... that was a great honor to get involved and make the Olympics so successful.”

539. Trump: “The whole issue of the women. Comfort women. Very specifically. We talked and that was a very big problem for Korea, not for Japan. Japan was, wanted to go, they want to get on. But Korea was very stuck on that.”

540. Reporter: “During the campaign you called Kamala Harris a communist. The Biden-Harris administration never called for nationalizing a private company like you are proposing with Intel. What do you say to some who say this is a bit hypocritical?”
Trump: “… it is called business.”

541. Trump: “We stopped three wars. Go to Africa. They like to say, oh, you know — I love black people. And I did great with the vote of the black people. But they say ‘He’s a racist, he’s a racist.’ Really?...The Congo, that’s deep into deepest, darkest Africa.”

542. “I just watched Sloppy Chris Christie be interviewed on a ratings challenged “News” Show, “This Week With George Slopadopolus,” on ABC Fake News (By the way, what the “hell” happened to Jonathan Karl’s hair? He looks absolutely terrible! It’s amazing what bad ratings, on a failed television show that was forced to pay me $16,000,000, can do to one’s appearance!).
”Can anyone believe anything that Sloppy Chris says? Do you remember the way he lied about the dangerous and deadly closure of the George Washington Bridge in order to stay out of prison, at the same time sacrificing people who worked for him, including a young mother, who spent years trying to fight off the vicious charges against her. Chris refused to take responsibility for these criminal acts. For the sake of JUSTICE, perhaps we should start looking at that very serious situation again? NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT”

543. Trump: “We always have a murder a week. They call it a murder a week. You come here from Iowa, you come here from Indiana, you come here from Idaho, cause you’re so proud of your country, you love your country, and then you get murdered. Your son gets murdered, your daughter gets murdered, you get murdered. See the media, you get murdered.”

544. Trump: “We have a very pretty violent fish that has, uh, comes from China. China carp, Chinese carp. And uhhhhh you see them jumping out -- they jump into boats and they jump all over the place. They have a lot of energy.”

545. Stephen Miller: “For the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on the streets. You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed or mugged. They are wearing their watches again.”

546. Miller: President Trump has literally set the people of Washington, D.C., free. They are so happy now they can go and live their lives and go to their favorite restaurant or bar or their favorite pool hall or park. You see moms taking kids out to parks they haven’t been to in years because they know the police are there and that president trump is there with his law enforcement to protect them.”

547. Noem: “The American people are feeling freedom again. I think they lived under the oppression of Democratic rule these cities. They forgot what it felt like to be free. These democratic governors need to wake up because the people in their communities and cities recognize how they’ve threatened their way of life and they are not going to take it anymore.”
 
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When I started this project to document Trump's second term, I was expecting there to be a rush of things for the first two months or so, then it would gradually taper off as the administration settled into running the country.

What I did not expect was the incredible tsunami of lies, fabrications, and outright stupidity coming daily not only from Trump but many other people in his cabinet and the White House. Cataloguing them, and watching the administration playing out a authoritarian handbook, is turning into a depressing experience that's consuming a non-trivial part of my day.
 
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