The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II

[The Grand Nudger]

Trump the victim, getting yet another redaction.

[Paleophyte]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Chicago Held Snowplow-naming Contest. Trump...Wins?

Chicagoans sent President Donald Trump a firm rebuke on Monday during the city's annual snowplow naming contest, according to a report.

Local news station WTTW reported on Monday that the name "Abolish ICE" won the city's snowplow naming contest...The winning name will be given to one new snowplow in each of the city's six districts, according to the report.

He'll either find a way to spin it as a win or charge everyone who voted for the name with domestic terrorism. Those seem to be his only two plays.

Boru

[Angrboda]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘The most transparent President in American history.’

If anyone needs me, I’ll be over in the corner vomiting into a bucket.

Boru

[Angrboda]

These actions are also part of the administration’s effort to limit the collection of and access to data across the board. One recent casualty was a key annual report on household food insecurity. In September, the Department of Agriculture abruptly announced that it was terminating the report. This data has traditionally been used by federal, state, and local lawmakers to structure nutrition programs, and is relied upon by nonprofits serving food-insecure Americans. The USDA announcement came just two months after Congress passed a law that would dramatically cut federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Without information on food insecurity, it will be more difficult to see the impact of these changes to SNAP.

“We’re not going to be able to quantify the harm that is going to happen, because we’ve now lost this large piece of data, and there is no other data set and collection of data that reaches this far and this wide,” said Parker Gilkesson Davis, senior policy analyst for the Center on Law and Social Policy. “A lot of people are going to become invisible, and their plight is going to become invisible.… There will be people experiencing hunger in America, and we would have no idea, and no idea how to serve them.”

Then there is the potential loss of data that has already been collected. One research project estimates that the federal government has removed thousands of data sets and web pages from public access. Ongoing data collection is also up in the air: For example, the Trump administration has not yet released an annual survey on the state of homelessness in the United States for 2025, which is statutorily required for HUD to determine funding for homelessness programs nationwide. The Trump administration has argued that there is “no standard timeline” to release the report. Culhane said that the report is important for lawmakers to learn who is being particularly affected by homelessness, particularly given that the number of older Americans who are unhoused has increased in recent years.

The Trump Administration’s War on Data Has Fresh Casualties

[Angrboda]

The source for Trump's claim of 1.7% core inflation in the final three months of 2025 is not clear. Core inflation was 2.6% in both November and December 2025, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Federal inflation data for October 2025 is missing because of the 2025 federal government shutdown.

Ooh! Ooh! I know! If you add up the reported inflation numbers (2.6% for months we have data) and then divide by three to get an average, the result is 1.7%!

[Angrboda]

A report released earlier this month by Senate Democrats claimed that the administration had spent more than $32 million in taxpayer funds to persuade third countries to accept roughly 300 deportees.

- NYT

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

A report released earlier this month by Senate Democrats claimed that the administration had spent more than $32 million in taxpayer funds to persuade third countries to accept roughly 300 deportees.

- NYT

For the MAGAts, that’s a bargain.

Boru