# The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [December 1, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298 "2025-12-01T20:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 105
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2081 "2026-01-30T01:10:12Z")
> The Pew Research Center released a new poll on Thursday showing that just 27% of Americans support all or most of Trump’s policies, which is down from 35% at this time last year. The poll noted that the change “has come entirely among Republicans.” > > While overall confidence in Trump’s ethics in office was already relatively low last February (29%), it has declined 8 percentage points since," the poll results read in part. “And nearly all of that drop has come among Republicans: At the beginning of Trump’s second term, a 55% majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they were confident that Trump acts ethically in office, but that share now stands at 42%.” > **[New poll reveals cratering support for Trump as Republicans abandon ship](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2675060068/)** > > The GOP appears to be turning its back on President Donald Trump after a damning new poll revealed most Americans don't support the president's policies. The Pew Research Center released a new poll on Thursday showing that just 27% of Americans... ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2082 "2026-01-30T01:11:42Z")
There has got to be some conservative with funds who looks at the presumptive GOP nominee Vance, who may face a primary fight with Rubio, who can call trump out on the cognitive tests. Just the drawing of a clock with all 12 numbers correctly placed, and some random time sketched in. There is no way he “aced” that test. There is no way he passed that test. Be the candidate to gain some prominence, be prepared to defend against the DOJ, make trump look like a fool, and guarantee he cannot just stay on, or run again, even if he claimed he’s already had 2020-2024 robbed from him. Vance is the VP and Rubio the SOS for a President who proves you can be out of your mind and have Dementia at the same time. Waiting till after the election to declare means Vance gets to run two more times after trump makes his mental illness clear. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2083 "2026-01-30T01:14:27Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > that just 27% That number again… ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2084 "2026-01-30T01:40:39Z")
> [@Toxgoddess](#): > > This Congress will be vilified by history as the ones who abdicated their duty and let it happen. “‘Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves.” That is what he said. That is what Abe Lincoln said. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2085 "2026-01-30T02:26:09Z")
Those poll results seem almost too good to be true (only 42% of Republicans say Trump acts ethically in office) , It would be nice if they are real but they could just be a random outlier. If Trump really is starting to be unpopular among Republicans the tide against him could shift very fast. Once 51% of Fox news viewers or Republican Primary voters start having a negative view of Trump. The right wing media and Congress will jump ship without skipping a beat and start pretending that they never supported him. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2086 "2026-01-30T02:29:56Z")
If we had a Stupid Trump Idea of the Day thread, i would put this there. Trump says if Canada does a trade deal with China, China won’t let them play hockey any more. > On Canada, Trump said that “it’s even more dangerous for Canada to get into business with China. Canada is not doing well … You can’t look at China as the answer,” Reuters reported. > > “President Xi is a friend of mine, I know him very well … The first thing they’re going to do is say you’re not allowed to play ice hockey anymore. Canada’s not going to like that,” Trump said. > **[Trump reportedly says 'very dangerous' for UK to do business with China as...](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/30/trump-china-uk-starmer-visit-xi-canada-carney.html?__source=androidappshare)** > > Starmer is on a 4-day visit to China this week, the first trip by a British leader in eight years, signaling an attempt at resetting the bilateral ties. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2087 "2026-01-30T04:44:59Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Once 51% of Fox news viewers or Republican Primary voters start having a negative view of Trump. The right wing media and Congress will jump ship without skipping a beat and start pretending that they never supported him. Oh, you sweet summer child. That isn’t going to happen. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2088 "2026-01-30T06:29:25Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > > [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > > > Once 51% of Fox news viewers or Republican Primary voters start having a negative view of Trump. The right wing media and Congress will jump ship without skipping a beat and start pretending that they never supported him. > > Oh, you sweet summer child. > > That isn’t going to happen. No kidding. