Trump signing quietly. (Wikimedia)

Like most people over the last year, I have become afflicted with news addiction. In the atrocity of the current administration, there’s always a loud headline story about something scandalous, accompanied by its raft of analyses, explainers and opinion pieces.

It is under the cover of the noise of sex scandals and corruption that the government has continued to do its daily work. This activity is almost always being reported, of course, but even this often goes unnoticed. This has led to something which by now forms its own genre of reporting — the ‘Trump quietly’ headline.

There’s been lots of these since January 2017, and the following is just what came up on a single google search, most of it not even reaching back earlier than January 2018. And it makes for pretty terrifying reading.

Enjoy?

Trump Administration Quietly Decides — Again — To Allow Elephant Trophy Imports — npr.org, March 6, 2018

Here’s How The Trump Administration Has Been Quietly Dismantling Obama’s Family Planning Policy — buzzfeed.com, March 9, 2018

Trump Administration Quietly Rolls Back Civil Rights Efforts Across Federal Government — propublica.org, June 15, 2017

Trump is quietly winning his war against refugees — vice.com, February 2, 2018

Trump’s White House quietly undercut environmental harm mitigation rules — thehill.com, February 1, 2018

RNC started paying Trump campaign’s rent at Trump Tower after it stopped covering Trump’s legal bills for Russia probe — cnbc.com, February 23, 2018

In year of drama and chaos, Pence quietly advances conservative agenda — reuters.com, January 19, 2018

Trump Quietly Increasing U.S. Troops In Middle East — msn.com, November 21, 2017

Trump administration continues to quietly weaken Obamacare — metro.us, February 26, 2018

How Trump Is Quietly Dismantling the Architecture of Global Governance — newyorker.com, November 10, 2017

Trump administration eases rule against killing birds — washingtonpost.com, December 26, 2017

Trump Quietly Promises Billions in New Nuke Contracts — strategic-culture.org, April 3, 2018

Trump has officially ended federal online privacy rules — recode.net, April 3, 2017

The US appears to be quietly preparing for nuclear war with North Korea — aol.com, January 19, 2018

The Trump Administration has been quietly removing content from federal websites — here’s the before and after — businessinsider.com, January 11, 2018

Republicans are quietly putting their anti-Mueller plans into action — vanityfair.com, December 21, 2017

Trump Quietly Went After LGBT Workers This Week — rollingstone.com, March 30, 2017

Trump and Sessions’s quiet success: reinvigorating the federal war on drugs — vox.com, January 5, 2018

Trump Has Quietly Accomplished More Than It Appears — theatlantic.com, August 2, 2017