<p>This study builds on the existing scholarship of the relationship between Donald Trump and horror fiction—most of which focuses on the use of horror tropes in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election and how the first Trump administration inspired a number of horror films and television series—to examine the popular use of horror plots and tropes to collectively narrativize Trump’s return to power in the early months of the second Trump administration. Since horror functions by activating fear responses to keep us entranced by a perceived threat and horror narratives focus on understanding threats that endanger our symbolic order with their monstrosity, horror is a natural fit to help understand what seems to many to be Trump’s incomprehensible and devastating return to power. Drawing on the theorization of monstrosity and horror narratives by scholars such as Noël Carroll, Tzvetan Todorov, and Jeffrey Cohen, this paper ultimately argues that the popular utilization of horror to understand Trump 2.0 creates tactical problems, enabling Trump to manipulate the meaning-making apparatuses that should provide ways to counter the threats he poses.</p>