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if the very first thing congress does when the felon croaks is to make him [the eternal president](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_leaders_of_North_Korea). [The felon’s spy chief is hard at work–spying on Americans’ votes.](https://www.aol.com/news/tulsi-gabbard-under-scrutiny-showing-020901361.html) > [@](#): > > WASHINGTON — When President Donald Trump watched a live feed of the U.S. military operation that [captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/us-venezuela-strike-nicolas-maduro-captured-how-timeline-trump-rcna252041), the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was not in the room. Just two days earlier, she had [posted photos](https://www.facebook.com/TulsiGabbard/posts/my-heart-is-filled-with-gratitude-aloha-and-peace-2026-abrahamwilliamsdp/1416890223133073/) of herself on a beach in Hawaii at sunset practicing yoga, sending out a new year’s greeting for “peace.” > > That she appeared to be on vacation in the run-up to such a high-stakes, ultra-sensitive military operation seemed to underscore the extent to which she has been [sidelined by the administration](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/tulsi-gabbard-sidelined-trump-administration-discussions-israel-iran-rcna212702). > > But there she was on Wednesday, at an election center in Fulton County, Georgia, as [FBI agents conducted a raid](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-shows-fulton-county-election-hub-days-trump-referenced-possible-20-rcna256351)seeking ballots from the 2020 presidential election, which Trump has falsely claimed he won. > > Gabbard’s presence baffled national security experts and raised questions about whether she is seeking new relevancy in the eyes of a president who had soured on her. > > “Even if there was some criminal activity in the 2020 election in Georgia — despite repeated investigations that show there was none — it’s still a purely domestic problem — not one involving foreign nations,” a former national security official said. “The director of national intelligence has nothing to do with this." [Rip van Simple is gentle and kind, you morons!](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hurt-trump-79-rages-moron-163014887.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump has insisted he’s a “kind” and “gentle” person while in the same breath blasting one of his very own appointees as a “moron.” > > The president’s comments came as part of a confused and rambling Truth Social tirade posted early Thursday morning. “Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell again refused to cut interest rates, even though he has absolutely no reason to keep them so high,” Trump began. > > The MAGA leader has repeatedly lambasted Powell, who he appointed as chairman of the Federal Reserve in 2018, for refusing to follow White House instructions on interest rates. Wednesday’s announcement is the first time since July that rates have not been cut. And of course this stunning bit from the same link. > [@](#): > > “Most of these countries are low interest rate paying cash machines, thought of as elegant, solid, and prime, only because the U.S.A. allows them to be,” Trump went on. “The Tariffs being charged to them, while bringing in $BILLIONS to us, still allows most of them to have a significant trade surplus, though much smaller, with our beautiful, formerly abused Country.” > > “In other words, I have been very nice, kind, and gentle to countries all over the World,” he concluded, before demanding again the Fed should “substantially lower interest rates, NOW!” [So, how’s the Border Control (hic) keeping (hic) busy in Minnesota?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/border-patrol-employee-arrested-minnesota-033409506.html) > [@](#): > > Minnesota state police arrested a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol employee in St. Paul upon finding the man slumped over his steering wheel while “covered in vomit.” > > At 3:25 a.m. on Tuesday, a Minnesota state trooper found 31-year-old **Alfredo Mancillas Jr.** of Corpus Christi, Texas, passed out at the wheel in the Hamline-Midway neighborhood, according to charges filed by the St. Paul City Attorney’s Office. > > The story was first [reported](https://sahanjournal.com/public-safety/border-patrol-employee-charged-drunk-driving-st-paul/) by Sahan Journal, a nonprofit news organization in Minnesota. > > Police say Mancillas failed a field sobriety test and refused to take a breathalyzer test, after which he was arrested and booked at the Ramsey County jail. He has been charged with 3rd degree and 4th degree driving while impaired. > > Sahan Journal asked the Department of Homeland Security what role Mancillas serves in Border Patrol, but the department declined to answer. [Want a job in the felon’s cabinet? Make sure your wife is hot.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-suggests-appointed-doug-burgum-001250648.html) > [@](#): > > President **Donald Trump** suggested that he hired Secretary of the Interior **Doug Burgum** because his wife was attractive, claiming on Thursday he initially wanted to work with Burgum because “anybody that has somebody like” that indicates success. > > Trump made his remarks from the Oval Office while signing an [executive order](https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/01/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-launches-the-great-american-recovery-initiative-to-address-the-addiction-crisis/) to address drug addiction, where he was joined by, among others, Doug and **K** **athryn Burgum**. Mrs. Burgum spoke in support of the bill, discussing her own recovery from addiction. > > At the close of the event, the president said he first saw the couple in a video, where it was Kathryn– not Doug– that caught his eye. > > “I saw them riding horses in a video and I said, ‘Who is that?’ I was talking about her, not him,” said Trump, gesturing to Kathryn. “They explained it, and I said, ‘I’m going to hire him’ because anybody that has somebody like you to be with– it’s an amazing tribute.” Seriously, what’s it going to take before someone puts this deranged incompetent in a 72-hour mental hold? [Evidently seeking asylum is no longer legal in the felon’s ~~Reich~~ America.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ice-agents-shatter-car-window-000308284.html) > [@](#): > > Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Maine arrested an asylum-seeker and hauled him away, leaving behind his one-month-old baby and wife, who does not have a driver’s license. > > _The Portland Press Herald_ [reported](https://www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/ice-agents-shatter-window-leave-1-month-old-baby-mother-in-car-after-portland-arrest/?uuid=8322f2e4-2ac1-48fb-8e7c-0e0ac94b5378&lid=222199) on Wednesday that on Jan. 21, **Hassane Barry** and his wife, **Nene Barry** , who are asylum-seekers from Guinea, were on their way home from an appointment to obtain a passport for their baby. But Hassane Barry never made it home, as his car was abruptly boxed in by four unmarked vehicles. & > [@](#): > > Hassane Barry, 38, has no known criminal record, his attorney said, and a search for a criminal history yielded no results. His English tutor told the _Press Herald_ that Barry worked as a tow truck driver for AAA and worked as a ride-share driver on the side. At last check, Barry was being held at a detention facility in Plymouth, Massachusetts. _The article discusses more criminal activity **from government agents** _. [Speaking of which…](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/federal-court-rules-noem-terminating-125517486.html) > [@](#): > > A federal appeals court ruled late Wednesday that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary [Kristi Noem](https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/kristi-noem) acted unlawfully when she ended legal protections allowing hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans to live and work in the United States. > > The decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that found she exceeded her authority when she ended temporary protected status (TPS) for Venezuelans under the Biden-era Venezuela [TPS designations,](https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration) according to The Associated Press. All three judges on the panel were nominated by Democratic presidents. [Evidently the right to free speech is the Zeroth Amendment.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/group-chats-ice-whereabouts-protected-164505774.html) > [@](#): > > Group chats about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents aren’t illegal. But FBI Director Kash Patel doesn’t seem to care. > > On Monday, [Patel told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwG5jS0cL9E&t=262s) that the FBI was investigating a Signal group in which people had been chatting about ICE agents’ whereabouts. > > The Trump administration [has](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DT0_6XrgfAA/) [said](https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/01/26/ice-officers-face-8000-increase-death-threats-against-them-and-their-families) that people are doxing federal agents, employing a term once reserved for the act of publishing private information about someone’s identity or address online. “Doxing” generally implies that this sharing is done with ill intent. > > But there are all sorts of perfectly benign reasons why Americans—whether in the country legally or not—might want to keep tabs on where immigration authorities are going. Sharing this information allows people to protest, observe, or document ICE activity, or avoid run ins with ICE agents. > > Chatting about ICE agent whereabouts is unambiguously speech that’s protected by the First Amendment. So the idea that the FBI would investigate on these grounds is worrying. > > “There does not appear to be any lawful basis for this investigation,” said Aaron Terr, director of public advocacy for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE). “The First Amendment generally protects the publication of legally-obtained information, including much of what the Trump administration has labeled ‘doxxing.’ That protection extends to using an app to share information about ICE activity.” [Turns out the “unknown substance” sprayed on Representatie Omar is a kind of acid.