A ghoul is a derogatory term for someone who delights in or is morbidly interested in death and suffering. The Trump Administration (Part Deux) hired only individuals who revel in suffering. Let’s have a look at some of these ghouls.

Stephen Miller

Stephen Miller, from Santa Monica, California, was born to Jewish parents, Michael and Miriam Miller. Miller attended Duke Unversity, where he graduated with a degree in political science. His critics today call Miller the Santa Monica Goebbels.

As the White House Deputy Chief of Staff and Homeland Security Advisor, Stephen Miller writes most of Trump’s speeches and executive orders. Everything he does creates suffering and hardship. Architect of the “Zero Tolerance” policy to separate children from their parents at the southern border, the United Nations and many human rights organizations condemned Miller’s program as cruel, unnecessary, and a violation of international law. Ghoulish behavior for a man whose ancestors fled persecution in Stalinist Russia and Hitler’s Third Reich.

Kristi Noem

Dubbed ICE Barbie by her detractors, Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota grew up on a farm, became Governor of South Dakota, and subsequently came to Washington as South Dakota’s sole congressional seat for four terms. This year, President Trump appointed her to be the Secretary of Homeland Security.

Like a modern-day Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS, everything Secretary Noem plans and executes generates suffering and despair. Her ICE raids nationwide, with goons covering their faces, arrest and deport people who merely look Latino. The ICE Gestapo stay away from the people we do want arrested: the drug cartel mobs running the cocaine/fentanyl business. Why? These people will shoot back. Most of the criticism of ICE Barbie is of her proclivity towards posing for photo-ops, which portray her as tough and decisive. Just Google “Kristi Noem posing with weapons” and you’ll see what I mean. Oh, I forgot; she also shoots puppies. Positively ghoulish.

Pam Bondi

Here in Florida, where I currently live, people know Pam Bondi well. When Donald Trump was being prosecuted for his fraudulent Trump University scam, Trump donated $25k to Bondi’s campaign, and she subsequently dropped the charges. That’s her price. Now she’s Trump’s Attorney General and suing anybody and everybody who Trump feels aggrieved him.

Just last week, Bondi had the FBI raid prominent Republican John Bolton’s home and office. A former UN Ambassador and Presidential Advisor to Reagan and Bush, Bolton was planning to publish a book critical of President Trump’s foreign policy. There’s an old Hollywood adage: “Any publicity is good publicity.” Bondi’s raid guarantees that Bolton’s book will make the New York Times bestseller list.

Bondi’s best-known achievement will be her cover-up of the Jeffrey Epstein/Ghislaine Maxwell scandal. She arranged for Ghislaine Maxwell to be moved to a minimum security prison after Maxwell testified that “I never saw Trump do anything wrong.” I expect Maxwell will get a pardon at some point. Bondi is like a scene from the Addams Family: “Hello, my little storm cloud!”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Son of the slain Senator and US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Kennedy Jr. had a rough childhood. Harvard educated, Kennedy Jr. practices law in New York State. He is not a medical doctor.

Arrested in 1983 for heroin possession in Rapid City, South Dakota, Kennedy pleaded guilty to a felony charge and entered drug treatment. Kennedy’s second wife, Mary Richardson, found a journal he wrote that described sex with 37 other women. Mary spiraled into depression and alcohol abuse and killed herself in 2012.

Kennedy Jr. has an odd hobby: strapping roadkill to the top of his car. In a famous incident, he carried a dead bear cub on the car roof all the way to New York City only to realize that he had a night flight out of Kennedy International Airport. He dumped the dead bear cub in Central Park; admitted to it later.

Now Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kennedy believes, with no support whatsoever from the medical establishment, that vaccines cause autism. Lately, Kennedy has advocated drinking raw milk. Since cows are often standing in their own excrement when milked, the dairy industry pasteurizes milk. Your health is being managed by a former heroin addict and a foolish ghoul.

Pete Hegseth

Pete Hegseth was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He attended Princeton University, joined the Minnesota National Guard, and served with honor in Iraq and Afganistan. So where did he go wrong? You guessed it: booze and women. Hegseth is currently on wife number three.

Hegseth’s own mother posted an email critique of his sleep-around habits in 2018 (she retracted the email quickly). Reports have been coming in hot and heavy about rapes and other abuse of women. Added to that is his alcoholism. Hegseth was so distrusted by the Senate that his nomination for Secretary of Defense passed only after VP J.D. Vance cast a tie-breaking vote.

As Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth’s racism has run amok. He actually removed from the Pentagon a portrait of former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell, an African-American.

Lately, Hegseth has been deploying the US Army to the states and cities that didn’t vote for Trump. Since he enjoys making the country miserable, he’s a ghoul.

J. D. Vance

J.D. Vance, born in a suburb of Cincinnati, had a turbulent childhood. After high school, he joined the Marines and served honorably in Iraq as a military journalist. Returning home, he used the GI Bill to graduate from Ohio State and Yale Law School. Vance is obviously very intelligent.

After working for two years as a lawyer, Vance moved to California and joined Peter Thiel’s capital management firm, Mithril Capital. Thiel is a conservative libertarian, whose philosophy in five words is: I’ve got mine. Fuck you. (I said that, not Peter Thiel)

Vance and his family have taken eight vacations since the start of Trump’s second term. For comparison, neither Mike Pence nor Kamala Harris took any family vacations in their first six months. Vance often wears eye makeup, odd for a man trying to pose as a tough guy.

Wherever Vance travels, people respond with abject hostility. In a recent fiasco, Vance and fellow ghouls Hegseth and Miller paraded through New York’s Grand Central Terminal to the jeers, insults, and epithets of the people waiting for trains.

Donald John Trump

Donald Trump’s father and grandfather were wealthy slum lords in Queens, New York. Trump transferred from Fordham University to the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. After taking over the family’s real estate business, he declared bankruptcy six times in the 1990s and 2000s. Six Trump casinos went bankrupt because of over-leveraging. In the 1990s, The New York Times reported he lost $1.17 billion. The state of New York even caught him stealing from a cancer charity. 4000 people and organizations have sued Donald Trump for non-payment of bills.

Thanks to Dr. Jill Biden, who hid her husband’s dementia from the public and sought a second Biden term, the public saw the bumbling Joe Biden during a disastrous debate, and Trump waltzed into a second term.

Now Donald Trump is angry and has staffed his administration with fluffers and lackeys on a revenge crusade against his critics.

Trump is 79 years old (my age) and showing signs of advanced dementia and declining health. Most of Trump’s postings on his Truth Social website are incoherent. With a cabinet of sycophantic ghouls, there’s nobody willing to say, “You can’t do this” or “This violates the Constitution.”

Conclusion

So what is really going on? Sadly, the fix is in. Trump’s declining health means he may not make it to the end of his term. He’ll pardon himself and all his ghouls and lackeys and return to Mar-a-Lago, and we get tech-bro ghoul J.D. Vance as president.
Vance, a Peter Theil acolyte, will end our democracy and institute a billionaire tech-bro oligarchy just like Russia. Sadly, it may take over forty years to restore the respect and admiration that the world used to have of us.