Atrocities 1014-1112
Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.
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ATROCITY KEY
– Authoritarianism
– Constitutional Illegalities, Collusion, and/or Obstruction of Justice
– Environment
– Harassment, Bullying, Retribution, and/or Sexual Misconduct
– Lies and Misinformation
– Musk Madness
– Policy
– Public Statements and Social Media Posts
– Trump Family Business Dealings
– Trump Staff and Administration
– White Supremacy, Racism, Misogyny, Homophobia, Transphobia, and/or Xenophobia
May 2026
Main Index
Trump’s first term
June 2026
– June 1, 2026 – The Trump administration issued a rule narrowing the Medicaid work requirement’s exemption for people who are “medically frail,” making it available only to those whose conditions “significantly impair” their ability to work. The rule states that diagnoses including cancer, HIV/AIDS, and end-stage renal disease do not by themselves qualify for the exemption. – June 1, 2026 – As Canada’s trade minister traveled to Washington for talks on the future of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, Donald Trump reposted a Bloomberg article about Canada’s technical recession with the comment: “51st State!” It was his first public use of the phrase in months. – June 3, 2026 – The New York Times reported that a previously undisclosed Department of Homeland Security inspector general report had found repeated mistreatment of detainees at Louisiana’s Winn Correctional Center, including an officer placing one detainee in a chokehold and another stabbing a detainee’s thumb with a pen. Investigators also said the facility later refused to provide complete video footage of some use-of-force incidents. – June 3, 2026 – New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill 
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