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/police-identify-orange-substance-sprayed-101234333.html) > [@](#): > > The orange substance that an attacker [sprayed at Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar](https://people.com/ilhan-omar-attacked-by-man-during-minneapolis-town-hall-11894009) during a Tuesday, Jan. 27 town hall has been identified. > > A law enforcement source familiar with the investigation told [CNN](https://edition.cnn.com/us/live-news/minneapolis-ice-trump-01-28-26?post-id=cmkybs86f00003b6pecqqcoos) that forensic examiners had determined the liquid inside the syringe wielded by a man later identified as 55-year-old Anthony Kazmierczak was likely to be apple cider vinegar. Maybe he used that because he wanted to be just like his idol, kind and gentle. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2089 "2026-01-30T09:55:22Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Trump says if Canada does a trade deal with China, China won’t let them play hockey any more. So if the UK does a trade deal with China, there won’t be any more football or cricket? Bonus! (For the record, I am not a sports fan…) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2090 "2026-01-30T11:29:44Z")
From [Heather Cox Richardson’s substack](https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/january-29-2026?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=4y8eu) today: > Meanwhile, footage circulated today of a woman in Minnesota who left her home to warm the car for her kids and got taken by federal agents. The video shows her calling someone to look after her children, who were left alone in the house. * * * Richardson puts links/cites to all of her stories at the bottom of every post. I’m on my phone, so it was problematic to check each link to see which one refers to this incident. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2091 "2026-01-30T13:15:02Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > it was problematic to check each link to see which one refers to this incident. Here it is: > **[The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social)](https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mdmbsmem7k2c?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)** > > MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!” > > So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it > > (H/T longtimehistory) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2092 "2026-01-30T14:00:08Z")
Thanks ever so! 👍🏽 ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2093 "2026-01-30T16:16:31Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > No kidding. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if the very first thing congress does when the felon croaks is to make him [the eternal president](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_leaders_of_North_Korea). Respectfully disagree. Someone else in one of these threads (maybe the ‘Trump is dying’ thread, maybe even this one, hard to keep track) made a trump ‘legacy’ comparison to the movement to discredit Stalin after his death. I too think there will be a ‘destalinization’ of trump’s legacy, beginning soon after he dies. The crowbars, both literal and metaphorical, will come out, ripping his name and the taint of his gilt-ridden trumpery off everything in Washington. Most Republican Congresspeople secretly despise trump, from what I’ve heard. Look at the ones who suddenly grow a spine and speak up against him after they are no longer running for reelection, like Thom Tillis. And of the current trump toadies who at one point spoke out against him but changed their tune, like Graham, Rubio and of course Vance, I don’t believe they had a ‘Paul on the road to Damascus’ style revelation of what an amazing leader and all-around great human being trump actually is; I think they came to a crossroads where they had to choose between their political career and their integrity. There will be no Reagan-style mythos and reverence for trump after his death. (At least, I hope to God I’m right 😓) ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2094 "2026-01-30T18:41:03Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Most Republican Congresspeople secretly despise trump It’ll probably be forgotten how they had his back for so many years, after the mourning period (and that mourning card is re-playable), and it devolves into primaries. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2095 "2026-01-30T20:50:31Z")
“Everybody has a beautiful sign with brand new wood. Leather panels." > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mdnti2k23t2q)** > > Trump on Mpls: "Do these people really want to have rapists and drug dealers and people from prisons and murderers, do they really want to have them in the community? It's really insurrectionists and agitators and they're paid ... everybody has a... “Last month they lost 29,000 soldiers. Can you believe that, fellas? 29,000. You lose one race driver and it’s a big deal.“” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mdnsxylj3l22)** > > Trump: "Last week they lost 29,000 people. Last month they lost 29,000 soldiers. Can you believe that, fellas? 29,000. You lose one race driver and it's a big deal." “I call them Kevin 1, Kevin 2. I said, it’s gonna be a Kevin.” > **[Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)](https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mdnsp7f4gh2c)** > > Trump: "I call them Kevin 1, Kevin 2. I said, it's gonna be a Kevin." ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2026, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2096 "2026-01-30T22:32:11Z")
> [@solost](#): > > There will be no Reagan-style mythos and reverence for trump after his death. It’ll likely depend on what happens with his personality cult after he dies. If it falls apart I expect the leadership will basically try to pretend he never existed; if it holds together and turns him into some martyr/messiah figure even after his death I expect they’ll continue with the Profiles in Cowardice behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2097 "2026-01-31T00:23:03Z")
Delete this; its a Gov’t trap. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2098 "2026-01-31T01:53:41Z")
After all the mourning, there will be two kinds of GOPpers: High Praise for our Greatest President. I will carry on his MAGA policies. Vance and Rubio, at least are in this group, along with those who depend on MAGA. Our great President and I had some philosophical differences, yet under my leadership, the great USA dollar will once again be worth more than the Euro. Anyone riding the outside rail where they challenge trump needs to do so before election day this year, take all the hits, draw a clock in real time, and challenge trump even to draw a circle. He’ll never be a Saint Ronnie, who spent his two last years as president with-- taps forehead repeatedly – oh yeah, Alzheimer’s. Just don’t know if it’ll be an extended golf vacation near Walter Reed or something live on TV, yet he won’t see June. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2099 "2026-01-31T03:02:51Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > > [@solost](#): > > > > There will be no Reagan-style mythos and reverence for trump after his death. > > It’ll likely depend on what happens with his personality cult after he dies. If it falls apart I expect the leadership will basically try to pretend he never existed; if it holds together and turns him into some martyr/messiah figure even after his death I expect they’ll continue with the Profiles in Cowardice behavior. Love conquers all is a myth. Hate is an extremely powerful and long-lasting, even addictive, emotion. The organge stain is not supported because the magaflatearthers love him. They support him out of hate. And there’s one thing they hate more than anything else: politicians who don’t hate whom he hates. If they try to pretend they don’t support him after he craps out on the terlet in the wee hours one night, the magaflatearther populace will turn on them like a Biblical plague. The trumpeter voting public will continue their current behavior. It’s more Pavlovian than anything else at this point. [The felon’s “Justice” department missed National Squirrel Day by nine days.](https://www.aol.com/news/doj-releases-trove-long-awaited-161139142.html) > [@](#): > > The Justice Department on Friday resumed releasing more of the long-awaited investigative files relating to the late sex offender[Jeffrey Epstein.](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/what-in-epstein-files-when-release-house-bill-vote-trump-sign-rcna244799) > > The new document dump was massive and included more than 3.5 million pages, 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said during a press conference. > > The release includes “large quantities of commercial pornography and images that were seized from Epstein’s devices,” some of which were taken by Epstein, Blanche said. > > Blanche also pushed back on the idea that the DOJ has a secret list of names of men associated with Epstein who abused women. He also insisted the DOJ was not trying to shield President Donald Trump, who had once been close friends with Epstein. > > “We did not protect President Trump,” Blanche said. “We didn’t protect or not protect anybody.” And that’s not the only date the clown’s clowns missed. > [@](#): > > In addition to being enormous in quantity, the new Epstein material released Friday was late. > > The DOJ missed a December deadline to turn over all the unclassified documents, with certain exceptions, required by the [Epstein Files Transparency Act, which](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-signs-bill-release-justice-department-jeffrey-epstein-files-rcna244793)was signed into law Nov. 19 by Trump and gave Attorney General Pam Bondi 30 days to release all of the department’s Epstein files. My best guess is they’ve pulled out more Epstein files as a squirrel to distract from the current disaster the felon’s other flacks are creating in Minneapolis. [Could he maybe just possibly be a {gasp} liar?](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jd-vance-crazy-ice-story-124539304.html) > [@](#): > > JD Vance just got outed pushing an allegedly bogus account of an encounter between immigration enforcement agents and protesters in Minnesota. > > “When I was in Minneapolis, I heard a number of crazy stories,” the vice president posted this week, outlining one incident “near the top of the list.” > > Vance claimed that off-duty ICE agents and officers with Customs and Border Protection had stopped for dinner at a restaurant in the Twin Cities earlier this month. > > According to him, they were “doxed and their location revealed, and the restaurant was then mobbed,” with the federal agents then supposedly “locked in” at the premises as “local police refused to respond to their pleas for help.” > > “This is just a taste of what’s happening in Minneapolis,” Vance wrote. Actually, it’s a taste of what’s not happening. [The felon is giving us yet another object lesson in how not to treat allies.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-team-secret-meetings-group-115059635.html) > [@](#): > > “Very, very senior” officials in the Trump administration have had secret meetings with far-right Canadian separatists trying to shake the foundations of the country. > > The covert meetings between high-ranking U.S. officials and the Alberta Prosperity Project come as a widening rift appears between Canadian leadership and the White House. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney used a speech in Davos, Switzerland, last week to call out President Trump for creating a “rupture” in the existing world order. > > This has created fertile ground for the clandestine meetings, with the separatists trying to capitalize on the friction. People familiar with the talks have told the [Financial Times](https://www.ft.com/content/11dc2140-6a5d-4536-b766-52c920affcc7) that the group from the oil-rich province where Carney grew up have met U.S. State Department officials in Washington, D.C. three times in the last nine months. Call me silly, but I think it’s not all that diplomatic for administration officials to be hobknobbing with groups dedicated to breaking up a country that’s been, up to now, our ally. [This is the Platonic ideal of so many wrong things, but top of the list is peevishness.](https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-79-fires-off-private-113245670.html) > [@](#): > > Donald Trump has threatened to unleash travel chaos across the U.S. to get back at America’s northern neighbor for slighting him. > > “Based on the fact that Canada has wrongfully, illegally and steadfastly refused to certify the Gulfstream 500, 600, 700 and 800 Jets, one of the greatest, most technologically advanced airplanes ever made, we are hereby decertifying their Bombardier Global Expresses, and all Aircraft made in Canada, until such time as Gulfstream, a Great American Company, is fully certified, as it should have been many years ago,” the president wrote Thursday on Truth Social. > > Thousands of Canadian-made aircraft are currently in use across the United States. Decertifying those planes would prompt unmitigated travel disruptions throughout the country. > > It was not immediately clear how Trump could legally decertify aircraft en masse for political or trade reasons. A White House official cited by Reuters said Trump was not referring to planes already in operation. He’s nevertheless threatened a 50 percent tariff on any Canadian planes sold in the U.S. “if, for any reason, this situation is not immediately corrected.” But wait. Let’s check the facts–the magaflatearthers can sit this out; I don’t want them to get a cramp in their surviving brain cell. > [@](#): > > Canada has not in fact “refused” to certify any new Gulfstream aircraft at all. “There’s a delay that’s always in place in terms of certification, of changes being made by the manufacturers, and it’s all a normal process,” John Gradek, a former Air Canada executive, [told the FT](https://www.ft.com/content/4c3331b9-3c83-4292-a5b8-86b4d62ebf69?utm_source=chatgpt.com). There’s the problem right there. Rip van Simple ain’t normal and certainly doesn’t understand normal. [Now the felon wants to build a 100,000 seat stadium at, you guessed it, the ~~Orange~~ White House.](https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/president-trump-reveals-plan-build-001500914.html) > [@](#): > > The highly-anticipated **[UFC White House event](https://www.mmamania.com/ufc-white-house-2026-fight-card-start-time-full-results-dana-white-conor-mcgregor-cbs-mma)** may have just hit another level. > > According to President of the United States, Donald Trump, the upcoming UFC card will feature a stadium in front of the White House that will hold up to 100,000 people. Trump didn’t offer any additional details about the proposed structure, but with less than five months before the UFC White House card unfolds construction may need to start soon. > > On Friday, Trump spoke with reporters to announce that Washington D.C. will also [**host an IndyCar race**](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-orders-indycar-race-streets-dc-part-nations/story?id=129715111) on the city streets this August. This event adds to the overall celebration of America’s 250th anniversary this summer, which prompted Trump to bring up the UFC White House card and mention plans to build a 100,000-seat stadium. East Dublin, Georgia, eat your heart out! p.s. The population of Washington, DC is just shy of 700,000. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2026, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/2100 "2026-01-31T06:17:51Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Call me silly, but I think it’s not all that diplomatic for administration officials to be hobknobbing with groups dedicated to breaking up a country that’s been, up to now, our ally. They’re working hard to “fix” that Canadian alliance thing. I wonder how long it’ll be before NORAD gets dissolved. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=104) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298.md?page=106)